Mastodawn

I'm a bit late to the game on this one. But I work with a lot of journalists who use CapCut for video editing and their terms of service says you are giving them an "unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable (including sub-licensable), perpetual, worldwide license" to use your content and… I have to imagine most journalists are not aware of that. https://www.capcut.com/clause/terms-of-service

CapCut Terms of Service

chinmayisk Mar 10

Tuta Mar 10

Hundreds of scientists say stop! ✋🚨

Governments should pause plans for mandatory #AgeChecks on online services until serious #privacy and #security concerns are addressed.

As countries push to ban children from social media, the risk to everyone’s privacy is growing. 🔐🌍

👉 Read more on #AgeVerification, why scientist say NO & whether your country wants it: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

chinmayisk Feb 18

Stef Walter Feb 18

We mourn our craft. Nolan Lawson explains how he didn’t sign up to become a “a glorified TSA agent, reviewing code to make sure the AI didn’t smuggle something dangerous into production”. Developers must adopt these tools to stay employable, while privately mourning the lost joy, identity, and shared humanity of crafting software line by line. I can’t help to wonder if this was not the case for most innovations: people mourning the hand craft.

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

We mourn our craft

I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…

Read the Tea Leaves

chinmayisk Feb 18

Accessibility Awareness Feb 18

When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.

chinmayisk Feb 18

Lili Saintcrow Feb 18

"In some cases, our reporting found, ChatGPT continued to stoke users’ obsessions as they descended into unwanted harassment, abusive stalking behavior, or domestic abuse, traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-abuse-harassment-stalking

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking

ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and abuse.

Futurism

chinmayisk Feb 18

RE: https://toot.community/@tbp/116090257800297873

This weekend if you have time to spare and if you are comfortable in any Indian languages. Join us for this localisation sprint.

chinmayisk Feb 18

The Bachchao Project Feb 18

Tella has been an important tool for human rights defenders and journalists in the recent years. It also has increased adoption in India.
We think it's important that now it is available in more Indian languages. If you are an Indian language translator please join us this Saturday i.e 21st February to Localise Tella
https://thebachchaoproject.org/event-announcement-localisation-sprint-for-tella-2026/

chinmayisk Feb 14

Tella - Document & Protect Feb 13

Would you like to help us make Tella more accessible?

We’re hosting a localisation sprint with our friends from Bachchao Project (@tbp
).

We invite volunteers who speak Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali, and more.

Learn more and sign up:
https://thebachchaoproject.org/event-announcement-localisation-sprint-for-tella-2026/

chinmayisk Feb 12

RE: https://toot.community/@tbp/116056738606292312

If you are a Indian language translator, we are hosting a localisation sprint for an important documentation platform on 21st February. Do join us, signup link in the post below

chinmayisk Jan 8

Show thread

Jonathan Schofield Jan 7

…Tech felt like something I wanted to be on the inside of, and then after a long while of being an impostor, I hit a sweet spot where I was good at what I do, and now it just feels like something I want to be outside of