As AI continues to advance and its tools become evermore integrated into the daily lives of tech consumers, the White House has unveiled executive actions to "mitigate" the risks it could have on the American public.
Their representative polls found that "the further away from the GP, the less people are willing to share their #HealthData" and yet BEUC concludes that while data use by medical profl's should require #OptIn consent, for secondary use by #BigPharma and #BigTech an #OptOut option is enough. ❓❓❓
Reminds me of the time when The Next Web, an adtech company, asked me and some other folks to say “I told you so” about Facebook, another adtech company.¹
I said I‘d only do it if I could call them out at the same time. They agreed.
You know why?
Because the fuckers knew they’d still make money from the article… via adtech!
In case you’re wondering how little old Kitten performs in the tests of the Big Boys…
(And that’s from a development build of a Domain page, not a deployment build so no compression, live reload script in page, etc.)
Turns out it’s pretty easy to ace such tests when you’re not spending cycles and code doing horrible things to people in your web pages (like tracking their every move and attempting to exploit their behaviour for profit). 🤔
If you have no intention of reading "Traffic" by Ben Smith (my hand raised here), read this from @jeffjarvis instead.
"BuzzFeed, Gawker, The Huffington Post, etc. were not new media at all. They were the last gasp of old media, trying to keep the old ways alive with new tricks. What comes next — what is actually new — has yet to be invented."
Vor einigen Jahren noch hätte ich da einiges sehr kritisch gesehen.
Heute stimme ich dir zu.
Vermutlich war da Musks Twitter-Übername und die dann auch bei den anderen #BigTech-Unternehmen eingeleiteten Massenentlassungen der letzte Anstoß für mich.
Big Tech is trying to monopolize all communication and collaboration tools on the planet. This would be terrible for our future. The Open Source community needs to prevent this.
Bluesky Terms of Service gives Jack a 'perpetual' & 'irrevocable' license to all your content (posts, name, likeness, pics) as well as to your firstborn child.
BlueSky can delete your account for any reason, and, let’s face it, probably should.
Bluesky may refuse to delete your account based on its posts’ banger-to-meh ratio.
You can't screenshot Bluesky because it steals the post’s soul.
All disputes to be resolved in hand-to-hand combat with Jack in the thunderdome.
I love it. There’s a poll ongoing about whether folks would ban a Meta (Instagram/Facebook) instance and people are like “well, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt.”
I really have no words.
Is it learned helplessness? Stockholm Syndrome? Masochism? Something else?
I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.
The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.
If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.
The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.
Please stop spreading panic about the uncertain future of #fediverse, and blaming one of it's creators/platforms for the downfall.
If you know anything about the #openSource, is that it can't be bought.
The true danger comes from the #bigTech (closed) platforms joining fediverse.
They can (ab)use their money to attract more people to those platforms, than all of the open source platforms combined.