Ghazi @curiousmind@qoto.org

Amidst rampant surveillance capitalism, one bastion of privacy remains – end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp. But dangerous laws are being proposed in US, UK, EU & beyond to force those apps to scan your messages. 

My latest for @NYTOpinion (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/opinion/encryption-messaging-privacy-signal-whatsapp.html?unlocked_article_code=BCIOc044wVHuhCoQ7R86aZIJIzNKpotx3nZnbVC5Rku5WB1dxjJmgizo-FHX7Yw4HCqTgWfCehwEsrM-7Q8EUg3Qth1El8Qr7Qk4N9m8u4BhzwTHUWF3CJOIoBLZOXMFGCipCY0fV8qwfuP3DS0MBwlx95qJWMxnVNNkf355q3vAWhZwUSNNU_flZtl-Yuec2L7wS9ak4zwmSbhYzM_DBNLNIFjEojZvnWZ3Gl9LADq6wJE4XFtcuEdsbVbq_AqUl-ZLwgEI0tQnqhrCwv8FIJ_uA31GSHcET3aJ3vOuvAhYfhLjtceRe6jP-v-0gPYGLyhOcJTHOfPUK69FGhsstdgpRi5eoLKxZs2VmxzuaycEG9RWjA&smid=url-share

Curiosity. I don’t care about you achievements, if you don’t leave school with curiosity, your education didn’t do what it should have.

Hahaha on est très exactement dans la situation qu'avait prédit @ploum : Les I.A. commencent à bouffer leur propre merde.
https://www.nextinpact.com/article/71906/quand-chatgpt-est-utilise-par-crowd-workers-pour-entrainer-dautres-modeles-langage

me_irl

Pas notre #Android app la plus célèbre, mais toujours la première à être mise-à-jour ! L'encyclopédie de la #Tunisie, issue de #Wikipédia et consultable hors-ligne naturellement ! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomtunisie #FOSS #Education @CLibre @nizarus @habibmhenni

Amazon is a perfect #enshittification parable - platforms subsidize end users, until they're locked in, then make life good for business customers at users' expense, until *they're* locked in, then claw back all the value they can for themselves, leaving just enough behind to keep the lock-in going.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon

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Donate your CV to make hiring fair https://findhr.eu/datadonation/

Why do I care if #Google and #Facebook know everything about me?

Ehm, "The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens"

https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/

#privacy #surveillance #bigtech #adtech #surveillanceads #tracking

2023 is the year all those “you are the product, you don’t own your content” warnings about social media become extremely relevant

these are almost mandatory at this point.

An Iranian boy was only 10 years old when he died from thalassemia, an inherited blood disease which is not an inevitably fatal condition. His fate, however, was decided when access to the necessary medicines inside Iran began to dry up in recent years. https://theintercept.com/2023/06/12/iran-sanctions-medicine/

"the model demonstrate[s] how the ’#enshittification’ process is an inevitability with any social media that is run on a #venturecapital model...If you want to absolutely destroy a website that is all about building #communities and meeting new people, then aim for the site and all communities to always be growing as much as possible."

This is more real than not; folks may mention examples like #Reddit, but the actual examples are legion (e.g. #DeviantArt, #Usenet, etc)

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/82_killing_community/

I put together a guide aimed at Redditors for Kbin and Lemmy! https://beehaw.org/post/500098

What To Do When You Can't Delete An Account! https://neat.tube/videos/watch/680cbb8c-ffc3-48f9-9002-a846599a5094

Find out more details about what the comprehensive partnership package with 🇹🇳#Tunisia would entail via our factsheet below 👇

🔗https://europa.eu/!mQDmBF

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_near/status/1668194840503369732

Why is the EU offering #Tunisia a financial assistance package? @tunisia

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/12/why-is-the-eu-offering-tunisia-a-financial-assistance-package

En #Tunisie, le jeu, une passion populaire @tunisia

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1451288/societe/en-tunisie-le-jeu-une-passion-populaire/

US sets penalties for #pharma corps who increased prices on 43 drugs above the rate of inflation. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-government-sets-penalties-43-drugs-over-price-hikes-2023-06-09/