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Top 5 reasons to hate the Facebook like button #etc #facebook #like #lessig #dublincore #semanticweb #opengraph #metadata Why can't you link to an existing page? How can you have a like button per blog post on your home page? Are we headed towards a world with only one verb?
https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/top-5-reasons-to-hate-the-facebook-like-button
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Striking contrast between the attitude toward parroting in current AI debates (#EmilyBender, #TimnitGebru et al.) and that of Lawrence #Lessig in relation to Creative Commons.
For Bender & co., parroting signals a lack of creativity and understanding:
‘an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms
it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic
information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.'https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922
For Lessig, it’s a core feature of creative productivity. Writing about how, from Buster Keaton’s ‘Steamboat Bill, we got Steamboat Willie, and from Steamboat Willie, we got Mickey Mouse, and from Mickey Mouse, the Disney Corporation’, Lessig notes how Walt Disney ‘was always parroting the feature length mainstream films’.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mlr/vol65/iss1/1/
#digital #parrot
#tech #ai
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Je viens de lire ton texte.
Il est rempli de grosses bêtises. Navré, c'est un peu abrupte, mais ce que tu écris repose sur ce que aimerais que le réel soit !
Mais, dans le numérique, c'est le propriétaire du code qui fait la loi ! Et sauf à imposer par la loi que #X devienne un logiciel libre, ce que tu écris est complètement erroné. J'en suis navré car ta position semble inspirée de celle d'ATTAC qui elle aussi repose sur de faux savoirs.
Tu parles d'usages numériques sans savoir de quoi il retourne techniquement et donc politiquement.
D'abord, lire #codeislaw de #Lessig est indispensable pour bien comprendre qu'en informatique, la chose politique se décide dès la rédaction du code et des règles.
Ensuite, lire #zuboff sur le #capitalismedesurveillance , mais aussi #Dominiqueboulier sur la propagation.
Lire #ToxicData de @davidchavalarias te sera aussi utile voire indispensable !
La position on se lève et on se bat n'a aucun sens au sein des systèmes informatiques !
Pour t'aider à mieux comprendre le concept de Lawrence Lessig, je pense que cet extrait de Matrix est un outil de vulgarisation opportun, vraiment.
J'ai déjà fait un pouet sur le sujet.
https://social.rouelibre.eu/@bateausurleau/113838832679610647
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Lessig and Seligman laid out ways to resolve this months ago.
One option is that Congress could pass a law declaring that any change a state legislature makes to its results after the popular vote would render the electoral votes not “regularly given,”
which under the ECRA would open them to congressional challenge.Another option: States could affirm that electors are required to carry out the will of the voters.
Or a legislature could pass a new law before the election granting itself authority to direct electors to vote for the legislature’s choice regardless of the popular vote
—so there would be time for the Supreme Court to strike down that bill (assuming it would).NONE OF THIS IS LIKELY to occur in time.
Election deniers are already preparing to start the steal.
When I asked Lessig what was his worry level
—about what Trump would try
—on a scale from 1 to 10, he said
“If it’s close, then I’m at 10."To [Trump], it’s existential. . . . There’s no reason he would hesitate at all to do whatever he can.
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In their new book, 🔹How to Steal a Presidential Election, 🔹Lawrence #Lessig and Matthew #Seligman describe a troubling scenario.
A 2020 Supreme Court decision in a “faithless electors” case (#Chiafolo v. #Washington) held that
🥺state legislatures have the power to direct electors how to cast their votes.
That ruling, Lessig and Seligman argue, could be interpreted by Republican state legislatures as allowing them to pass a law
👉directing electors to vote for the candidate the legislature chooses, rather than based on the popular vote in the state.
“There are plenty of mechanisms to ensure that the election selects the right slate of electors
—recounts, contest proceedings and so on,” they write.
“But ♦️there are no protections against a state legislature simply ordering whichever electors are appointed to vote for the candidate that the legislature, and not the people of the state, choose♦️.”
In an interview with The Bulwark, Lessig said that an unintended consequence of the Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA) enacted in 2022 was to shrink the window in which an attempted election subversion could be blocked.
Under the new law, no errors in the electoral vote can be corrected after electors vote on December 17, 2024. 💥If corrupt electors vote for someone other than their states’ popular vote winner, Congress will certify that result on January 6, 2025.💥
Republican-controlled legislatures in several key swing states
—Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin
—could throw the election.
“If they wanted to do it in the safest way possible, meaning in a way to guarantee that they were to succeed,” Lessig said, “they would do it immediately after the election, because the time frame for the Court to intervene would be so short, it’s not clear the Court would have time to intervene.”https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/start-the-steal-trump-november-2024
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Likely to get lost in the indictment news today, but I just wanted to share this fascinating long read from @lessig about the perils and potential of a Constitutional Convention: "Making an Article V Convention Safe for Democracy" https://medium.lessig.org/making-an-article-v-convention-safe-for-democracy-e946f2b77dc6 #ArticleV #ConstitutionalConvention #Democracy #Lessig