Notices by Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)

I get annoyed when folks say that technical solutions to age verification are fine and somehow I don't understand the technical implementation. Which has already been found to have holes.

I do understand.

Technologists who believe in Free Software should not be encouraging this. You will get a block.

Age verification to access the internet is breaking Freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.

We should not be making the mechanisms of surveillance easier by normalising the process.

Watching a man get more grace and defensive fanboys for AI slop than any woman driven out of FOSS is something....

In the late nineties when I started on the web it seemed like the world was open to me.

We had different tools, different search engines to find those far flung places on different servers.

We also had pages that curated links.

Google will make it smaller again, which makes me sad.

So we must curate our world and share it.

@pojntfx That post is utter perfection.

Hell is sitting on the phone to pay a bill and having a podcast advertised at you in-between bouts of musak.

@aral fyi :

https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/116459049191900624

I don't think folks consider freedom of association enough when we look at why defederation and moderation is such an important part of the #fediverse

It's not just free speech. We have the right to assemble and to refuse to be welcoming in our spaces.

So no, we aren't welcoming to #LLM tech bro's on here.

"We're the echo that's left and we don't want to reflect your narcissism."

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/where-is-the-echo

#EchoChamber

@MediaActivist If Mahmood wants to use Benthams philosophy, then she'd better be prepared for the other part of that.

Bentham believed that Government should be transparent.

With companies like Palantir , The eye of the panopticon will be held by the US.

Also Data leaks.

So the public's eye will be on her. Hope she's comfortable in that panoptic cell

#VirtualPanopticon

I distrust the kind of discourse when folks are being asked to be "reasonable".

The DARVO on that discussion raises my hackles.

In my bubble there's a lot of folks who are vulnerable.

Reasonable is the call for the status quo.

So no I won't be reasonable. This network exists because of coders who weren't reasonable, folks shaped this network and pushed hard for moderation and safety. They weren't reasonable.

I look at the world at the moment and I don't want to be "reasonable"

This video about #foxfibre, an organic cotton is fascinating. It changes colour when boiled. This should be grown elsewhere.

#Permaculture #SolarPunk

The Yarn That Almost Saved The World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMltIbn6S4M

@tchambers I think they have one now?

https://youtube.com/@saturdaynightliveuk

@skinnylatte Even in Scotland this is true.

I had aunties and uncles who weren't related to me. I saw them more often than my own relatices, and I'd get food/small presents.

One Easter I got twelve huge Easter eggs mostly from my grannie's friends who were all my uncles and aunts.

Uncle Toughie (George) made awesome shortbread.

@aral this struck me:

"Over time, people learn where those edges are. They avoid them. Not necessarily because they agree, but because pushing against them comes at a price. This creates a subtle but powerful effect. It shapes not only what is said, but what is explored internally. "

It's how the status quo is enforced. We see this with the UK at the moment and how folks are getting locked up for protesting genocide.

Folks not quite at the edges have something to loose so they look away.

When I was a teen and starting at university, I remember the browser wars seemed lost in the 1990s.

Microsoft and Internet Explorer seemed to dominate. Nowadays I'm on Linux and there are other options.

That's thanks to folks not accepting the status quo and being unreasonable. It's thanks to the folks who built the software we use and who supported them.

Things can change, but it takes people and community.

It takes will and intention.

You need to be honest about where you stand.

@strypey like since last year.

https://chaos.social/@onepict/115549298287381253

@strypey

I've been thinking that Mozilla needs an organisational fork myself.

https://chaos.social/@onepict/115026366983784466

@ainmosni @aral I started out on the Open Source side and gradually moved over to the free software side.

Although at times I'm not sure either side fits anymore. Especially with the definition of freedom, and the desire to not acknowledge the political influences and ramifications of what we code and how we act within our communities.

I'm at a stage now where I distrust folks who are apolitical.

@glyph I'm honestly wondering just how much undiagnosed long COVID is playing into this.

I'm slowly recovering now, well as much as I can, but at the time I was painfully aware weird stuff was happening to my brain because I got caught in the first wave in March 2020.

So I am wondering if the addictive effects of using these LLMs along with existing cognitive damage is a partial cause.

@crazyjaneway @glyph We had a client use it to give them permission to spam out their new thing, after we'd explained (and their local IT guy also explained) that if they did that on our servers we'd lock their account.

Which we then did. The client said, "ChatGPT said I could do it". The sycophancy combined with overconfidence is utterly frightening.

I don't particularly like it when my friends use it in their communication with me either.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

"They took the virtual dust of where you wandered online. They created your digital poppet and sold duplicates of your virtual dust with others. They traded what they gathered about you to each other. At first to influence you, they wanted to sell you their wares in their markets — but the Fae in this realm also gave you poisonous fruit to eat. The more you ate of the fruit, the more you gave them."

Digital Poppets - How the Modern Fae Hold Power Over You
#DigitalPoppets
https://www.onepict.com/digitalpoppet.html