#Data collection

[fruitfulchaos]

GO BURN CD'S. GO FILL PHYSICAL DISCS. PIRATE EVERYTHING. DOWNLOAD BOOKS, MUSIC, GAMES, SHOWS, FILMS. SAVE SNAPSHOTS ON WAYBACK. FUCK THE MEDIA COMPANIES. STREAMING ISN'T FOREVER. PURCHASE ISN'T OWNERSHIP. FORGE THE OWNERSHIP WITH YOUR OWN HANDS. MAKE MEDIA YOUR BITCH. STAY VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

[scleroticstatue]

Leverage Bad Guys by Type

1.01: businessmen

1.02: politicians

1.03: criminals

1.04: businessmen

1.05: businessmen

1.06: businessmen (with minor criminals)

1.07: corporation

1.08: politicians

1.09: criminals (with minor politicians)

1.10: businessmen

1.11: criminals

1.12: businessmen

1.13: businessmen

2.01: businessmen and criminals

2.02: businessmen

2.03: businessmen

2.04: businessmen but also criminals

2.05: newscaster

2.06: businessmen

2.07: criminals with minor businessmen

2.08: businessmen with minor criminals

2.09: businessmen

2.10: criminals but also businessmen

2.11: criminals

2.12: politicians

2.13: businessmen with minor criminals

2.14: politicians

2.15: politicians and criminals

3.01: businessmen

3.02: businessmen

3.03: businessmen

3.04: politicians

3.05: businessmen

3.06: businessmen

3.07: militiamen

3.08: businessmen and criminals

3.09: criminals

3.10: businessmen

3.11: it's complicated

3.12: criminals

3.13: businessmen who're criminals

3.14: businessmen with criminals

3.15: criminals

3.16: politicians and criminals

4.01: businessmen

4.02: businessmen

4.03: businessmen

4.04: criminals

4.05: businessmen

4.06: businessmen but criminals

4.07: businessmen and criminals

4.08: criminals

4.09: businessmen

4.10: scientists

4.11: college kids and politicians

4.12: businessmen

4.13: criminals

4.14: criminals

4.15: criminals

4.16: businessmen

4.17: criminals but it's complicated

4.18: criminals but it's complicated

5.01: businessmen

5.02: businessmen

5.03: businessmen

5.04: businessmen

5.05: businessmen with minor politicians

5.06: criminals

5.07: criminals

5.08: criminals

5.09: criminals

5.10: businessmen

5.11: businessmen

5.12: businessmen

5.13: businessmen

5.14: businessmen but also criminals but also politicians

[tengirl]

here we are: series 14 (or series 1 or whatever you want to call it lol) is over. i made an updated survey based on last year’s to reflect this if you guys want to fill it out 💫☄️🪐🛸

i’ll close responses in 2 months on august 25th :)

[eddieintheocean]

have u guys ever seen a sexier spreadsheet

[thefugitivesaint]

''The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power'' by Shoshana Zuboff, 2018 "I define surveillance capitalism as the unilateral claiming of private human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. These data are then computed and packaged as prediction products and sold into behavioral futures markets — business customers with a commercial interest in knowing what we will do now, soon, and later. It was Google that first learned how to capture surplus behavioral data, more than what they needed for services, and used it to compute prediction products that they could sell to their business customers, in this case advertisers. But I argue that surveillance capitalism is no more restricted to that initial context than, for example, mass production was restricted to the fabrication of Model T’s. Right from the start at Google it was understood that users were unlikely to agree to this unilateral claiming of their experience and its translation into behavioral data. It was understood that these methods had to be undetectable. So from the start the logic reflected the social relations of the one-way mirror. They were able to see and to take — and to do this in a way that we could not contest because we had no way to know what was happening. We rushed to the internet expecting empowerment, the democratization of knowledge, and help with real problems, but surveillance capitalism really was just too lucrative to resist. This economic logic has now spread beyond the tech companies to new surveillance–based ecosystems in virtually every economic sector, from insurance to automobiles to health, education, finance, to every product described as “smart” and every service described as “personalized.” By now it’s very difficult to participate effectively in society without interfacing with these same channels that are supply chains for surveillance capitalism’s data flows." from an interview with Shoshana Zuboff in the Harvard Gazette in March of 2019. It's an interesting interview that I suggest you peruse.

