Fully anonymous. No contest.

ID Verification is only about controlling what is published. Here the promise is that it will suppress bots, but that wouldn’t be the only use. Setting up your own little space with ID requirement is absolutely an option. That that’s not the default, tells us that overwhelmingly people do not want that.

Anyone who thinks that people using their real name will behave any better can go to Facebook for a reality check.

Similar to copyright, enforcement requires surveillance and empowers censorship. But worse than copyright, it is directly aimed at information about people. So that is what gets surveilled and censored.

Of course, there are positive uses, such as disappearing revenge porn. But in practice, it will always favor the rich and powerful who have the resources to actively manage their image. I don’t believe it is worth the massive surveillance and censorship apparatus, even before one gets to the obvious potential for misuse.

Have you heard of the recent Russmedia case?

How did free speech help when the Nazis humiliated jews publicly in the 1930s?

How did it help taking “jew-baiters” like Julius Streicher to court during the Weimar Republic? Obviously it didn’t.

It seems obvious that I want the state to prevent hate speech, especially against minorities.

You want the state to act against hate speech coming from the elected head of state. What about that seems like a good plan?

You can’t convince people that Trump is a bad guy, and so you want the state to go after the bad guys. Maybe you can convince people that the state should smash bad guys. It’s not hard. But Trump is in charge of the state and not you. He’ll decide who’s a bad guy.

Really good. I wouldt have given full marks. Semi-precious gemstone isn’t good enough. Too much reliance on the pronunciation. Good pun, though, I feel. Very groan.

Nono, you’re thinking of circumference. This is about a semi-precious gemstone in the shape of a small, domesticated mustelid.

ETA: Maybe it’s too hard. I am thinking of a …

Nono, you’re thinking of circumlocution. This is about building a wall around a besieged city.

Nono, you’re thinking of a convention. This is about a psychological treatment that makes gay men like women.

Yeah, he has his own Mastodon instance. I was trying to make a different point, though.

People couldn’t even agree to keep Trump away from government, even though that’s a no-brainer. If you react by trying to build a consensus that some people should be banned from social media, you may get that consensus. But it won’t be Trump who is banned. That is a no-brainer, too.

It’s shockingly fascist thinking, actually.

I was going to ramble on about Mediterranean history, but then realized, it was already not short.

Have you ever heard of the 1961 Paris Massacre? It was a peaceful demonstration in a European capital. It ended with the police murdering dozens, maybe 100s.

That puts the civil rights struggles in the USA at the time into quite a favorable context. But one shouldn’t view these events in France solely through the lens of colonialism or American racism, as the countries of southern Europe and northern Africa have Millennia of shared history. It is not like EG the European conquest of the Americas or the slave trade.

Shipping is a very cheap means of transporting massive amounts of cargo (or troops). Currently, the Mediterranean divides Europe from Africa, but that is an anomaly. Historically, it has tied together the countries around the coast, for better or worse. The Roman Empire was based around that sea.

Modern day Algeria was a regular part of France since 1848, like French Guyana today. Or like Hawaii is part of the US. But the inhabitants were very much second class citizens, which was justified through religion. Much of today’s (French) Islamophobia feeds from that history. But do not forget that other countries around the Mediterranean, as well as Russia, also have a history of war and oppression involving Islamic people.

It is real. There is a lot of hypocrisy, particularly among the right. But the difference between Europe and the US is stark.

Compare the criticism of the DMCA or Google’s Content ID to this affair. It’s on completely different levels.

As a European, I’ve really come around to a more American view of Free Speech.

Over the last few years, we get more and more laws requiring more and more surveillance and censorship to protect copyright, stop hate speech, enforce GDPR, … We’re building up this infrastructure and the population thinks it’s fine. The courts go along and ask for more.

What is going to happen when a European Trump comes to power? You think it’s terrible that Big Tech goes along with Trump? That Must bought Twitter? We ain’t seen nothing yet.

the Italian law is overly broad here, but that doesn’t excuse this behaviour.

This behavior = Going to court.

And who is going to ban Trump from Twitter?

Quick historical background.

After the defeat of French and British forces by Nazi Germany, northern France, including Paris, is occupied. Southern France stays independent, with Vichy as its new capital. Vichy France, including colonies under its command, must stay neutral in the war. That means not aiding the allies in any way and resisting any landing. Otherwise, Nazi Germany would occupy the southern France, too, and probably murder a whole bunch of civilians in vengeance.

Casablanca - in north Africa, now in independent Morocco - is a french colony under Vichy rule. Other colonies vow to continue the fight. They are Free France under Charles de Gaulle.

In late 1942, the Americans land in north Africa (Operation Torch). They land in French colonies under Vichy rule. The Vichy troops put up a serious fight. Casablanca has already been captured when the movie comes out. The landings are successful and the allies go on to beat back the fascist Italian forces that are aided by Nazi Germany (Rommel’s Africa Corps).

It’s not just nuanced, it’s complicated.

What’s really going to bake your noodle later on is, that France and north Africa have their own history completely unconnected to Nazis Germany or the US.

If this was a subtle troll, then well done.

Those are Vichy French soldiers.

The assumption seems to be that an LLM can’t figure out a manual or source code. If it can’t, then you have to pay people. But that’s not a universally valid assumption.

You can’t exactly feed it a manual and expect it to extrapolate or understand (for that matter “what manual).

You can do that to a degree (RLVR). They are also paying human experts. But that’s the situation now. Who knows how it will be in a couple more years. Maybe training AIs will be like writing a library, framework, …

Good pitch. You could also ask people to help out with the more expensive computations. Say, adding alt text.

In the client, you wouldn’t need to be sorting and running extensive calculations on all data. You could, e.g, build the front-page by indexing/scoring posts and comments that have been created since your last visit with a hard cap on some time window (last 48h) or total data points (e.g, keep only the most recent 10k objects in a local hot database, freeze/archive everyhing else.)

Absolutely. There’s a lot you can do. The “For You” Feed on Bluesky is quite instructive. https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mb2r5qei322a

But when you’re talking about sending a lot more data to clients, you really need to consider what that means for the internet bill of instance owners.

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph

Stick a fork in it.