Eric Carroll

Everything that isn't Tech or Covid.
🌐 Internet since 85
🔎 #disinfo & social network effects
🙏 #Meditation #Mindfulness #UnifiedMindfulness
📚 #SF #CS #physics #math
📷#photography
🤿#diving
🚀#space
🚫illiberals, anti-{mask,vax,sci}
⚠️politics
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2024-07-10 15:48:04

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@npub1074…w3ga
Is there an open street maps navigation app?

2024-06-14 19:57:25

The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline
https://www.workingclassicists.com/post/the-antiquity-to-alt-right-pipeline
> My aim is not to explain that there is a connection between Classical Antiquity and the Alt-Right, rather, I aim to understand how algorithms on social media sites such as Twitter lead users who engage with content related to ancient history– particularly ancient Greco-Roman history– down an alt-right pipeline.
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2024-05-17 16:10:57

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@npub1typ…c8hh
You will be amazed by this one simple trick...

2024-05-06 22:21:14

I haven't used #YouTube on my phone in quite a while.
Wanted to watch some serialized videos.
Holy cow.
It's so busy shoving ads at me I can't even find the old UI controls.
Every bit of screen is some ad part. Ads are larger then the video display spot.
What an unbelievable mess.
The only good news is most of it is cleaned up when using Chromecast.

2024-03-06 14:32:08

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@npub1psd…9sr7 So what do the Dark Intelligence Services do now that the top of the house is corrupted from the inside?
#RealLifeProblems

2024-02-11 19:41:49

Wow.
I am #decluttering and #packing for #moving
Found a first edition hardcover copy of Accelerando by @npub1psd…9sr7
I *never* buy hardcover SF unless I *really* want the book.
Clearly my highest praise at the time.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/111/914/549/805/764/914/original/cdf3ae76e56cc3f6.png

2024-02-11 03:40:40

Yikes. Tom Nichols is not pulling any punches in this one.
If Russia Wins
Republican obstructionism could lead to global disaster.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/02/if-russia-wins/677398/

2024-02-09 15:01:29

All my fellow #tech workers need to read this from @npub1hyk…3p33
> For decades, tech workers’ bargaining power and vocational awe put a ceiling on enshittification.... And now, the dream is over. All that’s left is: work for a tech giant until they fire you, like those 12,000 Googlers who got fired last year, eight months after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years.
#Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything
https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5

2024-01-07 20:08:56

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@npub178r…qekt
Oh sweet!!
I just reached the photo appendix of RAVEN ROCK, and they had a photo of a CARTWHEEL tower like this at Fort Reno DC. Maybe the same tower
This is way better photo.
Such an interesting contrast of the rounded silo look vs the Brutalist architecture of your west coast concrete microwave tower shot.
Thank you for posting this!
(My telecom lifetime nerd achievement award is really showing here)

2024-01-02 02:45:24

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@npub178r…qekt
If it was AUTOVON would it not have been blast fortified? Or is it just Brutalist for architectural reasons?

2024-01-02 02:37:26

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@npub178r…qekt
I was reading about some of these towers and their fortification against nuclear blast in "Raven Rock" a history of US Continuity of Government planning and execution. Very cool to see a photo.
Have you done any other photos of AT&T Long Lines fortified towers maybe in the Washington DC/Baltimore area?

2023-12-30 02:41:03

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@npub1s2r…7gng OMG is that actually Vint or a photoshopped head?

2023-12-28 06:28:24

@npub1grx…uxfe can I ask what are you using to mirror your mastodon feed to bsky?
Manual or is there an API based approach?

2023-12-14 23:16:53

#GenerativeAI
#machinelearning
#GenerativeAIisGoingGreat
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2023-11-22 02:39:31

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@npub1su4…a0dw
"using new technology to break the law does not make you a disruptor, it makes you a criminal."

2023-10-30 14:08:13

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
"The business boom of the 1920s had increased worker productivity by about 43%, but wages did not rise. Those profits, along with tax cuts and stock market dividends, meant that wealth moved upward: in 1929, 5% of the population received one third of the nation’s income."

2023-10-23 20:21:54

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I have always wondered how various world-building authors managed to track in-world continuity.

2023-10-06 19:55:07

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@npub1gmx…atcq
I use vault tech boy as my avatar now for a reason...

2023-09-23 21:56:52

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@npub1w30…dh68
"This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors."
#GenerativeAiIsGoingGreat
@npub1px9…v9r5

2023-09-22 01:30:20

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@npub1grx…uxfe
The sellers appreciated the marks' contribution to their new found wealth.

2023-09-13 17:25:04

@npub1px9…v9r5
I have quoted your bio byline many times. Did you originate it?
Never has so much been explained so well in so few words.
"The losers of the Civil war and the losers of the Cold wars got together for revenge. Recently, the losers of the Apartheid boycott added their money and grievances to the pile."

