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Colin Hayhurst
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CEO @mojeek | No-Tracking Search Engine | Start-up addict | Own views |
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hadleybeeman.bsky.social
We began the Ethical Web Principles as a W3CTAG doc, to record the ethics behind our architectural decisions & advice.

Today, it’s a W3C statement: it’s been endorsed by W3C as a whole

Thanks to my co-editors @torgo.com & @rhiaro.co.uk; rest of the TAG; & all who helped

www.w3.org/TR/ethical-w...
w3.org
December 12, 2024 at 9:34 PM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
Bookmarked for hours of fun
www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/r...
Old maps online - 1066
December 12, 2024 at 5:07 PM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
Mozilla begging frequency 📈
Mozilla email requests for donations
December 11, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Colin Hayhurst
session-app.bsky.social
What’s in your privacy utility belt?

Here’s what Session’s looks like:

📧 Email: @proton.me / @tutaprivacy.bsky.social

🌐 Browser: Brave / Tor

🔍 Search: @mojeek.bsky.social / @startpagesearch.bsky.social

🥸 VPN: @mullvad.bsky.social / @proton.me

Drop yours below 👇
December 9, 2024 at 4:12 AM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
Humans should not be victims of bad AI, so I co-signed this letter, coordinated by @openrightsgroup.bsky.social

www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
Letter to Peter Kyle: Keep our right not to be subjected to decisions based solely on AI
Civil society organisations, trade unions, academics and campaigners have called for the government to scrap proposals to remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by automated or AI system...
www.openrightsgroup.org
December 6, 2024 at 2:33 PM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
Whose in?

The Search Choice Alliance is a coalition of search engines dedicated to the principle that consumers should have the right to use their search engine of choice on Apple devices.
megangray.bsky.social Megan Gray @megangray.bsky.social · Nov 26
This is wild! Google launches “browser choice coalition”
open-web-advocacy.org Open Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org · Nov 26
The Browser Choice Alliance launches today, championing consumer rights around desktop browser choice and respect for default settings; values that strongly align with OWA's mission.

browserchoicealliance.org
November 26, 2024 at 11:15 AM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
"How to make something people hate" from genius entrepreneur
This stops you leaving my (Elmo's X) walled propaganda garden
November 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
Please don't take a view on farmers until you have read this spot on piece.

Growing up with grandparents, who like James Rebank were Cumbrian famers, I know too well how they struggled back then. And it's gotten dramatically worse.
jot.is Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · Nov 20
I have a more empathy for British farmers as a result of reading this:
unherd.com/2024/11/a-fa...
The farmers march on Westminster
unherd.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Reposted by Colin Hayhurst
mikebaker.bsky.social
The United States now has:
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists

For every reporter, there are now six PR people.

(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
November 18, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Reposted by Colin Hayhurst
mojeek.com
we made a privacy and independence starter pack ft.

@session-app.bsky.social
@eff.org
@openrightsgroup.bsky.social
@vivaldibrowser.bsky.social
@mullvad.bsky.social
@grapheneos.org
@proton.me
@libreoffice.bsky.social
@bitwarden.bsky.social
@fightforthefuture.org + more

go.bsky.app/CfycNgV
November 18, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Reposted by Colin Hayhurst
craigsilverman.bsky.social
As expected, Trump named Brendan Carr to chair the FCC. Carr is a big fan of Starlink and is vocal about the need to reform the protections that Section 230 gives big tech.

Here’s his recent thread about big tech, the “censorship cartel,” and his concerns about NewsGuard and fact checkers.
November 18, 2024 at 1:42 AM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
Trending over there
trending on X: OpenAI, Bluesky, Goodbye, #leavingx
November 14, 2024 at 2:10 PM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Companies

chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2024/11/09/u...
We updated our Map of Copyright & Related Lawsuits against AI companies with clickable links to the court dockets in each case. The lawsuits are clustered on each coast. If our count is right, there are 35 copyright related lawsuits against AI companies (or, in the case of Alcon v. Tesla, entities that allegedly used AI generated image). Some of these cases are consolidated or related cases. We should expect more copyright lawsuits to be filed.
November 11, 2024 at 2:36 PM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
😂
February 26, 2024 at 5:10 PM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
Map carbon consumption (here in the last 12 months), production and transmission for each unit of electricity.
app.electricitymaps.com/map
We color areas on the map by the amounts of greenhouse gases that is emitted for each unit of electricity consumed there (its carbon intensity). The greener the colour, the more climate-friendly the electricity consumption.
November 22, 2023 at 10:56 AM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
With AI all the debate seems to be about existential risks & short-term issues, like bias and copyright. But what about our informational landscape?

Do you need;
📚 a Librarian to point you toward context, or
🩺 a Doctor to protect your from context ?

blog.mojeek.com/2023/11/one-...
One Model to Rule them All
Billions are being poured into AI, but what will this mean for our futures? Most of...
blog.mojeek.com
November 16, 2023 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Colin Hayhurst
robin.berjon.com
Good initiative! I've been thinking of extending www.w3.org/2022/tdmrep/ for this kind of application. One thing to keep in mind is that the problem predates LLMs (though it was impossible to get any eyes on it prior to that explosion). For instance, voice assistants are a problem too.
TDM Reservation Protocol (TDMRep)
This specification defines a simple and practical Web protocol, capable of expressing the reservation of rights relative to text & data mining (TDM) applied to lawfully accessible Web content, and to ...
www.w3.org
November 2, 2023 at 5:47 PM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
The #NoML proposal is designed to enable fair usage of content for search & AI.

Together, we can make a difference and create a fairer internet.

Join me by signing and sharing the open letter to show your support for this initiative: noml.info
NoML Open Letter A specification for those who want content searchable on search engines, but not used for machine learning. Publishers need improved ways to indicate how they want content to be used in search and machine learning. Using robots.txt does not cover all use cases, and so a complementary approach is needed as proposed here. It is one which can be applied to individual webpages as desired, and can be preserved as such in datasets of web content.
November 2, 2023 at 1:26 PM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
“There are definitely large tech companies that would rather not have to try to compete with open source [AI], so they’re creating fear of AI leading to human extinction"

says Andrew Ng who has worked at Google and Baidu
www.afr.com/technology/g...
Artificial intelligence: Google Brain founder Andew Ng says big tech is lying about danger of human ...
Andrew Ng is a global leader in AI development, and says companies like OpenAI are trying to force governments to regulate emerging open-source rivals out of existence.
www.afr.com
October 31, 2023 at 9:38 AM
colinhayhurst.bsky.social
I've long said the Web is about autonomy, and that we are losing it.

This excellent blog post articulates the point and goes deeper.
robin.berjon.com Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · Oct 17
Have you ever wondered what the Web is *for*? Well, if we're going to build a better one, it might be worth spending a moment considering the question. This is the second installment in my series on building a better web.
berjon.com/user-agency/
The Web Is For User Agency
We take the Web for granted as that thing that's there and we talk of things being good or bad for the Web, but we don't ever sit down and really say what the Web is for. I take a look at this questio...
berjon.com
October 26, 2023 at 1:38 PM