Notices by Rose Puckey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 (rosepuckey@mastodon.scot)

@aral Mastodon has a board of directors? How?

@Geri The video captioned 'Watch: Gaza protesters clash with police at Emory University' explains exactly how the BBC and other news channels are seeing this. The students are clashing with police. Let's get this right, unarmed students peacefully protesting are clashing with armed police in riot gear with snipers on University rooftops.

That all seems totally legitimate.

And the nasty party in the UK want to be able to do the same here.

@PaulNickson @MaJ1 @Snowshadow @ravensrod @SteveClough @NormanDunbar @weirdfolks Facebook and Google have always been stealing our data believing we all read the toc and don't block them. There's a great add on to some browsers that warns about that. The thing is, we all have stuff we don't want anyone else to see, no, not that stuff, passwords, bank statements, official documents, now wash your mind lol. So keeping stuff safe is essential.

@MaJ1 @PaulNickson @Snowshadow @ravensrod @SteveClough @NormanDunbar @weirdfolks
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@MaJ1 @PaulNickson @Snowshadow @ravensrod @SteveClough @NormanDunbar @weirdfolks Gawd, back to the AI generation thing I see. Hang on.

@PaulNickson @MaJ1 @Snowshadow @ravensrod @SteveClough @NormanDunbar @weirdfolks all I did was go to a site and say this is my photo of me, put my face on that photo ignore an advert for 30 seconds and you get this. The worry is that I will probably see pictures that I know are me, used on the site for other people to do what I do.

@PaulNickson @MaJ1 @Snowshadow @ravensrod @SteveClough @NormanDunbar @weirdfolks Takes about 30 seconds and that includes not actually watching their advert.

@PaulNickson @MaJ1 @Snowshadow @ravensrod @SteveClough @NormanDunbar @weirdfolks Knowing that it's what they do. I only use a maximum of 4 photos. They're all online somewhere and none associated with personal information. If someone else gets a smile out of using a picture I've allowed to be used, fine. If it isn't something I've given express permission for, really not so fine.

@PaulNickson @MaJ1 @Snowshadow @ravensrod @SteveClough @NormanDunbar @weirdfolks I feel that it may be both but caused by the algorithms the platforms use which are fueling the aggression we see far too often from otherwise decent people.

We are told to believe catch phrases. Meta/WhatsApp tells us there is 'end to end encryption on all messages. Sure but then its backed up onto theirs or a Google server which is unencrypted. Why don't more people use signal or matrix?

@PaulNickson @MaJ1 @Snowshadow @ravensrod @SteveClough @NormanDunbar @weirdfolks Thats always possible regardless though. If we wandered over to Facebook or any of the antisocial sites, not that I would, there are zillions of photos of people who could be used to set up fake profiles. The selfie obsessed really do open themselves up to that. And now, it appears that Facebook has sold all the private messages to Netflix too. So they have all the selfies and the other pics too.

Someone please correct me if I get this wrong

Israel bombs the west Bank for decades. The PLO are terrorists, agree with us or you are antisemitic

Israel bombs Gaza for decades. Hamas are terrorists, agree with us or you are antisemitic. Hamas retaliate again but Hamas are terrorists and all Palestinians are Hamas oh, we will kill thousands in Gaza too and you can't do anything

Israel bomb the Iranian embassy, Iran retaliate but it's Iran fault

Something is very wrong here

@BethanyBlack Today I started helping a friend fill in a PIP application form. 40 pages of unintuitive claptrap. He had to give up with the online version and order a paper one. This is an intelligent person, an ex programmer who ended up in security. Between us we're struggling with the form. With any sort of learning disabilities I doubt it would get past the second page.

We're not meant to be able to complete them.