ETA: GOOD NEWS!

https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821

In reading an important discussion of the IP assignment in the new Mastodon.social ToS:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.

These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)

My primary care metaphysician thinks I should see a determitologist.

@2something
It may be worth looking into the NYC Teaching Fellows program.
https://nycteachingfellows.org/

If your four-legged robot does not get the zoomies or beg for treats, you do not have a robot dog.

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked

Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency

By Dalya Alberge

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jun/13/british-library-reinstate-oscar-wilde-reader-card

Oscar Wilde at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/111

#books #literature

@pjw The counterfactual is so distant from my experience, I don't know what to do with it.

Since the people I ethically admire have wildly different metaethical views, I think there is probably no reliable causal relationship (either formal or efficient) between people's moral character and their metaethical views. So counterfactually, if the people I admired all had the same metaethical views, I suppose I'd be inclined to chalk that up to coincidence.

@pjw I'm having trouble thinking about this question because the people I most admire ethically don't all have the same metaethical view.

It's good to have an exercise program.

#TreeingCur #DogsOfFedi

The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed.

There was a shimmer - a demon appeared.

"Curious. What ritual is this?"

"I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!"

"I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #vss

LLM produces bad pizza topping suggestions: funny

LLM produces bad "vibe coding" results: possibly ouch, but probably reversible

LLM produces unreliable medical evidence synthesis: there is literally no way to even know, let alone correct this, this was supposed to be the method for correcting medical bias itself and it's really REALLY fucking bad if you don't know if a systematic review was run slightly differently 1000 times and then cherry-picked

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/

If the conclave is held behind locked doors, does that mean there are inaccessible cardinals?

@VeroniqueB99 @TomF This reminds me of this gem:

For folks on fosstodon: you might want to lobby for a change of moderation policies or move in the worst-case scenario given the moderation of your home server:

https://scholar.social/@socrates/114398529586604508

@calum Thanks for the suggestion! I'm not necessarily looking for a one stop shop. I would prefer the domain registrar to be separate from the hosting company (or companies). I'd be surprised to find good managed Mastodon hosting and Ghost hosting in the same place.

Any recommendations for non-US web companies that work with US-based customers? I may be interested in...

Domain registration
Web hosting
Managed Mastodon hosting
Managed Ghost hosting

I don't have concrete plans yet. I'm trying to get a sense of what services are available.