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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."

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-fediverse-has-empowered-me-to-take-back-control-from-big-tech-now-i-want-to-help-others-do-the-same/

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


Today's manifesto by over 70 CSOs underlines the need to put core our democratic values in technology first. I agree.
Europe will stay free and democratic if it builds its own digital infrastructure and can‘t be blackmailed. The recent threats by J.D. Vance and big tech companies should spurn us to act swiftly.
https://peoplevsbig.tech/beyond-big-tech-a-manifesto-for-a-new-digital-economy/
@PeopleVsBigTech @lobbycontrol
#bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #opensource


Meta and friends – like Mastodon and Vivaldi – form Social Web Foundation.

May I be the first to say:

Fuck the Social Web Foundation.

https://socialwebfoundation.org

I am so fucking sick of this bullshit happening over and over again. I’d say they’re useful idiots but, let’s face it, Mastodon aren’t idiots. Vivaldi aren’t idiots. They’re smart folks. They know full well what Meta is. They clearly just don’t give a shit.

#SocialWebFoundation #Meta #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #fediverse


On my own time, I have to read a ~50 page document produced for the #EuropeanCommission in order to effectively participate in a two hour meeting where #FDroid is pitted against #BigTech on the #DigitalMarketsAct and its requirements around installing and allowing other #AppStore options.
Its all NDA'ed so I can't ask for help.
This game is really rigged for the megacorps. Wish me luck! Here's to fighting the good fight!


Need a brief and accessible explainer about the actual harms of AI?

Show folks this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM

@thejuicemedia hitting it out of the park, yet again.

#ai #corporations #corporatocracy #billionaires #climateCrisis #BigTech #SiliconValley


Ed Zitron comments in the last episode of tech won't save us something that I find interesting to point out about #generativeAI , even if it is obvious:

Let's imagine we all accept #AI generators and create a new internet based on them (or a large majority, at least). In that case (which is somewhat the business model pursued by #bigtech), we would reach a point where systems would be able to be trained only on content created by themselves.

Thanks @parismarx 🥰

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/211_silicon_valley_deserves_your_anger_w_ed_zitron


𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬𝘀…
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Now I'm going to publish it on social media and enjoy the likes and responses. 😊

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬𝘀…
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Before it will be ready to publish, I need to make a compilation of work-in-progress screenshots and wireframes, to prove that it's not AI-generated, and to avoid people asking what AI prompt I used to generate the image. 😖😖

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #GenerativeAI #design #art #3D #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt


@Kierunkowy74 @Martin Be @Fundacja Technologie dla Ludzi
#bigtech 'em nie jest ale może być.
W statut ( https://bip.nask.pl/bip/status-prawny/1,Status-prawny.html ) są wpisane wszystkie kody #PKD, które są potrzebne do bycia bigtechem.
A przez swoją spółkę NASK S.A. faktycznie prowadzą działalność komercyjną https://www.nasksa.pl/ofirmie
Taka trochę dziwna hybryda instytucji publicznej, która ma zlecone ustawowo funkcje (np w zakresie cyberbezpieczeństwa) a jednocześnie działa na rynku jak korporacja.


W tekście #okopress prawnicy: dr hab. Mateusz Grochowski i dr Katarzyna Łakomiec analizują
polskie podejście do cyfrowych regulacji:
https://oko.press/polskie-podejscie-do-cyfrowych-regulacji-analiza
Autorzy piszą m.in.:
"Siła rynkowa firm z sektora big-tech łatwo przekształca się w siłę polityczną i społeczną."

Wydaje się to jednym z kluczowych argumentów dla których instytucje publiczne NIE powinny używać platform należących do #bigtech jako wyłącznego lub głównego kanału komunikacji ze społeczeństwem.
#cyfryzacja


Polskie podejście do cyfrowych regulacji trzeba pilnie zrewidować

[Analiza]Przez ostatnie lata w Polsce zmarnowano czas, który powinien być poświęcony na przygotowania do systemowej regulacji rynku cyfrowego. Co powinien zrobić nowy rząd? Piszą prawnicy dr hab. Mateusz Grochowski i dr Katarzyna Łakomiec

https://oko.press/polskie-podejscie-do-cyfrowych-regulacji-analiza

#cyfryzacja #bigtech


EU Pilot Project: Public Apps in F-Droid



FOSS Apps Live in FOSS App Stores!



I love how this “Created by AI, edited by humans” summary of the chat I had with Doc this month starts off mildly enough with “A great chat on FLOSS Weekly regarding alternate funding models to support ethical tech projects…“ and ends a few paragraphs later with “…Balkan provided an urgent call to action to avoid extinction at the hands of unchecked capitalism.”

Well that escalated quickly!

