adtech
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Tl;dr: Surveillance is a natural outcome of the internet as it was created. Surveillance capitalism isn’t an innovation, but a resource extraction industry, and states don’t need to make fancy tools to get
ai
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Tl;dr: Automattic, the owner of of Tumblr and WordPress.com, is negotiating with Midjourney and OpenAI to sell them AI training data which would be scraped from platform users’ posts unless they opt out. It’
blogging
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. I’m slowly working on another rambling blog post, this time about real-time bidding over your web browsing habits. It’s about how in spite of all the sophisticated spyware and NSA data harvesting tools we
abortion
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Here are more things I saw, read, tooted, skeeted, clicked or blogged on from the last week or so… give or take, and possibly breif attempts at sarcasm or humour when describing them. Or not. Managing
democracy
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Tl;dr: A long, rambling and not very “tech” related post this week, looking at the recent ICJ ruling about evidence of acts of genocide in Gaza, defending a rules-based international order in a world that
ai
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Three weeks running and still doing a Weekly Roundup! Is it remotely newsletter worthy as a format or in substance? Would anyone actually subscribe to this? Is the content even martingally monetisable? I’m especially dubious
ai
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. What’s the stronger force, inertia or outrage? When Elon Musk took over Twitter and promptly set about demolishing it, there was a cacaphony of bleetings on the platform threatening a mass exodus. I can be
podcasts
I’m making an effort in 2024 to broaden my media format intake. I’m more of a reader. Articles go at your own pace. You can read faster than people talk, skip the boring bits, skim, search for the interesting bits, etc. Youtube is worse than I remember old
gaza
Here is another tour of a few of the things I boosted, tooted skeeted or blogged on the different platforms I frequent. I seem to have left a number of blog posts in draft mode this week, so went on a publishing binge this afternoon of them. See is how
API
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. When I’m not on Mastodon I spend some time posting bad jokes and dodgy takes on Bluesky, which slipped out of being exclusively in a “staging” environment at some point. Both have been landing pads
mobile phones
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. Namibia mandatory SIM card registration “eases & enables” indiscriminate mass surveillance of mobile communications in the country. This isn’t rare, it happens in about 160+ countries, but The Namibian website points out how it represents
gaza
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken. The UN’s WebTV site for the ICJ was my background audio Thursday and Friday as South Africa made its charges against Israel, alleging its attacks on Gaza amount to a threat of genocide. Thursday was