There's a lot of misinformation circulating that obscures or softens Jack Dorsey's relationship to #Bluesky, Bluesky to Twitter, &/or Dorsey to Musk/Twitter.

On Dec 11, 2019, Dorsey announced on Twitter that he'd started Bluesky as part of Twitter, to serve Twitter, & funded by Twitter $, "to develop an open & decentralized standard for social media." (One already existed. Clearly the goal was one he controlled.)

"The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this [Bluesky] standard."

violet cybrespace decodes the qr code on a fast food drink cup using pen and paper

Defense lawyers in a civil case surrounding Tesla driver Walter Huang’s fatal 2017 car crash have claimed that Musk’s apparent 2016 statements on Autopilot, and others, could have been deepfaked. And, because the statements may or may not be authentic, the company has argued that Musk shouldn’t be forced to face questions about them.

Un peu plus d'un Wallon sur quatre (27%) avoue écrire des SMS, des e-mails ou autres messages en conduisant, ressort-il d'une étude de l'Agence wallonne pour la sécurité routière (AWSR) publiée jeudi. Certains trouvent même cela facile. De manière générale, les automobilistes surévaluent leurs capacités au volant, selon cette étude.

This web app sorts/searches through images in a directory on your computer using OpenAI's CLIP model, and the new File System Access API. Here's the Github repo for this web app, and here's the Github repo for the web-ported CLIP models.

Real-time video, audio, and data for developers

LiveKit is an open source Twilio Video or Agora alternative. Build live video and audio applications and features using a modern, end-to-end WebRTC stack.

Audio + Mastodon = Audon

Audon is a service of realtime audio streaming for Mastodon.

A self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS and beyond.

LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO, April 6 (Reuters) - Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”

But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees.

Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked.

This is an Ecco the Dolphin Text Generator that creates animated gifs and static images using the ripple generating algorythm from Ecco 2 The Tides of Time

Features:

• Theme Selection
• Font Selection
• Background Effect Distortions
• Animated Characters
• International Character Support
• Russian Character Support
• Hiragana and Katakana Support

(
"author_is_elon",
candidate =>
candidate
.getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None).contains(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsElonFeature, 0L))),
(
"author_is_power_user",
candidate =>
candidate
.getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None)
.exists(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsVitsFeature, Set.empty[Long]).contains)),
(
"author_is_democrat",
candidate =>
candidate
.getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None)
.exists(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsDemocratsFeature, Set.empty[Long]).contains)),
(
"author_is_republican",
candidate =>
candidate
.getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None)
.exists(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsRepublicansFeature, Set.empty[Long]).contains)),
)

It's an essay that valorises the creativity of users, that talks about people's joy at using tools for things they're not intended for, that talks about how messing around on the computer is a joyous thing. And... it's this kind of folk or real understanding of how the system works that lets people do unexpected things with the system. The kind of... it's fun to play with the computer. But so often the way AI is pitched is... "this will let you be creative without having to mess around dealing with the actual substance of the work". And... you can't be creative without getting your hands messy. That's where the ideas come from!

Detroit's pre-techno history that spawned the techno movement itself

During the first Jobsian era at Apple, I used to joke that Steve Jobs cared deeply about Apple customers from the moment they first considered purchasing an Apple computer right up until the time their check cleared the bank. Of course, in later years, the check was replace by a credit card, and check clearance was replaced by the 15-day return period, but Steve’s and Apple’s focus remained the same.

What do most buyers not want? They don’t want to see all kinds of scary-looking controls surrounding a media player. They don’t want to see a whole bunch of buttons they don’t understand. They don’t want to see scroll bars. They do want to see clean screens with smooth lines. Buyers want to buy Ferraris, not tractors, and that’s exactly what Apple is selling.

miniature synths

one of the funniest things about pompidou receiving a cryptopunk donation is that the punk is still in the yuga labs wallet. in other words, pompidou’s ownership is not recorded on the blockchain, but on good old fashioned paper lol

Design de la confiscation

Conférence discussion avec des membres de Open Source Publishing, Speculoos, Variable et Atelier Cartographique
Façonner des sites web, c'est un artisanat discret. C'est entrer en intimité avec les pratiques culturelles et digitales d'une organisation et d'êtres très divers. C'est construire un triangle riche même si peu lisible.

design_coder is an experimental code and paint tool based on given shapes and a grid that can be programmed with an esoteric programming language. design_coder is based on the design game: design with rules and shapes, decide, try and iterate again. it's time to define visuals by rules, functions and shells! thereby design_coder works like all tools and materials, it also shapes the outcome with.

TV news and national newspapers should be at the top of the attention economy because they have the highest production value, ostensibly the most resources, and theoretically the widest reach. And if that were all true, these outlets should have no problem competing with, say, random teenagers on TikTok using a text-to-speech function and random photos they found on Twitter to incorrectly explain what vinyl chloride does when you burn it. But news outlets can’t churn out content that fast because even the most well-funded state-of-the-art newsrooms in the world — which none of these are anymore thanks to absolutely gutted advertising markets — can still only operate as fast as it takes human beings and institutions to respond (if they actually want to report out a complete story). And, so, a whole lot of people, especially young people who weren’t around for the chaotic move 15 years ago from a television-led media environment to a deeply flawed digital one — find it very easy to assume there’s some kind of large-scale conspiracy to not cover the literal mushroom cloud of toxic gas hovering over the midwest right now. Because what else could explain why CNN isn’t faster, better, and more interesting than TikTok?