Ghazi @curiousmind@social.cleverlibre.org

Don’t worry, if GMail ever gets to be too abusive, we’ll just defederate from them!

Low Quality Facts, High Quality Cats.

The Origins of Conservatism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CI2vk3ugk&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&index=12

"Shouldn’t pay-for-delay agreements be a clear antitrust violation? According to a group of plaintiffs that include prominent HIV/AIDS advocates, the answer is yes."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/pharmaceutical-generic-drugs-pay-for-delay/674410/

Barred
Broadcasts suspended
Freedom denied, silenced voices
Political unrest, justice denied
Scandal

#tunisia #opposition #conspiracy #media #freedom #cinquain #poetry

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisian-judge-bars-broadcast-media-opposition-conspiracy-cases-2023-06-17/

A new map about Dead and Missing Migrants in the Mediterranean #RefugeesWelcome
👉 https://observablehq.com/@neocartocnrs/dead-and-missing-migrants

Amidst rampant surveillance capitalism, one bastion of privacy remains – end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp. But dangerous laws are being proposed in US, UK, EU & beyond to force those apps to scan your messages. 

My latest for @NYTOpinion (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/opinion/encryption-messaging-privacy-signal-whatsapp.html?unlocked_article_code=BCIOc044wVHuhCoQ7R86aZIJIzNKpotx3nZnbVC5Rku5WB1dxjJmgizo-FHX7Yw4HCqTgWfCehwEsrM-7Q8EUg3Qth1El8Qr7Qk4N9m8u4BhzwTHUWF3CJOIoBLZOXMFGCipCY0fV8qwfuP3DS0MBwlx95qJWMxnVNNkf355q3vAWhZwUSNNU_flZtl-Yuec2L7wS9ak4zwmSbhYzM_DBNLNIFjEojZvnWZ3Gl9LADq6wJE4XFtcuEdsbVbq_AqUl-ZLwgEI0tQnqhrCwv8FIJ_uA31GSHcET3aJ3vOuvAhYfhLjtceRe6jP-v-0gPYGLyhOcJTHOfPUK69FGhsstdgpRi5eoLKxZs2VmxzuaycEG9RWjA&smid=url-share

Curiosity. I don’t care about you achievements, if you don’t leave school with curiosity, your education didn’t do what it should have.

Hahaha on est très exactement dans la situation qu'avait prédit @ploum : Les I.A. commencent à bouffer leur propre merde.
https://www.nextinpact.com/article/71906/quand-chatgpt-est-utilise-par-crowd-workers-pour-entrainer-dautres-modeles-langage

me_irl

Pas notre #Android app la plus célèbre, mais toujours la première à être mise-à-jour ! L'encyclopédie de la #Tunisie, issue de #Wikipédia et consultable hors-ligne naturellement ! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomtunisie #FOSS #Education @CLibre @nizarus @habibmhenni

Amazon is a perfect #enshittification parable - platforms subsidize end users, until they're locked in, then make life good for business customers at users' expense, until *they're* locked in, then claw back all the value they can for themselves, leaving just enough behind to keep the lock-in going.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon

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Donate your CV to make hiring fair https://findhr.eu/datadonation/

Why do I care if #Google and #Facebook know everything about me?

Ehm, "The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens"

https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/

#privacy #surveillance #bigtech #adtech #surveillanceads #tracking

2023 is the year all those “you are the product, you don’t own your content” warnings about social media become extremely relevant

these are almost mandatory at this point.