Notices by Raphael Albert (r_alb@mastodon.social)

@EUCommission
Please make a screenshot of all the comments and send it to your superior. Ask them to send it to their superiors, until it reaches those in charge.

Here are people who know a thing or two about tech begging you to stop your PR and listen for once!

We can't afford to fall for every snake oil grift US Big Tech throws at us! We need the EU and those in charge to be really smart now, because as others have written, there's a lot at stake! Dare to resist the hype, for all our sakes!

Dislike for the slop machine runs deep among you excellent people of the Fediverse! And I adore all of you for it!

Please know that each of your posts gives me hope that together, we can resist this mess!

So please stay loud, persistent, and ungovernable!

So Sam Altman's response to concerns about the wastefulness of his company's technology is basically "Well, raising humans consumes a lot of energy too!"

Either he has finally fried his own brain with his slop machine or he doesn't even bother any more to hide the degrading, dehumanizing, and despicable mindset that fuels the industry he's in.

Either way, those people shouldn't wield any power in the real world, where the rest of us 'dispensable humans' dwell.
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#StopTheSlop #LLMs #OpenAI

Whenever someone asks me for my LinkedIn details, I give them the same reply:

"I'm a privacy professional. If I were a pulmonologist, I wouldn't advertise on cigarette packs either."

Always get's them startled.

European tech companies should demand stronger regulation, especially on privacy!

Why? Because it would give them an advantage over their US-based competitors, who are neither willing nor able to operate under strict rules.

That's why the European Commission's Digital Omnibus package is such a bad idea. Weak regulation doesn't create a level playing field for all. It benefits the big and powerful players more than anyone else!
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #DigitalOmnibus

"LLMs won't go away, so we better start using them to make them less harmful" is as about as smart as "my house is burning down, so I better pour some gasoline into the flames so that it will be over quicker."

So the country I live in (Austria) happens to be on the United States of MAGA's "needs regime change to kick it out of the European Union" list.

Great. I was really getting tired of all the "good news" lately.

I miss those innocent days when they would just confuse us with Australia or Trump would claim we were living in forests and having explosive trees.

@Mastodon
#Austria: https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/de/themen/gesetze_und_recht/buergerservice_rechtsauskuenfte/Seite.980500

Every time I ditch another piece of irresponsible and exploitative tech I get this wonderful feeling of being liberated from something that shouldn't have entered my life in the first place.

We all should feel that way more often!

I wonder what all the slop zombies out there are doing during the Cloudflare outage. I mean, they cannot ask ChatGPT what to do next, like they would normally do.
Are they just sitting in front of their screens now, completely motionless, waiting to be prompted? 🤔

Tomorrow, the European Commission will show whom they are representing. Us? Or big tech and slop machine makers?

@EUCommission , who is it going to be? The people with votes are waiting for your decision.

Either way, the leaked Digital Omnibus proposal should cause serious alarm. It is a sad reminder that we cannot rely on politicians to always make the the right choices when it comes to protecting our privacy.
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#DigitalOmnibus #GDPR #privacy #DataProtection

Imagine what a wonderful world we could build if we weren't so occupied with having to keep others from destroying it.

We need to oppose the European Commission's digital omnibus disaster! We need to oppose it loudly and immediately!

Not only is the leaked proposal an outright attack on our digital privacy rights. The Commission would also set whatever will be left of the GDPR up to fail eventually.

@noybeu has summarized why an how the digital omnibus will harm people, you can read their article here: https://noyb.eu/en/eu-commission-about-wreck-core-principles-gdpr
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#digitalOmnibus #GDPR #privacy #dataProtection

Friends don't let friends use probabilistic tech for deterministic tasks!

@lanodan
If I had three wishes, your's would be one of them! But I'm afraid we'd have to fix the economy first for that to happen.

Can this LLM bubble please burst now? I'm ready for the next abominable thing Big Tech's gonna try to force down our throats.

The other day at the office:

"Hey Mr. privacy consultant, what's the big deal about drafting a privacy notice for our website? Can't you just let ChatGPT do it?!"

No, I can't. No, I won't. And no, we won't be working together.

Actually, I have an awful lot to hide.

Not because I am a criminal or a tax-evading billionaire, but because I'm a human being.

I am more than just a data mine. I refuse to be reduced to a source of digital commodities. I refuse to be valued at anyone's ad-revenue.

I have a right to decide what others should know about me. And I have a right to know what they will do with what they know.

That's why I have a lot to hide. Not because I must, but because I want to.
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#privacy #DataProtection

I'm not raging against the machine, I'm raging against its techno-capitalist owner.

Adding another layer to your personal privacy protection is truly satisfying. Believe me!

Want to know how? Get some great advice from @Em0nM4stodon's article on @privacyguides:

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/24/privacy-is-like-broccoli/#tools-and-services-you-can-start-using
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#privacy #DataProtection