Futurology Today

It’s been nearly a year since Instagram and Threads defaulted to blocking recommendations of “political” content from accounts you don’t already follow, but now Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says, “...we’re going to be adding political content to recommendations” on both platforms. 

That’s a sharp turn from his statements in 2023laying out the goal of a “less angry place for conversations” that wouldn’t do anything to encourage politics or hard news. However, under Meta’s new approach to moderation — and new rules about what users can say on its platforms— that goal is going out the window just as the Trump administration prepares to take over.

Until now, users have had to opt-in to seeing recommendations of content deemed political, but the change rolling out this week in the US and to the rest of the world next week will turn on the recommendations and a content control setting available with options for less, standard (the default setting), and more.

In a series of Threads posts, Mosseri reiterated, “I’ve maintained very publicly and for a long time that it not our place to show people political content from accounts they don’t follow,” and that “it’s proven impractical to draw a red line around what is and is not political content.” 

In a video on Instagram, he said that the push for political content — particularly from users on Threads — is “by the way, very different from the feedback we were getting only a few years ago about people feeling that they were overly exposed to political content on our platforms.” Of course, according to the Wall Street Journal, that was before Mark Zuckerberg experienced the effects of filters cutting down the reach of his post about recovering from a torn ACL and before Meta’s new and friendlier-to-Trump policy chief took over.

What are your thoughts on #privacy and #itsecurity regarding the #LocalLLMs you use? They seem to be an alternative to ChatGPT, MS Copilot etc. which basically are creepy privacy black boxes. How can you be sure that local LLMs do not A) "phone home" or B) create a profile on you, C) that their analysis is restricted to the scope of your terminal? As far as I can see #ollama and #lmstudio do not provide privacy statements.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52223836

O-Ton von unserem Familien-Nazi. Wer hat alle gelesen und hat die passende Antwort parat?

New Mozilla AI project. Put "trust" and "privacy" in the title and subtile but doesn't support locally hosted model.

Exists as an add-on today. Model is Mistral 7B hosted by Mozilla in GCP. Claims won't save data long term. Promises won't use personal information to train models and not share queries with Mistral or any other services.

Am I going to use it? No. Not without local model supported.

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The first couple episodes had me a bit nervous because it felt kind of all over the place, plot wise. But it didn't take long for the plot to consolidate and come together.

It was so nice watching an anime that wasn't completely cookie cutter.

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This will NOT include SDF or DYRL. SDF is on Harmony Gold to release, as they own the rights to the series outside of Japan. Do You Remember Love is owned by Toho and could in theory see a release through GKids.

I highly recommend giving Plus a watch, once available.

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Just as the title says, give me your worst synopsis (without spoilers), I think this is always a fun thread to have 😂 see if you can guess the one below, I made it pretty easy I think.

Young boy entraps wild creatures and subjects them to legal cockfighting to obtain shiny trinkets.

This should be fun!

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Hi everyone,

We all know that not every anime can be a 10/10. So I was wondering what shows you guys dropped after realizing it's not your cup of tea. Some of my examples:

Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Dropped it around episode 6. Premise seemed fun, but story is a mess and characters don't really go anywhere.

Records of Grancrest War: Dropped it after 4th episode. First episode seemed interesting enough, but god did it turn bland quickly. (The german voice acting was also subpar, for whatever reason japanese wasn't available for me on Crunchyroll.)

The Eminence in the Shadow: dropped after episode 3. I know it's supposed to be some sort of subversion of tropes, but it just irked me and I found the MC to be utterly unlikeable.

What are some of your examples?

The shiny puddles look like some low-temp metal melted and oozed out of the car as it burned. I wonder what part(s) melted, and what type of metal it is?

The picture is from a NPR piece about the current Los Angeles wildfires: https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/01/09/g-s1-41784/los-angeles-fire-photos

A gentle reminder that the union and Tesla are still fighting in #Sweden.

Translation by Google.

After Tesla's defeat in the Supreme Court, the company is now taking the issue to the administrative court. It is "sad" that the company is spending millions in legal proceedings rather than providing the same conditions as the rest of the industry, according to the ST union.

Tesla's legal battle to persuade the Swedish Transport Agency to break the blockade and hand over the license plates seemed over. But after the case went through all the courts and was thrown out by the Supreme Court, the company is now appealing to the Administrative Court in Karlstad instead.

– I'm not surprised, but I'm still a little disappointed. Are these processes going to continue forever?, says Joakim Lindqvist, union lawyer at the ST union.

Since November 2023, ST and Seko have blocked Tesla's mail in sympathy with IF Metall's demand for a collective agreement with the company. This had the effect that the license plates that Tesla needs from the Swedish Transport Agency to put new Tesla cars into service got stuck in the system.

But while Tesla and the unions are playing a cat-and-mouse game with alternative addresses that the union then blocks, Tesla is pursuing the issue in the country's courts.

Now they are demanding that the administrative court in Karlstad force the Swedish Transport Agency to hand over the plates directly to the company.

"How the provision should be practically implemented so that the license plates reach Tesla is, according to Tesla, a question that the Swedish Transport Agency can appropriately take a position on," Tesla writes in the appeal, according to Dagens Arbete, which was first to report on the new process.

The Swedish Transport Agency does not want to break the blockade So far, the Swedish Transport Agency has not filed a response, but in the district court, the court of appeal, and thus also the Supreme Court, the authority's position has been that they cannot make exceptions to the procedures for Tesla.

Now that Benchy's are off the market, what are your go to test models? I've seen Cali Cat and the torture toaster as examples.

***(Live feed of Jimmy Carter's funeral)

Good morning. Thousands of mourners and living former US presidents will gather at Washington’s national cathedral today for the state funeral of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president.

Joe Biden will deliver the eulogy for his fellow Democrat, with Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama and president-elect Donald Trump expected to join about 3,000 mourners at the service. Thursday has been designated a day of national mourning, with federal offices closed.

It cheats you in through a back door, looking like an ad-covered kiosk. The main entrance is on the other side.

In stalls, there are two screens playing ads, sound coming from the one you're facing.

Toilet paper brands advertise on dispensers, all brands owned by the same conglomerate.

Softest toilet paper has printed portraits of the toilet company's political enemies.

Facial recognition measures usage, you pay at exit.

Exiting after 5 minutes is expensive, but a monthly plan is cheaper.