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Website of David Revoy (aka Deevad), artist and instructor using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.

Website of David Revoy (aka Deevad), artist and instructor using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.
I do kinda wonder what it's like to be someone who's designed, developed or built something that you later realise was bad for humanity? Like, at the time it felt right, you didn't see problems with it, but later you're just like "whelp, I fucked up" I imagine it must be a very depressing and isolating feeling. (I've luckily so far never had this happen to me)
Why aren’t the “godfathers” of AI talking about the massive data theft from artists & their lawsuits eg? Because that discourse is too beneath their genius brains to cover? They have to talk about grand endeavors like SAVING HUMANITY? Because their practices would be implicated?
@timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@timnitGebru)Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:50 +0000
I'm not going to act like an expert on labor organizing. I didn't have that term in my vocabulary four years ago. Now it's one of the anchoring aspects of my life and something I'm deeply passionate …
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People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer. Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work. Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.
I absolutely do not have it in my soul to read another pithy blurb by some random exec on linkedin about how AI is transforming our lives when it's currently just regurgitating content stolen from elsewhere and for the last decade, "AI" has been a glossy shell disguising underpaid human labor.
Ben and Ceora talk through some thorny issues around AI-generated music and art, explain why creators are suing AI companies for copyright infringement, and compare notes on the most amusing/alarming AI-generated content making the rounds (Pope coat, anyone?).
Attached: 1 image I found a bot which was hammering my site. So I asked the author if they could make it opt-in. Apparently consent doesn't matter if it's for the greater good. The #AI brainworms are strong! https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/issues/293
AI isn’t “intelligence”. It’s stolen data and artists’ stolen labour cherry-picked to conform to techbro programmer preferences. The speed of operation is a technological achievement, sure, but in the end it’s just Plagiarism 2.0.
MillerKnoll says a video of CEO Andi Owen telling employees to stop "thinking about what you’re going to do if you don’t get a bonus" was taken "out of context."
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about cho...
I removed Feedly from my Get Blogging resource for people who want to read and write blogs. If you’d like to read blogs, there are some great other feed readers recommended in the list. I start every …
The company claims to have not considered before launch whether their new protest and strike surveillance tool could be misused.
I've been using GitHub since I was eleven years old. To be fair, I didn't really understand git at the time, but I was able to fumble my way through it...
I don't want it to exist at all lmao, it's an ethical clusterfuck
Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:18 +0000
buried in github's settings (Settings -> Code Pilot) is this opt-out that y'all should probably click
Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Wed, 03 Aug 2022 03:07 +0000
and there it is. github takes all our free code, puts it in a blender, uses us for free QA on the result, and finally turns around and charges for it
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Looks like GitHub Copilot is going public as a paid product! I have to admit that their "first hit is free" strategy worked perfectly, writing code without it is now somewhat painful and I'll happily pay for it
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (@moyix)Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:50 +0000
eevee (@eevee)Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:50 +0000
If you’re a developer working on this quit your job.
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a school library system vendor has "begun working on" the ability to automatically notify parents when their kids check a book out of the school library and to allow parents to prevent kids their kids from checking out books on certain topics. this..............sucks twitter.com/yo_bj/status/1…Talya Cooper (@talya_cooper)Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:40 +0000
Sacha Judd (@sachajudd)Tue, 29 Mar 2022 18:41 +0000
Was just asked to apply to be a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador. No way. I am not using the little social reach I have to promote the harmful work of Google. And using inclusivity to draw women (or any marginalised folk) into promoting Google is 🤮Laura Kalbag (@LauraKalbag)Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:44 +0000
People questioning whether testing positive for a potentially deadly or disabling disease, keeping it a secret, and then showing up at an industry social gathering unmasked should be a career-ending offense and, yes. That person is almost certainly unsafe in numerous other ways.
Dana Fried (@leftoblique)Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:37 GMT
Interesting to find out that during every radicalized election, every genocide, every riot around the world over the last 10 years, huge tech platforms could have swiftly identified disinformation and malicious propaganda and paused their distribution of it, but they didn't.
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Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, we’re blocking YouTube channels connected to RT and Sputnik across Europe, effective immediately. It’ll take time for our systems to fully ramp up. Our teams continue to monitor the situation around the clock to take swift action.
Google Europe (@googleeurope)Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:15 GMT
Ryan Broderick (@broderick)Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:29 GMT
1,248 mile (1,085 NM) flight from AUS to VNY ~ 1,375 gallons (5,206 liters). ~ 9,218 pds (4,181 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $7,069 cost of fuel. ~ 15 tons of CO2 emissions.Elon Musk's Jet (@ElonJet)Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:30 GMT
Tech has an ethics issue so deep People sit in rooms enabling harm as a day job, society normalises harm and it becomes woven into schools, work, finance, leisure And we are so unused to challenges to harm that we find them exceptional and more shocking than the harm itselfStella (@RisuToInu)Sun, 13 Feb 2022 11:31 GMT
Cancelling a subscription in protest is the only way consumers can make their voices heard. It's not "cancel culture". It's called capitalism. The very thing most of these right-wing podcasters advocate for. And guess what, the pressure is working.
