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GoToSocial Documentation: How to use the `slurp` tool, and tips for importing from Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.

A minimalist ActivityPub microblogging server. Like, really minimalist. And opinionated. HONK!
"No attention mining. No likes, no faves, no polls, no stars, no claps, no counts."

"As you may know, the novels Semiosis and Interference are set on a distant planet and feature a small animal called a fippokat. The fippokat is based on my sister-in-law’s imaginary childhood animal…"

"When we bring a technology into our newsrooms — or into any organization — and particularly when we embed it into our workflows, we import the assumptions and values of the people who made it. The things they think are important to encode — and the things they don’t think are important to protect."

March 2021: "the Fagradalsfjall volcano near Iceland’s capital of Reykjavik began erupting for the first time in 800 years...it’s gifted the world with some awe-inspiring views of lava flowing from the ground.
The sight has been best captured by Icelandic drone pilot Bjorn Steinbekk, who took the straightforward approach of flying right through the eruption. "

"this video crystallized a number of things I’ve been chewing on about nostalgia, about fascism, and about the aesthetics of AI since November 8th, 2024, and it has to come out. Let’s take a journey back to the past, or rather multiple pasts: pasts that are real, imagined, and synthetically generated by algorithms running on expensive, energy-sucking hardware."

I remember reading about this back in February: BuzzFeed is planning to make a social network "to spread joy and enable playful creative expression" and "use AI to give users agency instead of stealing their agency"
Whatever that means. Looks like it's still just a placeholder and waitlist signup form.

"The economic case for solar power is stronger than ever."

"It was just last month that Brett Kavanaugh gave his explanation for why it was perfectly okay for Homeland Security goons to profile brown people and detain them based on nothing more than the color of their skin."

...by reading his own biography. Not surprisingly, it gets a lot of things wrong even when the correct information is available, and it puts a lot of emphasis on the decade-old Sad Puppies kerfuffle because apparently right-wingers are still obsessed with it or something. Some choice excerpts:
> fundamentally LLMs aren’t built for accuracy, they’re built for statistical probability, and these really are two separate things. > Having used Wikipedia for a while now, I feel reasonably sure that its biases are not “liberal,” they’re “pedantic,” > Which is to say, if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by a, insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire who sprints to reprogram that LLM every time it shares a fact that makes that billionaire angry or sad, or doesn’t fit into his Playskool Machiavellian ambitions and plans. In this particular case, a thousand pedantic nerds is much better than a single rich one.