Aaron Parecki

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Simon Willison https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon

@pilhofer Twitter just rug-pulled after 16 years (and an IPO) of me trusting them to be a good steward for my principal online presence
I don't see how ANY <month old startup could possibly convince me to trust them instead
If it's not implemented in a way that lets me take control of my own destiny (ala Mastodon/ActivityPub) I'm just not interested

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 3:32pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 7:46am -08:00)
nearcyan https://twitter.com/nearcyan

DeepCloning, the practice of creating virtual AI clones of humans to replace them socially, has been surging in popularity

Does this new AI trend go too far by replicating partners and friends without consent?

This court case may help to clarify the legality (2024, NYT)

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Sun, Nov 20, 2022 8:32pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 10:07pm -08:00)
@therealtraceydelaney@mas.to https://twitter.com/TraceyDelaney

“The largest crowd I’ve ever seen out for a swim! 🏅” - Noah

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:59am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 7:53pm -08:00)
Frank Lesser https://twitter.com/sadmonsters

"Our flight made all the newsreels. Oh, the publicity!"
-Captain of the Hindenburg

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:51am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 7:53pm -08:00)
Oolong Muskrat https://twitter.com/vance_mike

“There have never been so many people out on the deck”
- Captain of the Titanic

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:43am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 7:49pm -08:00)
Frank Lesser https://twitter.com/sadmonsters

“Rome has never been this brightly lit at night!” -Nero

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 4:09am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 7:49pm -08:00)
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI

If you think that Twitter has moderation problems, just wait until large numbers of people are having conflict on Mastodon and they’re being adjudicated by a few volunteers who don’t have set guidelines or community to navigate differences with.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 2:40pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 6:07pm -08:00)
Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet

Thanks! Hoping in the invisible hand of the market to come up with something turnkey 😅

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 1:58am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 6:04pm -08:00)
Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet

Do you post the same content on both Twitter and Mastodon? If so, do you have a client to recommend?
I just feel I won’t post on Mastodon unless it’s the path of least resistance

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Mon, Nov 21, 2022 1:45am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 5:53pm -08:00)
Thomas Fuchs 🕹️🔭:verified_paw: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs

Headlines like “Will this new Mastodon thing survive?” are funny when you’ve been on here for 5+ years

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Sun, Nov 20, 2022 7:48pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 5:14pm -08:00)
Sam 0xEACD https://twitter.com/samuelgoto

Next year's red team exercises is going to go through a hostile takeover of your company by a maniac psychopath.

Think the worst that can happen is a database SQL injection? Think again.

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

Sun, Nov 20, 2022 10:22pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 2:23pm -08:00)
SwiftOnSecurity https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity

If you're considering a career in cybersecurity, I really caution you to think about what's going to happen once everything is secure.

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

Fri, Apr 30, 2021 3:02pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 1:49pm -08:00)
Mike Masnick https://twitter.com/mmasnick

Elon repeatedly mocking Mastodon suggests that... he's seeing the magnitude of the shift of key people from here to there.

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Sun, Nov 20, 2022 8:22pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 12:43pm -08:00)
Aazad (@aazad@qoto.org) https://twitter.com/aazadmmn

basically Twitter but with Discord mods who run it like subreddits

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Sun, Nov 20, 2022 4:06pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 12:40pm -08:00)
Palle! https://twitter.com/Palle_Hoffstein

So Musk sent emails to European Twitter employees, firing them. Problem is, you cannot legally fire people that way here, so legally they're still employed and legally owed money for their time. But also, firing people as exists in the USA doesn't exist here...

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Sun, Nov 20, 2022 4:47pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 12:39pm -08:00)
Kumars Salehi https://twitter.com/KumarsSalehi

I can’t wait till elon musk offers to buy twitter and delete it and everyone who calls it a “hellsite” has to pick sides for real

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

Mon, Apr 2, 2018 7:37pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 20, 2022 6:19am -08:00)
Zack Bornstein https://twitter.com/ZackBornstein

simply unforgivable that elon is forcing me to either get hot (instagram), get annoying (substack), learn what a server is (mastodon), or become an actual psychopath (linkedin)

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

Fri, Nov 18, 2022 9:23pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 19, 2022 8:58pm -08:00)
Tom Coates https://twitter.com/tomcoates

You know that story about the bar owner who throws out the nice Nazi because otherwise the bar becomes a Nazi bar? This place is now self evidently owned by the far right and the doors are open for all of them. It’s no better than Parler or Truth Social now.

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

Sun, Nov 20, 2022 2:03am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 19, 2022 6:08pm -08:00)
Doug Bowman https://twitter.com/stop

For posterity, here’s a screenshot of Twitter’s home timeline after creating a brand new test account during my first week there in 2009. I went looking for this to recall the name of the Everyone timeline. I have a whole folder of these from an audit I did that week.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

Sat, Nov 19, 2022 7:14pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 19, 2022 3:10pm -08:00)
George Takei ✅🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei

I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!

Portland, Oregon • 34°F

Sat, Nov 19, 2022 11:03am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 19, 2022 7:08am -08:00)

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