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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 6mo ago

Worth repeating: AI platforms built by greedy tech CEOs aren't "making mistakes" they are working as designed

Part of that design is undermining experts, removing human connection & trust, and hiding decision making

Those are the things that make our communities work, and the more we lose them, the worse things get

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 3w ago

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AI executives are using a tried & true corporate playbook:

Ignore or create the risk while it's profitable
Publicly pump up the risks, often with vivid worst-case scenarios (existential climate collapse, mass opioid death, financial Armageddon, AI human extinction)
Propose the "solution" as something only the incumbents are positioned to deliver
Capture the rule-making so compliance costs become a barrier to entry

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 5mo ago

International Workers Day 2026

Find an event near you: https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/

#Workers #WorkerPower #CollectivePower #Labor #Unions #ImmigrantWorkers #ImmigrantRights #Albuquerque #ABQ #NewMexico

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

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Side note: my view is that Flock is one of the most unsafe companies in existence right now, and regardless of how you feel about the underlying tech, I recommend getting them out of your city/town.

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

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A bill of basic privacy rights – it's common to hear people say "I don't do anything wrong so I'm not worried" but that doesn't hold up when it's your doctor's visits that are tracked from a license plate camera or CCTV And if it turns out you have a medical condition, that data could be hacked/sold to people who will charge you more because they know you're vulnerable, and so on

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

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So when people ask the very real and important question "what guardrails do we, people/society, need in order to protect ourselves against the misuse/abuse of sensitive personal information?" ...the answer can't come from a bunch of people in "move fast, break things" mode in a tech company. Not unless you want to end up with an executive using a livestream of kids gymnastics for a sales demo, as we recently learned Flock Safety did.

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

The remote jobs doc is updated with 40+ roles in the last 3 weeks Mostly US + North America, but a few Europe/Asia opportunities, too: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/0vLGuRQtSf-UWToHXFPs3IPMr20lBZB2VeQudfs31Js/ There's also a #NewMexico version which includes local remote/hybrid/flexible opportunities: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/-ftCCInFP9zY8gS-yNgiRWknGz6f6hdBSnisMwNlIDE/ All roles include salary/pay info as well #RemoteWork #SalaryTransparency

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 3w ago

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Purdue Pharma + Opioid Crisis (1996 to now) Purdue launched OxyContin in 1996 via marketing that claimed a lower addiction risk than other opioids. Internal company documents later came out in court showing executives knew the drug carried serious abuse & addiction risks, and suppressed research while pushing aggressive sales tactics on doctors,

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

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I was also fortunate around that time to stumble across the work of Zeynep Tufekci, who writes about tech + social habits + privacy, as well as Olia Lialina, who is an artist, media critic, and technologist. What I got out of it, among other things, was that when companies watch/study their customers, there are always big ethical questions. Not "can we do that" but "should we do that" ...and there is no skipping those Qs without serious consequences.

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116393001180592896 A reality about privacy is that doing it well requires considering impact There's no magic trick, everything you do could make things more or less safe for someone else... You can't skip the hard work & anyone who says so – politician or otherwise – is not to be trusted

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When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means: • Official identification of every adult using social media. • Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people. • Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened. • Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition. • Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations. • Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online. • Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company. • Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints. • Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways. • The list goes on and on. This isn't about protecting the children. It never was. Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information. Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy. The future depends on us. #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

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There are a lot of smart people that have worked on data privacy, both developers/coders and tech thinkers. We know what's needed, including guardrails like: Sanitizing/separating data – some things just shouldn't be combined or ever provided for commercial purposes, like someone's monthly period cycle or individual mental health records Outlawing data brokers – as long as there's a lawless business model that relies on combining & exploiting data, there will be hacks, leaks, and abuse

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 6mo ago

There is still no profitable big tech AI company right now

Every single one of them is literally burning billions of dollars of cash with little to no value in return & destroying our economy in the process

The only reason the books say otherwise is because they're laying off thousands of people and creating fake partner "deals" and "investments"

anyway, /rant, just needed to say that out loud, carry on friends

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

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Requiring local storage and/or deletion of data – this is one people don't think about as much, but states could force companies to keep data near where it is collected, and require it to be deleted within specific time frames

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

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There's a lot more, and if you have questions, I'm always happy to have that conversation as someone who's been on both sides of it... And for the people who want concrete solutions to talk with their local/state/federal elected leaders, I also recommend subscribing to Tech Policy Press: https://www.techpolicy.press/ What we have now isn't working. We can do better.

