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@evan depends on thoroughness and what they‘re looking for specifically, I guess, but I do have to pass at least a (very) surface level one every few years for work so, I guess I do pass

@alterelefant @evan By #ai you probably mean #llm?Look, Evan is a professional communicator. Director, board member, researcher... Using the right words is key to each of his jobs.Why would assume that he meant a word he specifically didn't say?

@evan Since I self-host, loyalty to my instance would feel a little self-serving.

@evan Interesting, i did not know they were depending so much on user traffic. i stand corrected.in that case yes Wikipedia will be affected by AI absorbing most user traffic.

@evan I sometimes take a screenshot of something and send on Signal to friends if it's funny. Sometimes I share the link instead, depends on the situation. I wouldn't share on other social media (if I had any).

@df only a few experimental ones.

@evan "Shake Torch" app ftw

@jadebees yes, they're not edited at all

@evan Yes, but...They happen around me and I'm not going to move because its my chair.

@evan @LyallMorrison Each one, at different sizes and ages of a project.

Do you prefer managing server software with a Docker image?#EvanPoll #poll

@evan the funny thing is this happened despite the fact that I rarely drink(I voted "Yes, but..." because I'd probably react in some way and not just ignore it, though the exact reaction would depend on the context and whether the drunk person was a friend or an enemy )

@jmeowmeow @evan Who thought AI generated images of the moon was a good idea? And why stop there? "Here's a blurry picture of your cat, we've turned it into a crisp image of a cat that isn't yours, but that's great because you must be protected from failed images"

@jasonnoffsinger The second term already violated the Constitution, so we're out in uncharted water as we sail. @evan

Regardless, I find it hard to say that this event was "staged" in any meaningful way. I'm a No, But.

@evan I think you have to start with instances, but I don't think you call them that. An instance is a technical term that is completely meaningless to almost everyone. Call it a Community. That's the core of the hierarchy.A Community decides to host a Social PlatformThat Community selects the types of content they want to share and then runs the appropriate software (Mastodon, PeerTube, PixelFed, Friendica, etc)That Community enables its members to join via the software they've set upThat Community can then communicate with other Communities via the protocols available (ActivityPub)The software is really secondary here. A community could run multiple pieces of software for their own purposes. In fact they probably should. The CBC Community should run both Mastodon and PeerTube.It's not "one instance", It's a community running instances of all of the software they need.I know you have an option for "people", but I don't think that is specific enough. It's "Communities of People".

@faraiwe @evan I can answer that - it's because it's a meaningless or at best confusing term that shares almost no characteristics of *actual* sovereignty. We should resist such platitudes and come up with unique concepts for the context or environment. At worst it's a self-congratulatory buzzword designed to make people feel important.