simongarlick

simongarlick, 14 days ago to random

Crazy question, I know, but have any of the recent tragic violent deaths of Australian women been the result of a child watching porn or someone generating AI porn on the Internet?

simongarlick, 15 days ago to random

It's not "gender based violence", it's violence against women.

Women.

Say it.

verge, 29 days ago to random

Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protest https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133056/google-protests-project-nimbus-no-tech-for-apartheid

simongarlick, 6 months ago to random

Today is the anniversary of the 1917 Battle of Beersheba, but we can't tell you where it was, because it was in Palestine, which is now Israel, but we can't say that it was not Israel when it happened, because obviously that would be to deny that it has always been Israel

simongarlick, 6 months ago to random

Tell me your content is AI-generated without telling me etc.

simongarlick, 6 months ago to auspol

Confidence: embiggened #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-23/snowy-hydro-sinkhole-toxic-gas-tunnelling-four-corners/102995568

siin, 6 months ago to bluesky

I've been on BlueSky for 10 minutes and... (An Essay)

I get it now. I used to be like "Why can't people just stop using Twitter/Instagram/WhateverTheFuck? If they need social media, why can't they just use Mastodon? Why doesn't Pixelfed get more users? It's literally the same UI".

But I get it. I've been on BlueSky for what? 10 minutes? And I can feel my brain chemistry changing. Mastodon is a coffee shop. It doles out caffeine. You still get the little dopamine hit when you get notifications, you get that kind of substitute for human interaction that feels nice. But Twitter and BlueSky and Instagram and these apps from companies with access to inordinate amounts of data to build algorithms designed by psychologists to literally be As Addicting as Possible? These apps are dealing meth. But they've pressed it like ecstasy and made it cute. They've made it socially acceptable. But let me tell you something.

Ever since I logged onto BlueSky, I've been thinking about it. I don't think about Mastodon all day. "Oh my god what should I post next? What will get me followers? Would this be funny? Is this on brand?" I don't think about it. I come here because I have interactions with people without the pretext that they're engaging with me to get engagement in return. Because sometimes in my life I feel isolated and because this substitute for human interaction feels nice.

I thought I'd get BlueSky (despite their horrifying privacy policy - more on that later) because there are some Things Going On that make me need to get a little more serious about making money. But fuck, if this is the only way? I'm taking a vow of poverty, or getting a day job.

Because then there's their privacy policy. Access to websites you visit before and after, identifying information about your device, purchases you make, and it goes on. But even that level of invasive access should give us pause, right? I have a lot of things set up on my computer that mitigate some of that access, but then let's think about how we give the app access to our photos and videos (all of them, not just what we post in the moment), our device's camera and microphone (not just while we're using it) and so on. And then think about how our society grooms us to believe (and maybe in some circumstances this belief is true) that we need these sites for access, for engagement, to make money.

The price of not working in a warehouse is every piece of information we can reasonably gather about you to use and sell however we please, for whatever purpose, indefinitely, and it never expires and we don't pay you for it.

This is exploitation and my ancestry makes me pause, horrified, at what this information will eventually come back and do to us when inevitably the wrong person/group gets ahold of it. And that's pretending like we even know who has our data and what they're doing with it, right? Because we don't know. We really don't. Call me paranoid, say that I shouldn't worry if I have nothing to hide, give me all of the excuses you've been programmed to give about why we should not worry about a surveillance state that we pay for. Then come online and rant about how dangerous governments are and fail to see the irony in it all.

And I'm a hypocrite. I bought in, too. For personal gain. After criticizing others for years for doing the same thing. It's true. But the interesting side effect is that I've gained so much insight into why we're so addicted to sensationalism, why we're so addicted to these sites, why we're so unwell in general. The kinds of things my feed is inundated with, especially since I haven't curated it yet and it's showing me what it wants to? My god. We cannot have a healthy society when this is what we're consuming all day every day. There is no way to be a healthy person, I believe, when consuming this all day every day.

