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@fae2535@mstdn.social Even with a storm, all the windows here face East. So it's very difficult for air to circulate in and out of the apartment.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Can't wait to move out of my hell apartment with no cross-breeze possibility. Makes managing heat very difficult.

@ccriss92@masto.es Desafortunadamente muchos países tienen muchas de sus comunidades en cosas de Meta. Y exigir a la gente que se mude no es fácil, sobre todo cuando son círculos sociales menos cercanos, como padres de una escuela. Si hay la oportunidad de ofrecer alternativas, ir con los argumentos masticados para proponer. Pero hay que hacerlo siendo consciente de que en un abrir y cerrar de ojos es muy poco probable que se logre, ir poniendo presión donde se pueda. Y con disposición a oir por qué a alguien puede que se le dificulte la mudanza, tratando de evitar prejuzgar la situación (no a todo mundo se le da bien ni en todo momento)

@tante@tldr.nettime.org Sadly I've seen some women get into the AI pit. But anytime marginalized people are more skeptical than others about something, it's worth taking them seriously.

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer I think this is a product of the Libertarian skew that a lot of Free Software zealots have. There's a belief that even hinting at restrictions is the same as a government legislating restrictions on people or tech companies limiting our technologies arbitrarily. It lacks analysis of power and how enforceable something like a software license is. We've seen it with LLM scraping; we KNOW these models were trained scraping code that uses open source licenses that should not allow the LLM models to be used willy-nilly, or would require more transparency from them. But the companies behind the models have more money and political influence than OSS maintainers. There's arguments to be made about how "opening the door to restrictions" should be something we think about carefully, just as how the authoritarian power grab by the USA presidency in the George W Bush era has led us to here, or how the lack of action against NSA spying and failure to teach people about data safety and not allowing social media sites to collect and sell our information should have been a major concern from day 1. But again, there needs to be an analysis of power dynamics and social and cultural tendencies, which very few people seem to want to do these days (eg, equating disabled people asking folks to use alt text in images being equated with cop behavior as if disabled people hold the same power as police departments).

@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk @CiaraNi@mastodon.green I think it's a generalization for the sake of argument. For several years, bullying has been a major concern in terms of what's affecting kids' lives. Adding ease of recording videos that can't get deleted off of the Internet easily, that can be replicated endlessly, that can end up being watched by millions around the world, it magnifies the horrors immensely by raising the stakes. There's an argument to be made there about "is the problem the tech or the fact people feel entitled to bully others" but it's absolutely true that the perceived economic value of tech far outweighs other considerations (social, cultural, ethical, etc). We never solved the bully problem (not no more bullies but rather when it happens prevent it from escalating) but we gladly turbocharged it with high fidelity pocket cameras and lightning fast digital data transmission. With the dating app example, the apps also just made existing problems worse and created new ones. In both cases, stopping to think about things before normalizing them (equipping kids who often reflect the cruelty they are brought up in with smartphones, adults who are extremely alienated from other people reducing themselves to 5 photos and a list of bullet points for a company that wants to keep you hooked on their app forever in the hopes of finding relationship fulfilment) could have prevented a lot of issues. But the companies making money off of these situations want us to keep pretending tech exists in a vacuum, rather than a complex social and cultural context.

@thatkatharine@ohai.social Tell that to the Spanish government that has always prioritized who they consider vulnerable first and only let other people access them months after (and when I've gotten mine other folks just get the flu one and not the COVID vaccine 🙃)

@eniko@peoplemaking.games There's a lot of stuff you can't export :( I hope they look at improving the migration better soon EDIT: And I hope my brain starts working again soon 🤦🏻‍♂️ Can't type proper English anymore

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Opt-out URL doesn't work, not sure why