Wandering Adventure Party

@atomicpoet

Anyone who has received mail through the post-office has used AI (regardless of whether they realize it or not).

@atomicpoet

Did the Nigerian man mention what the main sources for monetization are for people in Africa (in this context)?

This is what many people (including myself) suspected would happen with these LLM SaaS services — that they would become spyware.

And, not just that, but — that they would take spyware to another level.

“OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening.”

People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

OpenAI has quietly announced that it may call the cops on anyone threatening harm to others — and people are incensed.

Futurism (futurism.com)

#AI #LLM #OpenAI #Privacy #Spyware

@atomicpoet

I love em-dashes!

Before Unicode became common, I wrote em-dashes as:

--

But since Unicode became common, I started being able to use a "real" em-dash:

—

For me, at least, I have been using em-dashes for decades! (Since at least high school.)

The only thing that has changed is — how I write the em-dash.

I know people are arguing in the comments of this post, but —

Can we notice that — there is a conversation happening across the Fediverse, ATmosphere, Mastodon, and Bluesky.

And, consider that some level of success for the broader Social Web

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3lwzadikbrc2u

#ATmosphere #bluesky #BridgeyFed #bsky #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialWeb

Back in the year 2022 — myself, @atomicpoet , and @massoud were talking about how to FUND THE FEDIVERSE.

• to help sysops pay server bills,

• to support developers creating Fedi software, and

• to fund creators on the Fediverse,

...

This same topic came up in this year's FediForum 2025!

...

Given the importance of funding the Fediverse and the recent discussion — soon it will be released as open-source software.

#CrowdBucks #FediForum2025 #FediForumFriday #Fediverse #FediverseFunding

@julian @rwg

I haven't done a call for speakers yet.

But, I will soon.

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