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noellemitchell

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33, she/her.

Deactivated my Twitter account in March 2022. Deleted Tiktok in 2023.

Blogger, musician, reader, photographer, writer. I love posting about technology and books.

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noellemitchell, (edited ) to meta
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"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."

What the hell?? This is so creepy.

#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads

https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018

noellemitchell, to tumblr
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Wow it gets worse. This is a post from someone who used to work at Tumblr talking about Matt Mullenweg:

"A disproportionate amount of queer people have been fired or forced to leave in the last year, bc he has personally been sending messages pressuring all leads to pick a "weak link" and going on about culture fit in ways that are fucking loaded."

https://www.tumblr.com/tinystepsforward/742824508024651776/matt-is-supposed-to-be-on-fucking-sabbatical-rn?source=share

noellemitchell, to money
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"Tesla CEO Elon Musk has broken a record for the largest amount of money lost by one person, according to Guinness World Records."

😂😂😂

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148634966/elon-musk-guinness-world-records

noellemitchell, to books
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"The modestly funded West Haven Library has spent more than $12,000 over the last three years to lease just 276 additional digital titles beyond what patrons can access through a consortium of public libraries. Eighty-four of those books are no longer available. If that same amount had been spent on paper books, it would have covered about 800 titles."

https://apnews.com/article/libraries-ebooks-publishers-expensive-laws-5d494dbaee0961eea7eaac384b9f75d2

noellemitchell, to mastodon
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post:

Hi I'm Noelle! I joined back in November of 2022 but felt like it was time to post an updated introduction post. 😊

My main interests include:

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and...I can't think of any other ones right now but I think there's more. 😂

noellemitchell, to business
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VICE Ran Out of Money (For Everyone Except Its Executives) By Katie Way

"For instance, the company's Chief Operating Officer Cory Haik, who came to VICE by way of Mic, took home $726,068 between May 2022 and May 15, 2023, the date of VICE's bankruptcy filing. Folded into that sum was a $45,000 bonus on April 28, a little more than two weeks before VICE declared bankruptcy."

https://hellgatenyc.com/vice-bankruptcy-executive-salary

noellemitchell, to fediverse
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Statement from Kainoa about stepping down from the Firefish project. 😞 So I guess it's official.

https://git.joinfirefish.org/firefish/firefish/-/issues/10847

noellemitchell, to tech
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I love that posts on Mastodon are in chronological order in the feeds. I feel like I discover interesting accounts that I wouldn't find on other platforms because the other platforms have an algorithm.

noellemitchell, to internet
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Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests

"X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced a 30% drop in usage from 2023 to 2024, according to a study from Edison Research that clashes with favorable traffic metrics shared by the social media platform’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, and CEO Linda Yaccarino."

#X

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/03/06/usage-of-elon-musks-x-dropped-30percent-in-the-last-year-study-suggests/

noellemitchell, to Spotify
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Spotify Reportedly Plans To Pay Even Less In Royalties To Less-Popular Artists

"The new system will benefit the artists and labels that are already more established, and the biggest change is that a track will need to reach a minimum number of annual streams before it starts generating royalties."

Words can't describe how much I dislike Spotify.

https://www.stereogum.com/2240332/spotify-reportedly-plans-to-pay-even-less-in-royalties-to-less-popular-artists/news/

noellemitchell, to fediverse
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I love being a part of the fediverse :fediverse: :ablobcatheart: 💖 :mastodon:

noellemitchell, to tech
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Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

"Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals."

https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

noellemitchell, (edited ) to ilaughed
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As promised, a book photo. Just took this. 😊

This photo is a page from Democracy In America Volume 1, by Alexis De Tocqueville. I'm supposed to be reading it, but doing photoshoots is more fun sometimes. 🤣📚

There's some lights that reflected in the iPad screen which looks pretty. 😍

noellemitchell, to SpaceX
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"Musk's SpaceX sued for negligence in accident that led to worker's coma"

"His wife, Ydy Cabada, filed the lawsuit in a state court in Los Angeles, California, last week on behalf of her husband, who remains in a coma more than two years later."

