Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/who-killed-the-internet-and-a-promising-alternative-for-public-communication-and-social-media-the-fediverse/ Apparently, they're going to be talking about the fediverse at a conference. Dunno if it's good.

I think you can get some mileage out of it, but it's annoying when someone tries to dismiss valid concerns there by going, "Oh you can just run your own site."

It's a very obvious consequence of "censor more! censor more! censor more! why is this here?!".

Funny how barely anyone points a finger at Thierry for being responsible for censoring Palestinian content.

As fun as it might be for someone to run their own site, "Run your own site" is hardly an answer to the middle finger of censorship that is Big Tech.

Ylva has all but admitted that chat control barely leads to the rescues of victims which raises further questions over whether it's a proportionate (or effective, as that is what was pitched) intrusion on privacy.

It would be cool if someone made transcription for that video commentary about chat control.

I'm thinking of what sort of dive to do next (at my leisure...).

I don't have a whole lot in mind, however, I'd like to see if I couldn't do something designed more to be informative, than to actively try to push back against a bunch of bad faith arguments / actors.

I remember that Busou Renkin (武装錬金, Arms Alchemy is one translation which people gave it) had a Victor. It also had that weird butterfly guy, lol. It's an interesting #anime to watch.

Symphogear is a fun anime.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/ai-created-virtual-influencers-are-stealing-business-from-humans/ As someone pointed out, some of this probably has something to do with the whole "brand safety" thing.

I don't really have an opinion on it though, I don't really see much how it matters. It's kind of seen as a "get lucky and make money" area.

https://ecnl.org/news/give-smile-get-smile-human-rights-impacts-emotion-recognition-workplace "For example, neurodivergent, LGBTQI+, and people speaking with accents or dialects might be discriminated against by voice recognition or other emotion recognition technologies."

https://ecnl.org/news/civil-society-open-letter-proposed-french-law-2024-olympic-and-paralympic-games

This one is from early 2023. ECNL and other civil society groups opposed AI surveillance cameras at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games.

#privacy

Doomscrolling through bad news is not fun.

The dive is a work I have a bit of pride in. It's a "I wasn't born yesterday" type message for people who kept trying to use clever language, and ducking and weaving, and conflating brazenly right before our eyes. It's snappy, but it is also the only correct response to these sorts of "games".

Why do we let these people get away with this?

https://www.thefire.org/news/victory-after-fire-lawsuit-court-halts-new-yorks-misguided-law-targeting-online-speech Here's a piece on the previous New York law which was ruled unconstitutional.

Well, the problem with it is that it's geared towards chilling some form of speech that the State doesn't approve of, and that isn't consistent with the First Amendment.

Whatever someone thinks of those things, it is nonetheless speech protected by the First Amendment. So, that is kind of worrying.