David Mason
@zooid.org
Wanton solutionist. https://zooid.org/~vid
Would you rather be able to sing, or be a comedian?
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Would you rather be able to sing, or be a comedian?
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
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U.S.-owned health app moves to limit Canadians’ legal rights canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
U.S.-owned health app moves to limit Canadians’ legal rights
The power struggles unfolding over our data, our care, and the truth itself.
canadahealthwatch.ca
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
U.S.-owned health app moves to limit Canadians’ legal rights canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
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A British crow is asking passersby if they're alright.
August 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A British crow is asking passersby if they're alright.
drawafish.com Adorable.
Draw a Fish Dot Com
Draw and create your own fish. Share your fish creations, vote on others, and watch them swim.
drawafish.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
drawafish.com Adorable.
How about @@ for the pronoun of AI? Instead of I, you, which are problematic.
Examples: "@@ is learning new skills." or "Send the request to @@." It can also be used in place of quote marks for AI excerpts; @@ 🤔 The capital of France — Paris@@
Examples: "@@ is learning new skills." or "Send the request to @@." It can also be used in place of quote marks for AI excerpts; @@ 🤔 The capital of France — Paris@@
July 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
How about @@ for the pronoun of AI? Instead of I, you, which are problematic.
Examples: "@@ is learning new skills." or "Send the request to @@." It can also be used in place of quote marks for AI excerpts; @@ 🤔 The capital of France — Paris@@
Examples: "@@ is learning new skills." or "Send the request to @@." It can also be used in place of quote marks for AI excerpts; @@ 🤔 The capital of France — Paris@@
www.canada.ca/en/global-af... finally
Joint statement on behalf of 26 partners on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Po...
www.canada.ca
July 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
www.canada.ca/en/global-af... finally
Graphs showing regions that are perceived as a major threat, from Pew research & www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
July 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Graphs showing regions that are perceived as a major threat, from Pew research & www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
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My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model.
This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.
This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
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July 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model.
This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.
This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.
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We made a big mistake when we decided that governments should and could communicate with the public during disasters largely via corporate-owned algorithmic social media websites.
We have to return to requiring governments to use truly *public* platforms designed for this use case that all can see.
We have to return to requiring governments to use truly *public* platforms designed for this use case that all can see.
It’s malpractice at this point that so many government agencies are stuck using social media platforms that are largely only regularly used by people over 40.
They have to start posting video content on TikTok to reach the non-geriatric. Sorry, that’s the way it is
They have to start posting video content on TikTok to reach the non-geriatric. Sorry, that’s the way it is
The “Universal Public Square” model that sustained Facebook and Twitter for the decade from 2010-2020 is nearly a half decade in the grave.
The prevalence of Cranky Boomer Uncles in so many agencies keeps them from realizing this.
The prevalence of Cranky Boomer Uncles in so many agencies keeps them from realizing this.
July 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We made a big mistake when we decided that governments should and could communicate with the public during disasters largely via corporate-owned algorithmic social media websites.
We have to return to requiring governments to use truly *public* platforms designed for this use case that all can see.
We have to return to requiring governments to use truly *public* platforms designed for this use case that all can see.
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“When people now pay for Spotify, they are indirectly paying for the manufacturing of A.I. war drones.”
Just when you think there couldn’t possibly be any more reasons to quit Spotify, the brutal news keeps coming
Why We Quit Spotify
Enough is enough
www.hearingthings.co
July 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“When people now pay for Spotify, they are indirectly paying for the manufacturing of A.I. war drones.”
If you work in IT in a position of responsibility, please watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtC6...
Introducing the new Nextcloud Talk: resilient communication and collaboration
YouTube video by Nextcloud
www.youtube.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
If you work in IT in a position of responsibility, please watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtC6...
First we fork the code, then the code forks us.
May 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
First we fork the code, then the code forks us.
May 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Canadian Conservative Party policy platform: remove Human Rights, increase use of notwithstanding clause, repeal Supreme Court decisions via Parliament. Not how separated branches of govt work. Item #15, page 15:
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April 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Canadian Conservative Party policy platform: remove Human Rights, increase use of notwithstanding clause, repeal Supreme Court decisions via Parliament. Not how separated branches of govt work. Item #15, page 15:
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The only reason I still have to spend time on Twitter is because powerful people, like Canada’s MPs, continue to spend most of their time there as opposed to other social platforms.
So let’s pressure them to move elsewhere!
www.antihate.ca/mps_stop_usi...
So let’s pressure them to move elsewhere!
www.antihate.ca/mps_stop_usi...
March 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The only reason I still have to spend time on Twitter is because powerful people, like Canada’s MPs, continue to spend most of their time there as opposed to other social platforms.
So let’s pressure them to move elsewhere!
www.antihate.ca/mps_stop_usi...
So let’s pressure them to move elsewhere!
www.antihate.ca/mps_stop_usi...
gulfof.mapquest.com MapQuest lets you name your own "Gulf of."
Gulf of Map Explorer
Create and share your own custom Gulf maps with MapQuest
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February 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
gulfof.mapquest.com MapQuest lets you name your own "Gulf of."
February 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I really don't think I've ever seen a technology that is so singularly effective at taking a pre-existing form of rot or brokenness in institutions and lighting it on fire.
We are in so much trouble
advait.org/files/lee_20...
We are in so much trouble
advait.org/files/lee_20...
![don’t have much room to ponder over the result.” Even when time
was not constrained, knowledge workers often lacked incentives to
engage in critical thinking when it is perceived as not part of their
job responsibilities (11/319). P232, who used ChatGPT to write
the company’s marketing campaigns: “verification and rewriting is
handled by another part of the team. The team is able to verify, sense
check and modify the content of the landing pages as they see fit.”
Ability barriers. Participants face obstacles to enacting critical
thinking, specifically in verifying and improving GenAI output,
even if they are otherwise motivated to do so. Participants report
barriers to inspect AI responses (58/319), such as not possessing
enough domain knowledge. As P290 noted: “in cases where you
don’t know the specific topic [e.g., translation and math problems],
it’s hard to determine whether the AI is giving the correct answer or
not.”
Even if knowledge workers identify limitations in the GenAI
output, they encounter barriers in revising queries and improving the response (72/319). For example, P239 received negative
feedback from colleagues for a document that ChatGPT helped
her write, but “I’m not sure how I could have improved the text that
ChatGPT wrote.” Also, GenAI tools can be “stubborn” and do not
follow through with users’ revised prompts, as P208 shared when
asking GenAI to fix an error in his code: “it repeatedly recommended
the wrong solution despite asking for a different suggestion.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreieftxm3guillezg7poxpfj64qadrcg72rhyttu7nro3ws6ydu5vli@jpeg)
February 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I really don't think I've ever seen a technology that is so singularly effective at taking a pre-existing form of rot or brokenness in institutions and lighting it on fire.
We are in so much trouble
advait.org/files/lee_20...
We are in so much trouble
advait.org/files/lee_20...