So anyways. As always, perhaps a bit sanctimonious. But I'm a little dumbfounded at the experience of all of this after years off of corporate social.

#BlueSky #Meditations

liamvhogan, 6 months ago to random

oh my god internet searching is absolutely dogshit now

raymondpert, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Israel

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simongarlick, 7 months ago to random

There are all these moments during the "Get Back" documentary where John, Paul, George, and Ringo are just dicking around, sounding like every other shitty garage band that's ever existed. Then they look at each other, and all of a sudden, they're The Beatles, and it sounds like THE FUCKING BEATLES. It's the greatest thing you've ever heard.

It’s like that story about Marilyn Monroe out in New York with Amy Greene. How do you have that up your sleeve and just... turn it on?

simongarlick, 7 months ago to random

Other than that of Kanye West, has anyone's personal brand and professional credibility ever been self-immolated as dramatically as Todd Sampson's?

simongarlick, 7 months ago to random

COMPANIES produce emissions. Not “workers”.

From: @luckytran
https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/111090615162991336

ct_bergstrom, 8 months ago to Birding

Caption this, New Yorker cartoon style.

#birding #birds #cartoon #caption

simongarlick, 8 months ago to random

Hey Mastocrew, need advice. Time for new wheels, it’s the 21st century, thinking of going full electric. Is Tesla the only game in town? The Elon association is a turnoff for me.

danhon, 8 months ago to random

That scene from 2001 when Bowman's removing HAL's processing units brick by brick, but HAL is ChatGPT and each brick is a copyright infringement lawsuit

simongarlick, 10 months ago to random

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-10/transgender-children-westmead-hospital-research-four-corners/102568570

The language in this ABC article on treatment for trans-identifying kids is wild. There's a group that's "supporting", while another group is "weaponising". One side is able to "strongly refute" objections, while the other side has views that are "controversial".

Gee ABC could you make it a bit more clear which are the good people and which are the bad people, I couldn't tell how you wanted me to feel. At all.

lzg, 10 months ago to random

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simongarlick, 10 months ago to threads

#threads is blissfully free of scolds delivering sermons about content warnings and alt text.

simongarlick, 11 months ago to random

How to make me feel total indifference to something: connect it to that planet, you know the one, I don’t even want to name it

dan, 11 months ago to random

Websites that wait to show you the password field until after you’ve submitted your username should be fined $50,000 per login.

simongarlick, 11 months ago to random

One of #Australia's largest medical insurers will no longer cover GPs and private practitioners against claims arising from 'gender transitioning treatments' for patients under 18-years-old.

“We don’t think we can accurately and fairly price the risk of regret.”

MDA National’s president said the decision was made in response to legal cases, including the high-profile inquiry into, and subsequent closure of Tavistock – Britain’s only children’s #gender clinic.

https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/what-s-the-real-risk-gender-transition-insurance-cover-cut-for-gps-20230523-p5damx.html

#trans

ZhiZhu, 1 year ago to internet

"Musk suggested that revelations about the shooter’s [White Nationalist] background could be a “psyop”...

Garcia proclaimed his #WhiteSupremacist views on #SocialMedia and sported #Nazi tattoos. Authorities and independent researchers have confirmed his interest in far-right #extremism and white supremacism. When police killed Garcia, he was wearing a patch that read “RWDS,” an acronym that stands for “ Right Wing Death Squad.”

“We do know he had neo-Nazi ideation”"
https://apnews.com/article/twitter-musk-texas-mall-shooting-misleading-claims-c297797d1eb0f708cc84d05e0735d8cc

markmetz, 1 year ago to vinylrecords

#Tunes from 7 to 11!

@asajj
@vinylrecords
@barkmeat
@bpettichord

https://MarkMetz.Mixlr.com (audio-only)
https://Twitch.tv/MarkMetzLive (LP cover cam)

#DJ
#Vinyl
#Mixlr
#Twitch
#LiveStream
#NowPlaying
#VinylRecords
#VinylCollection
#LateNightSatellite

gif of hands flipping thru records

ojala, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

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