🧵 #THREAD

Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a column we wish all the members of the media had to read word-for-word, out loud, before they could log on to their computer systems.

Since that seems unlikely, we're giving you a multi-post thread that reproduces the column in its entirety.

Why? Because #Democracy is worth protecting.

#Expats: This column has been brought to you by http://VoteFromAbroad.org. Please #boost it widely.

@journalismandcomment @history #law #tiktok

Is it our imagination, or did #Project2025 launch on July 1st, 2024?

#Expats: #Register to #vote, then request your #ballot, at https://VoteFromAbroad.org NOW!

#USPolitics #Politics #Biden #HeritageFoundation #Democrats #Republicans #GOP #SCOTUS #immunity #Democracy #democracy #abortion #ReproductiveRights @politics @uspolitics @geopolitics #sotomayor #TikTok @DemocracyMattersALot @DefendDemocracy

An #image needs 40 bytes instead of 196,608

source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.07550

The Chinese company #Bytedance, which includes #TikTok, has developed a series of transform models for image #generation and #compression with up to 307 million parameters in collaboration with the University of Munich. It can reconstruct a square image with a length and width of 256 pixels largely correctly with just 32 tokens. That is 40 bytes of the original 196,608 bytes. The model can be used both for compressing image data and for pure image generation and is said to be up to 410 times faster than conventional diffusion models.

#news #software #ai #technology #picture

Så dåligt av techjätten Tiktok att inte svara på journalistfrågor. Sådant som journalister ska kunna fråga till vettiga företag. (Finns viss kritik mot fler i denna artikel, men fokus här denna gång är Tiktok).

Med konsumentmakt kan vi bojkotta företag för att de ska bättra sig. Men det känns inte som vi är tillräckligt intresserade av att bojkotta Tiktok.

https://www.dn.se/sverige/dn-tvingas-lamna-tiktoks-kontor-efter-kritiska-fragor/ #tiktok

Tiktok duckar kritiska frågor – DN tvingas lämna kontoret

Techjättarna lovar att skydda barn från beroendeframkallande algoritmer och olämpligt innehåll – ändå förekommer det.När DN:s reporter ställer kritiska

^{Kristoffer Örstadius (Dagens Nyheter)}

#EU

Yes. They were quite high in some countries (#Belgium 89%, Germany 65, ...).

This is why the rise of ult-right parties is doubly-worrying.
It us neither "protest voting 🗳, " nor "low voter participation."
The likes of Putler and Orban have done an excellent job at #InformationWarfare.
They've seem to have been particularly good at winning acolytes among teenagers through #TikTok in some countries.
"#MainstreamMedia" aren't "mainstream" in that age group anymore, I have a hunch.

An open source/self hosted and federated Tik-Tok alternative, made by @pixelfed has just successfully tested federation!

https://loops.video

If you applied to join, expect an invite within the next week! ✨

(We will be open sourcing the mobile app and backend later this summer)

#loops #pixelfed #tiktok