Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

We’ve analyzed the House version of KOSA, and unsurprisingly, it is just as dangerous as the Senate version. It’s crucial everyone who cares about digital rights continue to oppose it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/us-version-kosa-still-censorship-bill

Ooh, what's that in the sky? I gotta examine it closer-
#gamedev #planetkeke

ram was promised new information. ram was tricked again ​

@renegadejade ​

Gothic RiniDisc

Hay ciertxs activistas LGBT que andan promocionando esta ley porque lograría el reconocimiento de identidades trans al nivel nacional a cambio de "damos todos nuestros datos biométricos a SEGOB" 🙃

https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/impulsan-biometricos-desde-el-registro-civil-heredaran-dictamen-a-la-proxima-legislatura

In an unbelievable act of corporate vandalism, Paramount completely erased the entire archives of MTV dot com, wiping out more than 30 years and hundreds of thousands of pages https://www.showbiz411.com/2024/06/25/paramount-shuts-down-mtv-website-wipes-history-after-20-plus-years

Block ChatGPT from scraping your website by blocking its IP ranges (not asking via robots.txt).

https://sizeof.cat/post/block-chatgpt-scraping/

Can confirm that it works. 🙂

a creature needs to see this today

🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, in 2023, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into the apartment windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off the US EPA, who sent their env cops to raid Apple's plant in Aug of 2023. The US EPA finally released the report of their enforcement inspections & sent me a copy on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

TLDR; EPA discovered that Apple was:
- illegally treating hazardous waste
- illegally transporting hazardous waste to disposal facilities
- illegally dumping hazardous waste into the ambient air outside the facility (into the apartment windows)
- leaving stockpiles of extremely dangerous chemicals unattended on weekends

Meta is incorrectly marking real photos as ‘Made by AI’ https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/24/24184795/meta-instagram-incorrect-made-by-ai-photo-labels

I've finally found a good use for the crappiest fur in my entire stash! 🪡🧵🧶🪅

59 percent of devs call industry market 'bad,' blame investors and mismanagement https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/59-percent-of-devs-call-industry-market-bad-blame-investors-and-mismanagement?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

5 - Chibi Maddie

The best mountaineer grill :D

https://mastodon.social/@LillyHerself/112665393662840659

The economy has been stagnant since the 1970s. The only source of growth has been computers, a tiny number of firms captured it all, and Moore's Law is over. (It's after the gold rush, and the whole world is a mining town.)

If you were wondering why everything is collapsing into a scam and profiteering on necessity.

The fix, with greater urgency and more agricultural collapse, is what it was in the 1970s; move off fossil carbon and make/build for value.

Pity about those incumbents, isn't it?

Tumblr seems to insisting in making every post I wrote defending the platform outdated. Today they obliterated that post I wrote two or three years ago trying to tell everyone that no, tumblr didn't sell your data to advertisers, and the best proof you could have of that was how absolutely untargeted (sometimes, hilariously) tumblr ads were.

Well, I just got an in-platform ad for this:

This raised my alarms immediately.

Blaze, the tool to promote tumblr posts, exists since two years ago, and the fact that they are launching a version of it targeting professionals was a big red flag: The one and only thing that adtech professionals want on a platform is targeting. And the only way to get targeted ads is to sell user info to those advertisers. The original blaze only let's you to target your ads at country level, which is pretty much useless to adtech pros. So yes, the 'civil' version of blase would share your country with advertisers, but it was the only private info tumblr would sell about you. Which, you know, given the state of the internet, was a fairly good behaviour.

So I went in and I did a quick check (signing up as a potential advertiser) because I was curious, and fearful, about why this was supposed to be "pro".

And ... bam, here it is:

But this pro version let's you target users based on their interests. And their age. Tumblr has your age because you need to fill it just to know if you can use the platform or not (And if not remember wrong, maybe disable some stuff if you are over 14 but under 18). But now they are selling this info. And they are selling your browsing (and posting) habits. And, pontentially, more targeting data, but only to advertisers big enough to deal with the sales team directly.

Fucking hell.

Tumblr CEO (and my ex-boss, full disclaimer) said this on a interview barely 18 months ago:

I wanted to see if we could create a mainstream social media that wasn’t reliant on surveillance capitalism or advertising as its primary business model.

So well, I guess Matt has just answered himself that he can't, and decided to just go to the proven method of making social media a user-surveillance nightmare.

Because you know, principles are great, but money seems to be much better for him.

We have theoretical ideas about a better world (e.g., less car dependency, 15-minute cities, fossil free future, climate and environmental justice, etc), but no visualization of what that world looks like. That’s where stories and films depicting this world can help.