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<p>🔒 user <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>privacy</span></a> | 💻 platform alternatives | 🤖 &quot;AI&quot; and its regulation | 💩 de-shittification | 🗺️ digital sovereignty</p><p>Defending and helping rebuild a web that serves users - not advertisers or billionaires. Probably not fawning over your <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GrandTheftAutocomplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GrandTheftAutocomplete</span></a> chatbots.</p><p>boosts aren&#39;t necessarily endorsements - could also just be &quot;well now what is this mess&quot;</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/noBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noBots</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/noBridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">

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  • Post #4438153

    Good morning ☀️ New newsletter edition for your reading pleasure. 📟 Short-Form Content: On the genie 🧞, its biases, and going rogue; Fake imagery for both birds and satellites. 🌞 Good News!: The EU &amp;amp; AI content marking; Australia &amp;amp; data centre energy. https://technically-good.ca/newsletter/013-2026-08-01/ #genie #genAI #goodNews

  • Post #4438152

    &amp;quot;Just let the money run out, it’ll be fine in two years&amp;quot; may be a viewpoint worth considering, for the sake of our collective mental health https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/31/nik-suresh-ludicity-on-surviving-corporate-ai-psychosis/

  • Post #2217758

    Hello good morning ✨ In This Edition: 📟 Short-Form Content: Of eyeballs for &amp;quot;human verification;&amp;quot; yes can I please get a venti oh shoot I didn&amp;#39;t prompt it right; and age gating 🤝 Android getting locked down 🤝 anti-3D printing bills. 📰 Long-Form Content: Age Gating isn&amp;#39;t It, Fam 🌞 Good News!: Open printers and repairable e-readers; the people are pushing back on slop factories and mandatory ID apps; the EU bans their staff from using AI-generated visuals in of...

  • Post #1807854

    There&amp;#39;s a lot in this fantastic article by Ky Decker - which is hitting a little close to home right now. I&amp;#39;ve worked with data for 8+ years now, I know my way around ML models - and I don&amp;#39;t recognize #tech anymore. --- &amp;gt; A team lead adds an AI chatbot to a Slack channel. Anyone can tag the bot to answer questions about the company’s products. Coworkers tag the chatbot many times a day. You never see someone check that the bot’s responses are correct. &amp;gt...

  • Post #1609873

    [a rare post in German - see below for an English tl;dr!] Ach du je. Man wuerde sich hier eine differenziertere Darstellung wuenschen. Signal wird definitv nicht &amp;quot;zum Problem&amp;quot; - wenn das Problem der/die Anwender*in ist und sich phishen laesst, hilft auch die sicherste Messenger-App nichts. English tl;dr: German news outlet &amp;quot;Tagesschau&amp;quot; headline: &amp;quot;Cyber Attacks - Why the Signal Messenger is becoming a Problem for Politics&amp;quot; https://ard.socia...

  • Post #1609872

    &amp;gt; &amp;quot;People who hate thinking and their fundamental, sneering disdain for anyone who doesn&amp;#39;t have been around ever since someone sat down for the first time and invented thinking. But I don&amp;#39;t think it has ever been as ubiquitous and accepted as it is now to laugh at and quickly dismiss anyone who enjoys the distance between a question and its answer&amp;quot; a beautiful essay by Carolina Silva Rode, @budin https://exomonstruo.net/epistemological-disappointment/

  • Post #1609870

    RE: https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/116455259160227538 And so... It begins!

  • Post #1588085

    RE: https://pdx.social/@dadbod/116437799506135617 Big W. 🙌 Also because here in Canada, Kobos can hook into some public library systems! Just imagine. Not only can you borrow ebooks on your e-reader, but you can do so on a repairable device! #ereader #rightToRepair #library

  • Post #1286797

    Age gating isn&amp;#39;t it. 1. it is a thinly-veiled surveillance information grab 2. it&amp;#39;s a digital sovereignty issue 3. online communities can be Good, Actually 4. ... it&amp;#39;s probably not going to work 5. age gating means dancing around the real issue of holding Big Tech accountable (also includes tips for how to get in touch with your representatives if you are Canadian and would like to voice your opposition. The time to do that is right now!) https://technically-good.ca/bl...

  • Post #1107130

    OR. Maybe it&amp;#39;s time to regulate Big Tech instead? Follow-up question - if this was to be implemented, who&amp;#39;d do the actual age verification? Where would this data go &amp;amp; be stored? Because I have a guess, and it&amp;#39;s the opposite of digital sovereignty.... https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/calgary-s2m5l3ffz/-/a-6z7MOTYuQGO_fc57hwpkdA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 #privacy #Canada #bigTech #ageVerification #digitalSovereignty

  • Post #1049184

    New blog post! A discussion of how modern visual-first algorithmic platforms are polar opposites of the predominantly text-based social networks of yore - and not only due to technological advancements, like &amp;quot;powerful computers with fantastic cameras in every pocket.&amp;quot; Sparked by a fantastic podcast episode (Details &amp;amp; links in the article - thank you @afelia ) https://technically-good.ca/blog/2026-04-08-a-blast-from-the-past-looks/ #socialMedia #platforms #algorith...

  • Post #957928

    &amp;gt; &amp;quot;What worries me isn’t smart computers—it’s stupid humans, using the crudest energy-sucking generative AI tools to make themselves dumber, debase creativity and undermine the very concept of truth itself. [...] When I see governments and businesses pushing people to use AI to answer every email, goose every online search or even draft official documents, I can only hope this fever dream will pass, that it will become fashionable again to write and create and think for ourselv...

  • Post #851591

    RE: https://universeodon.com/@bgrier/116293431506858816 &amp;quot;There is a deeper problem that receives almost no attention. The proposed settlement does not regulate AI. It regulates users.&amp;quot; Bingo.

  • Post #826602

    RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115973555484553518 🤔 This is *not* a good look. Is Bing actively trying to stifle the #indieWeb &amp;amp; the #smallWeb ? Who knows! Regardless - what you can do: - pick a different search engine if you are using Bing. #Qwant and #Startpage (and #DuckDuckGo - see note below) come to mind as great first picks. - start up your own little #indieWeb #smallWeb site! Share what you like. It doesn&amp;#39;t have to be complicated. A small blog, a digital gard...

  • Post #675954

    RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/116222974075675476 This is an excellent analysis and write-up on ad bidding and obnoxious web design. If phrases like &amp;quot;viewport suffocation,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;unacceptable interaction cost, &amp;quot; and talk about UX heuristics in the context of why the F we are all made to close four pop-ups and pop-unders before even getting to access a website* excites you: This article is for you! &amp;gt; &amp;quot;It is working perfectly for the p...

  • Post #291169

    I wrote this article as a primer for folks on how the &amp;quot;social networks&amp;quot;* keep us locked in. If you like it, consider sharing it with a friend who is new to the world of #privacy, the #fediverse, or getting off of billionaire/US tech. *Also, why &amp;quot;legacy algorithmic media&amp;quot; may be a better term for the Facebooks and Xitters of the world. https://technically-good.ca/feeding-the-fire-psychology-engagement-and-algorithmic-media/ Feedback welcome, boosts of course...