Tech Policy Press

Tech Policy Press - Technology and Democracy

Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 5mo ago

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Workers (and lowriders) Over Billionaires in Albuquerque for #MayDay 2026 #Workers #WorkersOverBillionaires #Unions #Labor

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 5mo ago

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Around 150 people rallied in front of the New York Public Libraries in NYC to speak up for workers over billionaires Delivery drivers, truckers, warehouse workers every day, all day, over the billionaires 💪🏻 #MayDay #MayDay2026 #WorkersOverBillionaires #Workers #WorkerPower #MayDayStrong

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

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@ddosecrets@kolektiva.social brings things to light and also recently shared a My Pillow data dump (you are welcome) @burritojustice@mastodon.social please come back you're great @sarahtaber@mastodon.online who does a great job of explaining how food, agriculture, and farming actually work in America

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

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Btw, if you want to read up on anything mentioned: 404 Media's coverage of Flock Safety: https://www.404media.co/tag/flock/ Olia Lialina's work (look for essays under "observations"): https://art.teleportacia.org/ Zeynep Tufekci's work: https://zeynep.me/ and here: https://www.antoinebuteau.com/lessons-from-zeynep-tufekci/

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

Did a bit of a deep dive into Oracle's foray into the desert of Southern NM: https://progressnownm.org/the-oracle-playbook-how-billionaires-divide-states-like-new-mexico/ I don't do a lot of journalism & investigative work these days, but hopefully it's a good read #NewMexico #AI #DataCenters #BigTech

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 3mo ago

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@rootschange@kolektiva.social Really enjoyed this conversation, funny that we recorded a few months ago... but it feels 100% timely

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 2mo ago

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social I'm beginning to think the president might be looking out for himself and not me and (yo)USA ❓ Gosh it's so befuddling

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 6mo ago

Do economic boycotts work?

The owners of Frontier & Golden Pride Restaurants — a local landmark in #Albuquerque — seem to be finding out that answer the hard way via community advocates who are saying #ICEOut

#ABQ #ICE #ImmigrantRights #WorkerRights #Community

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 5mo ago

More and more people are solving actual problems...

Even worse, in many cases they're working together to make life better for the people around them by connecting, building trust, etc.

This is devastating for those in the Explaining Bad Things Business because when people go off and solve problems, it's much harder to consistently feed followers bad news

Moms organizing the group chat so no kids go hungry at their school need to stop it

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 6mo ago

Turns out, the massive Oracle/OpenAI data center in Southern NM is going to use 50x the amount of water project developers said it would: https://haussamen.com/2026/04/07/project-jupiter-water-use-claim-rankles-opponents-and-supporters/

There are a lot of elements to this, but a big one is that when billionaires secretly negotiate with elected officials and then rush through public approval in 3 weeks, it's a bad deal from the start

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 5mo ago

“Someone is living a better tomorrow, because you fought for them today”

That's the reason to work in government, that's why we need teachers, truck drivers, students, nurses, landscapers, etc. running things, focused on what matters

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 5mo ago

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@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services Same here, after reading through a substantial number of the files... it's more clear than ever workers should be running things, not parasites who are crashing our economy & society

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 3w ago

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Wall Street and the 2008 Financial Crisis (2008 to now) Some of the world's biggest banks packaged subprime mortgages into collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), sold them as investment-grade with the help of credit rating agencies, bet against their own customers using those same instruments, and ignored warnings about a housing bubble.

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 3w ago

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ExxonMobil + Climate Crisis (1970s to now) The company's own scientists produced remarkably accurate global warming projections from 1977 to 2003, yet at the exact same time the company funded a decades-long public campaign of climate denial through think tanks Exxon now says "we are the solution" and runs ads saying it's addressing a "dual challenge" of energy and climate, a problem it materially financed for 40 years, and that's created worsening cycles of floods, fires, and drought

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 3w ago

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When the market crashed, Big Banks not only received massive bailouts, they shaped the writing of consumer protections rules and anti-trust guardrails – including Dodd-Frank, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Volcker Rule, stress tests, etc.

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 3mo ago

There are 30+ new roles in the #RemoteJobs doc... This is mostly US & North America-based with a few Europe based jobs: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/0vLGuRQtSf-UWToHXFPs3IPMr20lBZB2VeQudfs31Js/ #NewMexico version (the same US-based roles + local remote/hybrid opportunities): https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/-ftCCInFP9zY8gS-yNgiRWknGz6f6hdBSnisMwNlIDE/ As always, these include salary/pay details, and some screening for co's with terrible employee reviews, discrimination lawsuits, etc. #RemoteWork #SalaryTransparency

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 3w ago

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Once the epidemic became impossible to deny, Purdue and other opioid makers advanced "abuse-deterrent formulations" as a solution to the crisis they created, and Purdue even got a patent extension that allowed them to block cheaper generic drugs from entering the market.

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 3mo ago

Just after 9a this morning, it appears likely someone started using bots, AI agents, or another form of automation to submit comments in support of the air permit for Oracle's $165B Project Jupiter data center... I've been watching comment volume on the state's public comment portal (https://nmed.commentinput.com) for the last week /1

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Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad) @joecardillo@federate.social

· 3w ago

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Studies from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Center for American Progress found those rules made it harder for small and community owned institutions and easier for "too big to fail" megabanks who to this day continue to take on astronomical levels of risk on the back of taxpayers.

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