James Dreben

@jdreben.omg.lol

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Check out my home page (jdreben.omg.lol) or talk with me to get to know me 👋 I’m more active on Mastodon. You can follow my Mastodon from Bluesky @ https://bsky.app/profile/jdreben.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy Reposts ≠ endorsement

View outside my balcony of Santurce, San Juan. A rainbow comes down from a cloud.

Can Linkedin and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on Linkedin to train generative Al models that create content?

I marked off.

To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is used to train generative Al models.
BlueSky uses Al to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called https://t hehive.ai/. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they all content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative Al for both text and images.
It's a built in «feature" and cannot be turned off.

Could have something to do with a rise in atheism. Some atheists I know apparently hold out some hope of a possible afterlife, and ghosts are a good vehicle for idealizing that without being
"religious" or the need for a heaven/hell… just a theory.

two astronauts looking out the window of a spaceship at a giant planet eating pink rabbit that shoots lasers from its nose

Andrew Lloyd Webber has said political correctness is what’s stopping him from writing more musicals.

[me in the future explaning the internet before mass federation]
Me: So like, we used to take screenshots to share posts on other apps.
Kid: Why didn't the apps just talk to each other like they do now?
Me: It wasn't in their interest to play nicely together. They wanted to get people to use their app over others.
Kid: that's rude
Me: it was rude

Upside down fluffy gray cat with yellow eyes.

/r/Videos will be going dark from June 12-14 in protest against
Reddit's API changes which kill
3rd party apps.

Fluffy gray cat with yellow eyes on my legs

For Apollo, the average user uses 344 requests daily, or 10.6K monthly. With the proposed API pricing, the average user in Apollo would cost $2.50, which is is 20x higher than a generous estimate of what each users brings Reddit in revenue.
While Reddit has been communicative and civil throughout this process with half a dozen phone calls back and forth that I thought went really well, 1 don't see how this pricing is anything based in reality or remotely reasonable. I hope it goes without saying that I don't have that kind of money or would even know how to charge it to a credit card.
This is going to require some thinking. I asked Reddit if they were flexible on this pricing or not, and they stated that it's their understanding that no, this will be the pricing, and I'm free to post the details of the call if I wish.
-Christian

Note on elevator wall reads, "Dear resident owner of a black scooter parked out back, this is the second night in a row that hooded teens have tried to steal it. Be careful!"

Fluffy grey cat woken up by me for this pic

Sleepy grey fluffy cat.

Actually really handy #calckey thing I just discovered.
When you upload a pic and set a caption, the pic is stored in your drive with the caption, so if you attach it to a future post you don't need to recaption it.
Just another way that calckey is better for creators.

Gravestone with skeleton relaxing on their back with one arm supporting their head. Scythe by the feet.

Fluffy grey cat with yellow eyes curled up on white ottoman.

Upside down grey Nebelung cat on the carpet.

Cat in box. Only top half of head visible.