Hazel

@limebar@mastodon.social thank you for all this! teamwork :)

analogous to #iNaturalist taking money from Google to integrate text generative AI (which i feel should be getting more attention). iNat really tried to sweep it under the rug, refusing to answer to community pushback on their forums. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-ai-grant-to-inaturalist-prompts-community-outcry/ @inthehands @sunguramy

@lina Vicarious by Tool has aged very well 20 years later. As has their intense privacy and previous longtime refusal to put their music on spotify. Making me want to go back to more of their lyrics to see if there are more tech-critical themes. "Eye on the TV, 'cause tragedy thrills me Whatever flavor it happens to be like Killed by the husband, drowned by the ocean Shot by his own son, she used the poison in his tea Then kissed him goodbye, that's my kind of story It's no fun 'til someone dies Don't look at me like I am a monster Frown out your one face, but with the other Stare like a junkie into the TV Stare like a zombie while the mother holds her child Watches him die, hands to the sky, crying "Why, oh, why?" 'Cause I need to watch things die From a distance Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies You all need it too, don't lie"

@rootwyrm@weird.autos @MedeaVanamonde@beige.party @pndc@social.treehouse.systems @cstross@wandering.shop ok this is the smartest analysis ive seen. this is the narrative that people need to start pushing. this is tulips all over again.

@tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca @kazkspr@mastodon.social @kims@mas.to this 1000% this. If you are searching while logged in you are paying them with your data.

@breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social love this. It does mean rejecting our addiction to manipulative and exploitative technology, though, which means rejecting a lot of our current understanding of technology.

@gwynnion@mastodon.social 100%. It's a made up, scapegoating issue. Its another tool in an expanding toolchest for men to police womens bodies.