Notices by Janet Vertesi (cyberlyra@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte

Congrats and enjoy! Spending several months at home away from this absolutely madcap place is a tremendous gift and a comfort. I hope it is as you remember it and the two of you can feel refreshed, reset and replenished :)

(also stoked for food pics)

@liztai Looks spectacular and delicious! Wishing you and your family a joyous celebration. 新年快乐！🎉

@liztai
oooohhhhhhhhhhhh that looks amazing.

@mekkaokereke @zakatak @davidnjoku Fathers doing daughters' hair instead of mothers?? What is this world coming to! /s

@stevesilberman @WarnerCrocker isn’t this obvious to everyone?

@powersoffour Oh great, nightmare fuel…

@evan
@jalcine

We also have lots of parties so there are lots of options. That's an important distinction.

Clarifying: the party leader is elected by the membership of the party. Anyone can be a member and every member can vote.

@ntnsndr @EvolutionGnome @thunderbird I’m oscillating between the two as well, for same reasons. May yet use one for one set of accounts and the other for another set but unsure.

In case helpful, I put up a video review of the @starlabssystems Mark V. This is a new release, a tablet-and-keyboard form factor, Linux-first and open source out of the box machine from Starlabs, whose products I’ve enjoyed for many years. Just two days into playing with it this review is mostly to demo look and feel.

https://vimeo.com/994590240

Current mood: #LINUX ALL THE THINGS!!!!!

Tonight’s achievement: resuscitating an old 2012 iMac that was too old to run current versions of OSX or software. Installed ZorinOS and it is good as new :) So excited to repurpose this machine! Next up, customizing my new Starlite.

'Visible upon breakdown,' one of my favourite of Leigh Star's rules for ethnography of infrastructure. Infrastructural components and politics are typically hard to observe and much labor goes into the appearance of seamlessness, so you can trace a lot about them that is otherwise invisible when they break down. Currently enjoying the map of who runs Linux and who runs Windows among trains, airlines, hospitals, banks, schools, and other affected systems. #crowdstrike

"Ethics" is not the only problem with generative A.I. -- *epistemology* is broken too.

My latest for Public Books: in the face of #google telling us to eat rocks, we bought an encyclopedia.

https://www.publicbooks.org/the-encyclopedia-project-or-how-to-know-in-the-age-of-ai/

Companion blog post here:

https://www.optoutproject.net/what-is-true-on-the-internet/

#AI #ethics #EthicsInAI #knowledgeinfrastructures #libraries

Hi friends and followers, the terrific @jhpot wrote a piece for @lifehacker sharing my tips for getting off #google

Please check it out and share with your friends, family, and colleagues on and off the #fedi !

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-quit-google-according-to-a-privacy-expert?ref=jhpMastodon

@stux Roomba’s Big Adventure.

Finally watching #starwars #clonewars. Fave do-not-miss episodes, fediverse?

Massive leak at #Google confirms what we have all known for years, just how much is tracked, stored, and monetized.

Even clearer now how Chrome tracks and reports EVERYTHING you do. For heavens' sake delete it now and move to Firefox

Also they've outright lied for years about their data collection and search practices.

Looks like 'Don't be evil' wasn't enough. ;)

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

Just, get off Google products already!

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

Zomg they just went ahead and ingested McSweeneys, the Onion, and all the Reddit shitposts…. Hold my beer, Google “A.I.” 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

This also seems an opportune time to remind you that you can free yourself from Google. Since they are basically tanking their own product.

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

@futurebird As I see it, the competitive walls between these companies is an opportunity for ensuring my data doesn’t move between them. I am happy these apps don’t “work” across their boundaries, as I can use that Balkanization strategically.

Data brokerage has highly consolidated and shifted since it started in the early ‘teens—it’s just meta and Google now. The stuff at the seams, they know, but those biggest companies have a stranglehold on their own data.