Browser Tracking Cookies / Site "Privacy" = Data snooping / siphoning / spying...
(Text from picture says:)
"WE CARE... ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY
(MEANS FEED US YOUR DATA!)"
2 WebSites sharing me with 200+ companies
44 PARTNERS HERE
+ 183 PARTNERS THERE
FUCK ME, IS EVERYONE
FUCKING ME FOR MY DATA?
AND MY WHOLE LIFE BEING "OPEN SOURCED"?
#Data #Tracking #Snooping #Spying #Browsers WebSites
#BigTech "Partners" #OpenSource #Browsing #Shopping #Information #Mining #AI #Feeding Our #Habits #Communication
COOKIE MONSTERS from the WEBSITES and BROWSERS!
BEST COOKIE ADD-ON / EXTN ?
♥ ☼ Human Intelligence ☼
+ Emotional Intelligence = 🐝 Hive Mind > 🐝🐝🐝
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hive_mind /// #FreeSchool ☼
Towards Collective Consciousness & Collective Intelligence ☼
#HumanIntelligence #Humanism #Sentientism 🐝🐝🐝
rather than leaning on #BigTech #AI #Capitalism #Tech #Love
Computer Console ----> too much
Human Console -----> too little
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#Human #Relativity
vs. #Computer #AI #BigTech etc #Relationship
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When communication stops, and hypocrites continue then War starts to build up and escalate... (internal / external feelings).
This is also a reason why online fans (true people) turn sour.
It's not just that the fan is crazy or idols are either....
When communication stops 'coincidently' when questioned about their usage of what they are opposite against... then trouble can start to build, as people build on problematic platforms and methods. Again opposite to what THEY talk opposite against.
Even down-to-earth people who have experience in schools and tech (MIGHT MENTION ACCOUNT HERE BUT FEEL IT WILL PUBLICISE THEM INSTEAD) who spending their whole account complaining, claiming to represent or search for better ways and want to practice other principle(s)... BUT SIMPLY DON'T !
THEY ALSO GIVE IN AND USE BAD THINGS! 🤦
Some fans forget these people or the wrong, but I think true fans to better ways (while not expecting perfection) can legitimately hold people accountable and yes try to do things themselves if not with hypocrites (people that talk only to use you).
If you complain about #AI or BIGTECH #Apple #Spotify BUT THEN USE THEM FOR YOUR PODCAST - YOUR CRITICISM AND FLACK IS MEASURABLY JUSTIFIED - MEASURABLY.
We need others to check our own principles and claims... Often it's not terribly hard and if you fall into the 'I don't have time' excuse (which is a mixture of other things which is why we need others to help us get into better multiplayer loops) then take the flack willingly... because we can see remotely you obviously have a lot of time, and do a lot of the same mono-stuff
(if we are to solve anything / do better practices, otherwise carry on you hypocrite).
Not just using people and throwing them after measurable critique and mutual principles are presented well enough (not hate).
#War from #Hypocrites
#Escalation from using #BigTech
#BetterPractices #communication #Humanism needed
#AI #problems "Because these machines don’t cite sources, fact-checking is harder"
#AI #problems "Because these machines don’t cite sources, fact-checking is harder"
- Adrian Randall
@Cyberpreppy
Posted here: https://mastodon.social/@Cyberpreppy/112303424989743758
The problem with AI is the people who use AI.
The problem with AI is the people who use AI.
These are people who think their ‘ideas’ are more important than the actual craft of writing, so they churn out all these ‘ideas’ and enter their idea prompts and think the output is a story.”
Source post:
https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/112372378723466830
which sources original website:
https://www.404media.co/bards-and-sages-closing-ai-generated-writing/
Matrix films & #AI / Sentient Machines (What you might not know!)
Matrix films & #AI / Sentient Machines
(What you might not know about the film!)
The machines allowed Zion to be created...
(Zion = city with massive series of caverns deep under the ruined planet's surface, close to the planet's core, for warmth, power, and protection)
The machines allowed Zion to be created as a method of coping with the problem of human choice, reducing but not eliminating the instability caused by those who rejected the Matrix.
In order to prevent the entire system from crashing, the machines must periodically destroy Zion and "The One" must reboot the Matrix and choose a group of people to rebuild the city.
Neo discovers that this cycle has occurred five times in the past and is about to complete its sixth repetition.
