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lalevasseur.bsky.social
Founder of Inter Safety Labs, measuring invisible tech harms.
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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

@archive.org I've been getting 503s off and on for the past two days. Are you ok?

Uh-oh wayback machine is...having issues.

Oh. So this administration is going to take our hard earned citizen tax dollars (social security and medicare contributions) and invest in crypto scams isn't it?

Anyone interested in contributing to a public list/record of govt actions that are impacting public safety? We started one last week.

Living through an object lesson in how governing a country is different from overseeing a business. One of the key differences is how "safety" is prioritized. Arguably govt's primary objective is citizen safety. But biz has always resisted safety-- product and employee.

DOOMERISM ISN'T A STRATEGY.

Are there any other AT protocol implementations than Bluesky social?

2024 saw the [literal] enshittification of food. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

The idea of animal sovereignty popped up in What an Owl Knows and rocked my world. Really love the essence of this idea; feels innately like the right way to view our fellow earthlings. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Peak #enshittification? adtech produces device operating systems. www.adtechexplained.com/p/the-trade-... The Trade Desk is a key driver of mass consumer surveillance infrastructure--with their id reso platform and pushing uuid2.0 and euid. We don’t need/want their tech at an os level in tvs.

This year alone, we've helped keep 16.5 million kids safer online and supported actions against unauthorized data use. It's all part of our mission to protect your digital life. /1

“We may have (at least for now) consumer standards for the majority of consumer goods, but software is left effectively untouched, which is why so much of our digital lives is such unfettered dogshit.” Exactly this. We’ve been defining product safety stds for tech for years at Internet Safety Labs.