We rush toward 'teaching gen AI' to students, meanwhile this is the current state of mind for the creative community. This battle is not only about IP and giving credit/remuneration, it's about the rampant Big Tech bullying to basically do what they like with the internet. If you are not aware of these issues then maybe youre part of the problem.

#instagram #meta #facebook #artstation #adobe #academicchatter

embrace, extend, extinguish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

like #facebook did to #myspace

why can't @Gargron see that this is all that #meta is doing here with #threads?

maybe he does and has some tricks up his sleeve

god i hope so

i feel like #mastodon and the #fediverse are facing down a galactic armada in an old honda

if we bend meta to our will instead of the reverse, it will be a story for the ages

It's been about a year and a half on my journey with #mastodon and the #sfba.social instance. Here's my thoughts so far:

* The moderators on my instance are doing a tremendous job keeping it clean and inviting.
* Following hashtags has been a great easy way to see posts about topics I'm interested in, however I dislike people spamming their posts with every hashtag and those posts making it into my feed.
* Adoption is still not where I thought it would be and I miss not having my personal connections on here.

Mainstream social media platforms like #Facebook and #Twitter first got users on there and then the big media platforms followed to get access to the users. I wish that would happen for mastodon too. Once we get the majority of the people on here, it will become a more natural place for discourse. Currently it still feels like a small group of people that are not connected to the rest of the world.

Giant sunspot region 3664 and resulting auroras gallery

https://www.facebook.com/media/set?set=a.431368006258449&type=3

@photography
#astrophotography
#Aurora
#NorthernLight
#facebook

I can confidently diagnose #betterhelp as sociopaths.

Promised therapy customers privacy...then gave their mental health info to advertisers.

Victims get less than ten bucks each.

Company made billion+ in revenue last year alone.

In a just society with good privacy laws, they'd face existential civil & criminal consequences.

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/betterhelp-therapy-class-action-settlement-refund/507-b4ef5e0f-c722-4562-95e9-c3cdd7738d1a

#therapy #psychology #privacy #psychotherapy #mentalhealth #telehealth #medicine #HIPAA #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #facebook #meta

What I don't understand about the #TikTok problem is what makes TikTok worse than #Instagram, #Facebook, #Google or #Twitter?

Either you ban algorithmic timelines or you ban government spying. But if you only ban TikTok, the #propaganda will still reach us via the other networks ...

TikTok ban in the United States: https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/explaining-why-officials-want-to-ban-tiktok-in-the-united-states/article_2f1c3092-0baa-11ef-8c02-df0aeedefee3.html

#news #censorship #politics #China #USA #algorithm #software #socialNetwork #internet #problem #law #surveillance #economy

Explaining why officials want to ban TikTok in the United States

The bill states that TikTok has nine months to divest itself from China and that TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, sells the platform to another company. If a sale is agreed to,

^{WPSD Local 6}