@april verified!
Screenshot of mobile Bing search saying “No”, Australia does not exist.
Screenshot of mobile Bing search saying “No”, Australia does not exist.
@april does hope exist? “…Hope is not lost as long as you are alive and willing to respond to God's call.”
screenshot of Bing responding to “does hope exist?” with a rather religiously inflected yes. Text: The user query is a vague and personal question that may not have a definitive answer. However, based on the web results, one possible summary is:There is still hope for you and the world. Despite the challenges and difficulties that you may face, you can find support and solutions from God and from others. There are also innovative ideas and actions that can help repair the damage done to the planet and create a better future. Hope is not lost as long as you are alive and willing to respond to God's call.
@djc tells you something about the parties to the conflict, then.
@w7voa Thank you!
Larry Summers on the new board?
Why?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23967223/sam-altman-returns-ceo-open-ai
ht @Drwave
you'd think CGI would have made the shitshow an actual genre, like claymation.
For most people, the wind-down of the COVID welfare state has hurt more than the genuinely good employment economy and increasing real wage incomes have helped. Improved household balance sheets are mostly in rising home and used car values, wealth nonrich families can't actually tap, since they need their one home and one-to-two cars.
See #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/11/20/how-has-wealth-changed-under-biden/
lobster bisquick would be a brunch food.
@gideonro @bmacDonald94 “rather than feeding the frenzy of the speculative casino that we call modern finance.”
so far this is a road crypto broadly has chosen not to walk. until token designers build systems that eschew fast price appreciation and untethered upside as sweeteners, crypto will remain not a friend of these kind of ecosystems.
(i devoted several years, lots of exhortations, to this stuff. i’m so disappointed.)
@nelson ready to learn!
i’m gonna get rich silkscreening this onto briefs. #merch
Sticker on mirror of a hotel: with Lysol protection — Cleaned and disinfected for your comfort and protection. —
@cshentrup double agent!
@cshentrup ha! i didn’t know. you are my second cruise friend. or maybe GM friend?
the iconic dystopian monopoly of the 1990s has just captured the premier AI technology of the 2020s.
we went from valorizing those who haul the net to those who net the haul. https://mastodon.green/@Tarnport/111442669290084452 ht @montrebei
So much for Ron Dezastris’ insistence on quick return to school saving Florida from education fallout. https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2023/11/08/act-scores-down-florid-college-testing ht #MattYglesias @Bwheatnyc
A kind of A Christmas Carol starring Adam Tooze as he must meet the ghosts of many Marxes. by #ScottLavery https://renewal.org.uk/archive/vol-30-2022/toozes-marx/ ht Nikhil Desai
@stevendbrewer (my restriction in that sense is pretty much 24h!)
@stevendbrewer would that be trackbacks?
i think webmention informally goes back to 2012, becomes "a standard" (W3C Recommendation) in 2017.
@stevendbrewer this is a newer thing, informed i think by that experience. first it's a bit simpler (just a form-encoded source and target URL basically, rather than XMLRPC). and the spec requires the mentioned to verify the mention, to a degreee — if spam, the spam site must at least actually include a link to the URL.
it certainly could still be abused, if sites typically display linkbacks without further verification!
it's been around long enough i wonder what the experience has been.
TIL webmention exists https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
do your sites support them? how do you display or integrate mentions you receive, or do you just use them as notifications of responses you might wanna check out? (do any fediverse apps support webmentions? i think Mastodon does not.)
ht Colin Walker https://colinwalker.blog/blog/?date=2023-11-16