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You are all dreams and we are happy to know you, as you are nice dreams. We are an asexual autistic trans-feminine plural system with a label collection.

We compromise with legibility only so far as to say the following: Technology Director at Internet Safety Labs; ex-Google information privacy expert. 🏳️‍⚧️🍁

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ireneista , to random
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so we went and read the list of instances that Threads has banned for completely generic reasons

and are distressed to find we're not on it

ireneista OP ,
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uh https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers for anyone curious

Npars01 ,
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@lawyersgunsnmoney

I try really hard not to boost Threads or Bluesky but some slip through.

My apologies for the butter fingers.

Corrected.

ireneista , to random
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so you remember Neuralink, the brain implant that we can't really call experimental because there doesn't seem to have been any sort of, like, science going on? with the lab that was investigated for animal cruelty?

ireneista OP ,
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anyway they've released a coding challenge which, like, people who understand information theory will be aware that the thing they're asking for is unlikely to be possible... https://content.neuralink.com/compression-challenge/README.html

ireneista OP ,
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and the hardware constraints the challenge describes are very illuminating because it makes it clear that, yeah, the device could never have done any of the things anyone wants it to. they need more powerful hardware before this is viable (and they need to somehow do that without somehow cooking the brain).

ireneista , to random
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there's too much negativity in tech news

this is an experiment we've never tried before, but how would people like to reply to this toot with links to the coolest research (about computers or anything else) that you've seen this week?

paper links preferred, news articles are fine too if you don't have the paper or it needs to be contextualized

ireneista , to random
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whereas English sentence order is subject-verb-object, Unix command line semantics are verb-subject-object. in this TED talk, we will--

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