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throwaway72762··on The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
I think the first one seems to be a case where Brave just has incomplete information about licensing so for the Wikipedia data and other CCthey need to provide a link.

The second doesn't seem like a problem to me as long as they respect robots.txt

throwaway72762··on The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
I think this title is overstated. It seems like Brave is trying to do the right thing here vs other companies that don't even make the attempt. (Also, crawling as a service has been a thing for a while.)
throwaway72762··on Love that the only country where Fastly is fastest is now Liberia
Not sure anyone should trust CF as an impartial source for data. Everyone is talking up their own service.
throwaway72762··on [dead]
Please no more culture war flamebait.
throwaway72762··on June Inflation Drops to 3%
Yes and median real wages are up as a result.
throwaway72762··on June Inflation Drops to 3%
IRA was about 1.2T in stimulus. Infrastructure was another 1.2T but is going to be spread out over a decade.
throwaway72762··on June Inflation Drops to 3%
Hmm, who was president in 2020 when the completely unmonitored 2.2 trillion dollar COVID bill shoveled money unchecked?
throwaway72762··on Peptide analyses reveal female leadership in Copper Age Iberia (C. 2900–2650 BC)
If a paper doesn't have that many caveats it won't get published. Scientists, good ones anyway, are rarely able to speak definitively about almost anything, especially something as hard to study as this.
throwaway72762··on First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be coming
Banning sale just moves the problem. The carriers have already mostly stopped "selling" the data by moving the advertising analytics and other mining in house and selling access to that instead of the raw data. They probably make more money on the analytics than just the raw data, win win for them.
throwaway72762··on PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
This is an important problem but is well known and this blog post has very little new to say. Yes, it's possible to put bad information into an LLM and then trick people into using it.
throwaway72762··on June’s record-smashing temperatures – in data
Spanish conquest was centuries after the collapse of lowland Mayan civilization.
throwaway72762··on June’s record-smashing temperatures – in data
One summary/review article among many:

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-earth-0601...

Basically political and economic dysfunction combined with drought and soil degradation over a couple centuries.

throwaway72762··on June’s record-smashing temperatures – in data
Dismaying to see the reactions to this range from denial to complacency to wishful thinking.

Climate forcing has such momentum that it takes two decades for the full impact of emissions to be felt and many more for cascading impacts. The fires we're seeing? The droughts? The floods? That's from emissions from the early 2000s, before China and India embarked on rapid industrialization and growth of energy use, especially coal.

This isn't the apocalypse either. It's just something of a scale we've never faced in human records, like what the Mayans faced at the end of their civilization but global.

throwaway72762··on Mastodon grows more in single weekend than the entire user base of BlueSky
How is the scalability and compatibility of GoTOSocial?
throwaway72762··on Mastodon grows more in single weekend than the entire user base of BlueSky
I find that surprising. Look at https://mathstodon.xyz/about and some of the world's leading mathematicians (among those who are online) are there. In computer science expertise is more diverse and distributed so the users are spread across many servers.
throwaway72762··on Databricks Strikes $1.3B Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML
Are there any repos and steps you can point to to do this? I'd love to try to do exactly what you describe. I have been trying to do the same and have run into a lot of repos with broken dependencies.
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