2023-09-13 16:49:44

Given #Musk runs a LEOSAT ISP, the now dominant US carrier to orbit & the car company we once hoped would save us from the internal combustion engine, this seems ... seriously problematic.
The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-of-the-day-elon-musk-decided-to-personally-rip-servers-out-of-a-sacramento-data-center/
> But the lesson I would take from it: have nothing to do with Elon Musk or any product he sells. It’s bound to be stupidly, unnecessarily risky.
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2023-09-13 16:38:57

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@npub1cxc…akj4
You can always count on @npub1lsl…9c2x to cut to the core of the point.
"way, way, way crazier than even I expected."
And that's saying something...
"Note the pattern: a willingness to ignore the details of what could go wrong, YOLO it and just test it out, and the assumption that if nothing goes wrong when you do that, it means that everything is fine and nothing else could possibly go wrong.
I might never even ride in a Tesla after this."
🎯
@npub193t…gd0r

2023-09-06 00:31:08

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@npub1psd…9sr7
John Colicos, a semi-famous Canadian actor, walked into a pub many years ago at Spadina & Bloor in Toronto.
I recognized him & bought him a round from afar. He waved to thank me.
I am very sure he didn't pay for any drinks that night.
And I am sure Charlie doesn't need to pay if he so chooses, too. Maybe slightly harder to recognize him, but not that much...
@npub1jlj…skl3

2023-09-02 19:17:53

Starting to notice accounts that were activated in Nov #TwitterExodus wave reactivate and post here. Yay!
Guess it's getting really bad over there. #Twitter #xitter

2023-08-13 00:48:17

Shocked... I am shocked...
#ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/
> But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02312
#generativeAI
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2023-08-10 16:55:52

I have been reading @npub1hyk…3p33 back issues because of his recent work on enshittification, a concept near & dear to me as someone who helped build the open Internet.
This article really caught my attention, because in it he sketches three definitions of conservatism as a political theory.
He recommended Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind so I set off to read it.
I grew up in the very belly of the beast. It's been a🤯book - truely a must read.
https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/29/jubilance/#tolerable-racism
https://coreyrobin.com/the-reactionary-mind/

2023-07-17 16:37:51

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@npub1npc…auwh
As someone who has been on the net as least as long as @npub1hyk…3p33 & as an original NetHead, I can say he has absolutely nailed this analysis.
It's simply brilliant.
Bought the book too as a direct result.
@npub13rw…nfd8

2023-07-06 22:02:47

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@npub1grx…uxfe
"Artisanal data" rotfl
Lovingly hand crafted in the time honored tradition with no generative AI.

2023-06-27 04:28:46

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@npub1jeq…jglm
I enjoyed the embedded APL. Smart kid.

2023-06-17 22:25:08

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@npub1cnq…nujy
Go to you browsers, right now. Throw them open! Tell Twitter, tell Reddit "I'm mad as hell and I won't be in your LLM training set anymore!"
Then delete your posts! Right now!
All of them!
@npub1typ…c8hh
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2023-06-12 17:56:01

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@npub1g8e…qdqf @npub1zpx…q6e6
What an amazing interview, thank you for doing it and sharing it!
I loved the commentary on stochastic systems that noone really understands. Perfect.

2023-06-06 21:17:50

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@npub1a4c…t2kf
"survivorship bias success porn"
Perfect.
And it all gets posted on LinkedIn.
@npub1psd…9sr7

2023-05-08 19:35:25

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@npub178r…qekt @npub13zv…a0lz I did not know you could do VLF from an airborne platform, I thought it was purely a ground station thing. cool.

2023-04-30 22:53:10

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@npub1lsl…9c2x
Do you buy the "we will just label them Nazis" approach?
The issue with distributed content classification is that it separates the classifier from the author misaligning incentives. Either the receiver or an intermediary has to pay for the cost of classification & policy enforcement.
Authors can spew stuff while the classifier & receiver try to keep up. Content classification is compute intensive. Thus *expensive*.
Is this sounding familiar?
@npub1jfl…ru8c @npub1lrv…tth9

2023-04-26 03:01:13

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#[0] Favourite bots:
#[1] Essential.
#[2] for perls of MurderBot wisdom
#[3] b/c its a mandelbrot.
#[4] b/c I like to know how much bandwidth is available to throughout the solar system right now
#[5] to get posts from the edge of human space
#[6] - do you even need to ask?

2023-04-24 16:35:19

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#[0]
I moved to diaspora after G+ as it seemed alot of the folks were going there. I left because it was a ghost town. Plus the usual background radiation of porn, spam & bad actors.
I finally figured out it was a protocol island and wasn't going to change.

2023-04-20 02:53:58

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#[0]
So I have thoughts if you are interested...

2023-04-20 02:48:12

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#[0] well I help a bit with zeroes.ca so totally get it.
My point is burnout happens because they have to do everything. There is nowhere to turn to get additional help.

2023-04-20 01:43:07

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#[0] Evan, I raised this point with #[1] during a conversation last week.
I think there is a place for a "meta" provider to coops for services. Could include legal/admin (business ops), safety & especially tech ops.
No one coop needs dedicated people for these functions so they look to volunteers.
Coops pooling together could potentially share costs.

2023-04-16 05:12:36

Well, there it is...
“Twitter is ‘troll heaven,’” Musk said after the BBC interview on Twitter Spaces.
"It’s good, it’s fun having that reaction. It’s like playing a video game but better." says RW troll Ian Cheong
“Yeah, totally. Exactly,” Musk agreed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/12/elon-musk-s-twitter-troll-heaven-is-hell-for-advertisers/8259a6ec-d94a-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html
#[0] #[1]
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2023-04-10 01:08:11

Hello #[0], here is my Ceremonial Changing Of The Instances #[1]
I am a Certified Internet Old Fart having been around (like a few others here) since the start of the public Internet in Canada.
I am a tech 🤓. This account is for non-Tech, non-Covid stuff.
I follow social network researchers, authors, #[2] #[3] #[4] #[5] #[6] #[7] #[8] #[9] types.
Achieved Twitter escape velocity #[10]