Let’s get a little weird for the weekend! This is my first longer blog post and I’ve been doing a fair bit of reflection on #Theology and #Technology these days…
#Jesus #Christian #Church #Linux #Episcopal #Weird #Spirituality
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First RePebble Watches can now be preordered
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Get your new PebbleOS watch
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"Of course, what [the British-American academic and author Alice Mary Hilton] defined as cyberculture — an automated society where mankind is freed from drudgery by computers — is very different to what it ended up meaning in the 90s."
Wait. Is this reading correct?
"Under current law, content produced entirely by AI immediately enters the public domain, allowing unrestricted commercial use."
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/03/20/ai-generated-works-are-public-domain-court-affirms/
Other news coverage:
"Because many of the Copyright Act's provisions make sense only if an author is a human being, the best reading of the Copyright Act is that human authorship is required for registration."
"The new feature would likely be an unwelcome one for users who would rather keep comments AI-free on Instagram, especially those who believe their friends deserve genuine comments as opposed to AI slop."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/
#news #technology #TechNews #meta #instagram #SocialMedia #AI #slop
How to Spot AI-Generated Scam Products
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Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’
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Remembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect time
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A “Goofy” DJ’s Secret Life at the Center of an Online Terrorism Network
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To friends, Matthew Allison was a likeable part of Boise, Idaho’s electronic music scene. But behind his computer screen, authorities say, he helped lead the Terrorgram Collective, an online network that inspired white supremacist violence.
https://www.propublica.org/article/matthew-allison-dj-terrogram-collective-boise-dallas-humber?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Idaho #Terror #Violence #Telegram #Extremism #Technology
I sort of gave up on this awhile ago, but there's a lot of nerds here so I thought I'd ask: can anyone find a minecraft seed with just a description of around where structures are and other surrounding information? There was a world very dear to me, but my friend that was hosting got bored, deleted it, and refused to give me the seed. I'd do anything to see my village again.
#minecraft #bedrock #tech #technology #videogames #internet #help
"Being pro-labor and pro-AI is incompatible, as AI devalues the work that actual workers do, making them less valuable to the market and easier to underpay going forward."
https://www.vulture.com/article/ghibli-portrait-chatgpt-ai.html
#news #technology #TechNews #AI #labor #WorkersRights #ghibli #StudioGhibli
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Oh wow, the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) annual challenge for writers that started as a Yahoo! mailing list in 1999 is shutting down.
"NaNoWriMo lost significant community support when it took a stand in favor of the use of artificial intelligence in creative writing. [...] Around the same time, the nonprofit was also lambasted for inconsistent moderation on its all-ages forums, which created an unsafe environment for teenage writers, community members claimed."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/nanowrimo-shut-down-after-ai-content-moderation-scandals/
#news #technology #TechNews #NaNoWriMo #NationalNovelWritingMonth #writing #AI
An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For
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An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
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A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm Black people — and may even be unconstitutional.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tiger-algorithm-louisiana-parole-calvin-alexander?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Louisiana #Prison #CriminalJustice #CivilRights #Technology #Law
Flipboard fans, we have an update for you! Meet Trending — your new destination for what’s making headlines, from world news to culture picks.
Here's a blogpost about the new tab, which makes it even easier to find up-to-date information from reliable sources in the Flipboard app or on the website.
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/introducing-trending/
⚠️ Unstable Home Life ⚠️
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Thanks anyone who boosts/donates!
I'm going to be switching to a personal account. You're free to share my writing and ko-fi for donations since I'm still trying to move and I still will talk about mutual aid.
Hey FediFam. My timeline is thin. I’m looking for #recommendations for people who are into #ttrpg, #videogames, #technology or any cool geek stuff. Feel free to recommend yourself if you're a cool, fun person.
"According to OpenAI’s internal tests, o3 and o4-mini, which are so-called reasoning models, hallucinate more often than the company’s previous reasoning models [...]"
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/openais-new-reasoning-ai-models-hallucinate-more/