#authoritarian and #fascist resistance #communication #tools :
#Communcation #tools #Guide. Search and knowledge 4/?
... allows direct device to device sharing of such information as well. Thus avoiding #maninthemiddle and #censorship going forward.
#authoritarian and #fascist resistance #communication #tools :
#Communcation #tools #Guide. Search and knowledge 4/?
... allows direct device to device sharing of such information as well. Thus avoiding #maninthemiddle and #censorship going forward.
#authoritarian and #fascist resistance #communication #tools :
#Communcation #tools #Guide. Search and knowledge 3/?
...among DDG's weaknesses is that it does depend on other search providers, like Bing, and that it is based in the United States. Other search engines include: [TBD].
Additionally, software like #Kiwix provides easy access to curated snapshots of open source information like #wikipedia and #stackexchange protecting that info from #censorship. The kiwix phone app ...
#authoritarian and #fascist resistance #communication #tools :
#Communcation #tools #Guide. Search and knowledge 2/?
...that disagree with their ideology and/or threaten their narrative and power.
Easiest to begin with are the privacy respecting search engines: #duckduckgo remains a good start, and its hashbang notation allows easier use of other engines and tools.
DDG can generally be selected as the default search engine in browsers.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/change-default-search-engine/
#authoritarian and #fascist resistance #communication #tools :
#Communcation #tools #Guide. Search and knowledge1/?
Searching for reliable information in a way that isn't tracked or manipulated is crucial to being accurately informed, but has become more and more difficult, both due to generalized #enshitification of search engines and deliberate misinformation campaigns, including from state level actors. As this is being written, the #coup actors deletescientific and factual websites...
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#authoritarian and #fascist resistance #communication #tools :
#Communcation #tools #Guide. Intro 1/2.
These tools will generally fall into two categories: #privacy oriented comm #websites, #software ..
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Full post at: mastodon.social/@VoxOhm/1139...
Vox Ohmnia (@VoxOhm@mastodon.s...
#authoritarian and #fascist resistance #communication #tools :
#Communcation #tools #Guide. Intro 1/2.
These tools will generally fall into two categories: #privacy oriented comm #websites, #software oriented at direct communication & #broadcast and informational tools for sharing to and learning from communities without interdiction or manipulation by algorithms or ownership, including the much of the #fediverse.
(Quick Link via #EFF https://ssd.eff.org/module/communicating-others)
This website contains no content. None at all. And neither should yours.
I’ve been online for a long time. In the late 1990s (last century, oh yes!) I helped in a small way to build what we now think of as Web 1.0. I worked at Ask Jeeves (remember that?), and for gameplay.com (an early attempt to create something like Steam, functionally impossible at the time due to the technological restrictions of the dial-up internet).
I’ve noodled with my own web stuff since it was possible to noodle with web stuff. I’m from the Geocities generation. If you know, you know.
I was there for JenniCam. And when that guy in New York decided to see if he could survive for several weeks without ever leaving his apartment, ordering everything he could possibly need online without ever picking up the phone. I remember when Amazon was a bookshop. Mostly, I remember the invention of SEO, and the relentless contentification of the web that has happened since.
This isn’t even primarily an LLM problem (though Good Lord, that’s not helping). For the last decade or more the human-usable web has been suffocating under a mud-slide of listicles, not to mention all those bloody awful recipe blogs with half the life story of the author, the ubiquitous calorie count, two dozen illustrations (yes, thank you, I’m familiar with the concept of an onion), and about three videos before you even get to the ingredients list.
Twitter. Pinterest. Youtube. TikTok. The pivot to bloody video.
Almost without noticing, anyone making anything online, somehow, became ‘content creators’. It’s the other side of the coin of our individual human identities – as citizens, scholars, activists, storytellers – having been subsumed under the umbrella of ‘consumers’.
Content, content, content, to feed the machine’s endless hunger.
What I’m calling for here is something pretty radical – but in the face of a relentlessly rising tidal wave of algorithmically-generated goo there really is, I think, no choice. I’m calling for the end of web content.
If the human-readable internet is going to survive the ‘AI’-created slime that now threatens to engulf it, and not end up reduced to half a dozen walled gardens and a some payment processing technology, then the only possible pushback is in the form of a profoundly human, individual internet.
There is no content here. There is writing. Essays, stories. My very human thoughts and ideas, shared with whoever (thank you!) is willing to give them the time.
It can be a struggle to take hold of our creative identities – as writer, craftsperson, photographer, artist, film-maker – but whatever it is that you do that is uniquely, purposefully yours, is yours! I notice no reluctance on the part of plagiarism-machine-prompt-crafting enthusiasts to grab the mantle of Artist or Author, so those of us actually doing the work absolutely deserve to cast off any impostor syndrome we might still be harbouring, and wrestle those identities back for ourselves.
It’s not yet too late, I think, to reclaim the potential of the web for people. We will never get it back from the corporations, of course, Web 1.0 is long-gone and isn’t coming back. But I have to believe we can carve out open, human spaces where creativity, imagination and community can thrive without drowning in sponsored content, advertorials, and the next iteration of the ongoing sadistic experiment looking to discover exactly how many popover video ads it’s possible to place on a single web page before 90% of readers click away without even scrolling past the fold. Places where people talk to people, instead of places brands talk to each other, their replies sloshing in chatbot boosterism.
Ideally, I would like never to use the word ‘content’ ever again, unless I happen to be writing a nutritional analysis. And I’d like to invite you all to join me.
Banish it from your vocabulary. Declare your emancipation from the homogenised slop of web content and speak proudly of what you make, the things that are truly and uniquely yours. Whatever that is, however flawed you might think it is. The world needs human creativity, perhaps more than ever.
Imagine a content-free web, an un-aggregated web, a web made up instead of stories and art and generously shared human knowledge and wisdom and inspiration. A web where each word and image is chosen with creativity and purpose, and where the cogs of the ad-encrusted, data-slurping web content mills eventually gather dust and grind to a halt.
That would be better, wouldn’t it?
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Working in #marketing I have no doubt my field will be flooded with #AI-generated content, if nothing else because of the hype (marketers are notoriously gullible) - but I'm equally sure the public won't buy it. As attention-getting or motivating #communcation it won't work.
If "fine I guess" was sought after that's what we'd be seeing already; even without AI it's easier & cheaper to make. But even bland products are not marketed as that because nobody wants it.
Simply put, AI is boring.
Looking for good reading suggestions (academic or mainstream press or even blogs) on #communcation, #multilingualism, and #socialmedia. Really would like to curate content from beyond the Global North... thanks so much! (Happy to share the reference list once I have it put together)
#Translation #TranslationStudies #xl8 #translator #highered