Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 9, 2025
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Quick Thought – Willful Ignorance
I learned nothing I could say or do would change their minds in those situations. I also had an obligation to the customer and the other students to move on instead of trying to argue with the person who didn’t want to learn. Once their minds are closed off to new information, I’m wasting precious time I could use to educate people who want to be educated.
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Linked – Always On Guard: The Mental Health Cost of Cyber Threat Awareness
It can be exhausting and stressful. Although the constant stream of information and change might be what life is like in our world, this doesn’t make it less impactful on our mental health.
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Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 19, 2025
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If it’s public data – someone is using it to train an LLM
Bluesky is developing an open protocol, and Mastodon uses an open protocol (ActivityPub). The idea seems to be that we can create a social media platform without a walled garden where users don’t own the data, which is also completely protected from someone grabbing that public data to build an AI model.
That’s not going to happen. We are all going to have to make a choice.
Once again, I’m left with this question: Why are so many Bluesky users pro-AI yet so opposed to using their public posts to train it? Where do they think the data has been coming from?
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Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 13, 2024
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