Lady @Lady@cat.family

« Drawing on an original online survey from 2019 (N = 1,500), representative of the Chinese online population, this study reveals that concerns about data collection by government are low, albeit modestly elevated among individuals who are ideologically not aligned with the state. By contrast, concerns over data collection by companies are both extensive and consensual across key socio-structural and ideological divides. Surprisingly, the combination of government and commercially collected personal information does not multiply concerns. Thus, the Chinese authoritarian information state is perceived as a safety device for, rather than a threat to, citizens’ personal information. Extensive state interventions in the digital economy converge with broadly shared popular concerns about corporate information privacy practices. » https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/12679/10753

sometimes i see people with a lot of energy and i’m like… who didn’t hurt you

oh, you mean PODCAST interview not like, interview interview

this is a post about design but also about a great many other things

almost by definition you have to make something knowable before you input it into the computer

so if you don't know, i recommend trying without a computer first

people using machines to create problems for other people

« The volume of these answers (thousands) and the fact that the answers often require a detailed read by someone with at least some subject matter expertise in order to determine that the answer is actually bad has effectively swamped our volunteer-based quality curation infrastructure. »

lol https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned

« Can tentacle porn be feminist? ... Are your humours bent out of shape? »

clearly it was actually thousands of smaller ghasts

i don’t know how anyone could believe in Marx, the man literally thought a giant ghost was haunting Europe

in fact i don’t think this story is “brilliant”, i think it is entirely mundane, which is why it is necessary for us to discuss its contents

i do want to read Marx’s writings on historical materialism the Communist Manifesto is just a little more relevant to me right now

*carefully places a note on top of my other note so i can safely place my tea mug on top of it*

it's more that the internet is, okay

ironically, despite my constant references to marxism, i think the fandom coders discord probably thinks of me as an anarchist

thank god this distinction doesn't exist in fiction; i would throw a fit if someone claimed the goal of my writing is to “entertain”

• implication that journalists and technical writers do not use “literary styles and techniques”: ????

• implication that the goal of “creative writing” is to “entertain based on prose style”: ??????

« Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as academic or technical writing or journalism, which are also rooted in accurate fact though not written to entertain based on prose style. »

is this like “extracted metadata regarding a resource” or…?