I’m reading a lot more now with the Kobo. So much that I think I'll only wish for one thing next Christmas, and that is an updated Kobo, in color, waterproof and with a stylus. We’ll see. 😁
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Tagged: Bluesky
What people tend to forget about messaging services is that privacy isn't just about the content of your message. It is also about your metadata: the information about you, your message and your contacts.
axbom.com/signal-whats...
#digitalethics #surveillance
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Wow thank you for this!! Just love it.
This one gave me shivers...
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"Bohemian Trumpsody" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen about Donald J. Trump
"Privacy rights advocacy group Noyb is supporting an individual in Norway who was horrified to find ChatGPT returning made-up information that claimed he’d been convicted for murdering two of his children and attempting to kill the third."
techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/c...
ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations | TechCrunch
Me. 🙋
@zephoria.bsky.social: When politicians ban books, I read them. So when I heard that Meta - who, of course, believes in free speech - is using egregious legal tactics to silence a former employee's book, my eyebrows went up. Who else is reading "Careless People" just cuz Meta is suing? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t...
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I think we agree too. Saying "accessibility first" of course does not make it so 😁
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I'd say this: Design and content should be separate, allowing presentation in a way that allows acceptable access for the user. Many people with low-vision use zoom, and the interface should not break when they do this.
But "Statistically more likely" is a dangerous assumption to lean on. 😉
With regards to assumptions about accessible mode and efficiency I have lots to say but so few characters and so little time. 😅
Accessible mode -> I’d say: give control over preferences.
Efficiency -> Not only related to speed but to making the right choice, hence hard to determine without context.
”Automated evaluation often means automated discrimination, and more effective discrimination is a bad look for the idea of progress.”
@axbom.com: ”And so you appoint, dismiss, judge and evaluate a data shadow, but the one who has to bear the consequences is a human being of flesh and blood." – Kerstin Anér axbom.com/data-shadows/
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You can’t say ”it’s not worth making it accessible for only 1% of our users”. That’s reverse logic.
If you had made it accessible to begin with, people with disabilities could’ve been 20% of your user base.
And it would have been better for 100% of your users.
#a11y #accessibility
You also can’t say it’s way too expensive to make it accessible.
It feels expensive because the builders and designers don’t know what they’re doing.
Hire people who know what they’re doing.
They’re not more expensive than people who don’t.
(They should be, of course.)
#ally #accessibility
Now I wish I had written “That’s a logical fallacy”, rather than reverse logic. When oh when will Bluesky get editing capabilities...
”And so you appoint, dismiss, judge and evaluate a data shadow, but the one who has to bear the consequences is a human being of flesh and blood."
– Kerstin Anér
axbom.com/data-shadows/
"Att våra svenska politiker alltjämt använder Facebook, Instagram och Twitter som officiella kanaler för sina uttalanden tycker jag är direkt pinsamt."
axbom.se/techorrhjulet/
Worth watching @jay.bsky.team being interviewed by @mmasnick.bsky.social to understand more about what Bluesky is and is aiming for.
Watch on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Ow...
Watch on Duck Player (use the DuckDuckGo browser) for private viewing:
duck://player/B7OwcXCE5Rg
Alaqua Cox as Echo (Maya Lopez) is stunningly good. And it’s her first acting gig!
Very impressive casting.
You should watch it before the new Daredevil if you haven’t already.
#marvel
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Haha, only because I see it wrong more often than right.
På förekommen anledning publicerar jag den här teckningen igen.
En bakdörr kan vara minutiöst dokumenterad, ha begränsad åtkomst, innefatta en rad säkerhetsmekanismer och vara utvecklad med den bästa av intentioner. men det är fortfarande…
...en bakdörr.
I know you know this, but it’s "sneak peek", not "sneak peak".
Unless you’re suddenly discovering a new summit on a mountain, that deviously was hidden behind a cloud.
Or, you know, a climax you didn’t see coming.
Nothing better symbolizes how humans are working at the mercy of machines than selecting squares with traffic lights.
Computers have been better than humans at this for many years; yet we keep bowing to their demands.
In case you were unaware: You’ve been training ’AI’, for free, all this time. 👇
Business Insider article ran this article in 2013 showing video of software that can bypass Captchas:
Tiny Startup Vicarious Is Creating A Human-like Brain That Runs On A Laptop.
Please ignore the bizarre claim in that headline, haha. 👇
www.businessinsider.com/vicarious-ge...
Tiny Startup Vicarious Is Creating A Human-like Brain That Runs On A Laptop
Humans, on the other hand, have struggled to solve Captchas from the very start, and those of us concerned about accessibility have been upset about their widespread adoption, signing petitions to end their use. My first post critiquing Captchas is from 2006. 👇
axbom.com/captcha-kill...
Captcha: Killing accessibility
Are Captchas are used to distinguish humans from bots? The first Captchas could only be solved by humans with above average visual acuity and cognitive ability to interpret purposely distorted characters. That excludes a fair number of humans. Or forces people into multiple, frustrating attempts. 👇
You also have to wonder, as Captchas evolved into image grids, how many people across the world have ever seen a US fire hydrant? 👇
In the end, enough humans were willing to spend time solving the Captchas that they just became too profitable to shut down. Why? Because they meant Google could make you work for them, for free. 👇
qz.com/2009829/clou...
Why AI developers love those annoying CAPTCHAs
This Techradar report from 2018 goes into some good depth about how Captchas were used to make humans transcribe books, and later train AI software. 👇
www.techradar.com/news/captcha...
Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it
A study in 2023 (Searles et. al, An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs) concluded that bots are superior to humans across the board (speed / accuracy) when it comes to solving different types of Captchas. My only surprise is that this particular study is a bit late to the game. 👇
Bots Are Better at Solving CAPTCHAs Than Humans, Research Shows
Is all this a problem? Well, Cloudflare made a rough estimate to highlight how it’s likely that about 500 years(!) per day are spent/wasted on solving Captchas. 👇
blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...
Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness
Make no mistake, having difficulty solving Captchas has long been a human trait, while bots have been becoming more and more competent at solving them for a over a decade.
The opposite of what we are taught to understand what Captchas are, and what they are used for. 🚦
This thread pulled from parts of my newsletter in February of last year:
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When people say representation matters, this is what they mean.
@zoandbehold.bsky.social: These kind of votes are born out of trans representation in government. Rep. Howell & I have built solid relationships with Republicans and those relationships change hearts, minds, and (eventually) votes. It is painful, grueling work. But it makes a difference.
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😂
an older man sits on a wooden bench in a park with gifak.net written on the bottom right
