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

@nileane

Like why would any of us want anything to do with careless people who vote human rights away and make our world less safe.

Why would we want the kind of neighbours who would turn us in to the authorities if their comfort was in anyway under threat?

Tells me everything I need to about where he stands. It's about his comfort, not our Human Rights.

Some of us want one place where we just want to be social and share our ideas without LLM contributions.

A space declares itself and kindly asks projects to not put LLM contributions up.

LLM bros get annoyed and start accusing the group of witch hunting etc etc.

There's a type who don't want us to have one LLM free space . Who'll bitch and moan about the sign saying you're not welcome here.

Respect the boundary.

You literally have the rest of the web, let us have this space.

I'm a little sad.

An organisation that had a positive campaign for projects to give up github but then did very little to promote it on here.

There's been more activity to defend a milquetoast document that starts by saying that folks desires to not use LLMs should be respected. But then it says in other points that they wish folks wouldn't use LLMs but if they must then OK.

I think the effort to defend that by one of the main officers in that Organisation speaks volumes.

I'm disappointed.

I'd go out and touch grass but we're on a red alert in France because of the canicule.

So that's another reason to not be accepting of LLMs. Climate change is happening here right now and LLM use around the world will make that worse.

Excuse me if I'm not polite when I say LLM use isn't welcome here. The consequences hit others sooner than me. It will hit you sooner or later.

Touch grass while you can.

Written in 2024, and I don't know why folks are still surprised.

Some folks will always see technology merely as tools, choosing to ignore the political side.

Some BDLs have always been the way they are. It's the nature of any project, FOSS or not.

https://www.onepict.com/20240512-elephant.html

But the size of a project, it's participants and how large it's userbase is very much determines if you can fork a thing.

Too big to fork, sounds like too big to fail.

Our ecosystem is stuck.

I feel that both Free Software and Open Source have a massive issue. They are ideologies that have more in common with libertarianism that's based on individual freedoms, rather than community freedoms based on Human Rights.

Yes Freedom of Speech (code) is covered. Freedom of Association in Safety? The right for everyone to have a habitle ecosystem?

Nah, it's "fuck you, this tool is useful."

Evergreen post about #consent and the #Fediverse written two years ago.:

"Design for and ask for informed enthusiastic consent.

Then we won't have to keep having these little chats."
- me

Consent and the Fediverse part deux: The Opt-out two-shuffle

https://www.onepict.com/consentpartdeux20240215.html

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.