Ghazi @curiousmind@qoto.org

Did you know we have a SPA Quiz? (security/privacy/anonymity)

It’s a fun way to track your progress, and an excellent tool to send to friends & family to make privacy fun for them!

Take it now: https://techlore.tech/spa

What are some of your scores? 👀

Coming back from sabbatical, I'm suffering from whiplash due to deterministic rhetoric around AI. I wrote myself some notes: https://zephoria.medium.com/resisting-deterministic-thinking-52ef8d78248c

But I'm also curious... why do you think deterministic rhetoric SOOOOOOO pervasive right now?

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway

😱 Samir Saïed,Min. Eco. répond à @TnPresidency: «On n'a pas d'alternative au prêt FMI,perso je n'ai pas de plan B. Je vous prie,celui qui en a un, qu'il nous le présente car ↗️ impôts, ↘️ l’invest. public & mesures sociales n'est pas un plan viable"
NB: réponse datant de 12/2022

Pour les groupies de Saïed qui souhaitent se mettre sous la coupe de Pékin, voici la position officielle des chinois:
"l’ambassadeur chinois a affirmé que son pays se tient à nos côtés pour obtenir un prêt du FMI permettant de mettre en œuvre les réformes économiques envisagées."

😂

Oh, this seems pretty cool. Now that Elon has cracked down on the API and made tools like debirdify not work, @scafaria has created Whosum, a browser extension to help make your social graph more portable. It currently "records" your Twitter connections and then highlights those on Mastodon all in your browser (not on some server somewhere). https://whosum.com/

Hier, dans la mosquée Al Aqsa à El Kods #Apartheid #NaziIsrael #Palestine
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RT @JamalDajani
Freedom of religious practice under the Apartheid regime.
https://twitter.com/JamalDajani/status/1643407784749457408

Plusieurs enseignements en lien avec cet épisode de la maladie et de l'absence prolongée de Kaïs Saïed. ⤵️

"Why is the Twitter logo doge now?" - guess Elon thought of a new way to finance #Twitter lol

L'état de santé alarmant du président tunisien Kaïs Saïed - #Tunisie
https://mondafrique.com/letat-de-sante-alarmant-du-president-tunisien-kais-saied/

#caturday #catsofmastodon

#تونس - تحقيق | قضية التآمر على أمن الدولة أو كيف تجتث المعارضة من جذورها بملفات جوفاء – إنكفاضة
https://inkyfada.com/ar/2023/03/24/%d9%82%d8%b6%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%a2%d9%85%d8%b1-%d8%a3%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%b6%d8%a9-%d9%85%d9%84%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%aa/

Could we all have a little vacation from AI?

Secret Panel HERE ⚰ https://tapas.io/episode/2047205

Whoever thought it was a good idea to move a video into a small noisy box in the corner of the screen when I scroll? I'm scrolling precisely because I don't want to watch you're d***n video, and it's hiding the text I actually want to read. This is not a good UX.