Notices by Em :official_verified: (em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange)

@mookie @drwho I'd have to go with Super Mario 3 and Zelda, but I will dearly miss Tetris.

I once clicked on an alt-text to read,
and the alt-text was "Image" 🙃

Do not do this.
That's not how it works, at all.

#AltText #Mastodon #Fediverse

New word proposition: Botsplain

When you ask a question and instead of genuinely trying to answer or simply admitting "I don't know" someone asks a generative AI and feed you that garbage answer against your consent.

#NoAI #AI

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to use AI as friends.

When you invest your time with AI instead of creating genuine bonds with real people, you become completely isolated without even noticing it.

This all serves capitalism and authoritarian regimes.

When you are isolated, you can't find humans to help you financially (AI won't).

When you are isolated, you can't find humans to rise up with you against abuse (AI won't).

You become completely alone (with AI friends), and completely vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by the system implemented by those who control your AI "friends".

It seems obvious, I know. But how is Mark Zuckerberg able to market this insane idea at all then?

#Meta #MetaDystopia #Facebook

If we don't fight for privacy rights,
like right now,

We are going to lose them, and everything will suck a million times more.

Privacy rights protect so many of your other human rights. This is indeed a priority.

#Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights

New Privacy Guides article 👁️⛔️
by me:

Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman
announced his ambitious plan for the World project, formerly known as Worldcoin.

The company opened 6 stores where people can go to get their biometric data collected from a creepy iris scanner called The Orb.

But this isn't just a cryptocurrency grift anymore, this is much more dystopian.

In this article, I describe the risk of using such service, the unethical practices the World project has been employing to gather numbers, and how this is a slippery slope towards the normalization of mass surveillance we should all worry about.

Say NO to the Orb!

Don't scan your eyeballs! 👁️🙅♀️

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #NoAI #AI #Worldcoin #BiometricData #GDPR

If a platform requires you scan your eyeball as a proof of humanity to keep your account, you do not have to do it.

You do have a choice.

You can, and you should, say no.

#Privacy #OptOut #SayNo

@ZenHeathen Nap is always a good choice. Here's the digging in a neat package already to save you some time ;) https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/114484154495209772

Minority Report except instead of kind precogs it's just stupid gen AI and instead of getting it right almost all the time it gets it wrong 90% of the time 🙃

I'm so grateful for having
the Fediverse in my life.

Thank you all for being here, with me 💚

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Deregulation doesn't favor innovation,
it favors human rights violations.

#DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy

Which concept, policy, or technology
from a scifi tv show, movie, or book inspires you the most, and why?

#Scifi

I had to visit the OpenAI website yesterday.

I feel dirty 🤢

#NoAI

We live in a society where
humans are increasingly disconnected from each other and increasingly treating each other as disposable.

Perhaps it's a side effect of late-stage capitalism.

Perhaps it's a side effect of social media.

Perhaps it's something else entirely.

Regardless of what causes this,
we should address it and look for solutions to repair the human bonds we share.

This will be increasingly
important in the next weeks, months, and years.

To fight what is coming ahead,
we must remain united and we must care for each other.

While we are divided and
all depressed in each our little individual boxes, they win.

Let's all work to be better at fighting together, at caring for each other, at leaving no one behind, and at nurturing the bonds that unite us 💚

Voting in Canada today was a breeze.

There was no line for me, and it took less than 5 minutes!

If you can vote and haven't yet,
there is no reason not to go.

Yes, you still have time! 🗳️🇨🇦

#Canada #CanadaVotes #CanPol #ElbowsUp

If Pierre Poilievre wins tonight,
I might have to start listening to metal music non-stop as a rage-coping mechanism until the situation is resolved.

#Canada #CanadaVotes

Today, vote for Canada to stay Canada 🇨🇦

Vote to keep Universal Healthcare.
Vote to keep guns regulated.
Vote to keep our democracy.

And vote against Pierre Poilievre who would be more than happy to sell us out and abdicate without a fight.

Vote for Canada's sovereignty.
This election is crucial.

#CanadaVotes #Canada #CanPoli #CanPol #USpol #ElbowsUp

If you are voting on Monday April 28th
(and if you are an adult Canadian the answer to this should be YES) 🗳️🇨🇦

Don't forget to bring with you official IDs and some official letters with your current address on it, in case you need to re-register on the voting list. This is especially true if you have not received a voting card in the mail.

For some obscure reason, and despite none of my information changing since the last federal election, I had been removed from my current address and would have not found out before election day if I had not checked and called in advance to correct this.

I find this pretty suspicious by the way,
and I'm afraid it might have happened to others who will only find out on Monday and not have the proper identification with them.

Let's make sure your vote is counted.
This election is crucial 🇨🇦

#Canada #Vote #CanPoli #CanPol

To my American friends,

Know that this Monday we have a very important election in Canada.

We are trying to stop Musk-backed Canadian-Trump Pierre Poilievre from becoming our Prime Minister (President).

We are also trying to stay a country.
Just that.

Wish us luck! 🤞🗳️🇨🇦

#Canada #ElbowsUp #CanPoli #CanPol #USPol

Can you believe that
you are here, and I am here,
and we can share and communicate together,
and no billionaires were involved in this happening or continuing in any ways?

How fraking fantastic is this! :blobcatrainbow: :mastodon:

#Mastodon #Fediverse