James
@jamesldamico.bsky.social
Data — currency — growth — participation — sunlight — privacy — unlikely outcomes. Asking questions about identities → communities → economies. Following my Twitter followers!🤖
At one time, Twitter’s bot problem was a famous sticking point in its acquisition (i.e. under-reported bot numbers were how Musk argued he should be able to back out). I always found it strange that insight on that subject wasn’t addressed by any of the eventual Twitter Files released.
August 27, 2023 at 12:12 PM
At one time, Twitter’s bot problem was a famous sticking point in its acquisition (i.e. under-reported bot numbers were how Musk argued he should be able to back out). I always found it strange that insight on that subject wasn’t addressed by any of the eventual Twitter Files released.
I didn’t know that New York City is west of Philadelphia.
August 26, 2023 at 10:26 AM
I didn’t know that New York City is west of Philadelphia.
I asked ChatGPT: Amid a technology race for more and faster computing hardware, including processing chips to analyze large language models, does distributed computing have a role to play where millions of consumer computers link together to compute even better than centralized data centers can?
August 26, 2023 at 10:24 AM
I asked ChatGPT: Amid a technology race for more and faster computing hardware, including processing chips to analyze large language models, does distributed computing have a role to play where millions of consumer computers link together to compute even better than centralized data centers can?
If you don’t have an archive of your Twitter data, now is a good time to go into Settings and request an export. Fun fact: You own the copyright of anything uniquely authored and published by you on Twitter. I predict this will become a central topic in the AI training wars.
August 20, 2023 at 6:27 PM
If you don’t have an archive of your Twitter data, now is a good time to go into Settings and request an export. Fun fact: You own the copyright of anything uniquely authored and published by you on Twitter. I predict this will become a central topic in the AI training wars.
Personally the best explanation to me for the nosediving of Twitter by Musk is the theory it’s to clip the wings of collective organizing (strike, protest, etc.) toward the favor of autocratic regimes who fund his other projects one way or another. AI LLM and even DM blackmail files are just icing.
August 20, 2023 at 5:25 PM
Personally the best explanation to me for the nosediving of Twitter by Musk is the theory it’s to clip the wings of collective organizing (strike, protest, etc.) toward the favor of autocratic regimes who fund his other projects one way or another. AI LLM and even DM blackmail files are just icing.
One of the last things I rambled about on Twitter was that the site should allow List-like control over Block lists. Follow others’ public Block lists, batch add usernames to a Block list, etc. blocknyt.com is interesting (but not endorsing). It would elegantly solve the moderation problem … Sigh.
August 20, 2023 at 5:14 PM
One of the last things I rambled about on Twitter was that the site should allow List-like control over Block lists. Follow others’ public Block lists, batch add usernames to a Block list, etc. blocknyt.com is interesting (but not endorsing). It would elegantly solve the moderation problem … Sigh.
If you right-click a YouTube video then right-click again in a different place, you can click “picture-in-picture” and drag/resize the video in a pop-out. I learned this last week.
August 13, 2023 at 8:32 PM
If you right-click a YouTube video then right-click again in a different place, you can click “picture-in-picture” and drag/resize the video in a pop-out. I learned this last week.
An interesting thing about prediction markets is that my “yes” bet doesn’t actually mean I think it’s going to happen — it means I envision the payout on the unlikelier outcome will be more than if I bet the likely consensus. Misreading hedge positions probably affects society more than is healthy.
August 10, 2023 at 5:04 PM
An interesting thing about prediction markets is that my “yes” bet doesn’t actually mean I think it’s going to happen — it means I envision the payout on the unlikelier outcome will be more than if I bet the likely consensus. Misreading hedge positions probably affects society more than is healthy.
A trivial iOS feature I miss: pinching the screen a bit on a webpage to take a slightly zoomed-out screenshot of more of the content. Now it just pinches to tab view.
August 9, 2023 at 1:39 PM
A trivial iOS feature I miss: pinching the screen a bit on a webpage to take a slightly zoomed-out screenshot of more of the content. Now it just pinches to tab view.
Reposted by James
new political compass just dropped
August 7, 2023 at 12:01 PM
new political compass just dropped
Can Bluesky acquire the name “Twitter” since it isn’t being used anymore?
August 4, 2023 at 1:24 AM
Can Bluesky acquire the name “Twitter” since it isn’t being used anymore?
It would be nice to be able to import my Twitter data archive (posts) to Bluesky.
July 31, 2023 at 10:44 PM
It would be nice to be able to import my Twitter data archive (posts) to Bluesky.
I’m automating a search on here for usernames that followed me on Twitter, earliest followers to newest, and following them. Lots of names who I have not interacted with in a very long time. Will run the script every few days.
July 31, 2023 at 8:06 AM
I’m automating a search on here for usernames that followed me on Twitter, earliest followers to newest, and following them. Lots of names who I have not interacted with in a very long time. Will run the script every few days.
I remember where I was when I set up Twitter, I was in Dallas in 2009. 14 years later, here we are.
July 31, 2023 at 8:03 AM
I remember where I was when I set up Twitter, I was in Dallas in 2009. 14 years later, here we are.
Just set up my Bluesky! Now to get my data out of Twitter.
July 31, 2023 at 6:18 AM
Just set up my Bluesky! Now to get my data out of Twitter.