#Meme

Today in you're not ready:
Your ai conversations may be being read by humans. I wonder what you will stop doing because of this?

https://www.404media.co/inside-project-lily-the-humans-reading-your-chatgpt-chats/

@mpe so sorry to hear this and wish you all the strength and luck you need!

@douginamug Yes, she quickly touches upon them. Though not in any thorough sense.

@everton137 hab ich noch nie irgendwo gesehen. Das ist ein Aprilscherz, nehme ich an.

@heinragas thanks, I feel better now

Anarchists rely heavily on online communications, but this is often super centralized. A/I getting targeted just eliminated like half the counter-info sites. Riseup could get targeted just as easily. Signal may well end up pulling out of Canada by the end of the year.

In all cases, there is no clear easy alternative that meets security concerns. If we lose Signal, I can almost guarantee a lot of folks will start just messaging each other on Instagram. Probably we should all get set up on Briar or Cwtch or Simplex right now (right......... now!) But I can count on one hand the number of people in my context who take both themselves and the threat seriously enough to do that.

Some project websites in Ontario got taken in by the local counter-info website (btw the social centre and bookfair in Hamilton both have their pages on North Shore Counter-Info now). But the hosting for that site got raided and had its servers seized once already, and that could always happen again.

I guess I see two things we can start doing in parallel immediately. (1) reduce reliance on tech. Organize regular (weekly?) in person meetups just to have a tea and discuss the context. Our social centre does that and it is great - you can too! (2) Learn some basic tech skills (I want to run a remote server) and figure out alternatives to services you rely on. Then talk about them at the meetup from step 1.

Probably there will be no singular communications app like signal in the future and there will hopefully be no new centralization of websites like with noblogs. The proposals I've seen for the post-Signal future strike me as unserious (email but with a chat interface) in large part because they mostly still involve relying on a small number of trustworthy tech collectives (Riseup). And folks are mostly not willing to learn anything new or embrace any inconvenience. Which is fine, I hate tech too. But then we need to get serious about physical distribution, meeting up in person, organizing tours to cross pollinate between contexts...

I guess I just don't think anyone is going to come save our asses on the tech front again the way the folks behind Signal, A/I and Riseup did. And I don't think we will manage to wake from this technofascist nightmare any time soon, so shit's looking a little bleak.

Half a dozen people have now told me that this post broke their RSS reader 😳

@catsalad
Ah. The Meowborn Identity, The Meowborn Supremacy, and The Meowborn Ultimatum.

As salmon numbers dwindle, fish camps and community workshops are providing essential services to Indigenous people across the province — traditional healthy food and cultural connection https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-first-nations-declining-salmon-food-security/

So, uh, yeah. This is bad.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mvibhya5xs2j

Has anyone in the EU tech policy space considered just making it illegal for services to charge more for MFA, SSO, audit log streaming, and break-glass/split privilege accounts?

If y'all are serious about improving SME security, that's an easy win.

@Sascha Das ist ja erfreulich. Ich werde morgen in meiner Präsentation darauf hinweisen und mich dann im Anschluss einmal telefonisch melden. Danke!

#OtD 14 Sep 1944 Jewish-Italian resistance fighter, Franco Cesana, was killed in action fighting Nazi occupation forces in Gombola, aged 12. Fighting with the nom de guerre of "Balilla", he was one of the youngest Italian partisans to die in battle https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/