Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I just finished @kashhill 's new book Your Face Belongs To Us. It's a very interesting journey not just through the history and capabilities of Clearview AI, but the overall history of facial recognition.

Highly recommended for people interested in privacy and civil liberties, and for anyone curious about the past, present and future of facial recognition.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691288/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill/

#privacy #AI

CJEU advocate general puts #copyright ahead of privacy - https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2023-09/cp230151en.pdf #shame just a repeat of his earlier error - https://walledculture.org/copyright-is-more-important-than-privacy-says-top-eu-court-advisor/

Annals of corporate crime, part 647,803: Philips profited from medical breathing machines that maimed and killed patients -- and kept its malfeasance secret for a decade. https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-about-dangerous-cpaps-secret-profits-soared?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature

Journalists and the public are being shut out of the most important antitrust trial of the century.

The court needs to stand up for the public’s right of access, not defer to big tech companies. https://freedom.press/news/secrecy-undermines-trust-in-antitrust-trial/

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

There will be actual Native people at the Northern Great Plains History Conference doing a panel on Wounded Knee moderated by Lakota historian, Nick Estes. Good luck to them. Non-Native institutions platform self-indigenizers for their own gain--to mark their EDI boxes--at the expense of actual Native people who if they are there at all are then expected to circulate in close proximity to people whose platforms are built on untruths and yet more theft from Native peoples.
https://www.ngphconference.org/the-legacy-of-wounded-knee

The Northern Great Plains History Conference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota is platforming Kent Blansett, a well-known alleged #Pretendian who will give the keynote lecture on Friday night. The topic of his lecture is about the siege at Wounded Knee in 1973, commemorating the 50th anniversary. Conference organizers were told by an actual Indigenous historian that this was a bad idea. I will link below to stories that challenge Blansett's claims to five different tribes.

https://www.ngphconference.org/keynote-speaker

We are breaking through the spam waves.

In the past days, we have identified and fixed several performance bummers, an internal meeting from our core team yesterday evening defined a roadmap to fix the rest.

To give you an idea: We are hit by extreme spam posts. In the past day, we removed 15% (!) of all Codeberg issues as spam, and we're still not done.

The removal degrades the performance, sometimes resulting in error 500s. Please reload the page in that case. Thank you for your patience.

Look what’s happened now: ES&T journal gave the fossil fuel industry (Gradient Corp, paid by the American Gas Association) the last word, and it’s a misleading last word. This is the most unethical “peer review” process I’ve witnessed in 27 years of science publishing. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c01857

If you're on or around coast salish lands and want some free seeds, starseed collective wants to give them to you! No cost

Here's our request form to fill out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdF_xbiWayXogulPml813lf6TEE6Jbko7DVGwgyoRo57kuFA/viewform

The GNU Project turns 40 today! Happy birthday 🐧 🎂

#gnu #opensource

Happy 40th Anniversary of #SoftwareFreedom!

Formulating the four freedoms was visionary at the time and achieving it felt almost impossible. But it inspired many people around the world from different backgrounds to join this movement, each one contributing a piece of a puzzle that in sum changed the history of computing. Today those freedoms become more and more crucial to preserve democracies by distributing power over technology.

Big 👏 to all contributors!

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230926-01.en.html #GNU40

David Seymour admitted that having 10,000 people in prison, costs the public $7 per week for every man, woman, and child in the country. That's a lot to spend.

Especially when it's well known that people who spend time in prison are more likely to reoffend, and to commit more serious crimes when they do, than when the criminal justice system responds in other ways (eg restorative justice).

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2023/09/21/being-tough-on-crime-is-easy-but-doesnt-work.html

(1/2)

#Election2023 #ACT #LawAndOrder #prisons

Until CNN gave Trump endless free and unedited airtime in 2015-16, no media organization came even close to boosting this career criminal as much as NBC. And NBC has never stopped bending over for him, as the sickening recent "Meet the Press" episode showed..

Now Trump is making what amount to death threats against NBC and its parent company. Earlier, he denounced CNN with almost equal vituperation.

Lessons learned: none, from all appearances.

#Google is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% #proprietary, Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.

Contribute to #OpenStreetMap instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.

https://www.openstreetmap.org

#OSM #GoogleMaps #PSA #scam #capitalism #OpenData

I haven't been seeing much discussion of the resumption of student loan payments (in the US).

I'm looking at my household income suddenly dropping 10% in a few days. And as I understand it, that money effectively just vanishes. The practical effect is just to put more economic pressure on working class people.

"Amazon’s ongoing pattern of illegal conduct blocks competition, allowing it to wield monopoly power to inflate prices, degrade quality, and stifle innovation for consumers and businesses." Whatever happens here, it will be meaningful. It's also nice to see the FTC actually wielding its antitrust powers. #Democracy https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

It's that time again!

`abra upgrade` gives you the new v0.8.x series 🤓 Migration gude is here: https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgrade/#07x-beta-08x-beta and the whole change log is over on https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/abra/releases/tag/0.8.0-beta

If you run into any bugs, please let us know: https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/organising/issues/new/choose

A lot of work was put into setting up a test suite for abra in this release which will hopefully allow us to move forward with less bugs. More details in https://docs.coopcloud.tech/federation/resolutions/passed/012/#details-budget-006

-- d1

#Abra #CoopCloud

A person on the Internet is a hoarder keeping stacks of old newspapers, correspondence, journals, photo albums and other sentimental but (they assume) worthless stuff. Eventually they run out of room and a friend offers to store their stuff for free.

How will they respond when they discover their friend made a lot of money selling their stuff on eBay?

It took many years before the average person realized the privacy implications of the data they left behind on the Internet.

It will likely be many more before people realize what Reddit and other companies recently discovered: modern AI apps have turned their trash (random user comments, posts and photos) into treasure. In response, companies are rapidly throwing up paywalls and licensing access to this data that arguably isn't theirs to sell. (1/2)

#privacy #ai #web3