Notices by Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)

So now would be a great time to work on a video platform with payment options because this is definitely going to piss off a lot of folks.

Google's YouTube is automatically generating voice models of folks using their prior content. It's opt out (because you, by default, are into weird AI shit, right?).

https://bsky.app/profile/vamichaelalaws.bsky.social/post/3ln43rbffbs2s

It's about time. https://www.theverge.com/news/650665/google-loses-ad-tech-antitrust-monopoly-lawsuit

Down with Google.

Copying from BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/jacky.wtf/post/3lmdtu2zf3k2o

Was just told I can't opt out of facial recognition for a flight out of the US

I'm heading to Europe and dude tried to say it was a FAA requirement. Asked him to show me, he pulled me to the side and wanted to confirm my ticket (a waste of time).

Was forced to go with the facial recognition to board the plane.

https://bsky.app/profile/jacky.wtf/post/3lmdvnskowc2k

Not only is it bullshit, when I showed him this: https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2017-Oct/biometric-exit-process-fact-sheet.pdf he apologized but then asked if I wanted to get off the plane. Laziness is dangerous under this administration and I hate that it was a brother too (hence why you can't just root for the tone)

I wanna follow up with this:

* The Federal government has had my fingerprints and facial information since about November of 2024 (a requirement to be a federal contractor).
* Before that, NYS has had my fingerprints after being arrested for a misdemeanor (fucking jumping the turnstile) for over a decade (that made future detaining a lot easier 🙄)

My threat model to cedeing biometric information has been compromised for a while and despite that I try to minimize refining the model they have. Do not consent, you still have a choice.

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https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1306716243230720327

https://jacky.wtf/pay for other links

#mutualAid

Respect and solidarity for those workers at Microsoft for protesting their bosses in their explicit role in genocide.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/mexican-president-welcomes-new-palestinian-ambassador this is big (also God damn it, please link shit, I had to unboost someone else because of that)

It's the anniversary of the start of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

In better news! https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/video-game-workers-in-north-america-now-have-an-industry-wide-union-130024730.html

#union #gaming

It's definitely the latter re: winning hearts and minds. It's more about notoriety at the point (the underlying techno libertarian nature of the space)

https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/114181272264853419

The concept of an invasion of Canada is unfathomable. And it's so much easier to hold that as an emergency (because of its position). This energy isn't held for Puerto Rico (which, if it was folded deeper into the US, it would become even more repressive for PRians in favor of American hegemony). Just ask the other non-white-led countries that the United States has conquered.

https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2025/sovereignity-nations/

Need to find research on the psychological impacts of smartphone use, specifically in the United States/Canada/(insert country of Western power here) between 2007 and 2017.

Reading about the "melting" of the device as an appendage makes me definitely believe this is by design (and we'll never get that information from the companies directly: that's like Microsoft opening source NT tomorrow or Apple open sourcing everything under a MIT license).

I know about the "pinky finger" adjustment that my generation and later have now adjusted since we're given these things so young that there's a dimple in one's pinky (due to prolonged use of holding in one's hand).

Nah ChatGPT is a brain flattener. If you take it as is, as most people will (we've conditioned people to ignore terms and conditions, why the fuck do tech people think that the phrase "experimental" means anything if you put it everywhere??), it and other AI chat tools will defend white supremacy to the T.

Grok is an extremely poignant example of this because it's incapable of understanding discrimination and Gemini operates just like Google Photos: it'll come right up to the nose and ignore research around misogynior (in hopes of keeping the more "conservative" userbase and alienating those who feel forced to stay with Google).

The more folks keep digging their wheels in advocacy of LLM tech, the more they need to own that this shit is a collective cognitive failure.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/bluesky-is-weighing-a-proposal-that-gives-users-consent-over-how-their-data-is-used-for-ai/

This is like one of those FEPs on how content can be shared (for example, on Mastodon, imagine how you can toggle your profile to make posts unlisted by default, this could allow for that kind of demarcation).

IMO if one marks content for no AI use, we gotta make it have teeth. And AI vampiric companies will be fighting the same way archivists are around consent to be captured or seen.

It would suck if Canada was forcibly made into a state, its government cancelled and people forcibly conscripted into American empire.

https://jacky.wtf/essays/2025/sovereignity-nations/

"Are you angry enough?" https://www.patreon.com/posts/122093872

Social Web developers need to take note: the "social" part is the most ignored, underdeveloped and unexplored part of all of the work we do and if it can't do the work of helping address things that Trudy mentioned (if technology can live to its title of "helping people"), it might be best to cede these platforms to journalistic outputs only.

If we can't center people, we shouldn't create micro nexuses of hell.

I would totally pay for anti-LLM protections on the Web. I pay for "ethical" tracking via https://plausible.io/ and VPS hosting from an American based company; someone out there has to have this.