Nope! My company is private after getting bought last year and they are definitely fucking it up with “ai all the things” and “ai makes us more human” and strip mining out our actual work culture and replacing it with an even more soulless grind

with how hard tech has rallied against remote work this is 100% aimed at justifying return to office

i knew a director of eng from axon for a while. he tried to exploit my husband’s stalled career to get him to work on racial profiling ai. last i heard he got divorced (due to his abuse), tried to hide money from her, and ran away to vietnam to set up an office. used to brag being related to famous mafia people. weird company, weird leaders.

It’s all good

So if you’re worried about that, shouldn’t you rather just not post that stuff to the public?

To me this feels like the same logic as “If you have nothing to hide, why do you care?”

I mean, you’re right, people shouldn’t post stuff publicly if they truly don’t want it to be indexed, but that doesn’t mean that whatever we want to say or do publicly can’t be used against us in some way even if we think that what we say and do is ok. Like existing while being queer online, for instance

If someone wants the ability to control how their data is used, it should be their right.

Who gets to survey the data? There are companies and governments who stand to profit of our existence being thrown into their machines.

There is a violence in that I still haven’t figured out how to describe, but people lose their lives over this stuff. That should be enough to warrant such a right

That’s fantastic news, glad to hear it

anyone remember when it was intentional that search wasn’t a thing and people defederated from instances that catalogued other instances’ posts for search? just me?

This is incredible and I hope they are successful!

However I am expecting this to become targeted towards marginalized groups posting, say, judge alito’s address for writing to him because he fights so hard against civil rights for favors

i know someone i used to work with who went there because he was effectively their employee bc of how much he contributed via open source and in community

capitalism bullshit strikes again