Laurens
@laurenshof.online
I care about an ethical internet. I write about Bluesky, the atmosphere and open social protocols at connectedplaces.online 🇳🇱
mistral seems to move away more and more from general-purpose models, which makes sense considering how far behind they are on that front, but at least their specialised models seem very good
Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · yesterdayMistral AI's Shieldstral (open-weight) A 3B open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that matches models up to 7x its size on text safety and sets a new state of the art on multimodal moderation. mistral.ai/news/shields...
everyone talking about the ai bubble popping in some abstract future tense, but have you seen the kospi lmao
i dislike this beyond being factually incorrect, it is also missing the core problem with Big Tech Algorithms: it is a matter about who controls attention, not the algorithm itself /1
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoCEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...
i have an old galaxy watch, perfectly functional, that became obsolete when i switched from android to iphone. this weekend i/sol build a custom fitness tracker app for it that sends the data directly to my mac. so now i can use the watch again, without sending my data to samsung as a nice bonus
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3d agoA weird downstream effect of LLMs I predict will start having an impact soon is that they are very helpful for fixing a lot of stuff that would not have been worth fixing when information about how to fix them was harder to get.
reinventing nodeinfo from first principles
Alex@alex.bsky.team · last wk.we’re also considering making it easier for clients to interpret when limits *haven’t* been raised (eg if independent operators don’t want to handle 300M blob uploads) and fail gracefully or split up video across multiple blobs, but this is looking like follow up work rather than our first move
I have studied to become a journalist and it didn’t matter what I wore, my professor still said the n-word whenever she saw me in class. I’m one of the best thinkers in my field and nobody is going to respect me/think of me less for wearing a durag during presentations.
HERbron James 🐐@meekayelah.blacksky.app · last wk.EYE think a few things can be true at once here. Should students be taught how to dress for professional events and interviews? Yes. Should the school create environments where that can happen? Yes. Now… should a bonnet or durag to CLASS be this controversial? I think, no lol. It’s no big deal.
I would like to bring more of the fruits of the AT Protocol to the people who don't care about protocols, which is most people. www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...
Launching a Cloud Atlas
The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.
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currently in the help desk chat service of my bank, got switched from a bot to a person, and is it very rude to ask if i can switch back to the bot?
creating a custom feed on attie is a really smooth and great experience, this is very cool. which also makes it the contrast of getting that custom feed into your bluesky account and part of your custom feeds list just incredible painful
Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team · 2w agoThis week, we’re introducing Quests, an interactive research and exploration tool for the Atmosphere. You can ask Attie to pull information about trending topics, identify influential accounts in a particular field, or create a personalized daily briefing.
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Inside Ukraine’s Kill Zone
Drones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuter...
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Im surprised they went for the copyright and safety argumentation, when an ethical justification was right there, they already did it with banning crypto! its very clear that codeberg users wouldnt want ai code even if new regulation dissolved the copyright issue, so why give it as reason?
Anirudh Oppiliappan@anirudh.fi · 2w agoHuh, insane. Codeberg will now disallow vibe-coded projects. codeberg.org/Codeberg/org...
social media age restrictions and LLM age restrictions are the same thing
even more fun is that the incorrect geopolitic understanding made predictions that tracked oil price movement pretty well, while better geopolitical understanding very much didnt
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2w agoextremely funny to me that analysts whose entire job is to think about these possibilities are only now catching up to Bluesky Consensus
blueskyism is really just a battleground between the 'words mean things' legacy internet and the 'vibes only' vanguard of the new internet
Introducing Newsrooms v1 in @mu.social. Launching with 15 publications to choose from. Try it out from the News icon in the left menu.
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social please enjoy this storytelling masterclass, this emotional voyage, this impeccable sense of pacing and timing
the thing i love most about decentralised socials is that it continually surprises its most active proponents of how radical and disruptive it actually is
I'm starting a new newsletter. Yeah, I know, another newsletter. This one isn't about soccer though... it's about YOU 🤯 "The Post-Match Report" will release weekly and contain links, analysis, and updates on everything happening in soccer analytics. Publishing on @leaflet.pub. More info 👇
July 15: Penalties and Goats
The first edition of a weekly soccer analytics newsletter
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Lots of interesting data in here, well worth the read.
Daryl@daryldao.com · 3w agoI saw the article from The Athletic about this topic the other day, gave it a read, and hated it. so I decided to write one myself and use some data to see what can be learned from penalty shootouts at the #WorldCup so far, just cause I can. www.talking-tactics.com/p/world-cup-...
In my mind, this is one of the most important paragraphs of the last ~25 years. A lot of what's going on can be traced back to this rupture, and in this article, an assistant to G. W. Bush just... says it out loud. We are still living in their world.
Xan López@xanlopez.net · 4w agoFor some people, X is a window into the "Empire that creates reality," to borrow that famous distinction between "reality-based communities" and "reality-creating empires." But what if that digital Empire collapses? www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/m...