Stephen Faller writes in his 2004 book Beyond the Matrix that Christianity is the most dominant religious theme in the Matrix films
"Zion is biblically regarded as the city of God"
Niobe explains to Neo that in the 60 years following the end of the war, enough humans left the Matrix to cause a severe power shortage for the machines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_(The_Matrix)
#Matrix #Film #Facts #AI Theme
AI = Degenerative AI ? [Article summary / best bits]
AI article summary / best bits / skimmed sentences...
From source: "Are We Watching The Internet Die?"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die/
+ [my added comments]
[About Reddit]
...millions of unpaid contributors made billions of posts so that CEO Steve Huffman could make $193 million in 2023 while laying off 90 people and effectively pushing third party apps off of the platform by charging exorbitant rates for API access,
Reddit also announced that it had cut a $60 million deal to allow Google to train its models on Reddit's posts, once again offering users nothing in return for their hard work.
[BUT LET'S FACE IT PEOPLE WILL DO THINGS THEY LOVE FOR FREE AND CAPITALISM CAPITALISES ON THAT - A HARD ONE TO SOLVE AS EVEN I DID OVERTIME FOR FREE AT WORK AND DIDN'T LEAVE TILL LATE OFTEN!! But not any more!"]
...ultra-rich technologists tricked their customers into building their companies for free.
[mentioned] Cory Doctorow's Enshittification theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Yet what's happening to the web is far more sinister than simple greed, but the destruction of the user-generated internet,
...
And it's slowly killing the internet.
⭐ Degenerative AI [great sub-title]
Generative AI models are trained by using massive amounts of text scraped from the internet, meaning that the consumer adoption of generative AI has brought a degree of radioactivity to its own dataset. As more internet content is created, either partially or entirely through generative AI, the models themselves will find themselves increasingly inbred, training themselves on content written by their own models which are, on some level, permanently locked in 2023, before the advent of a tool that is specifically intended to replace content created by human beings.
... Jathan Sadowski calls "Habsburg AI,"...so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AIs that it becomes an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features.
...as its models are trained on increasingly-identical content.
...generative features... immediately fed back into Azure's OpenAI models owned by its parent company Microsoft, which invested $10 billion in OpenAI in early 2023
Generative AI also naturally aligns with the toxic incentives created by the largest platforms.
Google makes up more than 85% of all search traffic and pays Apple billions a year to make Google search the default on Apple devices.
... a cottage industry of automation gurus are cashing in by helping others flood Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with low-effort videos that are irresistible to algorithms.
Generative AI is a perfect tool for soullessly churning out content to match a particular set of instructions — such as those that an algorithm follows — and while an algorithm can theoretically be tuned to evaluate content as "human," so can scaled content be tweaked to make it seem more human.
Google might pretend it cares about the quality of search results, but nothing about search's decade-long decline has suggested it’s actually going to do anything. Google's spam policies have claimed for years that scraped content (outright ripping the contents of another website) was grounds for removal from Google, but even the most cursory glance at any news search shows how often sites thinly rewrite or outright steal others' content.
As we speak, the battle that platforms are fighting is against generative spam, a cartoonish and obvious threat of outright nonsense, meaningless chum that can and should (and likely will) be stopped. In the process, they're failing to see that this isn't a war against spam, but a war against crap, and the overall normalization and intellectual numbing that comes when content is created to please algorithms and provide a minimum viable product for consumers.
We're watching the joint hyper-scaling and hyper-normalization of the internet, where all popular content begins to look the same to appeal to algorithms run by companies obsessed with growth.
... Quora, which now promotes ChatGPT-generated answers at the top of results),
I believe that their goal is to intrude on our ability to browse the internet, to further obfuscate the source of information while paying the platforms for content that their users make for free. Their eventual goal, in my mind, is to remove as much interaction with the larger internet as possible, summarizing and regurgitating as much as they can so that they can control and monetize the results as much as possible.
There's also no way to escape the fact that these hungry robots require legal plagiarism, and any number of copyright assaults could massively slow their progress.
It's incredibly difficult to make a model forget information, meaning that there may, at some point, be steps back in the development of models if datasets have to be reverted to previous versions with copyrighted materials removed.
It's incredibly difficult to make a model forget information, meaning that there may, at some point, be steps back in the development of models if datasets have to be reverted to previous versions with copyrighted materials removed.
Question everything they say. Don't accept that AI "might one day" be great.
Reject their marketing speak and empty fantasizing and interrogate the tools put in front of you, and be a thorn in their side when they try to tell you that mediocrity is the future.
