Mastodawn

Sadly I don't have a copy of the imaging for today's post, because it was bloody impressive when I saw it, but today is 4 years since my brain haemorrhage.

The intervening time has mostly been taken up with the aftercare from the NHS being as downright harmful as the surgery and initial in-patient rehab was excellent.

The NHS is a strange institution these days, and Labour seem to want to kill it almost as much as the Tories did - although not as much as Reform do.

All in all, it doesn't give me a lot of hope for my future really. Yay.

Denny 🏳️‍🌈9h ago

"#Mozilla, what the heck are you doing playing with AI, anyway? You don't have the resources to even sit down at the table, never mind be an AI winner. Those tens of millions you're betting on AI would be better spent improving #Firefox or keeping your useful Firefox sideline programs, Pocket and Fakespot, alive."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/opinion_column_firefox/

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

Opinion: Parent company Mozilla's not my fave either

The Register

Denny 🏳️‍🌈11h ago

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Open Rights Group 12h ago

The UK police have wide discretion to seize devices without a warrant.

This includes during stop and search if they suspect the device may have been used in crime.

Stop and search disproportionately targets black and asian communities. Police phone seizures target black and asian people even more.

#CrimeAndPolicingBill #police #policing #digitalrights #surveillance #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

Denny 🏳️‍🌈11h ago

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Open Rights Group 12h ago

“At the last minute, the government has sneaked further authoritarian policing powers into the [UK] Crime and Policing Bill.

The police cannot be allowed to mark their own homework when it comes to using such intrusive powers... at the very least, there must be sign off by an independent judge or judicial commissioner.”

🗣️ @jim – ORG Exec Director.

#CrimeAndPolicingBill #police #policing #digitalrights #surveillance #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

Denny 🏳️‍🌈11h ago

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Open Rights Group 12h ago

The whole regime regarding seizures of devices needs an overhaul.

Digital evidence is used already to bring conspiracy charges against people who haven't committed a crime.

These changes fail to keep the police accountable, and will expand pre-crime policing and the injustices that result from it.

#CrimeAndPolicingBill #police #policing #digitalrights #surveillance #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

Denny 🏳️‍🌈11h ago

Open Rights Group 12h ago

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

New powers were slipped into the UK Crime and Policing Bill yesterday ⚠️

The police will be given powers to extract data from seized devices and any online accounts accessed on it.

No judicial oversight, just on the say so of a senior officer 😖

Read our response ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/police-forces-to-get-authoritarian-powers-to-extract-data-from-online-accounts/

#CrimeAndPolicingBill #police #policing #digitalrights #surveillance #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #SafetyNotSurveillance

Police forces to get authoritarian powers to extract data from online accounts

Digital rights campaigners Open Rights Group has condemned the last minute addition of extreme powers to the Crime and Policing Bill.

Open Rights Group

Denny 🏳️‍🌈1d ago

Techmeme 1d ago

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training starting July 1, and enforces a new age limit of 16 for users globally (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training/
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p32#a250617p32

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training | TechCrunch

Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well.

TechCrunch

Denny 🏳️‍🌈1d ago

Mignon Fogarty 1d ago

OMG, em dashes are not a sign of AI writing!

I kept hoping this myth would burn itself out, but no — the idea that em dashes are a sign of AI writing just keeps spreading. I finally couldn't take it anymore, so I crashed a segment into the latest Grammar Girl podcast.

The whole thing seems to have taken off after a popular GenZ culture podcast advised people to stop using the “the ChatGPT hyphen.” (And I have to confess it kills me that they didn't even know the name for it.) 🧵