🤝 Today, we have sent a joint open letter to the European Commission, calling for the enforcement of the #DigitalMarketsAct to deter #Meta from exploiting European consumers and businesses. ⚖️

✉️ Read more: https://checkmyads.org/statement/joint-open-letter-to-enforce-the-digital-markets-act-against-meta/

Sehe ich das richtig, dass der Kanzler gegen digitale Gewalt zwei Antworten hat:
1. Rassismus
und 2. Massenüberwachung?

Ich bin unterwältigt. Und zwar nachhaltig.

Edit! A lot of people engaged with this and it's clear many are in the same/similar positions. I therefore thought it might be useful for me to share that Open University offer quite a few free online certified training courses - www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses

There is also a wealth of (free) training material (for learners and teachers) available from MIT at ocw.mit.edu and (free) certified online courses at openlearning.mit.edu/courses-programs/mitx-courses

Everything from HR and management to neurodivergence, aerodynamics and astrophysics, Python, genetics, diversity and inclusion, infosec, STEM, law, Black-centric courses, research methods, languages and education, Scottish Parliament, etc. 😊

If, like me, you've been actively seeking a job recently, you will likely be aware of the impact Ai has had on the job market. Virtually every other day is a msm news story about qualified and/or experienced people making hundreds of applications without getting anywhere.

Personally, although I've had a few interviews that didn't quite land (one I didn't really have enough experience, the others were pulled or lost funding), I've now applied for over 300 jobs over the past year. At this stage I'm quite philosophical about it and recognise it's not a reflection of my value.

Along with all the other current crises, there is now a looming employment and skills crisis. This is being framed as a benefits culture led by overdiagnosis of neurodivergence. Which makes me so very very cross it's difficult to put into words. I know that's not true. You know that's not true. *They* know that's not true. It's just a convenient demographic to throw under the bus to detract from the catastrophic damage being wrought by this new gold rush.

Urgh.

I've started typing this out a few times recently and always deleted. It's not something I feel very comfortable talking about. But I am really struggling with this and I figure that if I am there might be others. And I believe in visibility and not suffering in silence - been there and it was awful.

I know things will change at some point. And I know I've spoken to some of you separately irl about this (and thank you so much for your support), but just wanted to fire a beam out across Fedi to anyone else in this shitty situation. You are not alone. Always happy to chat offline if this is kicking your ass as much as it is mine! X

#jobs
#employment

Welllllll this isn't great.

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website

"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website

#SEO #Google #AI #enshittification

"Einige der reichsten Männer der Welt übernehmen nach und nach die Kontrolle über Amerikas Leitmedien. Sie kaufen Fernsehsender und soziale Netzwerke auf. Und viele von ihnen sind Verbündete von #Trump.
Das Vorbild hierfür sei Ungarn, sagt Medienwissenschaftler Pickard. Dort kontrolliere Premier Viktor #Orbán indirekt einen großen Teil der Medien. »Dafür musste Orbán keine Redaktionsräume mit Waffengewalt besetzen. Nein, ihm nahestehende #Oligarchen haben Verlage und Sender übernommen.«"

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/ellison-bezos-musk-so-bringen-oligarchen-us-medien-auf-trump-linie-a-d0b637e9-d456-4af1-a93f-653f6906eeec [€]

#MedienInDerKlimakrise #Oligarchie #Autoritarismus #Demokratie #Demokratiekrise #DemokratieImFeuer #StopTheBillionaireTakeover #MakePollutersPay

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.