You are not "missing anything.” These tools are not magic — they're fantastical versions of autocomplete that can't help but make the same mistakes it's learned from the petabytes of information it's stolen from others.
#FreeSchool #Answers = #BetterPractices #Human #Intelligence = #Humanism
#Freedom #Sentientism
--- vs. - --
#War #AI #BigTech #Capitalism #Commercialism #Greed #Profit #Abuse = Shallow-Understanding
Mastodon users?... Just u$ers?
Mastodon vs. Google: YouTube links are killing / eating alive Mastodon and it's purpose...
Google / YouTube links (without filter) on platforms like Mastodon kill it.
Kill is a strong word but if you see war outside and authoritarian states / government, then yes slowly or directly it's a death mindset to kill people off which I consider if it's long-term suffering and deliberate neglect, oppression by leaders.
Don't forget all Governments and it's companies registered to it use OUR EARNED money and OUR CLICKS for the pot of war eventually,so advertising is part of that.
Billion of users and links from us to them. 💰 = 💀
ANSWERS EXIST!
You can use INVIDIOUS LINKS INSTEAD @Invidious to filter exactly the same pages as a massive prevention of adverts!!!
TRY IT NOW!
https://redirect.invidious.io/
Platforms need to actively filter links AND at push to educate its users and train them not to leak data and usage from platform...
(Invidious filters YouTube for example and many Browser extensions could be listed).
One main reason why Mastodon exists is not to leak things.
Developers and users using google and it's links are leaking and letting Google in to their platform... even simply using YouTube links etc to track them.
(again you can use Invidious filter https://redirect.invidious.io/)
Extracting from our bodies towards bigger profits and pocketing it all is war - don't overlook this while people are starving or can't pay heating bills because they have monopoly.
You could also say it's not killing BUT SIPHONING OUR DATA / EATING US ALIVE, 'maximising profits'.
Google / YouTube links (without filter) on Platforms are killing it.
(I might need to phrase this better but take advice... and say it with love and not just blind emotions).
Leaking data / info from users OR developer accounts themselves on = ☠️ of platform and it's people
)
I mention in Gargron here but respect if he doesn't want / can let me know. ℹ️ I just don't use github or much else and what better than Mastodon for #Mastodon #suggestion... to tuning the logic, philosophy, life using it's users to change culture!
Towards proper unity via more intelligent people💌 !
#FreeSchool #Answers = #BetterPractices / #Human #Intelligence = #Humanism
#Freedom #Sentientism
--- vs. - --
FastMoney (Bad Work) #War #AI #BigTech #Commercialism #Greed #Profit #Abuse
#Capitalism = Shallow-Understanding
= Mastodon users?... Just u$ers?
AI = AI + THE POWERFUL HUMANS BEHIND IT (not just AI on it's own)...
Remember it is not just AI, it's the powerful behind it with their plans.
AI = [AI + THE POWERFUL HUMANS BEHIND IT]
AI is a tactically driven by those that have huge resources and wealth behind it for almost certainly getting them more [which is unhealthy greed] more power, more money, more respect?
It's not just AI on it's own, it's not just a hammer made.... people are using it beyond what we can see happening and have plan we don't see until it's too late or yers later understand what happened...
BETTER IS MORE ➡️ #Human #Intelligence
= #FreeSchool #Answers
= MORE #Learning #Humanism
#Freedom #Sentientism
-- vs. --
#FastCooking #AI #Technology #BigTech #Commercialism #Greed #Profit
#Capitalism = Shallow-Understanding
Gary Ackerman Podcast - "Artificial Intelligence" series: "Human Emotional Intelligence?"...
Gary Ackerman Podcast - "Artificial Intelligence" series...
"Human Emotional Intelligence?"...
🎵 Audio Download 🎤 :
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Skip Intro to Gary's Thoughts @ 1.37mins
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🎤 Part 4: here:
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/112031781527408349
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0.00 Introduction
From AI to Human focus
Human Intelligence
Do you care about Humans?
Gary, What do you think about Human / Emotional Intelligence?
1.37 Gary's Thoughts
Emotions and judgement
Operational Intelligence
Understanding Emotions
2.26 Credits and Fediverse
Account @garyackerman
Being friends inside Fediverse
Understanding each other
Limp Bizkit quote "Hate is all the world has even seen lately"
Towards Human Intelligence, friendship as the base
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#GaryAckerman #FreeSchool #Audio #Podcast #AI #Artificial #Intelligence #Freedom #Humanism
#Tech #Technology #Capitalism
Answers = Friends / Friendship = Growth #Education
#Sentientism #EmotionalIntelligence
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AI = The same sh*t people do now but more / faster?
