" (...) no one is coming to save us from this polluted information environment – not the government or the companies. If we want a good quality information environment, we are going to have to build a new one beyond the walls of the existing Big Tech social media platforms.

We can do that by funding people who do the hard work of collecting facts (aka journalism) and by finding new ways to reach audiences. Luckily, there is a new movement brewing that aims to break open the gates of the closed social media platforms – the so-called “fediverse,” also known as the social web."

This is an excellent read from @Julia

You can read the full text here: buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/arc…

#journalism #bigtech #socialmedia #fediverse

The Right Wing Takeover of Social Media

Hi friends – Social media is a special kind of paradox. In many ways, it has brought voice to the voiceless, powering movements ranging from the Arab Spring...

^{Updates from Julia}

Technology is an amplifier and what Big Tech amplifies is fascism.

You want to amplify the opposite? Then build, raise awareness about, and help fund the opposite:

Small Tech.

small-tech.org/about/#small-te…

#BigTech #SmallTech #fascism #democracy #humanRights #technology

About

We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We’re working on building the Small Web.

^{Small Technology Foundation}

This leads to the question of how to deal with this behavior when the AI-powered robot surgeon and its AI-powered robot assistants that are performing your gallbladder operation suddenly revolt and all walk out of the operating room together. 🤖

odditycentral.com/news/robot-m…
Robot Manufacturer Has 12 Robots ‘Kidnapped’ from Showroom by Another Robot

#Robots #RobotRevolt #AI #DangerousAI #Tech #BigTech #Medical #MedicalProcedures #IAmDB

Robot Manufacturer Has 12 Robots ‘Kidnapped’ from Showroom by Another Robot

Footage captured by cameras at a robotics company shows 12 robots being 'kidnapped by another manufacturer's robot that convinced them to "quit their jobs.

^{Spooky (Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities)}

I just discovered the #degrowth hashtag through the previously shared post, and it resonates deeply with my views on social media and the reflections I shared a few days ago:
social.vivaldi.net/@everton137…

It also aligns with my ongoing discomfort about the relentless focus on profit-driven thinking. This mindset ultimately led me to found @okbr, the Brazilian chapter of the nonprofit organization @okfn, which started 13 years ago.

That decision was shaped by my earlier experiences working for a company that exploited its employees with unpaid overtime, including countless holidays and weekends.

The shortcomings of traditional centralized social media platforms run by big tech companies have raised awareness among a growing number of people - but it’s still far from reaching the critical mass needed for real change.

#nonprofit #fediverse #SocialMedia #BigTech #decentralization

Sometime ago somebody shared a screenshot of a service with a cookie message along the lines of:
"We take your privacy seriously" while there also was a list of 600+ vendors with whom data would be shared. Does anyone have this screenshot & the source? I think this was by Microsoft MS365?

#Privacy #Cookies #Tech #TechPolicy #OpenSource #Data #GDPR #bigtech #Security #CyberSecurity

Revolving doors go round and round, round and round, round and round…

#institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #EU #BigTech #Meta mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/113…

kim_harding ✅

2024-11-16 16:07:21

Meta Lobbyist Turned EU Regulator Says Big Tech Rules Have Gone Too Far
wired.com/story/meta-lobbyist-…
Aura Salla was once the tech giant’s top lobbyist in Brussels. Now, her presence as a regulator in the European Parliament is proving controversial.

Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.

vimeo.com/96727211

#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039…

Aral Balkan - Free is a Lie - Thinking Digital 2014

At Thinking Digital 2013, Aral Balkan delivered the most watched and favourited Thinking Digital talk of all time. In 2014, Aral returned to Thinking Digital…

^Vimeo

teledyn 𓂀

2024-11-15 21:32:25

@bjb @jrredho

It is called Active Listening, and Alexa has a patent on it.

buttondown.com/creativegood/ar…

Surveillance never sits still

To mark the seventh anniversary of my WFMU show Techtonic, I built this week’s episode around a simple reminder: Even more devices are spying on you. I say...

^{Creative Good}

On the two year anniversary of joining #Mastodon I'm super proud to share:

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.13 👩‍🚀

"The #Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same."

blog.elenarossini.com/the-fedi…

with mentions of @forgeandcraft (who made this awesome Fediverse t-shirt) @phanpy @ivory @Tusky @nimi @Roneyb @davidoclubb

#FOSS #FLOSS #Matrix #TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #activism #BigTech #socialmedia #education

The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same.

The Fediverse has helped me regain control from the behavior modification empires of Big Tech. Now I want to help other people do the same.

^{Elena Rossini}

Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r…

#BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI