Matti Schneider / is on Nostr

I design and lead #DigitalCommons: #OpenSource #product with #agile teams, democratic governance, #OpenData, for the public good, often #PublicCode. 
Currently building: @OpenTermsAchive@mastodon.social (#BigTech / #privacy), OpenFisca (#RulesAsCode).  
Co-built: French government incubator beta.gouv.fr, French Ambassador for Digital Affairs incubator.  
Ex: Etalab, Govt.NZ, director AgileFrance.  
En français : @mattisg

Last Notes

2025-05-05 05:45:14

How #TikTok (and other platforms) make money from child begging livestreams —and why we should track the platforms monetization policies.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/06/profiting-from-misery-how-tiktok-makes-money-from-child-begging-livestreams

2025-05-02 05:45:27

#LLM “refusal to answer is the default behavior: we find a circuit that is on by default and that causes the model to state that it has insufficient information to answer any given question. However, when the model is asked about something it knows well, a competing feature representing ‘known entities’ activates and inhibits this default circuit”
https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model
https://i.maly.io/media_attachments/files/114/436/651/476/307/508/original/ba3ad931e20e254c.webp

2025-04-25 05:45:18

A lawsuit against Meta in #Ethiopia: “#Facebook knows the platform is used for genocide, ethnic cleansing, extrajudicial killings. And intentionally, due to their deliberate dismissal of the consequences and harm, they just prefer to focus on their profit-making.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/facebook-lawsuit-africa-content-moderation-violence-rcna61530
“However bad you and I think content moderation is in the U.S., it is an order of magnitude worse anywhere outside of the U.S. — and particularly bad in places facing crisis or conflict”

2025-04-23 05:45:19

Tella is a mobile app with media capture, pin lock, encrypted local storage and cloud sync for stealth and secure documentation, for example of #HumanRights violations.
https://tella-app.org
#OpenSource and multilingual
https://i.maly.io/media_attachments/files/114/385/690/166/734/662/original/436c270101c08333.png

2025-04-07 06:45:00

“‘Human in the loop’ is the cure-all response to any objection to putting an imperfect #AI in charge of a high-stakes application. But it's not just AI that are imperfect. Humans are wildly imperfect, and one thing they turn out to be very bad at is supervising AIs. […] Experts put in charge of overseeing an automated system get out of practice as they no longer engage in the routine steps that lead up to the conclusion”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/30/a-neck-in-a-noose/
It is all only about mutual lack of accountability

2025-04-05 07:25:01

#SocialMedia is geopolitics, #cyberdiplomacy is critical: #Trump “also reiterated that he would, in particular, be willing to offer #tariff relief for #China if Beijing approved the sale of the US operations of #TikTok”.
https://www.platformer.news/trump-tariffs-tiktok/
When your shadow VP knows how to do foreign interference with their social media, they will likely advise you to get more such weapons.

2025-04-04 07:34:33

Nice: X integrations are decommissioned on the automation platform make.com, which suggests using instead #Mastodon or #BlueSky.
May this serve as your little reminder to erase your last accounts on X 😊
https://i.maly.io/media_attachments/files/114/278/535/769/712/815/original/618ed2e53b3b0dac.png

2025-04-02 07:25:03

“We call on the European Commission to propose a binding legal ban on conversion practices targeting #LGBTQ+ citizens in the #EU”. A European Citizen Initiative (ECI) is not a petition, it is a legally binding instrument.
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/
There are 6 weeks left to reach the thresholds for this one. Berlin, Hamburg, where are you??
https://i.maly.io/media_attachments/files/114/267/173/813/053/316/original/86e5b365648ffec1.png

2025-04-02 07:25:03

2025-03-24 20:04:32

Better than French government officials using Telegram for political agendas: the #Trump USA top level officials using @nprofile…2wc8 to share war plans, and accidentally inviting journalists to the chat.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/
I hope they at least donate monthly.
#Yemen #Houthis #infosec

2025-02-28 07:31:27

Post-#RightsCon25 event with @nprofile…2eej: “in #Taiwan, all the candidates running for mayor that had an #OpenGov / collaborative governance platform were elected, and those who did not were not elected”.
“Young people, who don't have age to vote nor resources to impact their community, feel a lack of agency and that makes them fall victim to technology like #TikTok. We are thus changing the education system to bring more agency.”
#RightsCon
https://i.maly.io/media_attachments/files/114/080/338/532/255/996/original/417071866a9ee0c5.jpeg

2025-02-24 04:36:58

“#GenAI makes the monetization problem even worse, by decreasing the costs of media production for #FakeNews and #disinformation”, “we get people in Cambodia pushing content for elections in Bulgaria without speaking a word of Bulgarian and get paid for it” — @nprofile…7789 #RightsCon #RightsCon25

2025-02-09 04:13:45

This weekend, what better activity than donating to this important kickstarter to support #PixelFed as an ethical alternative to #Instagram and #Meta? 😊
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks
#fediverse

2025-01-08 18:28:40

🤮 “We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation”. That’s in the new Meta community guidelines, published yesterday. We now know what Zuckerberg meant by “giving people voice on our platforms” and “work with President Trump”. And that’s just one tiny part of it…
Full analysis with @nprofile…y7ey: https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/meta-dampens-hate-speech-policy/
#TermsSpotting

2024-09-18 08:35:14

“We the undersigned wish to express our deep concern regarding the ongoing attacks by #BigTech companies and their allies on Brazil's #digital #sovereignty. Brazil’s dispute with Elon Musk is only the latest instance in a wider effort to restrict the ability of sovereign nations to define a digital developmental agenda free from the control of US-based megacorporations.”
https://framaforms.org/public-letter-against-big-techs-attack-on-digital-sovereignties-1726420881

2024-09-09 06:53:00

"[#NewZealand Inland Revenue] has created a technical-techno gobbledygook smokescreen as a distraction from the fact that they've actually betrayed almost every New Zealander by disclosing" the nature of their tax status to Facebook, Google and other social media ads providers.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527419/inland-revenue-giving-thousands-of-taxpayers-details-to-social-media-platforms-for-ad-campaigns
#privacy #surveillance #aotearoa

2024-06-04 19:14:56

“I always feared that the #AI data center boom was likely going to make the looming #climate catastrophe inevitable, but there was something about seeing it all presented on a platter with a smile and an excited presentation that struck me”
https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold
#Nvidia's new #GenAI-optimised #Blackwell #GPU chip consumes 15kW of power.

2023-05-01 17:10:54

“Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of #AI. A part of him, he said, now regrets his life’s work.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html