I'm setting up shop on Bluesky so you can see my stuffs there: https://bsky.app/profile/jeffdoctor.bsky.social
I'll keep this account as a placeholder but I probably won't use it much.
Jeff Doctor (@jeffdoctor.bsky.social)
Cayuga, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory | he/him | Impact Strategist @Animikii | #LandBack - #CashBack - #DataBack | Got so annoyed by "AI" that I co-wrote an eBook about it: https://animikii.com/databack/understanding-and-resisting-generative-ai
still not 100% about this platform being a viable "alternative" to twitter, but I'm working on a long overdue transition plan
I posted one on linkedin and then died on the inside when it immediately prompted me to use its "AI", aka. "spicy autocorrect" (Chowdhury et. al).
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
manually posting threads across three different terrible social media platforms to see which gets more engagement cuz that's where we're at in this here year of 2023
amazon, spaceX, whatever, they are both run by *the baddies*. I'm not saying that peeps who use their stuff are bad, we're all held hostage by any of the telcos, but I do caution that the cost will be high when we cede our infrastructure to any monopoly.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/report-amazon-made-1b-with-secret-algorithm-for-spiking-prices-internet-wide/
Report: Amazon made $1B with secret algorithm for spiking prices Internet-wide
Report reveals details about Amazon's secret algorithm redacted in FTC complaint.
and I said this 2 years ago... “Digital colonialism is fucking dangerous, and we're not even talking about that... The trick is: how can we balance this need for fighting colonization with the tools that it is using to oppress us?”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78mnz/spacexs-satellite-megaconstellations-are-astrocolonialism-indigenous-advocates-say
SpaceX’s Satellite Megaconstellations Are Astrocolonialism, Indigenous Advocates Say
Satellite companies such as SpaceX and Amazon aim to provide global broadband, but their networks threaten dark skies and Indigenous traditions that depend on them.
Note that I wrote this 3 years ago: "What’s to stop either SpaceX or the US government from choosing who can be monitored, censured, throttled, or cut-off from service altogether? Will this end up serving as yet another mechanism to erode privacy rights?"
https://animikii.com/insights/digital-divide-spacex-starlink-and-the-indigenous-spaces-between
Digital Divide: SpaceX, Starlink and the Indigenous Spaces Between
— Animikii
If successful, Starlink has the potential to connect remote Indigenous communities without taking a lot of time to build complicated infrastructure on the ground.
Space Force Taps SpaceX for $70 Million Starshield Contract
That SpaceX is emerging as an important defense contractor for the Pentagon is increasingly evident.
If information is power, that what are we giving up when we allow our data (recorded information) to be stolen, repackaged, and resold just like our land?
We've declared moratoriums on land development, should we declare moratoriums on data collection too? #Indigenous #DataBack
#IndigenousDataSovereignty
https://www.techsoup.ca/content/reconciliation-tech-protecting-data-privacy-safeguarding-human-rights
