I've said it before: Harriet Tubman is the original American superhero. I don't know why they bothered making up Superman or Batman or whoever when they already have Harriet Tubman.
You can leap over buildlings in a single bound--but can you free 800 people in South Carolina at one go? I didn't think so.
I see your laser eyes, Superman, and raise you THIRTEEN TRIPS by foot across enemy lines into Maryland to lead groups of people to freedom via the underground railroad.
When the ice cream truck outside is playing the classic Tetris theme that is also currently playing on your hacked alternative Gameboy emulator on which you're running Tetris from the original catridge circa 1987...
@cyberlyra Nice! Re. the tangent at the end of your article, on Minecraft, I've had some success dabbling with the FOSS version MineTest, after a friend's child was bought the MS version. MneTest has an active community and variety from near-clones to quite different games. Hosting is a bit clunky but simple enough. Been wondering how I could present the idea attractively to school friends' families. What would it take to introduce the idea and convince them to try it and like it better than their MS subscription? Maybe some trivial but wow!-factor personalisation? "Look: there's your street, your park, your school!" Or something cool that simply can't be done in the MS version? My weakness here is I'm not passionate about socialising and game playing! My strength is I'm passionate about self-agency through FOSS, and could set something up technically. Feel like this is the thing kids code clubs should be doing. Thoughts?
I spoke out against sharenting for years at #cscw when research was presented on parents' sharing, and how good it was for moms to use #facebook because it connected them to each other while isolated. I was constantly the debbie downer arguing wtf privacy implications and autonomy of the child... But the research was #facebook funded so just kept beating the same yay-socials drumbeat.
@cyberlyra Gave up Google years ago because of this behavior. Glad I avoided it when they all decided to create AI to increase their spyware control of us. NextCloud is a wonderful alternative. There are a lot of wonderful open-source alternatives out there.
This actually is so, so cool. As a #Psyche review board member I learned how electric propulsion is part of what makes this mission compelling from a technical point of view (alongside so, so much great science!). Ion thrust makes a craft behave differently in space than other propulsion systems, so it’s interesting for engineers and mission planners as part of the learning curve/contribution for next gen spaceflight.
Love love love what the #Jolla team is doing with AI — reimagining and building systems that are data-ownership centered to put privacy first —privacy as autonomy, not privacy as information security for cloud providers holding your data.
As someone who keeps her children (born and unborn) away from data detection, I know how catastrophic the #MOMS bill’s national #pregnancy database is.
But I am also a scholar who studies #NASA, so I know a government handout bill when I see one.
Look past the website to Title II, section 1a, eligibility for government grants for maternal support.
This is a #handout for pro-life nonprofits, with restrictions against funding for orgs like #PlannedParenthood , dressed up as maternal support.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite I’m not a #uspol expert, but the novel enmeshing of a privacy-violating technical system with anti-abortion politics might mean there is an opportunity for new bedfellows when it comes to lobbying on the Hill. Pro-choice and pro-privacy advocates must join forces to guard against the dual dystopias inherent to this Attwoodesque proposal. As in, @eff meet #PlannedParenthood
In the history of data, reuse is a constant. In human history, regime change is a constant.
Hence the extractive repurposing going on at #stackoverflow, #github & #reddit to feed AI and take over your jobs. (And countless injustices, like DACA used for ICE, Nazis using invaded country birth records to find Jews, etc).
This is the true “tragedy of the commons”: upon hostile acquisition, what was once a gift indicating membership, care, and community is liable to unethical extraction.
I am really very excited about this open access special issue on AI, power and domination, with papers from friends and colleagues, that says the quiet part loud. #aiethics
The age of Google is over. The next great search engine must needs filter out LLM-generated sludge and actually privilege information instead of content.