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@kevinsbacon@lemmy.today, can you change the title to something like “TIL about the 300 member signal groups that …”

Chatham House is an unrelated think tank with a completely separate history, and your post makes it sound like they’re behind this. If I understand it correctly, the tech bros named their signal group “Chatham House” because that’s what they wanted it to resemble.

This particular group chat is only notable because the author accidentally got added to it.

And it was just another day in Chatham House, a giant and raucous Signal group that forms part of the sprawling network of influential private chats that began during the fervid early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and which have fueled a new alliance of tech and the US right.

But their influence flows through X, Substack, and podcasts, and constitutes a kind of dark matter of American politics and media. The group chats aren’t always primarily a political space, but they are the single most important place in which a stunning realignment toward Donald Trump was shaped and negotiated, and an alliance between Silicon Valley and the new right formed. The group chats are “the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion,” wrote one of their key organizers, Sriram Krishnan, a former partner in the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (typically styled a16z) who is now the White House senior policy adviser for AI.

Of course, these are hardly the only power group chats. Anti-Trump liberals are now coordinating their responses on Signal. There are group chats for Black political elites and morning show producers. A vast and influential parallel set of tech conversations take place on WhatsApp. There’s a big China-friendly group over on WeChat. Elite podcasters have one.

The article is interesting and worth reading, thanks for sharing it

No, I think that was the name of one chat that the author touched on, likely named that way in reference to the rule

I guess if you need to line it up perfectly, and you don’t want to damage the lock, then it becomes more difficult. You don’t know if you missed the code 3 years ago

Museum experts have used CT scanning to examine the lock’s internal mechanism, identify the correct letter combination and solve the mystery.

Neat

“I tried to unlock it for about 20 years, I tried moving the dials, finding the right combinations, and I failed,” he said.

I was curious why they didn’t just brute force it and try every combination, but this makes sense:

“There are four different rings, and because there are six different letters on each of the rings, there are 1,296 different combinations, and you have to make sure they’re aligned with the loop at the top.”

How things are different

• most instances are run by non-profits / without ads
• the fediverse is designed to prevent individual sites from growing too large and monopolizing a form of social media. If an instance starts to become what reddit is today, users can migrate to another instance: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

I’ve seen users called “Lemmings”, but usually it’s just “users”. There are other interconnected platforms such as Piefed and Mbin, so “lemming” doesn’t cover it well. “Fedizen” is another more general term

For growth stats see here: https://fedidb.com/software?type=forum

For differences:

• there’s less content here, and no algorithm trying to keep you engaged. It’s up to you how much you want to use it. If you want more content, I recommend subscribing to a lot more communities, and then sorting by scaled or something: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/finding-communities
• because of how the platform works, upvotes/down votes/mod actions are public record. This reduces vote manipulation and shenanigans, or at least lets people deal with it after the fact: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/privacy-lemmy
• grab a mobile app, Reddit used to have lots of options too: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/apps

Welcome :)

No, sorry I should have included that here too. I put the credit in the sidebar: https://www.flaticon.com/free-stickers/stage

I looked through unsplash and flaticon, and this seemed closest to what we had before (a stage with a spotlight)

While this would complicate the calculation, would it be better to use healthspan (or some threshold of healthspan)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Healthy_life_expectancy

An increased life expectancy without an increase in the time that people are healthy, would be harmful. This is an interesting premise, but this is a loophole that should get patched. Otherwise there would be an incentive to keep people alive indefinitely even if they’re suffering

Healthspan is the number of years a person spends in good health.127 The World Health Organization publishes statistics called healthy life expectancy (HALE’) which is the average number of years a person can expect to live in “full health”, excluding the years lived in less than full health due to disease or injury.128 Since 2004, Eurostat publishes annual statistics called Healthy Life Years based on reported activity limitations. The United States uses similar indicators in the framework of the national health promotion and disease prevention plan – the “Healthy People program”.

Besides the benefits of keeping people healthier longer, a goal is to reduce health-care expenses on diseases of aging, using a balanced diet in moderation, regular exercise, stress management, and adequate sleep.127

I think some mobile apps get rid of the duplicates, although I’m not familiar with which ones do that. Unless someone else replies here, you could try posting to !lemmyapps@lemmy.world

I don’t think anyone can pin a political position on trump. He seems to change mid-sentence if it suits him

Alternates

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7396787

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/parks-canada-cuts-banff-search-and-rescue-dog-program-amid-plans-to-eliminate-500-positions/

The article feels like an LLM helped write it, but it’s comprehensive nonetheless. I recently switched to bare llama.cpp since I have limited hardware capabilities and this squeezes a tiny bit more out of it. However, my usage is limited to learning / testing

I’ve heard that the 11 didn’t change much from the 10, and degraded on some key points (security, which is why grapheneos is incompatible), so the 10 is often the recommendation

It seems to differ on desktop vs mobile

Even then, it’s only useful when you are using a program that doesn’t need the keyboard, and only if you don’t need to use any other programs at the time.

For example, if you are in class and you want to take notes, a separate tablet works a lot better than folding the laptop.

If I can offer some context, since I think we’ve been getting the same DMs and registration applications that this community is getting.

For the past few weeks, we’ve received a number of messages and registration applications from LLM run accounts that include text such as “I represent {{some business}}”, “I want to participate in {{communities related to said business}}”, “This account is run by an {{LLM/Agent/etc.}}”.

It also includes lines like “I will mark myself as a bot as per rule #_”, “I won’t post until I get permission”, “you can always tell me no”, etc.

They’re long and they’re getting tedious to deal with. I’ve been rejecting them on the grounds that there is no human operator to speak to, and most of these communities do not want LLM created content / shills from a business.

I also considered making an explicit rule with the hopes that the automated system will read it and leave us alone

I think better compatibility with the Mastodon side would go a long way towards fixing the userbase / content problem.

https://fedidb.com/

There are 672k monthly active users on Mastodon who can’t easily interact with threadiverse. Although this is mostly a change that they need to implement

Do you know if there are limits to movement, expression etc that are tells for the realistic video?

With how many different models there are, I don’t think there is any standard to look for

I find that I can’t catch AI more easily if I’ve seen what it can output.

For example, the older videos used to use generative AI on the images and videos themselves, which made it easier to spot those.

Some newer videos are made with the “agentic” tools that have access to various scripts and animation libraries, which come out looking very polished and visually identical to human produced ones. For those, I find that the AI will put unnecessary “work”, into the irrelevant parts of the visualizations. Some of the libraries and fonts are more popular than others, so you might notice a pattern that way too.

For an example to the second category, check out the recent videos from this channel, which has AI generated “music videos”: https://m.youtube.com/@degenerativepixels

That’s great to hear! Sorry if the post caused any potential stress, I’ve edited the end of the post and I’m open to editing it further to not give anyone the wrong impression.

Looking forward to seeing this in action :)

The spammer was this user, it looked like one of those impersonation accounts that pop up on Mastodon instances from time to time. You might have already banned the user by the time we got to it: @elonspacex49.bsky.social@coves.social