Mastodawn

Am most displeased to acknowledge that all the hippie dippy kooks I derided mercilessly in my twenties were right about the miraculousness of apple cider vinegar.

Lisa Kalayji 3d ago

There was a woman next to me on the train this morning wearing an analog watch that had stopped ticking, and I wonder if she knew.

Lisa Kalayji 3d ago

Dave Nathanson 3d ago

New Dog of Mastodon just dropped. #DogsOfMastodon

Lisa Kalayji Jun 14

Indybay Jun 13

Wednesday 7/15: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/06/11/18886727.php

Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State : Indybay

Please email [email protected] a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.

Indybay

Lisa Kalayji Jun 13

Michael Fenichel Jun 13

Meanwhile, in the #Zuckerberg / #Facebook #Privacy - invasion department... / #socialmedia / #Meta

Awaiting the reaction of legal & media watchers...

Meta has announced an end of the right to opt-out of being tracked off of the Facebook platform, "disconnected" from 24/7 spying/tracking. No longer an option to opt out.

The 'good news' is that while you'll be tracked no matter what, you *can* choose if your ad-spew will reflect off-site visits/cookies. Yay?

#GoogleIsEvil #FacebookWasEvilFirst

Lisa Kalayji Jun 13

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Christine Lemmer-Webber Jun 13

what kinds of things do you reap, are the same ones you sow? what the fuck this is bullshit

Lisa Kalayji Jun 12

captain acab

🏳️‍🌈Jun 12

brb i have a new #crochet goal

Lisa Kalayji Jun 11

Oakland Privacy Jun 10

"Modders on platforms like Facebook Marketplace are offering a service to physically disable the front recording LED on the Ray-Ban Meta #smartglasses, effectively creating a “stealth mode” that completely bypasses Meta’s built-in privacy guardrails" https://www.androidauthority.com/ray-ban-meta-stealth-mode-mod-3674350/

Modders are turning Ray-Ban Meta glasses into spy gear for as little as $50

Modders are charging $50-$100 to physically destroy the LED on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and bypass privacy guardrails for recording video.

Android Authority

Lisa Kalayji Jun 8

Meta's execs, reigning kings of the art of zillion-page, misleading, unintelligible privacy policies, are mad that what they see as relevant info was all the way down in the *fourth paragraph* of a lucidly written article!!!
🤣🤣🤣 I am DECEASED.

“It’s not until [paragraph] four that Wired says this feature is ‘not enabled,'” declared Meta spokesperson and VP of communications Andy Stone. “And then takes until [paragraph] 16 for Wired to reflect that Meta has no existing plans and this is exploratory. And not until [paragraph] ten does Wired quote its own expert saying the feature is not ‘exposed to consumers.'”

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-furious-smart-glasses

#Meta #AI #Privacy

"Pure Advocacy-Driven Click Bait": Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation

Wired reported that Meta discreetly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses. Executives are very mad.

Futurism

Lisa Kalayji Jun 8

DigitalEscapeTools Jun 7

LibrePhotos is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to Google Photos that keeps your photo library under your control.

Organize photos and videos, recognize faces, detect objects, search images using AI, browse timelines, and create albums, all on your own server.

A powerful option for anyone who wants modern photo management without giving their memories to Big Tech.

👉 https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=librephotos

#OpenSource #SelfHosted #Privacy #GooglePhotos #PhotoManagement #FOSS

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