Marie-Cécile Godwin Paccard @mcpaccard@mastodon.design

Facial recognition is now rampant. The implications for our freedom are chilling -

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/18/facial-recognition-is-now-rampant-implications-for-our-freedom-are-chilling #rr

1: Framing polite, reasonable requests as harassment. (see: the GIMP name debacle)

2: Framing critique as harassment. (see: anyone who takes a notion to suck up all the fediverse to mine for interesting tidbits)

3: Framing asking for different phrasing as censorship.

4: Framing boundaries as censorship.

5: Refusing to listen to vulnerable people when they say a planned feature will open avenues to cause harm.

"The Black Feminists Who Saw the Alt-Right Threat Coming" the interesting story of Hudson and Crockett using the hashtag #YourSlipIsShowing to expose
trolls masquerading as women of color on Twitter in 2014. It didn't get better since.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html

fyi

In the past weeks, I ordered quite a few things online. Almost all shops asked for my telephone number, for most of them, entering a number was mandatory.

I used a fake number for all of them. Guess what? I still got all of my items. And if there were any problems (“sorry, there was an error in the data, so we can only send you one shirt, not the two shirts you ordered“), I got notified via email.

Anyone of you in online retail? Then, please don't ask for my number if you don't need it. :)

This cover of Newsweek is 🔥!

Reminds me this great quote from Desmond Tutu :

❝If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.❞

✊

Yesterday, I came across a "white for white" dating site. Registration is free. I snooped around.

This is gonna be a thread.

Bellingcat did a deep dive into those creepy / laughably fake Amazon fulfilment centre ambassador accounts over on Birdsite
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/08/15/amazons-online-bezos-brigade-unleashed-on-twitter/

So... Female CPR manikins are literally impossible to source. How the fuck are you supposed to let people practice chest compressions on women's bodies without anatomically appropriate dummies?!

What the fuck. My life matters, too!

Indecently there's an open source dummy cover that can help but it's not for sale anywhere that I can find so you gotta sew it yourself: https://womanikin.org/

I've asked about this before but my wife would be interested in a mom instance, if you know any moms on here who might like to have a mom alt, we'll spin something up

@mcpaccard @hugh

https://patents.justia.com/patent/9111317

@mcpaccard Et j’irais même un peu plus loin en disant que faire « aussi bien » ne suffira pas à provoquer une bascule. Il nous faut être véritablement innovant et inventer des communs 10x plus intéressants que les produits actuellement en place. Y’a du boulot (!) mais c’est faisable avec une bonne organisation :)

@adidal @mcpaccard
Mastercard and Visa sell their databases to databrokers, as well as shopping centers. It's "easy" to merge everything an enrich a profile...