Strikes me that we've all been worrying about what nazis and fascists are going to do when they can buy verification But those people aren't smart or funny. The real question should always have been "what are people with a devious sense of humour going to do with this?"
@simonw
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GitHub Data Backup: Protecting Your Code and Issues
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In fact, increasingly I have data I care about stored on GitHub – in repos or in issue threads I keep meaning to setup backups for that, in case my GitHub account ever becomes unavailable for some reason
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Data Backup Strategy and Cloud Storage Trust
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I tend to assume that any computer or mobile device I own could be stolen or broken at any moment, so I'm never happy until every piece of data I care about is backed up somewhere else – ideally encrypted but to be honest I mainly trust iCloud and Dropbox and S3
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Misinformation and Truth in AI Era: Eli Lilly Stock Story
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What even is truth any more? Apparently that Eli Lilly stock story itself may be more misinformation https://
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Twitter Impersonation Crisis: Inside Account of Eli Lilly Incident
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Has anyone published a blow-by-blow account yet of what was going on inside Twitter yesterday when the Eli Lilly (and other amazing impersonations) thing happened? I refuse to believe there's no-one inside anonymously talking to the press about it
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Weird AI Bot Started Few Days Ago Worth Trying
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Weird Bots Flourish on Decentralized Mastodon Platform
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Mastodon is an even better substrate for weird bots, because you don't need to ask for forgiveness or permission to get them up and running May a million weird bots flourish!
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Eli Lilly Makes Insulin Free Major Healthcare Policy Win
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That thing where Eli Lilly made insulin free belongs in a hall of fame, absolutely spectacular
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AI Impersonation Service Creates Identity Fraud Problems
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Who could have possibly predicted that selling the ability to impersonate anyone for a few hours for $8 would result in problems with "impersonation issues"?
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Mastodon Extension Simplifies Federation Management
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I asked around on Mastodon and it turns out there's an extension that does exactly what I was imagining here already! https://
github.com/rugk/mastodon-
simplified-federation
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