„“Following mounting pressure from regulators in the UK and EU, Adobe and Figma announced on Monday that both companies are mutually terminating their merger agreement, which would have seen Adobe acquire the Figma product design platform for $20 billion.“

Da freuen sich sicher viele Designer:innen. Ich hatte damals nach der Ankündigung mit kosmar im neunetzcast darüber gesprochen: https://neunetz.fm/neunetzcast-92-warum-kauft-adobe-figma-ueber-multiplayerapps-saas-netzwerkeffekte-in-software-und-pfadabhaengigkeiten/

-> Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma

„The company’s FunSearch can solve highly complex math problems. Miraculously, the solutions it generates aren’t just accurate; they’re entirely new solutions that no human has ever found.“

-> Google DeepMind Solves Unsolvable Math Problem With AI

„I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage“
– John Stuart Mill in seiner Autobiographie, 1873

Eine der fundamentalen negativen sozialen Dynamiken, die von Social Media massiv verstärkt werden können.

Der Satz geht weiter mit:

„and wisdom is supposed to consist not in seeing further than other people, but in not seeing so far.“

So kommt ActivityPub zu Threads:

„Threads fediverse support is going to be rolling out in stages over the next year. First read-only, then with likes and shares, then replies, then two-way follow.“

mastodon.social/@evan@cosocial.ca/111567567883238025

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„while the deal isn’t a complete victory for the Canadian government, it’s still a loss to the open internet. As with Australia’s News Bargaining Code (and a similar deal by Google and Meta there), it only serves to inspire other countries to pass similar “bribe us too!” laws.“

-> Google Caves In Canada: Agrees To Pay $100m News Bribe To Avoid Direct Link Tax

„However, because so many people think that they’re supporting creators and “sticking it” to Big Tech in supporting these copyright lawsuits over AI, I thought it might be useful to play out how this would work in practice. And, spoiler alert, the end result would be a disaster for creators, and a huge benefit to big tech.“

-> If Creators Suing AI Companies Over Copyright Win, It Will Further Entrench Big Tech

„Nach 2022er-Umsätzen von 19 Mrd. Dollar ( 40%) lag PDD in den ersten 9 Monaten bei knapp 22 Mrd. Dollar ( 75%)“

-> Temu-Mutter PDD ist in China jetzt wertvoller als Alibaba

„Gaimans Soundbite verstehe ich weniger als Kritik an sozialen Medien, sondern als Befürwortung eines persönlichen Blogs. Das ActivityPub-Protokoll birgt dabei die Hoffnung, dass die Grenzen zukünftig verschwimmen.“

-> Neil Gaiman: „I feel like the days of social media are kind of ending.“