Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves).

But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime.

Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever

Object-oriented gender

The cool thing about writing code is that the computer is doing exactly what you tell it to do.

The cool thing about debugging code is slowly learning what you actually told the computer to do.

Good on Soundcloud - they’ve revised their terms of use to say they won’t train AI on user content, and any future AI plans will be opt in. https://musically.com/2025/05/14/soundcloud-changes-terms-of-use-to-reflect-its-ai-policies/

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@courtcan Sounds about right. It's currently costing them vast sums of money. They're not spending that without the expectation they can recoup it eventually.

And even if you try to avoid getting dependent on AI for your own life, you can't stop your employer and every business and organisation you deal with getting sucked into this trap, so one day you'll be paying for that when their costs go up

Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.