[there-are-4-lights]

i found this article by a trans person that's about why they decided against hosting a trans day of remembrance event.

it boils down to "i've spent so long thinking people were out to get me and trans people were murdered all the time, i looked into the numbers, turns out they're not and that's good news so let's stop scaring and misleading people (while also treating the deaths of the people who do get killed with respect)".

so if you need a source from a queer outlet to show people that the statistics are bogus, and that the trans community has an interest in good data collection, here you go:

[annie-aquatic]

HOENN PEOPLE

[alchemicalterror]

i have a hard time believing you were ever married i mean you run a tumblr blog

....Uh-huh. Right. Hey folks, social experiment time:

[futurebird]

Here is a cool little gadget I'd never heard of before. It's a temperature datalogger. It lasts 60 days. Sadly I think it may be disposable (but I'd imagine rechargeable versions exist. )

Suppose you are shipping fruit across the country and you've paid extra to have the trucks chilled down to 65F. How do you know they didn't ship them at 75F and only lower the temp fully just before arrival?

Hide this bad boy in your shipment, then check the USB for data on arrival.

They cost about $4 each.

I'm fascinated by things like this for reasons I can't possibly articulate.

I almost bought one just to try it out and take it apart... but instead I'll just tell ya'll about it... I bet there are other interesting ways to use such a device. For example... you could detect if a chair is being sat in or not by putting it inside of a pillow...

[more-flotsam-and-jetsam]

[mossy-morg]

New survey is here! Please do it and share because I need as many answers as I can by tomorrow!

Please fill out and share/reblog!

[greatrunner]

It is a truth universally accepted that when critiquing anything regarding AO3/OTW, reactionaries enter the building, and critical thinking and discernment gets locked out.

Nia Ola (on Substack) attempted to raise the alarm about AO3's changes in Terms of Service. This bit in particular:

Nia Ola: "[...]AO3 just updated their terms and conditions so that the only way you can use the site now is that you consent to them taking your data (so, works that you've written, distributed, saved, bookmarked, etc, everything) and give that data and information to the government."

In my time reading Terms and Conditions of Service, websites claiming that they're "duty bound" to provide data uploaded to the site to the govt, depending on jurisdiction, is not a surprise. You will not be informed or told by the site(s) when the government accesses/obtained your information. All on the pretense that it would "interfere with an ongoing investigation".

It isn't dissimilar to the one I've read here for Tumblr. The bit that says (legalese-y) that anything you post on the site can be used as evidence (IIRC) if it becomes "necessary."

But as usual, the AO3 brigade worked like hell to shout them down. Folk focused a lot on how OTW made their TOS "easier" to understand. They claimed Nia Ola was spreading misinformation. Most have gone as far as quibbling with her phrasing, "giving your information to the government" (which they would be doing) based on their personal interpretation of her meaning.

After making the video (they posted on TikTok) private, Nia Ola continued to encourage people to use security measures like VPNs and secure Browsers (they mentioned Firefox; I'm sure others are recommending Tor, Brave, and lesser-known browsers with better security features than Edge or Chrome) and to back up information they didn't want to lose.

Is it an explicit consequence of the election? Probably not. AO3/OTW knows entirely that they're hosting grimy shit on their website and refuse to do anything about it. AO3/OTW, like other websites, are "all-ages". Meaning OTW knows kids as young as 13 (and lets face it, younger) are using AO3. If the US or any other country decides it's politically advantageous to go after them, AO3/OTW is gonna cover their asses and throw you under the bus.

Point-Blank-Period.

That said, I think it would be irresponsible to exclude the election as a factor altogether. Organizations (govt or otherwise) are hang-wringing about rustling conservative feathers, and censoring themselves to avoid the wrath of a Trump Admin.

KOSA and COPPA are still in play. And there's the bill targeting non-profits to consider that's likely (and did) to pass not long after it got shot down.

When Tumblr wanted the favor of the Apple Store and their advertisers, they targeted sex worker blogs and fashion and art bloggers (primarily Black/non-Black). Then, they created an AI flagging system that still doesn't work.

When enough people (and advertisers) made enough noise about the NC-17 content that FanFiction (dot net) hosted on their site (at the height of its popularity, mind you)? They made a choice that allowed the website to survive and eliminate the target on their back. Both were financially motivated, yes, but if it's a choice of annexing content to stay online or getting shuttered?

AO3 will not be an exception. It's already embracing that "Obeying in Advance" phrase y'all are in love with right now.

Nia Ola is not the only one raising the alarm or alarmed by this decision. In your haste to fall on the sword for an organization that does not care about you, try not to make an ass of yourself by dog-piling people with experience regarding the consequences of data collection stemming from policies meant to criminalize sexual content, yeah?

This will continue unless we establish actual policies, education, and protections to prevent the mass surveillance of adult spaces under the pretense of "decency" and "protecting children." Additionally, we must address the ongoing elimination of healthy and safe spaces for children.

