Me. I don't understand peertube. I seem to have access to a handful of vids in French (?) and that's it. I see content fragmented across many servers that, if not added manually, I have no idea how to discover.
Vegetables and fruits used to be such that you pick the nicer ones from your garden/field, you let them ripe very well, extract their seeds and save them for the next season. You could share seeds with your neighbors, or sell.
"Modern" commercial seeds are a one-time product: you plant the seeds, get the produce, but it is hard to save seeds from it because if you attempt to save them, next season you get weak, ill plants, with many deformations.
Fruits and vegetables found at the store are the same, they will give you weak ill plants. But at least you could try to stabilize the seeds by picking the strongest, and recover the fertility of the plants.
Now, for "the convenience" of no seeds, you don't even have the chance to even get ill plants. You simply get NOTHING.
That, my friend, is the wet dream of big agricultural corporations: holding people hostage. Add their herbicides + seeds resistant to it, and you have the exact same model that big tech has on us: you need to continuously pay them just to cover your basic needs. That model is everywhere!
Programs that I buy and run in my computer? No. Suscription.
Buy movies/music? No. Suscription.
Car that I own and can fix? No. Suscription (yes)
Buy a house? No. Rent.
Food/seeds that I can sustainable grow myself? No. Infertile food with crappy nutritional value at watever price they determine.
Health care? No. Subscription. And once you get sick, we'll decline to cover you or give you convoluted reasons to justify that this is not covered.
Back to seeds. Your options? None. Keep paying. Even if you "could" reproduce the seeds of those that still have, you are prohibited of doing so because the genes of the produce are registered as Monsanto intellectual property, and you'll get lawsuits for growing food!
But, hey! Let's look at the positive side, the fucking raspberry doesn't have fucking seeds! Our lives are so much better without the motherfucking seeds!
The reality can be messy. Meta contractors based in Nairobi, Kenya, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten in a recently published joint investigation that they’re being told to review highly sensitive and intimate data.
“In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed,” one contractor for a company called Sama said. “I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording.”
“I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room,” one data annotator told the newspapers. “Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes.”
Other footage included imagery of people’s bank cards, users watching porn, or even filming entire “sex scenes.”
An employee added that they felt forced to watch and annotate or else risk losing their job.
“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” the employee said. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”
Buried in Meta’s AI terms of use, the company reserves the right to have the company “review your interactions with AIs, including the content of your conversations with or messages to AIs, and this review can be automated or manual (human).”
The document also warned that users shouldn’t share information that “you don’t want the AIs to use and retain, such as information about sensitive topics.”
But given the kind of information data annotators are being asked to review, many users don’t appear to be aware of that last piece of advice.
Worst of all, owners of Meta’s AI glasses simply don’t have the option of making use of the AI features without agreeing to share data shared with Meta’s remote servers. And once the data is sent, it’s already often too late.
And then they had a minor breakthrough. The team discovered that a sofa seen in some of the images was only sold regionally, not nationally, and therefore had a more limited customer base.
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The team looked for more clues. And that is when they realised something as mundane as the exposed brick wall in Lucy's bedroom could give them a lead.
"So, I started just Googling bricks and it wasn't too many searches before] I found the Brick Industry Association," says Squire.
"And the woman on the phone was awesome. She was like, 'how can the brick industry help?'"
She offered to share the photo with brick experts all over the country. The response was almost immediate, he says.
One of the people who got in touch was John Harp, who had been working in brick sales since 1981.
"I noticed that the brick was a very pink-cast brick, and it had a little bit of a charcoal overlay on it. It was a modular eight-inch brick and it was square-edged," he says. "When I saw that, I knew exactly what the brick was," he adds.
It was, he told Squire, a "Flaming Alamo".
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Finally they had a breakthrough. They found an address that Harp believed was likely to feature a Flaming Alamo brick wall, and was on the sofa customer-base list.
"So we narrowed it down to this] one address… and started the process of confirming who was living there through state records, driver's licence… information on schools," says Squire.
The team realised that in the household with Lucy was her mother's boyfriend - a convicted sex offender.
Within hours, local Homeland Security agents had arrested the offender, who had been raping Lucy for six years. He was subsequently sentenced to more than 70 years in jail.