😬 👍

https://twit.tv/posts/inside-twit/aral-balkan-calls-new-funding-models-support-ethical-tech

#tech #ethics #BigTech #SmallTech #BigWeb #SmallWeb #VC #capitalism


Prasówka 29.09-6.10.2023



Microsoft otrzymuje Big Brother Award



netzpolitik.org's great series on digital colonialism. In English and German. I recommend

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/series-on-digital-colonialism-how-meta-aims-to-dominate-indias-agriculture-sector/

#cyfryzajca #kolonializm #bigtech #digitalisierung #digitalisation #colonialism #Kolonialismus


You wouldn’t have McDonald’s teaching your kids about nutrition or Philip Morris teaching them about maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Why are you happy having a surveillance capitalist like Google or Facebook teaching them about technology?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy

#surveillanceCapitalism #technology #web #education #SiliconValley #BigTech


Hey thanks for quick reply. It was this file (image) i was referrer to https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-07-02_Oh-wow-you-are-on-fire-lately_by-David-Revoy.html, the one with the two foxes. And thanks for your lovely drawings, they are need and lighten the day with a smile.

If you are bored some day, maybe I could ask you, if it could be possible to have you making some drawings about #privacy vs the #bigtech ?


Google: Here’s our latest evil plan…

Folks: That’s an evil plan, we don’t like it.

Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only.

#Google #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #WebStandards #w3c


Prasówka



Some fediverse instance admins: “How cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.”

Yes, they did.

Because you’re what’s for dinner.

#fediverse #mastodon #meta #Project92 #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism



Prasówka 2-9.06.2023



Prasówka 19-26.05.2023



The US understands the threat of foreign tech companies/apps gathering data on US citizens and manipulating their behaviour and is looking to ban TikTok.

Dear @EU_Commission, here’s an incomplete list of foreign tech companies/apps gathering data on EU citizens and manipulating their behaviour:

- Meta Platforms, Inc. (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.)
- Alphabet, Inc. (Google, YouTube, etc.)
- Twitter, Inc.
- Microsoft (Windows, etc.)
- Snap, Inc.

Thoughts?

#SiliconValley #BigTech #us #eu


Hmmmm, federated cocaine? 🧐

#TikTok and its algos should be a controlled substance 🧠 tightly regulated

(otherwise more bears in all nations will be using it all day and long into the night 🐾 🐾)

#BigTech #Media
#Attention #Hack
#MentalHealth
#Privacy #Surveillance
#Democracy


Ya think? 🤦🏻‍♂️

"New research suggests that privacy in the #metaverse might be impossible:
https://venturebeat.com/virtual/new-research-suggests-that-privacy-in-the-metaverse-might-be-impossible/

🔎👀

#Privacy
#Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#BigTech
#VR #AI #ML
#BigData


At #FOSDEM, @marcel_kolaja will present the #EU pilot project to look into open-sourcing the EU's apps and publishing them outside of #BigTech including on @fdroidorg. @eighthave will join, talking about how F-Droid will help pull the EU towards #FreeSoftware.

(sorry for copying the post, but for some reason we can't boost it)
https://social.librem.one/interact/109779534010876183?type=reblog



Celebrating Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists showing an interest in the fediverse is like celebrating wolves showing an interest in your chicken coop.

#SiliconValley #billionaires #vc #ventureCapital #BigTech #colonialism #fediverse #mastodon


… Or, in what a previous head of public policy at Mozilla told me while we were chatting before our talks at a data protection conference:

“Aral, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company, I don’t understand why you’re holding us to a such a higher standard.”

When I finally managed to pick my jaw off the floor the only retort I could manage was: “But that’s not what you tell people.”

3/3

#Mozilla #fediverse #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #BigTech


RT @GianlucaSgueo@twitter.com

Have you seen @Info_Activism@twitter.com new project '#GAFAM Empire'? It's amazing. They look at all the known acquisitions conducted by 5 #bigtech companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) from their first one to the end of summer of 2022 https://gafam.theglassroom.org/#landscape-of-acquisitions

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GianlucaSgueo/status/1605568631244349440


When posting stats about the number of people (not “users”) joining the fediverse (not “Mastodon”), please also post about the number of instances.

If 400,000,000 people join BigTech.social tomorrow, that’s not a win. That’s how you recreate Twitter.

So let’s focus on what matters. Sure it‘s great that the fediverse is becoming more popular but the character of that popularity matters. How it scales matters. Avoiding corporate capture matters.

#BigTech #fediverse #scale #focus


THIS great sentiment
+
maybe we ALL take a serious & sober look at how ABSENCE of LAW over past 18 years (not bad law, shitty or law unfair law... no law)
in:
• #internet
• #mobile #social
• #privacy
• #surveillance
• #AI #ML
• #data #governance

This is a massive #mastodon #fediverse opportunity we can collectively capitalize on before #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC carpet baggers arrive.

#my2cents

@klonick@davew@craignewmark@jeffjarvis@daphnehk@qjurecic@blaine @@profcarroll


Seeing Big Tech folks jump into the fediverse and – without so much as a “how do you do, fellow kids?” – roll up their sleeves to write the rules, dream up commercial services, and pontificate about how advertising should run on it. 👀

#fediverse #BigTech #corporateCapture #warning


Most #BetterTech movements:

"Ooh, there is sooo much wrong with #surveillancecapitalism and #bigtech .. hop onto our Zoom call and Slack channel, or read all about it on our tracker-infested website. Join the movement. Gmail us now. Time to act, NOW!"

🤐


Is an open secure instant messaging protocol not what is needed to allow any messaging app to communicate with any other, and to break the monopoly of Big Tech?