YouTube is now using AI to alter people's videos without permission. (There are threads about this at https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/115640694705318541 & https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115598837629003478 etc)

This is really disturbing and dangerous. It's more insidious than censorship because viewers cannot tell a video has been altered.

If you post to YouTube, I'd strongly recommend you start ALSO posting to PeerTube, either on your own server or a public server. There's a complete guide here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videos-and-audio-on-peertube

#PeerTube #YouTube

e535 with Michael M and Andy - #AdversarialPoetry to jailbreak #LLMs, #iFixit’s #FixBot, power of #DigitalTwins, putting the breaks on #Rewind, #RatsPlayDoom, #Nintendo #VirtualBoy and a whole lot more.

https://gamesatwork.biz/2025/12/15/e535-the-poetry-of-doom/

As the end of year approaches, we spent some time to rework the Wrapstodon feature that we first tried last year.

It now collects your yearly data on-demand, does not require admins to enable anything (so it will be available to everyone in December 2026) and you get a nice shareable URL with your yearly summary!

Admins on nightly releases can enable it using the "wrapstodon" feature flag. It has been enabled on mastodon.online and mastodon.social

https://oisaur.com/@renchap/wrapstodon/2025/2476cab723e6b950

#Wrapstodon2025

I've published my digital Celtic Knotwork Workshop Booklet, yay!

https://ko-fi.com/s/f1a74eaf4b

It's 'Pay what you want over £5', and it's 10 worksheets (four of them are re-usable printable template sheets) that guide you through the basics to more complex techniques.

Huge thanks to the few of you who helped me test this and provided awesome feedback on earlier versions <3

#MastoArt #CelticKnot #ArtTutorial #Learning

@9r4ssr00t @EsRebelCientif

Yo veo el término 'regeneración' y creo que tiene potencial: es positivo y puede recoger todos los principios que queremos: sostenibilidad ambiental, justicia social, redistribución, etc.

Okay, it won't make me popular, but I'll say it. I'm not pulling my books off Amazon. Why? I need the money. My books have kept me from poverty in my old age, and I do not believe I would sell enough books elsewhere to do that. I just can't afford to be pure.

I've sold over 1100 books this month so far on Amazon, over 18,000 this year. That gives me enough money to live on, even if I didn't have Social Security or retirement funds. Without it, I'd just be scraping by. Like I said, I can't afford to be pure.

#Amazon #IndieAuthor #SelfPublishing

In less than 3 weeks, 2 prominent and beloved figures in both music and entertainment have been murdered at their hands of their own sons. Sons that have struggled with both addiction and severe mental health diseases.

Music lost the legendary operatic singer #JubilantSykes at the start of December… and now #RobReiner and wife. This planet is dissolving* into something incredibly…. unsettling.

TIL that Kenyan workers have been used so much to train AI systems, that standard writing by Kenyan people is often flagged as AI generated while it is not (which means that they can get discriminated for jobs / exams etc)
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt

Edit: many people raised below that the article is talking about texts written in very classically trained English detected as AI generated, which is the case for many Kenyans. It is documented that many Kenyan workers have been hired to train LLMs, but I made an assumption that it was the reason for this detection while it may not be. Sorry about that, thanks for the feedback (and feel free to continue the discussion here)

Next-gen Jolla Phone is a Sailfish OS smartphone with modern specs & design (kinda crowdfunding)

Android and iOS may dominate the smartphone space, but Finnish-based Jolla has been driving development of a Linux-based mobile operating system called Sailfish OS for well over a decade, picking up where Nokia left off when it abandoned the MeeGo project.

While Jolla is primarily a software company at this point, the company has released a handful of phones and tablets over the years, and now […]

#crowdfunding #jolla #jollaPhone #sailfish #sailfishOs

Read more: https://liliputing.com/next-gen-jolla-phone-is-a-sailfish-os-smartphone-with-modern-specs-design-kinda-crowdfunding/

Buongiorno, ci avviamo verso la fine del primo turno. Oggi un concorso completamente internazionale: per prima abbiamo una chiesa anonima dalla Svizzera inviata da @renatoram; proseguiamo con la House of Hope Fellowship Church a Cincinnati (Ohio, Teramo) parte della rassegna di @samatari2. In basso Notre Dame de l'Arche d'Alliance a Parigi da @Uilebheist e infine la Parroquia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Filipinas a Madrid (foto di @wilde_brut89 e segnalazione di @panda4x4)

Release 2025.12.11 is now out on Google Play, F-Droid, and the iOS AppStore. Updates include adding & editing charging sockets for electrical vehicles in #openStreetMap and a UX refresh to Material 3 on Android.

See all details here: https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-12-14/Release-2025.12.11-notes/

La gran mayoría de personas anhelan un tipo de economía radicalmente diferente. En lo que respecta a la cuestión específica del #Decrecimiento, la lección es clara: o se invierte masivamente en comunicación pública para explicar lo que significa el término, o se elige otra palabra...

https://www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-premsa-icta-uab/detall-noticia/un-primer-estudio-integral-muestra-un-gran-apoyo-a-las-ideas-clave-del-decrecimiento-pero-no-al-termino-1345819907210.html?detid=1345972551844

I pulled all my e-books off Kindle yesterday because of this. It effectively ends my writing career because, despite everyone complaining that Amazon is evil... nobody buys books from the many other stores my books are available on.

I am sad. I am angry. I am *exhausted*.

I am ONE indie author. I am nobody. My protest is utterly meaningless in the face of this ever-expanding AI takeover. Unless all indies do this, and all tradpub authors pressure their publishers to fight Amazon, my pulling my books is not going to do a damned thing to make Amazon stop doing this. All it will do is end whatever tiny little chance I might still have had at having a real writing career.

But I am so sick of AI being shoved into every aspect of my life and not even having the right to opt out of it. This is the ONLY protest I CAN make. So that's what I'm doing. And at least I know they won't be able to use my books this way.

#books #bookstodon #reading #readingCommunity #AmReading #amazon

https://writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/kindles-new-gen-ai-powered-ask-this-book-feature-raises-rights-concerns/

@cstross I use a car sharing system with lots of different makes and it's like being dropped in front of a computer with a drastically different OS every time. Touch screen interfaces from hell, window wipers hidden in the third sub-menu, navigation systems tracking your every move and phoning home to whomever...

@Ravotr

A book on AI ethics full of fake citations

You can't make this stuff up.

Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide

A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist

https://archive.ph/1eiSN

Like, my brother in christ, I fucking know that which is why I'm here, I found it highly fucking unusual and I'd like to figure out what is going on with me.

Same doctor checking my stomach, "what's this?" (Pointing to my hormone patch), and this is immediately after him reading I have an endocrinologist and a deepish voice whilst being "Miss Smith" Couldn't manage to put two and two together to realise it's a hormone patch.