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Spotify is more confused about Joe Rogan than ever trib.al/piG3LpkThe Verge (@verge)Tue, 08 Feb 2022 07:11 GMT
Kieran McHugh (@kieranmch)Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:45 GMT
I wouldn't go within 100 yards of this guy lest he uses the gumroad user database to creep on you
Tevruden Dawnspear💙 (@tevruden)Sat, 05 Feb 2022 21:12 GMT
Yikes yikes yikes. A tech CEO looking up users’ PII in their DB, to snipe at them on twitter.
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I wouldn't go within 100 yards of this guy lest he uses the gumroad user database to creep on you
Tevruden Dawnspear💙 (@tevruden)Sat, 05 Feb 2022 21:12 GMT
Kelly Ellis 💉💉💉 (@justkelly_ok)Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:04 GMT
Also, props to the developers working with Team17 who came out immediately to say they disapproved of this scheme.
Charkie (@charkie)Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:11 GMT
The road to hell begins with the statement “hey, we’ve got all this data…”
Surveillance Killjoy (@hypervisible)Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:42 GMT
The @spotify call on Rogan is the same decision that all social and content platforms make daily: Disinformation & conspiracies are more profitable than facts. Terrible opinions are more profitable than art. Amplifying the loudest is more profitable than promoting the smartest.Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants)Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:29 GMT
“I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify," Joni Mitchell wrote. "Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.” bit.ly/3ub1DkkVariety (@Variety)Sat, 29 Jan 2022 03:30 GMT
Very excited for this Thursday's PHPMiNDS about How to make digital technology more sustainable from @hanopcon
With the ongoing decline of the climate emergency, as well as the increased usage of cryptocurrencies, there's definitely something to think about in terms of how we improve our impact on this dying world
More details can be found on their website or via Meetup
Last week, we tweeted a reminder that Mozilla accepts cryptocurrency donations. This led to an important discussion about cryptocurrency’s environmental impact. We’re listening, and taking action. 1/4
Mozilla (@mozilla)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:30 GMT
I would say "Did a diamond pay you to write this" but it looks like they did.
filmed on location in sunny Arrakis (@BrasTheSpaz)Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:29 GMT
👍🏻 For folks looking for concrete and impactful steps they can take that aren’t personal: divest from using Facebook tech in your projects. Vote with your tech stack. twitter.com/quinnypig/stat…Post details
Let me be clear: I think the company is molten garbage, but that's a very different thing than dunking on the humans who work there. I don't want to be remembered for a lack of empathy towards other people.Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:17 GMT
Zach Leatherman (@zachleat)Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:55 GMT
Reminder: Zuckerberg actually formed a fake business designed to trick Hawaiians into selling their land to him by making them think they were selling it to a Hawaiian owned farm, when in reality there was no farm and they were selling the land to a fucking haole.
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.@Facebook founder buys more #Kauai land, including Ka Loko Reservoir 808ne.ws/3eq7mtfStar-Advertiser (@StarAdvertiser)Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:30 GMT
Keggoat (@bawleon)Mon, 27 Dec 2021 15:33 GMT
This was my opinion of Elf On A Shelf in 2017. If anything my view has strengthened. It is immoral, on many levels.
𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿 ᶦˢ ˢᵗᶦˡˡ ᵘⁿᶜᵒⁿᵛᶦⁿᶜᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ᵇˡᵒᶜᵏᶜʰᵃᶦⁿ (@alexbloor)Fri, 24 Dec 2021 07:45 GMT
As Kelloggs moves to redesign their products with their signature name on it, here are a list of their products that you can boycott. Support @BCTGM!Post details
Our data show that consumers routinely focus on the visual of the Pop-Tarts brand name, so we simplified the package design by removing "Kellogg's".
Kellogg's (@KelloggsUS)Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:28 GMT
Cory Provost (@coryprovost)Sat, 18 Dec 2021 16:31 GMT
PSA: Do not use EAP therapy resources. This is some of the legislation we are working on in Washington... hopefully federally. @chelseyglasson brought it to light that Google is using her EAP therapy notes against her... and the fact that they had access at all is alarming.Post details
Apple VP Deirdre O'Brien sent a video to retail staff acknowledging that this has been a uniquely challenging time but that store NPS is the highest it’s been. She also said the company has a “wide range of mental health resources” on the People Site. She announced…1/
Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer)Sat, 11 Dec 2021 22:12 GMT
Cher Scarlett (@cherthedev)Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:51 GMT
Yikes. TL;DR: Employee talks to HR about discrimination. Google suggests (on-campus) counseling. Google has access to notes from those sessions (!!) and used them against her in court (!!!). So much for that employer-provided "perk". Story here: nytimes.com/2021/07/28/us/…Post details
PSA: Do not use EAP therapy resources. This is some of the legislation we are working on in Washington... hopefully federally. @chelseyglasson brought it to light that Google is using her EAP therapy notes against her... and the fact that they had access at all is alarming.twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/st…Cher Scarlett (@cherthedev)Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:51 GMT
Cody C. #BLM (@NfNitLoop)Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:41 GMT
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