mhoyeNov 16, 2022
If the revealed behaviours of the Twitter-Mastodon migration are any indication, being subject to arbitrary algorithmic moneyball does profound damage the human psyche. Algorithmic transparency is a mental health issue and nobody realizes it.
Show threadmhoyeNov 17, 2022

I remember reading a few years ago that a sufficiently-compromised IoT-run house is indistinguishable from a haunting.

It's occured to me just now that the struggle of navigating a sufficiently algorithm-inflicted life will be indistinguishable from schizophrenia.

Show threadEd Suominen

@mhoye My iOT devices use this one weird trick to stay secure: They run behind a firewall on Linux with software I wrote myself to do whatever they’re supposed to do.

No Amazon surveillance crap. No “privacy” policies.

Nov 18, 2022 at 1:38pmWeb
Show threadmhoyeNov 18, 2022
@edsuom That's like saying that democracy is easy, I can write "vote for me" on a tissue and stuff it back in the tissue box. The fact that one person can solve a problem for one person doesn't make it a solved problem, and "being able to understand and make sense of the world around you" should not be a priesthood's privilege.