NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
Once we stop pretending to be small businesses, once we abandon the fantasy of LLCs with MFAs, we can join with *every* worker in *every* industry in demanding sectoral bargaining; and with *every* consumer in demanding privacy rights. 71/
But "de-identification" is a pipe-dream, widely understood by security experts as a form of wishful thinking by companies that want to exploit your personal information while still insisting that they aren't violating your privacy. 63/
Any fit-for-purpose labor rights would recognize that your privacy rights *must* extend to the data that finds its way onto your boss's computers, even if you put that data there. Any failure to recognize this fact gives employers free license to plunder and exploit your personal information. 58/
Every email, every memo, every calendar entry. *Oceans* of sensitive, personal information, all to be shoveled directly into the bottomless maw of Google's AI training systems. 43/
If we're workers, then we derive our power from *labor* rights. The Writers Guild - the only creative workers in world history to have comprehensively beaten AI in their workplace - won their AI fight with a *strike*: pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/h... 30/
How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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These are not the best of times. Decades of lax antitrust enforcement has boiled the "creative industries" down to 5 publishers, 4 studios, 3 labels, 2 app stores, and one company that's in charge of all the ebooks and audiobooks. 18/
You don't have to believe AI "art" is good (I don't), nor do you have to that AI "art" *can* be good (I don't) to understand the reason that the capital markets are putting trillions into AI is *they* believe they can fire workers and replace us with AI: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 1/
Me: idk if I feel comfortable going out in this shirt... GF: no one's going to even know what it is. Grocery store clerk: "Holy shit, is that a Bondage Fairies T-Shirt?!"
you could not fathom the depths of kobold gender. there are 3,214 kobold-exclusive sets of pronouns
Alright lets do this one more time
(wip) what you think im gonna pretend im too cool for trans spider-woman
they should make a chastity cage thats also a fidget toy so when ur not horny but still autistic
The Wikimedia Foundation (the charity that runs Wikipedia) have hired the largest union busting law firm in the US to try to stop their staff unionizing I can't fucking believe this. a CHARITY... busting UNIONS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity - Wikipedia
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