Regular reminder that the literal 1st full conversation in ALIEN is a contract negotiation, & that everything that goes wrong throughout those movies happens because the Weyland-Yutani Corporation programmed all of its "AI" systems to put any possibility of profit over & above the lives of the crew.
Using your debt, your search history, and your private data to decide how much you’re worth? Hell no.
This is what happens when technology is built to serve profit instead of people.
This is why every worker needs a union.
take me with you
Do we expect this to stay private and protected when the model itself breaks containment?
bsky.app/profile/alfr...
“So we made a model that can break every digital thing you hold dear, and we’re gonna release it to help get more data points for our neural net with the fallout it generates. But we have faith the good guys will win in the end, probably!”
This is unhinged.
I beg you to stop screenshotting and quoting the dumbest posts on the protocol, I have just this one human life and I want to see your posts and not theirs
📢 New Essay:
“Communication technologies have been reshaping the human body in a slow migration down the arm.
They’ve run out of body. Now they’re reshaping the message.”
www.terrygodier.com/body-lang…
losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice
Synology allegedly backpedaled on that stuff, but the only other similar player I know of is UGREEN
What's their name I just wanna talk
The FCC has banned all new foreign-made routers unless they get an exemption from the Pentagon or DHS
This is precisely how a government sets up the framework to install a backdoor, create a firewall, and switch off the internet when it's convenient for them.
Excellent piece - must read for designers raised in more holistic and critical traditions than today.
"The critical tradition in design is not waiting to be recovered. The institutions that sustained it have been defunded, restructured, or absorbed."
If you're like me and headed to the airport in the near future, here's a reminder:
Press the lock button on your iPhone five times to disable Face ID.
Check information about how to enable your Android phone's lockdown mode.
Back on my bullshit (trying to finish a post about accessibility certifications that I started so long ago that if this draft had a certification of its own, they would be expiring)
If only more people understood this
without friction, we would have no fire
prometheus would be on that rock for nothing
the eagle should be eating the oligarchs' livers instead
anyway here's one more:
www.joanwestenberg.com/how-convenie...
Gosh this is beautiful.
Just another reason to stay masked up 😷
People with disabilities don't complain. They just go elsewhere.
The Click-Away Pound Survey:
8% of users with access needs contacted site owner about barriers they experience.
https://www.clickawaypound.com/
every accusation is a confession
Someone must have seen S2 of Fallout and pretended it’s science to accuse the masses of “anthropocentric bias” cause… *checks notes* …there are a few annoying obstacles to going so hard into eugenics that all our brains get put in jars. Only a mind that’s already pickled can make up shit this wack.
I would be flabbergasted if even 10% of the people opting into these services know this
Chilling. These people know that their ideas are so unpopular that people would never agree to them by consent, so they use algorithms.
This is very well done. It may seem like a long runtime but lemme tell you the atrocities just fly by.
It was the worst of times it was the worst of times
If only the use case were "our tech finally stops infantalizing you and lets you speak your mind" instead of something more like "the cursed speaker is now an abstraction of your domestic abuse so the whole house can harass them too"
The researchers also note that 25% of active-duty US Marines developed Long Covid "after mostly mild or asymptomatic infection."
Trivia: it got referred to as the "Spanish Flu" b/c only Spain talked about the 1918 influenza pandemic: Western wartime censorship prevented discussion of the disease.
Today's a good day to fight vite
