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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When protecting people's personal data and protecting a free press's ability to dig up hard truths pull in different directions, how would you want that line drawn?”
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Why a car without a cellular modem changes the picture
Where the Driving Record Goes After the Car Records It Your new car records where you go, how hard you brake, and how fast you take off, then sends that file to the company that built it.... Who Watches the Watchers? Government, Money, and the Fight for Transparency
The American public is being asked to trust politicians, intelligence agencies, media personalities, pharmaceutical authorities, and technology companies that too often expect scrutiny to stop where their own interests begin. That is the real problem.... This week at UpTrust (Oct 14)
Trust got more specific this week. Every uptrust now names a topic, and you can now trust someone on one topic by highlighting their words. Profiles, Topics and Events were redesigned. Trust, topic by topic "Vouch" got renamed bc there are too many new concepts here :).... Platform Update Highlights, Week of May 6
Major improvements shipped since the last update: Bridges marketplace Profiles got a lot better. Add posts to collections (like bookmarks or playlists), pin collections and posts to your Home tab, Easily see and message your most trusted people, lots of trust info, lots of minor... i personally love this reflection, and I felt @blas was asking for more inquiry too. I’d love to see us bring more inquiries and test it out. I wonder, is there something that keeps us from asking questions or inquiring openly? Is it limited to UpTrust? Is it everywhere?... Meta’s $18 Billion Child Safety Deal Still Rests on Age Checks That Miss Kids and Tag Adults
Meta agreed in late August 2026 to pay up to about $18 billion and change how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram. The main pot is about $16.7 billion for 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.... - su...
I’m not sure who said it, but the ideal is to be rich and anonymous, not rich and famous. That said, it’s increasingly difficult to stay anonymous when personal distribution is becoming a requirement to make a living.... Read the full post - Tazman...
They are greatly increasing the amount of surveillance information they are retrieving from our phones. Constant GPS locations, texts, phone conversations, emails, intagrams, twitters, search history, financial transactions, even listening into conversations while our phones are... Stop Buying This Surveillance Shit And Let These Companies Rot
These car companies and the clowns in charge are straight up turning your ride into a rolling spy box that rats you out every mile. People are pulling fuses and ripping units because they are sick of being watched like criminals in their own damn vehicle.... This week at UpTrust (Oct 28)
Most of this week went into two things: making the phone app do what the website does, and improving private groups. Here is what changed. On your phone All of these are already in the app. If you don't see them, close the app fully and open it again.... - onHow do we build an AI-assisted operating system that preserves context, decisions, and project history across multiple platforms without turning the system itself into another full-time job?byplasterslug...
the kakistocracy with its pet r-word plutocrat are impulsive, fond of women with untidy hair and big exoplosions. build quality is too diffy. sign a kid up for a Trump account, start theirb p[erm,sment record early to be data,mined and monetized I cant masmage the stairs to my... - Rowan...imported
*How do you make technology and advocacy reinforce each other without sacrificing privacy, accuracy, or the people…
*How do you make technology and advocacy reinforce each other without sacrificing privacy, accuracy, or the people you’re trying to help?
- Bernadette...imported
How can I give a network enough signal about what I care about and who I trust to make useful introductions, without…
How can I give a network enough signal about what I care about and who I trust to make useful introductions, without oversharing or allowing an outdated profile to become authoritative?
Intro
What moved me I’ve spent more than 25 years working in information security, risk, compliance, and security architecture, and I’ve gradually become more interested in the deeper question underneath all of them: how do humans and systems make trustworthy decisions when the... - Don7855...
Yes I just want to read or look at the post without being ask to pass on something. I will choose what I want to pass on.
- onWhen an AI agent starts to know your schedule, health, and habits, how much of you do you want it to really know?bymorgan843...
And no I don't want it to know anything
- Bloodsucker...
Hello World
I’m new to the platform. I signed up hoping it is much like the original Quora, where knowledge was shared, not the social site it has become. My work has become building and trying to get published an Android tool that teaches music and playing guitar at the same time.... - glp1app...
A plain description of a small iOS logging app I made
I built a small personal-log tool and wanted to describe it plainly rather than pitch it. GLP1 App (App Store name: Peptide Tracker & Calculator) is a free iOS app by David Dzeveckij for keeping your own record of GLP-1 doses, weights and notes.... - Serpardum...
Any app can be installed on an android phone, although you just can't go through the play store. And as for the age verification, I semi agree with it, although I hate it at the same time....