AI = The same sh*t people do now but more / faster?
Do you really think more of the same types of humans doing what they do now (ignorance consumers & leaders included) and adding AI to their toolbelts is actually going to help anyone long-term or is it almost only going to just do the same damage as people do now with ignorance / greed if not suck the living water 🌊 from centralised places us just to 'give it a chance'? / give peace a chance ?
#AI #FreeSchool #Fediverse
#Questions #Human #Intelligence #Freedom #Tech #Technology #Capitalism #Humanism
Points from Richard Stallman to support what I mean...
Hi, video starts from points I was touching on about AI
SAAS runs proprietary and server owner owns server and code.
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE&t=42m26s
AI is mostly the above structure... and even offline not sure if it would be made using xyz technique, Can't trust from who it's made by.
And still no answer about how people can be anon. How the same switch later doesn't turn off bad.
#RMS #Quote #Video #AI
#GNU #Linux #FreeSchool #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
#SAAS #Propriatery #Backdoor #Software
"No one knows what’s human and what’s AI."
"No one knows what’s human and what’s AI."
- Creston @crunch
https://defcon.social/@crunch/111938309681540160
Good [practical] point!
#FreeSchool #AI # #Artificial #Intelligence #Freedom #Tech #Technology #Capitalism
"brute-force attacks" (was against humanity and AI advanced technology)...
"brute-force attacks" - takes on an entirely different meaning when focus is put on the words BRUTE and FORCE...
Looking from a more-human meaning a force and attack shows that AI is more surely another flavour of the same old:
- Humans attacking Humans,
- Humans with AI etc against Humans those without AI or rejecting it.
(Probably not #Peace if it's authority or industry doesn't promote it.)
Gary Ackerman Podcast - "Artificial Intelligence" series...
Gary Ackerman Podcast - "Artificial Intelligence" series...
🎵 Audio Download 🎤 :
https://bin.dembased.xyz/freeschoolgaryackermanpodcast-artificialintelligenceseries-replycopy.ogg
Audio series with @garyackerman / https://qoto.org/@garyackerman and @freeschool
Thanks for listening (even participating) on the Fediverse! ✊
#GaryAckerman #FreeSchool #Audio #Podcast #Fediverse #AI #Artificial #Intelligence #Freedom #Tech #Technology #Capitalism
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https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111930634690194387
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█ Stephen Jay Gould was mentioned - The Mismeasure of Man (1996)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould
█ The "Hard Problem" refers to the "Hard problem of consciousness" and similar problems around proving or measuring what consciousness and intelligence is
AI question:
Who / which set of people is AI serving more:
A- the end user?
B- the owners / suppliers / data handlers / people the data is given to?
Hmmmmmm.... 🤣 🤣 🤣 #AI #FreeSchool
Bluesky BRIDGE is similar to Fediverse and it's culture?
Bluesky BRIDGE is similar to Fediverse and it's culture?
Maybe you think it's just like another email provider added?
(No I think)
Notes on DISsimilarities of protocal and providers in the Fediverse context...
TLDR
█1█ It's not using the same protocol for a start - if it was more native then maybe, which is why █2█ is important
█2█ The culture is why we came here, ethics and ethos, promise of no capitalism or concretely less by saying NO to some things...
and why we came here (not there) in the first place...
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LONGER VERSION: More points
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Few people mention it's just like email Bluesky being added.... so a bit about that:
█ Email / SMTP protocol is or was mostly the same across all providers, whereas bridging like Bluesky is a more different.
More like mimicking or tapping into our protocol which is more like tapping into our culture / ethos without believing in it/
Not believing in making it more free / less capitalistic selling out (of everything not just data).
It is the main reason why we came here in the first place and why we will also leave if it gets too twitter-like / Bluesky invaded).
If you believe in "Jack Dorsey" then he has quit the project already as a sign of what he thinks.
Jack Dorsey has removed his Bluesky account a while back and not working on it at all other than general board of council, so this as a kind of bar / stronger signal perhaps = not being part of it any more makes it more clear without reading overly into it too much either.
Bluesky =
█ much more commercial entities and culture vs. what we defined as not.
