Notices by Josh 🐧 (privacydingus@mstdn.social)

jus found a cool lil button that seems to disable the chrome ad tracking nonsense, thought i'd share

"The way in which the Fediverse exists as an entity reflects the vision many of us cite for society in general, with its immense potential for de-commercialised spaces and decentralisation. So appealing are these concepts to humans at our core – and so at odds with the current economic status quo – that the billionaires are attempting to do what capitalists always do: co-opt them."

- @MediaActivist

https://www.mediaactivist.com/manifesto/

oh superwow, ublock origin is celebrating google's 25th birthday too, amazing!

@freetechproject @tilvids @MediaActivist 41 seconds in, do you own a pink santa hat? (i really hope so)

@MediaActivist whatever happened to this?? https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/

@matt the dream.

my laptop on web environment integrity

x gon give it to ya (right wing discourse)

@MediaActivist stay soft & stay real, comrade! ✊

we need to add this in you see, because it's necessary for your search results (our massive data mining operation)

Time for #introductions.

I'm Josh (Hove, UK 🇬🇧) and I use this handle basically everywhere. I am an unrepentant tinkerer and alternative-tech enthusiast (hardware, software, anywhere).

I work writing bits, communicating and making memes - see some of this on the Mastodon handle of my employer: https://mastodon.social/@Mojeek

I'm keen on doing what I can to help push back this growing tech dystopia. Currently reading Ben Tarnoff's Internet for the People with a reading group: https://leagueofconcernedusers.org/

Updating this, myself and the Digital Capitalism Reading Group folks will be moving onto @danmcquillan's "Resisting AI
An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence" (something I am very much into after Dan did the rounds of TMK/TrashFuture/TWSU)

This RG convenes first on July 27th at 7pm BST; if you might wanna get involved in reading & discussing this topic monthly with mainly tech workers then please do DM me (the delightful @gaffen will be in attendance too).

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

@MediaActivist thankfully as far as I've seen it's been BAD "ART" but that doesn't stop everyone who simps for Melon Husk touting it as The Next Big Thing.

The music ones I've seen are absolutely atrocious, thankfully my main artsy sanity check is ok... for now.

I used an #AI tool which pitched itself as simplifying the process of mind mapping by simulating a conversation between different functions within an organisation and then producing the kind of document you'd get out of that. It was a pretty simple task. The resulting document was 88 pages of the most obvious busywork you've ever seen.

The future, everyone.

Digi-david Graeber: and what if the artificial intelligences end up having bullshit jobs, what then?

@MediaActivist @dentangle @deadsuperhero @prolrage @trekhausen @fifilamoura @ComicContext @siege @crowgirl @skeletor @BillySmith @burtonverse truly a thing of beauty! My feed is slowly becoming the follow fridays of people who have done the hard work for me, and random hashtags. Truly the best thing ❤️

@MediaActivist @trixter "Server Rules for retro.pizza: The Director's Cut ... This is a private social platform run by a queer Leftist and your First Amendment means nothing here."

love it.

"I am at the limit of your current API plan"