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Initiator and designer of #GlobalSwitchDay • Smooth illustrator • Information design in sustainability • Mother • Activist • Queer • Vegan • Rebel • Curious • Toots in English and Dutch • Sharing Expertise • Let's Connect
CountryThe Netherlands
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ProfessionInformation design in sustainability
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S 🌱 L V I ΛApr 23
BrianKrebsApr 22
My wife and I have gotten into the habit of asking each other at dinner what was the best thing that happened to each other that day. She now likes this tradition so much she's expanded it into three things, which I contend makes the whole thing more of a mental exercise, but I usually manage. I have found though that it makes me take closer note of the good things that happen during the day, so I'm not left with "uh...." when it's my turn. It also helps punctuate the positive at a time when there's a whole lot of the opposite.
S 🌱 L V I ΛApr 13
Christian SchwägerlApr 11
Journalist Carole #Cadwalladr helped break the data abuse by #Facebook with the Cambridge Analytica Story, effectively taking on all of #SiliconValley . She was sued, digitally stalked, and paid a huge price for speaking truth to power, as you can see in this new talk at TED, a venue she has chosen very consciously. Her dire warning: Cambridge Analytica was chicken feed compared to the #broligarchy coup happening today
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE&t=811s&pp=2AGrBpACAQ%3D%3D #musk #trump #putin #surveillance #privacy
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

YouTube
S 🌱 L V I ΛApr 12
TechnoTenshi   Apr 11

Leaked internal data shows Meta complied with 94% of Israeli takedown requests since Oct 7, removing 90k+ posts and actioning millions more, largely targeting pro-Palestinian content globally. Israel leads global content censorship via Meta.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta

#Censorship #SocialMedia #Surveillance #FreeSpeech

Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram

A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News.

Drop Site News
S 🌱 L V I ΛApr 8
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Apr 8
Good one!
S 🌱 L V I ΛApr 2
Casey NewtonApr 2
NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. https://www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-bot-traffic-costs-plan/
How AI bots are suffocating Wikipedia

Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough

Platformer
S 🌱 L V I ΛApr 1
Nicolas FressengeasApr 1

Adieu WhatsApp. Retrouvons nous sur Signal.

#PasUnPoisson
#GlobalSwitchDay
#Signal
#WhatsApp
#BoycottWhatsApp
#BoycottUSA

S 🌱 L V I ΛMar 28
Brian MerchantMar 27

OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman even made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.

Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to the industry's biggest boosters that they have won—that they're free to use, appropriate, and commoditize art however they see fit.

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory

OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself

Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.

Blood in the Machine
S 🌱 L V I ΛMar 23
Kees van der LeunMar 22
Finally, a large protest against the far-right and racism in the Netherlands. Amsterdam, right now.
S 🌱 L V I ΛMar 9
All Europeans 🇪🇺Mar 6

De-google-ify Internet

Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.

The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.

They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!

Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:

@Framasoft

https://degooglisons-internet.org/

#europe #opensource #europeanalternatives #EUtech #boycott #degoogle #google

Dégooglisons Internet - Accueil

Les géants du web centralisent nos vies numériques en échange de leurs services Les communautés du logiciel libre offrent des services alternatifs éthiques Le réseau Framasoft souhaite le démontreren les hébergeant

S 🌱 L V I ΛMar 3
Randahl FinkMar 2

This is the most important comment I have heard this week — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk:

“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians […] Europe, if there is something we lack today, it is not economic or demographic power, but the belief that we are truly a global force.”

I think Tusk hits the bullseye here. Those 140 million Russians are already fully occupied by fighting Ukraine, and our leaders act like we are Liechtenstein.