Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@aredridel Yeah, it seems like a very wise balance. Here’s some discussion of the paper I was thinking of (link at the very end): https://www.gantry.io/blog/monolith-the-recommendation-system-behind-tiktok

@aredridel I think that’s right. They put out a paper about it a few years ago but I assume it’s obsolete now if it was ever the whole truth.

@aredridel It’s kind of interesting that it took this long for someone to try making an algorithmic feed that mostly shows you stuff you like instead of stuff that makes Engagement Georg comment 431 times.

@debcha Odds are good you already know this story, but piracy interrupted the first serious attempt at metrication in the US, which arguably derailed it for 200 years: https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/pirates-caribbean-metric-edition

@djh [Reposting to fix typo.] Their display simplification is surprisingly aggressive in many ways. Look at the US-Canada border in Google Earth’s default view for me:

@migurski May I introduce you to a favorite (disputed) fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Venezuela#Original_flag

A little free advice from crusty old Uncle Charlie: When an “AI” company (like any other company) says they have to stop doing something because the way they were doing it was dangerously good, our first reaction should be “wow, a PR strategy” and not “wow, it was TOO GOOD, imagine!”

Good-intention–adjacent online shitbirds saying that Boeing whistleblower didn’t die the way he did because he didn’t act exactly like they think someone in that situation must act is just extremely callous and ignorant and bad and will lead to a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world.

@beep Seeing a lot of hypocritical takes on the timeline today. “Oh, I would simply not be awash in blood and bile!” People need to be realistic.

Amusing myself by injecting false reflectances into pansharpening inputs. (CC BY-NC data from Maxar.)

@natevw Woof, I feel this – from a different angle, but still.

It’s Monday and once again time to remind the world that “nation state” has a very specific meaning, different from “country”, and it’s easy to say something on the spectrum from technically wrong to actively ethnonationalist by throwing it around at random.

@marcpfister However much credit you get for doing this, it isn’t enough. I continue to use this program as a stellar example of humanitarian engagement in conversations with others in the industry.