Mastodawn

Here’s my WWDC wish list entry: When I say “Hey Siri, add hot salsa to my grocery list,” add a single item called “hot salsa” instead of two unrelated items called “hot” and “salsa,” which it currently does every. single. time. 🤦‍♂️

Tim Schmitz 6d ago

Ellen Shapiro 6d ago

AI Companies: Well, society will have to figure out how to deal with the fallout from AI

Society: OK well given how this is concentrating wealth, let's do a wealth tax

AI Companies: Wait, not like that

I’ve been working with Claude Code to set up a small server component for Tinseltown. It’s the kind of thing I wouldn’t have tackled on my own, but I think it’ll enable some pretty interesting stuff. Looking forward to showing it soon!

Tim Schmitz May 4

👍: some sort of regulatory framework for AI

👎: making that framework subject to Trump’s whims (or partisan pressure from any president)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-ai-models.html

White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.

The New York Times

Tim Schmitz May 1

Last night I spent a little time doing some deferred server maintenance in preparation for a new Tinseltown feature. I find stuff like that to be a great use of AI - helps me keep things running smoothly in an area (servers) that’s not primary wheelhouse.

Tim Schmitz Apr 29

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116490122250912873

This is the airport equivalent of “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim”

Age verification but instead of verifying your age via some weird numeric or biometric bullshit, have people swipe left (“I don’t get it”) or right (“I understand this reference”) on memes until your age is calculated.

Tim Schmitz Apr 19

Apr 12

When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:

• Official identification of every adult using social media.

• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.

• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.

• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.

• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.

• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.

• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.

• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.

• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.

• The list goes on and on.

This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.

Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.

Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.

The future depends on us.

#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

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