People often ask why I support the #fedipact.

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Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

"I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated."

“I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated or AI summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way,” [Zuckerberg] said. “And I think that that’s going to be just very exciting for the—for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads or other kind of Feed experiences over time.”

I'd like to follow more academics from Central and South America. I can read Spanish (and I really ought to practice writing in it), and I also want to learn more from academics in that area. If that's you, please follow me and I will follow back! (boosts appreciated)

It's a long road to write a book, but I got word that, assuming the production goes as planned, Move Slowly and Build Bridges, my book about Mastodon and the ActivityPub-based fediverse, will be out from Oxford UP around August of next year! Still a lot of work to do behind the scenes: editing, proofing, indexing. But I'm already giving book talks and would be happy to do so if you want me to visit your class/university to talk about the fediverse! @bookstodon group #Mastodon #Fediverse #books

A lot of folks at #AoIR2024 are a bit peeved that more AoIR members aren't using Mastodon/the fedi instead of X. "We as a community have produced a great deal of criticism of corporate platforms," they say, "so why aren't more people switching?" I've been studying alternative social media for a long time now. To cite Stuart Hall, there are no guarantees: you do this sort of work, trying to make something better, but knowing that it's a struggle and it may fail.