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axbom

@axbom@axbom.me

Swedish communication theorist born in Liberia. Writing, speaking, teaching, podcasting and consulting for a more safe and compassionate Internet.

My posts are mostly in English, and sometimes in Swedish.

Active within #DigitalEthics #AiEthics #InclusiveDesign #Accessibility #UXDesign
#VisualExplainers #Mindmapping #ResponsibleInnovation #HumanRights #SustainableWeb

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81.
My Fediverse platform is Akkoma.
My dog is a French bulldog.

Try to get paid for my work but I put most of it out there for free 😅

This is my 4th Fediverse account. My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike unless otherwise specified.

#fedi22 tfr

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aral, (edited ) to mastodon
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Folks on Mastodon, to hide the current deluge of spam:

  1. Settings -> Filters
  2. Add new filter
  3. Add a title (e.g., Spam)
  4. Select all the context checkboxes
  5. Set Filter Action to Hide Completely
  6. Add the following keyword with a hash (#) before it: 診断メーカー

#mastodon #fediverse #spam

uxpodcast, to Podcast
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S02E11 - How do we know when to trust a system? Carol Smith talks with us about the importance of guardrails and ethical considerations in AI development, as well as to ask the right questions and to be critical of the work we are doing – in order to make the best systems we can for the people who are using them or who will be affected by them.

https://uxpodcast.com/321-building-trust-ai-carol-smith/

tess, to random
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The issue with the bsky bridge isn't that it's opt-out; as people have pointed out much of fedi is opt-out by default.

The problem is: who do you send a moderation report to? The problem is: it's a server which most fedi servers will have to immediately block for basic policy reasons. The problem is: it's a technical solution to a cultural divide.

And, unless things like blocking, muting, and notifications are done very carefully, it will be easy for bad actors to exploit.

tess,
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Whenever you create a new technology - especially in the social space - the first question you have to ask yourself is WW4D: what would 4chan do?

And if you can't answer that and then come up with solid mitigations for each of the answers, you need to go back to the drawing board.

Or to put it a different way:

Jurassic Park "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they never stopped to ask if they should"

Mer__edith, to random
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Skiff was a cool private ~productivity suite. Now they're shutting down after being acquired

One more example of how important Signal's 501c3 status is--a structural safeguard protecting privacy in an industry where $ is generally tied to surveillance.

Cautionary tales abound. See: WhatsApp for biz, where they removed e2ee in pursuit of the business market.

Or Wickr, a private comms app shut down by Amazon post-acquisition b/c it wasn't profitable enough.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/encrypted-email-service-skiff-gets-acquired-will-shut-down-in-six-months/

Mer__edith, to random
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When I talk to people outside the US, they're rarely aware of how bad it's gotten. In part because state-level authoritarianism is rarely reported in int'l media.

E.g. there's now a proposal to jail teachers/librarians who possess 'banned books' !!!

When faced w/well-meaning legislation to scan for 'harmful content,' undermine e2ee in the name of child safety etc., we are derelict/naive if we don't contend with the reality of who will use theses laws, how.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/01/31/utah-teachers-could-be-criminally/

uxpodcast, to UX
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S02E20 - We talk with David Dylan Thomas about the concept of ownership, going beyond the legal definition and into the wider concept of ownership and how digital artefacts lead us to re-think and re-evaluate some of the concepts that we have previously relied on.

https://uxpodcast.com/320-digital-ownership-david-dylan-thomas/

Mer__edith, to random
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Can’t wait!

I’ll be talking on the crypto wars, the surveillance biz model, & how in the late 90s we won strong encryption but lost privacy. What does this history tell us about defending core privacy infra like Signal from attack now? & how do we avoid the mistakes of the 90s?