Because in our govt's haste to claim their concern for children, the corporations they serve have been demolishing child spaces and media online to save a couple of bucks (Cartoon Network's website comes to mind), and pushing children into adult spaces. And if they're not pushing kids into adult spaces, they're inviting adults into so-called kid spaces to increase their profits (Roblox and its attempts to become anything but a game for children, to say nothing of their monetization of the ideas that kids make).

Until our culture/society overhauls its approach to sex education, divorced from white supremacy, the actual intention of creating spaces that aren't sex-negative and don't prey on uninformed children will probably always exist in short bursts.

That means our politic has to rid itself of the reactionary ilk that (a) demonizes all things sexual and (b) refuses to practice discernment and critical thinking in their so-called sex-positive spaces. Both are why places like AO3 manifest and then ultimately help no one.

And it does not help anyone that reactionary AO3 loyalists will always fight to keep conversations about the site politically and socially stunted and unchanging.

Not all censorship and moderation is or should be sex-negative or censorious to the point of infantilizing. But, if the goal is maintaining free speech and freedom of expression (as we like to think of it vs how the govt allows it), it cannot be to the detriment of itself or for the sake of it (i.e., anti-censorship is not the answer any more than autocratic censorship is).

[enby--ghost]

I'm making a new post because I think this is genuinely a predatory practice under the guise of stopping AI

Today I received an email from youtube stating this

This seems to tell me that I am losing access to a handful of features such as pinning comments on my videos or embedding links in the descriptions of my videos for one of 2 reasons. Either I don't have sufficient channel history or I have violated a community guideline.

To my knowledge, I haven't broken any guidelines, as I have received no warnings. As for channel history, I have been using the same account since July 7 of 2013 and began regularly uploading to this channel on August 30 of 2024.

So, I decided to look into this further, and this is what I have found.

Under the settings of youtube studio in the "Future Eligibility" section, I was able to find the full list of what these "Advance features" really are.

This includes things such as appealing content ID claims, daily upload amounts, testing different thumbnails, and even your eligibility to apply for monetization.

Now, I can fully understand putting these systems in place to stop the increase in AI channels and content. However, I do not know if this is even the case, as this is what one person told me in a discord server I talked about this in. So I may very well be wrong. However, if this not related to stopping AI, then this is even worse.

In order to access the advance features, you need to do one of the following

either take a 6 second video of yourself, take a photo of your ID or build 2 months worth of channel history. Now, we already established that my channel has existed and been uploading longer than 2 months, so this must mean 2 months from NOW.

Now, while that is annoying, but the other 2 options are downright predatory. They want a photo of your ID that they say they will keep until one of the following.

Either 2 years has passed

Or you meet the 2 months of channel history.

So this means Youtube will have a photo of YOUR ID for a MINIMUM of 2 months.

Now you might be thinking, "Well why not choose the video instead."

Because that is just as sinister when you look into what exactly they are requesting.

They want you to follow the prompts you are given to get a full view of your face. Something that, at least to me, seems very similar to collecting facial information to build a database. Especially because they want you to do things like looking up or down, therefore getting a better look at your face.

This is BEYOND unfair to small channels. This is downright predatory behavior. Under no circumstances should youtube be requesting anyone's ID or videos of their face in order to prove anything. At BEST this is a horrible attempt to root out AI channels and content in order to get rid of them. However, with the current climate of America and the interests of big businesses as a whole, I find it much more likely they are trying to gather more personal data from it's users. For what purpose, I don't know, but this is disgusting nonetheless.

Please, I know I am just a nobody online, but this NEEDS to be seen by more people.

This cannot be tolerated.

[mathysphere]

Fun fact! 'Funny cross stitch' is the 16ᵗʰ most common tag given to cross-stitch listings on Etsy (right after 'pdf cross stitch' and before 'cute cross stitch'). But how many of those patterns are actually funny? What's the average humor level? And which among them is the funniest? I think it's time we found out!

Click Here* [2024 UPDATE: now here!] to cast your vote on any of 997 different 'funny' cross-stitch patterns, all randomly scraped from Etsy throughout the year, and check back later this month for the results!

Patterns pictured here: [dark sense] [keith haring] [love] [pew pew] [gnomes]

*the site is uhhhh a little hacked-together, so if it crashes lemme know and I'll fix it. website design is my passion

[urlocalhovel]

Directory

✨Intro✨

This blog is the side of side blogs, mainly for misc. This pinned post is mainly for my data collections, go ham. Will update with more at some point.

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➡️The Collections⬅️

▷Every Rick & Morty Comic [compiled, choice between pdf or cbr/cbz]

▷3 Obi-Wan Kenobi Books [idk man i was going thru a phase]

▷Solar Opposites "The Wall" [literally cut scene for scene, put together by season bc this B-Plot is my life]