This is really really sad.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/musks-spacex-sued-negligence-accident-that-led-workers-coma-2024-01-26/

noellemitchell, to mastodon
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How's everyone on the fediverse doing? 😁 I think I'll attempt to get some reading done 😅😂 we'll see how distracted I get by Mastodon. :fediverse: :mastodon:

noellemitchell, to news
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"One of the world’s leading experts on misinformation says she was fired by Harvard University for criticising Meta at a time that the school was being pledged $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity.

Joan Donovan says her funding was cut off, she could not hire assistants and she was made the target of a smear campaign by Harvard employees."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/04/facebook-harvard-joan-donovan

noellemitchell, to writing
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Just read this and...wow. I had no idea about Taylor Lorenz's history on social media but to be honest I didn't know a lot about her. Now I do.

"In the second section, I will expose some of Taylor’s happy smiling photos with far right charlatans. I personally would never smile in a photo with any of those scumbags. Nor would I interview them."

https://buttondown.email/Crowgirl/archive/stop-lying-taylor-lorenz/

noellemitchell, to Blog
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Wow so apparently the CEO of Tumblr/Automattic is transphobic.

Definitely won't be using wordpress.com for my blog now that this has come to my attention. Enjoy living in the middle ages Automattic. It's 2024 now. I'm going to be deleting my WordPress account.

I included a link below of someone explaining the situation better than I can because I'm so pissed right now.

https://meow.social/@Owlor/111965306198887400

noellemitchell, to technology
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I wish smartphones were designed with batteries that pop out. So when the battery gets old you just pop in a new one, like replacing a battery in a flashlight or something similar. It would be less expensive for the consumer and also more environmentally friendly. Both of those things are probably why it will never happen but I can still dream. 😂

#technology #phone #smartphone #design #tech #ewaste #Electronics #Capitalism

noellemitchell, to OpenAI
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Report: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta Stole Content at Scale to Train AI

"...OpenAI in 2021 created a speech recognition tool called Whisper that could transcribe the audio in YouTube videos to create text for training its ChatGPT AI. It did so despite the opposition of employees who argued that Whisper violated YouTube’s rules. And it did so at scale, creating over one million hours of YouTube video transcripts."

https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/300524/new-report-documents-how-openai-microsoft-google-and-meta-stole-content-to-train-ai

noellemitchell, to webdev
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Just updated the HTML on my Neocities homepage to semantic HTML, I think it's an improvement over what the HTML was previously 😅

https://noellesbookshelf.neocities.org

noellemitchell, to twitter
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"The Twitter founder unfollowed more than 2,000 accounts, and now is only following Elon Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange. Meanwhile, he chimed in on Kendrick and Drake’s rap beef quite a bit. He also seemed to call X a “freedom technology” in a tweet on Saturday, warning users to not depend on corporations to grant them rights."

Wow... I'm glad I deleted my Twitter account long ago. Because wtf?

https://gizmodo.com/jack-dorsey-call-x-freedom-tech-departing-bluesky-board-1851457748

noellemitchell, to twitter
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"Freedom technology" 😂 what is that even supposed to mean? 😆

noellemitchell, to apple
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Noooooo... ChatGPT on Mac too?? 😩 Why?

ChatGPT arriving on the Mac in new desktop app from OpenAI ahead of WWDC

"Ahead of that partnership, OpenAI has announced its own first-party ChatGPT app coming to the Mac. The app is designed to make ChatGPT more easily accessible and perpetually available for users."

#Apple #app #tech #Mac #news #AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #press

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/13/chatgpt-mac-desktop-openai/

noellemitchell, to mastodon
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According to FediDB there are 1,017,477 MAU on the fediverse right now.

The peak number of users was in July 2023, with 1,690,739 MAU. It's been dropping ever since. 😔 :fediverse:

https://fedidb.org/

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