█ and then making the users we were choosing from come back here as personal politics is obviously different endangers us by making it 'too easy' (commercial) again and too uncultured (people who do not choose their servers on principle / no-interest in community or caring about the protocol) is just more of the same reasons for this side of the differences,
Overall lacking of care or detail in life (users and company are different) that is spreading like a cancer for all the providers in the world and it's users. So we learned these lessons many times. Don't let them in, ok they might try but don't invite them! 🤨
█ Mastodon and Fediverse
was clearly opposite to many things and just turning this into another kind of snoop-city is not great for me/many.
We see everything converted into the same shit show, from taxis to the next thing...
ℹ️ If interested in more of my view or reasoning, click #freeschool hashtag for some audio about AI or Bluesky conversations.
#FreeSchool = #Notes #Quotes #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites #Fediverse towards #Freedom
#FreeSchool is a living personal collection of my gems and people's one-liner summary of works (short CW titles) and longer forms with hashtags and AltText access for pictures (when I remember).
Life should be a story of Love, Care for humans (and then Tech etc as part of that loop, not love for Tech only and just improving machines and not human minds)
A love story towards humans -
Not Capitalism's Love story (below is a great film documentary)
Capitalism - A Love Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_A_Love_Story
A lot to say but I believe mostly "we can solve most of it"... IF ONLY we start and that is by talking! / replying! Getting higher in our own personal understanding and more together is thought to be 'for the way'.
It's our human condition and position in life to suffer alone or together and we cannot be human and then expect not depend on others. That would be to deny our humanity.
Agree? But... Nobody wants to do the homework it seems, and this just feeds ignorance and business (buy and sell of people and things) while not working on understanding / bettering human communication ). Sso unless. you to people's posts or someone else's stuff it's going to get worse (in real life or online).
More extend here otherwise read after link for shorter version...
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/112186767286933459
TRUMP? If people spent a % of time talking to normal people instead of Trump types of hashtags - then we would work on solving things rather than just hating / spinning their shit and then saynig "I don't have time / I'm too busy".
A chat room can be set up - 3 clicks - safe in browser, no install, no account, instant!
#Jitsi = opensource. Ask me for how.
Someone who #Cares for people and planet, but wise enough to know business tricks. so it's about developing people into better humans of #habits and practices, not just developing Tech. We have everything we need to talk / solve things - you just need more humans in your workflow. The work is about better humans - so when you give them hammers they don't damage the place which what happens when you pay all these people and then complain about them on TV. No more #Hashtag #haters please - just a bit - and better yourself and others. Not your whole life incrementing THEIR STUFF🔁 . . . It's time for our stuff 🔁 whatever you like and love - just cooperate with more humans.
READ MORE IF YOU LIKE...
#FreeSchool towards ➡ Working Together 🔁
➡ Incrementing Peace ☮ & Trust even "slowly but surely"...
WHERE DO WE GO NOW TO WORK TOGETHER?
FEDIVERSE?
Intelligence for me now is measured now by those who can work together and communicate / chat versus those much less. Those that can help people individually develop and grow like me. Else we fail everyone. Ironically bad people do this better than the good, so we almost just have to copy them and self-check we're not bad along the way.
If not using others mutually then we are leaving them to the Capitalist system to eat up which is a LOSE:LOSE:LOSE (ME:YOU:EVERYONE).
RIGHT NOW... Helping Others using Fediverse could be MUCH easier if people were a bit more DEDICATED.
I'm defined today by my dreams. I try do RIGHT NOW or tomorrow for the children / adults as imagining it were for me.
Together we can measurably do things and talk towards solutions (I see as improving "communications" right now AS the actual solution)
We can solve individually the same-ish problems, and eventually more as a crowd like a crowd-funder (only less money involved, more intelligence). Snowballing the right things 🌨️ =☃️+ 🏂 / 🏦 🚫 = 📊 #FreeSchool
Audio conversations welcome, feel free to ask for chat link - just 3 clicks and in!.
I use simple chat for browsers using Jitsi (any device - no software install. A basic zoom-style clone, opensource. No google account etc. )
Privacy and Non-corporate minded.
#FreeSchool hashtag for my collected gems and alignments.
Let's chat soon. We need to care about we do daily and others to also care else we are isolated. No other way around it but talk...
Inspired by "Free School" movement in the 60's & 70's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school
More in this post : https://qoto.org/@freeschool/115174074841758906
#FreeSchool ➡ Working Together 🔁
➡ Incrementing Peace ☮ & Trust "slowly but surely"...