Notices by Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social), page 17

Be careful not to fall into the web of Arachno-capitalism!

@garbados @rysiek
The pinboard fella had a quote that machine learning is "morality laundering". You get to claim your AI is neutral and not racist/etc because ✨algorithms✨

Train it with racist/etc decisions, and the same decisions come out the other side but now they're not racist/etc!

Just ducked out of a lunch discussion where people were talking about their strategies for unfollowing anyone that talks about politics or things that they disagree with.

I mean, you're free to do whatever you want, but I kind of feel a little disgusted at so many tech workers just burying their heads in the sand when it comes to politics. It's like you want to go out of your way to avoid anything that might make you slightly uncomfortable.

at Big Social HQ:
> we need to moderate social media because law and decency
< ok, but we can't hire humans for it because humans make mistakes
< so instead we'll teach a machine our biases, so it never makes mistakes
> what if our biases are part of the problem
< *has already left for the golf course*

There is something magical about the act of writing things down, or setting an alarm clock or a calendar reminder, that takes it out of your head and makes room for other things. I need to start writing down more things.

Facebook-Purge is a proof-of-concept for automated pissing in the lake of surveillance data: https://github.com/stardothosting/facebook-purge

If you're about to respond to someone on Mastodon with advice or information or critique or disagreement, PLEASE read their post again to make sure that they have invited that.

If they haven't asked for input they probably don't want or need it, but if you still think they'll be interested in what you want to say, ASK before replying.

"Hey, are you asking for advice, or just venting?"

That's ALL you need to say.

I'm tagging it #netiquette (what a great word, haha) but it's universal.

It's a bit late for #FF, but if you want a sprinkle of philosophy in your TL along with some hacking, @bob is well worth your attention