jessamyn

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by jessamyn 29d ago
I drive a 2009 car with 110K miles on it and a Garmin GPS which has never heard of the internet, I am right there with you.
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by jessamyn 1mo ago
Thanks for suggesting more mainstream alt-browsers. This article isn't about avoiding all AI everywhere so much as it is for people who want to turn the intrusive AI off in the things they are already using. There are even more things
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by jessamyn 1mo ago
Which Linux phone do you prefer?
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by jessamyn 1mo ago
It's creative commons licensed, go nuts! (or send me updates and I'll do it)
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by jessamyn 1mo ago
Thank you, I've added this suggestion for Chrome/Firefox
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by jessamyn 1mo ago
Thank you, I've added these browser suggestions.
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by jessamyn 1mo ago
Hello -- this is mine! There's a short URL: https://NoToAI.org If people have suggestions I'll add them.
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by jessamyn 6mo ago
I can't confirm it, but I think a few of the scenes from Halt and Catch Fire come from Soul of a New Machine.
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by jessamyn 6mo ago
My dad was Tom West from Soul of a New Machine. Tracy Kidder lived at our house on weekends in the late 1970s while he was working on this book. He and my dad remained friends for the rest of his life, going out on boats, drinking a lot, ta
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by jessamyn 2y ago
Getting stronger and better every day Evan; best wishes for the speediest recovery possible.
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by jessamyn 2y ago
In the United States local drug store Rite Aid got in some serious trouble for using AI facial recognition. Looking at some of the Federal Trade Commission's complaints against them can give you some creepy insight into how the technol
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by jessamyn 2y ago
We stay on top of keeping MetaFilter's gopher server working. gopher://gopher.metafilter.com
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by jessamyn 3y ago
I believe part of the issue is that the other John Does may be people in other countries (according to the lawsuit) which may add to the issues with identifying and/or charging them.
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by jessamyn 3y ago
Thank you so much for this. I'm pretty Wiki-literate and was having a hard time understanding this from their initial pages.
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by jessamyn 3y ago
The tool posts the pictures to Wikimedia Commons, logging in there is required for file upload (hello I'm Jessamyn the Community Manager at the Flickr Foundation - please try this tool out and let us know what you think). It was create
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by jessamyn 4y ago
Hi felix!
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by jessamyn 4y ago
Right?! Hi I'm Tom West's daughter, librarian, owner of MetaFilter and someone who spends a LOT of time talking to people (mainly men) who take only some of the messages away from that book. The book was great. I'm in it in
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by jessamyn 4y ago
I honestly feel like part of it is just that the site sometimes feels like abandonware. That is, it's still running but older cruft is still there (like how you can add AOL Instant Messenger to your profile page) and there are many par
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by jessamyn 4y ago
Hi! Yes I'm the owner which is mostly paperwork and legal and sort of "the vision thing." Loup is running day-to-day stuff and we have a 12-member Steering Committee who will hopefully be setting the priorities and keeping ev
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by jessamyn 7y ago
Hey!
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by jessamyn 8y ago
Thanks. I miss my dad a lot.
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by jessamyn 8y ago
I had a very long and angryish set of dealings with them about this. I finally got an engineer to let me download the archive but man... promises promises...
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by jessamyn 8y ago
I feel like a lot of it is changing the discussion. Like not everyone has the money, time and effort to be able to do a small claims thing, but there are a lot of things you can do. Teaching people to pull their credit reports, teaching the
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by jessamyn 8y ago
Yep -- if you make over $600 (and mine was $600 + $90 for court costs) they have to send you a tax form and report it.
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by jessamyn 8y ago
I think I put the bulk of it on my Medium post you can read here. It was surprisingly not a lot of stuff. https://medium.com/@jessamyn/suing-equifax-in-small-claims-c...
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by jessamyn 8y ago
I definitely tried to (last year was such a shitty year!) but there wasn't a lot of traction for that. Maybe if I had brought in therapist bills and said "Reimburse me"
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by jessamyn 8y ago
How badass is that?
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by jessamyn 8y ago
They sent me a W-9. I do not think they plan to appeal.
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by jessamyn 8y ago
And they had to send a lawyer from Atlanta to Vermont which probably at least tripled that. Not saying it's not small change, just saying there are other costs.
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by jessamyn 8y ago
Yep, it's a really useful thing libraries and librarians-without-libraries spend a lot of time doing. We're often good at teaching things that are poorly documented or that people assume "anyone can use." I'm a huge

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