> This would be a great opportunity for the government to get involved

They have been:

https://www.energy.gov/oe/transformer-resilience-and-advance...

I like how you think

What in the world are “the dangerous insights”?

“Society is a construct”, for starters?

That's babby's first insight. Most people figure this out on their own in kindergarten.

To clarify (since the headlines of many articles about this aren't clear about it), this states that it prohibits approval of new Models, so any models that already cleared FCC certification can still be sold in the US, even if they're made overseas.

This is for newly released models that still need to get FCC certification.

The only one I know of: https://www.islandrouter.com/

> In conjunction with original software development, Island is designed and assembled in the USA to improve security and enable tighter quality control throughout the entire production process. The code for Island routers has only been loaded internally at Island HQ in the U.S; customer support is also managed directly in our U.S. Headquarters.

Big difference between

"barred from holding jobs"

versus

"make it known to the public that they've shown they're not trustworthy enough to be given large sums of investment money"

Iran's a sideshow compared to Tel Aviv's Hasbara spin factory.

What thunder? Mastodon has had nearly a decade to go mainstream and it's still mostly tech enthusiasts explaining to their friends what an 'instance' is.

ActivityPub is fine if you enjoy your identity being held hostage by whatever random server admin decides to keep the lights on. Want to move servers? Hope you're cool with losing your followers. Want real account portability? Too bad. Want scalable search and flexible moderation? Also too bad.

ATproto wasn't built to compete with Mastodon out of pettiness, it was built because ActivityPub fundamentally cannot accomplish the task that ATProto/Bluesky is aiming for: a decentralized social network that isn't a cumbersome pain in the ass to use.

How many Bluesky servers are there?

This isn’t Mastodon so a “Bluesky server” isn’t a thing.

Mastodon is shaped like email so you have “servers” sending messages to each other.

Atproto is shaped more like RSS with aggregation. Everyone posts data to their hosting (which anyone could move at any time), and apps like Bluesky aggregate data from everyone’s hosting.

So a concept like “Bluesky server” is nonsensical. What you have is “atproto hosting” (which can be provided by Bluesky, by other communities, by other companies, or can be self-hosted — it’s all open source and you can even implement your own) and “Bluesky app” (of which there’s only one — but there are forks like Blacksky which fork the entire stack including the server). There also “other atproto apps” like https://leaflet.pub, https://tangled.org, etc, which have nothing to do with Bluesky.

I made my account on a server that a personal friend span up. Said friend deleted it on a whim after a few months after not using it much, not really aware of the implications. Personal connection was not the issue here, ownership of my digital identity was.

Besides, people sometimes have fallings-out.

He's the US Ambassador to Israel.

So his comments represent the US, and don't represent Israel in any way?

That would be a good point if Netanyahu and Yair Lapid hadn't echoed his comments and expressed intent to create greater Israel..

Seems like it would have been more relevant just to quote those people instead.

the goal posts never stop moving huh

They've never moved.

First you were upset that I assumed the American ambassador had any input on Israeli politics (a definitional truth), then you changed the subject and became upset that I didn't quote Netanyahu or Rabin themselves. That's how you moved the goal posts, inventing problems without confronting any of my points on their merits.

Not at all. You quoted an American as if he speaks for Israeli policy; he does not and never did. That's the entire meat of this thread.

If Israel disagreed with the ambassador's statements, they would give him a note or call him in for a talking to. Diplomatic discipline is very common if an ambassador misbehaves this badly.

The fact that they did not react to such inflammatory statements strongly indicates that they support them.

What is the job of an ambassador if not to speak for policy?

> We are a non-profit project with two goals:

> 1. Preservation: Backing up all knowledge and culture of humanity.

> 2. Access: Making this knowledge and culture available to anyone in the world (including robots!).

Setting aside the LLM topic for a second, I think the most impactful way to preserve these 2 goals is to create torrent magnets/hashes for each individual book/file in their collection.

This way, any torrent search engine (whether public or self-hosted like BitMagnet) that continuously crawls the torrent DHT can locate these books and enable others to download and seed the books.

The current torrent setup for Anna's Archive is that of a series of bulk backups of many books with filenames that are just numbers, not the actual titles of the books.

> Setting aside the LLM topic for a second, I think the most impactful way to preserve these 2 goals is to create torrent magnets/hashes for each individual book/file in their collection.

Not sure that's the case. I fear it would quickly lead to the vast majority of those torrents having zero seeders. Even if Anna's Archive is dedicated to seeding them, the point is to preserve it even if Anna's Archive ceases to exist, I think. Seems to me having massive torrents is a safer bet, easier for the data hoarders of the world to make sure those stay alive.

Also: seeding one massive torrent is probably way less resource intensive than seeding a billion tiny ones.

They should serve them all via IPFS if they haven't done it already

they have individual IPFS links but they don't work 100% of the times