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2024/keynote-meredith-whittaker/

emilymbender, to random
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Folks, papier-mâché made out of good training data is still papier-mâché. So-called "generative AI" is never ever ever a good information source. This looks to me like lawsuits waiting to happen....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/hate-taxes-h-r-block-s-new-ai-chatbot-aims-to-reduce-your-tax-frustrations/ar-BB1hqspF

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Beantin, to random
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Apple is also going to start automatically generating transcripts to podcasts. Thankfully they are supporting the transcript tag in rss - compared to Spotify who don't.
https://podcasters.apple.com/support/5316-transcripts-on-apple-podcasts

CMFrancoise, to random French

Yeah! Listening to the Quadrature du Net & their steps to identify discriminatory algorithm in the social wealth fair systems in France. They published the source code, showcasing the variables targeting people with less resources, single-mothers, coming from poorer neighborhoods.

timnitGebru, to random
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I can't emphasize enough my disdain for the whole AGI scam. Used to centralize & consolidate power by the already rich & powerful while selling a techno-utopia they promise will come any day now, if we just let them continue to kill the environment, exploit labor & steal data 👍

uxpodcast, to Podcast
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Experience strategy. A linkshow featuring articles about UX (experience) strategy and pragmatic discovery.

https://uxpodcast.com/319-experience-strategy-linkshow/

Beantin, to random
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“I hate the algorithm. Everyone hates the algorithm,”

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/16/the-tyranny-of-the-algorithm-why-every-coffee-shop-looks-the-same

jasongorman, to random
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Just spent the last 2 hours pairing on trying to get ChatGPT to generate XSLT and CSS to render some XML to look like a web designer's mock-up.
Keeps coming out in rows instead of columns, and a million miles away on style.

"Well, that's near enough, isn't it?"

And there, in a single sentence, is the explanation for all the "productivity gain" claims.

I'll let them inform the designer.

Mer__edith, to random
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MS--Open AI's ~parent company--already has massive US military contracts. This is the biz model.

This news is also one more alarm re. the current AI paradigm, its reliance on concentrated corp power, & the undemocratic decision making power this gives these (primarily) US-based corps.

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/open-ai-military-ban-chatgpt/

Mer__edith, to random
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This, from
@beenwrekt, is unsurprisingly very good.

"I know that big data science is more popular than ever, but I’ve been arguing on this blog for a while that we’re overdue for a retreat back to small data."

https://www.argmin.net/p/arbitrage-in-data-exchange-rates

axbom, to random
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Engineers be like "Why aren't humans adapting to how my machine works?"

Mabande,
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@axbom "We must add transponders to every human and domesticated animal so our really good and actually working fine autonomous tech won't smash into them."

axbom, to random
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It's truly helpful how those error messages keep telling me it's an INTERNAL server error rather than just a server error.

Oh, I get it, that makes so much more sense. It's internal! Bloody hell, I thought someone was kicking the server with army boots every time I tried the website.

Mabande,
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@axbom "Per's logging on again! You know what to do!"

Office Space: bashing the hell out of the printer.

axbom, to random
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Not surprised that the wise @molly0xfff is one of the people taking the lead in moving away from Substack.

She also made one of the best choices in my mind to go for an independent home, self-hosting Ghost. And managed to do it with minimum impact for existing subscribers.

I do know this is not for everyone, but also know that you don’t necessarily need a VPS to host Ghost, there is managed hosting available – and many more options than the quite expensive official one.

Molly White’s post on the hows and whys is here:
https://citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/

uxpodcast, to UX
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After a short seasonal break, season 2 continues with a wonderful deep dive together with Zoë Rose about the history of creative methodologies

  • brainstorming in particular.

https://uxpodcast.com/318-lost-history-zoe-rose/

Mer__edith, to random
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This paper is really important, presenting empirical evidence of the imbrication bet. AI & the surveillance biz model. This is notable particularly given that most production surveillance tech is proprietary, its existence and use hidden from the public.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084?ref=404media.co

grimalkina, to random
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Maybe it's because I grew up without knowing about evolution so it is still a wondrous thing to me, but an enormous part of my climate grief is thinking about all the years of incredible evolving life we're just tossing away as we destroy ecosystems. How so much of what we think of as innovation and invention comes from observing the incredible solutions of nature that encode millennia of experiments. The money we're pouring into chatbots when we have a planet already full of intelligence

grimalkina, to random
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I regret to say it but as the one time author of the top search result for "what is a correlation" (random win I never get to put on a resume lol), I feel some grounds to say WAY too many people internalized the single phrase "correlation is not causation" and then never listened to a single other thing about research design or causal evidence and at this point I feel it's done as much data literacy harm as the original confusion.

gman003,

@grimalkina The way I like to phrase it is, correlation is not causation, but causation causes correlation, and correlation is correlated with causation.

Beantin, to random
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New article from me! I've written up a few of my tips about being self-employed https://beantin.net/my-top-tips-for-being-self-employed/

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