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There are so many essential problems to solve in the world, why limit yourself to smart juicers and photo filters? mastodon @n8fr8@ohai.social Also me: https://nathan.freitas.net https://guardianproject.info https://tibetaction.net
Cindy Cohn has spent 30 years standing up to the DOJ, taking on the NSA, and tangling with the FBI to protect our right to digital privacy. Join our livestream with Jason Koebler of @404media.co on 3/19, 11am PT for a conversation about Cindy's new book, "Privacy's Defender." eff.org/livestream-...
You may look at a problem and think "Aha! The solution is to run my own email server." Now you have two problems, Google is marking all of your email as spam, an unknown number of threat actors using your server to spread malware because you forgot to patch something, and a small pile of subpoenas.
We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.
Good news for the media provenance ecosystem: as part of today's Pixel Drop, C2PA Content Credentials are now supported in the Pixel Camera app on the *Pixel 9* family of devices, in addition to the Pixel 10 🚀
This expands the footprint of devices producing verifiable camera captures substantially
Running a Snowflake Proxy via Orbot's "Kindness Mode" is one of the easiest, safest, and most impactful ways to help people circumvent censorship, especially if you're in a place with an open and free internet. https://orbot.app/kindness
Look, I spent half my life farming and using trucks as tools. I can say with certainty that this truck is not used for work, but to only haul a massive, toxic ego, nothing more. These should be taxed out of the driveways of regular commuters.
I would hope that making bollards children shaped in America would stop people from targeting them with their cars but I'm not entirely certain sadly
Meanwhile in America...
CISOs when you fail the phishing email test Please commit seppuku by sunset tomorrow.
roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes
whoops
Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, sitting alone on the surface of Mars.
It is 1991. I am 15 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
It is 2003. I am 27 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
It is 2026. I'm too old for this shit. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
Yes current 1st gen implementations are bad on many fronts, with ways to exploit both at a low level and through confusion and poor UX implementations. This is not unlike the rollout of HTTPS and anything with crypto. It will get better with constructive critique and good implementations.
I have no issue with C2PA being used to also label AI generated or modified content, even if the motivation was due to legislative pressure. Rolling out global standards is not easy or simple, and often takes unlikely collaboration and allies to get it done.
You are interpreting the metaphor much too strictly. There was a long era when web content flowed across the Internet without any way to verify it was not modified in transit or by a third party at some point. This is what I mean when I liken it to C2PA. Don't get all 7 layer osi on me
Does he have to give back the FIFA Peace Prize now
No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.
What does Cycling means to me..
• The feeling of being free to go wherever I want
• It has given me freedom
• Independence
• My bike therapy
• Peace of mind
• Strength — mentally and physically
• Escape from stress
• Confidence
• Adventure
• Time to think and reset
It is not marketing, it is lived experience. I've been a part of global efforts to move from SMS to encrypted messaging, from telnet and http to SSH and HTTPS, and now from EXIF to C2PA. It is difficult to do, with many failures along the way, and no silver bullets
The issue isn't that Vivo is using C2PA, it is how it is being used. Like with HTTPS and TLS adoption, there can be bad implementations whether intentional or not.
C2PA is for labelling all media types, whether generated or captured from a camera sensor. It is for both AI and human-made imagery.
100% agree most of the implementations are currently poorly done or in bad faith, and again, reminds me of the really terrible early implementations of TLS/HTTPS... I was equally disappointed in Galaxy S26 not doing more to support "real photos" with their built-in camera
@reckless.bsky.social your recent frustration at "C2PA"-washing is rightly placed, but it does remind me of the years of of hand wringing about internet security, and yet few implemented "HTTPS Everywhere" until they did (Thanks, EFF and Snowden!), and things got much better. C2PA=TLS for media.
‘Keep bombing people until they stop talking about the Epstein Files’ is the main plank of U.S Foreign Policy in 2026.
From Iran during the early hours of the war -Iranians continue…
Breaking news: Anthropic said that it will not concede to the Pentagon’s terms for full access to its AI tool Claude, saying it cannot loosen its restrictions against use in fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance.
When I was in high school, listening to the multipart Miles Davis Radio Project that aired on public radio changed my life. I recorded it all to cassettes so I could share it with other nerdy jazz friends. I will add this podcast to my list as it seems along those lines!
The people have the power.
I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.
They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk
ICYMI: Minnesota was just ranked the second-best state to raise a family.
From paid leave and school meals, to strong public safety and tax cuts for the middle class, Minnesota is built around the simple idea that families come first.
wallethub.com/edu/best-sta...
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...
