#data farming

Emergency broadcast: Jack Dorsey just announced "diVine"—a revival of Vine— and he promises "NO AI ALLOWED." Cute. Adorable. Precious. Also? Complete and utter bullshit.

Because guess where the funding comes from? His nonprofit AndOtherStuff. And what’s one of the main pillars of AndOtherStuff? Oh, just a tiny little thing called— OPEN. SOURCE. AI. DEVELOPMENT.

So you mean to tell me… the guy funding AI research… is ALSO launching a "pure human content" short-form app? No AI. No algorithms. Just vibes? Yeah, and I’m the tooth fairy with a chainsaw. Let’s not kid ourselves. This isn’t a platform. It’s a data farm wearing a nostalgia hoodie. He wants fresh, untainted, never-scraped content to feed a brand-new AI model. A virgin dataset. Six-second dopamine loops straight into the training pipeline. And the "NO AI" pledge? That’s the bait. Nostalgia is the softest part of the human skull, and Jack is tapping it like a maple tree.

Call it what it is: A weapons-grade hoodwink. "Come make content like the good old days!" Nah, bro. He’s setting a trap and painting it Vine-green.

You want Vine back? Make it yourself. Just don’t hand your creativity to a dude building an AI model behind your back.

hey guys, gals and nonbinary pals!!

as it seems I am in a mood to sort my life out and thus I am revamping the taglist to make sure I’m tagging the right people!!!

If you would like to stay/be added to my taglist you can do so via my Google Form here

my second point is in terms of data farming! this is 100% anonymous and I would really appreciate any feedback and your time! I am a little stumped on what people actually wanna see over here - this is the link to the form <3

adding my current taglist under the cut to grab attention xoxo <3

I recently saw a viral social media post from Jeff Rose on Instagram: “Not to sound geriatric but… You know what I miss? Turning something on and it just works. No account. No app. No QR code. No ‘sign in to continue.’ Just plug it in and it does the thing it was made to do.” It hit me hard. It’s all about the data.  Royalty free image credit: Alexey_Marcov on Pixabay Continue reading The…

This is an examples of

engagement bait

— Pushwoosh code has been embedded into almost 8,000 apps in the Google and Apple app stores, according to Appfigures, an app intelligence website. Pushwoosh's website says it has more than 2.3 billion devices listed in its database.

"Pushwoosh collects user data including precise geolocation, on sensitive and governmental apps, which could allow for invasive tracking at scale," said Jerome Dangu, co-founder of Confiant, a firm that tracks misuse of data collected in online advertising supply chains. 

The data Pushwoosh collects is similar to data that could be collected by Facebook, Google or Amazon, but the difference is that all the Pushwoosh data in the U.S. is sent to servers controlled by a company (Pushwoosh) in Russia," said Zach Edwards, a security researcher, who first spotted the prevalence of Pushwoosh code while working for Internet Safety Labs, a nonprofit organization.

In U.S. regulatory filings and on social media, Pushwoosh never mentions its Russian links. The company lists "Washington, D.C." as its location on Twitter and claims its office address as a house in the suburb of Kensington, Maryland, according to its latest U.S. corporation filings submitted to Delaware's secretary of state. It also lists the Maryland address on its Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.