It’s more pure (no social pressure to follow), has more edges, takes much longer to build, and is based on genuine interest across cyberspace rather than from pre-existing real world relationships. But once built it’s a more accurate information router and harder to replace.
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Tech Talent Shortage Threatens Long-term Company Growth
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I don’t know about very long time. It’s long-term future must surely be in doubt now, albeit not shot-term. There is always a scare supply of truly talented production level software developers & data scientists & I doubt leading talent will want to work for Musk now.
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Debating the impact of AI on future employment
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To say that jobs will be lost as a result of AI is incredibly shortsighted.
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Twitter Community Notes: Contributing to Platform Data Transparency
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You can sign up to contribute to it here https://
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Human-produced Internet content will approach zero
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The fraction of Internet content produced by humans will inevitably dwindle to near zero.
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Decentralized Networks Worth Their Infrastructure Costs
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Generally though there are definite costs involved in having a network that someone like Elon can't ruin I've decided that I can tolerate them
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Mastodon’s Decentralization Protects Users From Billionaire Control
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After the past couple of weeks it turns out the one feature I care most about is that a billionaire can't buy my online home and ruin it – and that's the single feature Mastodon has that nothing else (at least of the same scale) has been able to offer
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Psychology of Catastrophe: Why People are Drawn to Calamity
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a surprising percentage of people get off thinking about calamity happening i regret to inform you this site is very unlikely to be going anywhere
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Full-scale evacuation triggered: major AI-related emergency situation unfolds
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I moght have agreed with you 24 hours ago, but we are at full scale evacuation levels now!
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Decentralization prevents billionaire control of social networks
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I ignored Mastodon for years because I didn't think I wanted a decentralized social network Turns out the most important feature for me is that it can't be bought by a narcissistic billionaire on a whim, and that's the one thing that decentralization delivers really well