Socrates tells his followers that he's really, really going to stop looking at his timeline on Mastodon real soon now, even though he said he'd stop over two hours ago.
So okay.
Can someone send me links to anti-harassment tech y'all know of? I have a few in mind but like in the realm of ActivityPub, a tool could work.
Please boost.
RT @AmarAmarasingam@twitter.com This is fuckin nuts.
The US wants to examine re-examine “bad naturalization cases” to find U.S. citizens they say “should not have been naturalized, to revoke their citizenship, and then eventually deport them.” https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/uscis-starting-denaturalization-task-force?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=spredfast&utm_content=sf90130835&utm_term=Page%3A+The+Takeaway&sf90130835=1
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/1014544586826485761
I always feel a little pang of sadness when a band that I like (that releases under a CC license) gets snatched up by a label. Don't get me wrong; I'm ecstatic for them getting the label support. But it generally means they stop releasing under a CC license and that makes them just another band to me.
Hoping some day that the CC license permeates into the label culture and that my show becomes redundant, but I don't see that happening soon.
''The European Parliament has sent the copyright law back to the drawing board. All MEPs will get to vote on #uploadfilters and the #linktax September 10–13. Now let's keep up the pressure to make sure we #SaveYourInternet!''
- Julia Reda
'' #RichardSpencer has been denied entry into the European Schengen zone. He was due to speak at an event in #Sweden organised by #altright.''
''Spencer was supposed to take part in a debate organised in #Almedalen, a yearly political forum on the island of Gotland off the coast of Sweden.''
However shit Spencer is, we should not fall into the trap of celebrating borders. This would not just conform altrights believe of the need for border protection, but also spins back with 'hypocrate left'.
happy interdependence day, friends
celebrate your communities today.
random ask:
does anyone have a broken orignal NES? guts aren't needed, just the outer case (and really only the top). doesn't have to be functional, etc. DOES need to have the little cartridge door and needs to be, like, not broken in half etc.
if there are any hoarders who want to get rid of theirs, I need to get one to use as sort of a prop for my wedding in a few months.
I'll pay, I just don't want to legit buy a used Nintendo because I just don't need it.
Facebook are trying to automate something that cannot be automated, and centralise things that should not be centralised.
It's like that vietnam photo of the injured girl, it takes experienced human judgement to know what is and isn't acceptable. Also, ideally you would have many humans judging it so that one mistake doesn't affect everyone.
That's why social media has to be decentralised, so that these sorts of decisions are in the hands of many humans instead of one machine.
meanwhile raids of the #tor related group gain great attention (good), raids of kurdish assosiation yesterday in #germany remains in the dark.
'The intervals between the raids in our member associations are getting shorter and shorter....'
Gov. '...conducting a campaign against Kurdish organizations... criminalization...in no way inferior to that of the Turkish state.''
call for solidarity and for defending the right to self-organization of the Kurds
https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/demonstration-against-the-raid-on-kurdish-association-in-germany-27955
#turkey
#rojava
“We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places” - Tim Berners-Lee
'The increasing centralization of the Web, he says, has “ended up producing—with no deliberate action of the people who designed the platform—a large-scale emergent phenomenon which is anti-human.”
...then they speak about solid, mastodon, peertube, activityPub...nice :)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
Idea:
some sort of federated infrastructure that is used to facilitate collaboration between the multible existing plattforms/software.
I quote @Senficon from birdsite now:
Great success: Your protests have worked! The European Parliament has sent the copyright law back to the drawing board. All MEPs will get to vote on #uploadfilters and the #linktax September 10–13. Now let's keep up the pressure to make sure we #SaveYourInternet!
BREAKING: In a huge victory, the European Parliament has voted 318-278 against #Article13 and #Article11—the disastrous #CensorshipMachine and #LinkTax copyright proposals.
That means we’re close to stopping these terrible proposals—and we’re gaining momentum. source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1014815462155153408
@pesco @Wolf480pl @webmind @ente @strypey you're describing the conservative parties. That's where the name comes from.
And they're usually the worst. Blocking marriage equality, gender equality regulations, environmental regulations, etc etc.
Even in #saveyourinternet it's aout *preserving old business models* in the age of Internets. So conservatives are often the ones who are voting for #Art11 #Art13, by and large.
@eladhen Nationalism sells the lie that "the nation" is threated by other "nations". In reality, the local ruling class is threatened by other states' ruling classes. The rest of society only serve as human shields.
Does anyone please please please have an emergency place I can crash at least just one night in London? I just have 2 bags, and I'm kinda traumatised right now. I'm a programmer trans femme, from california
My airbnb host is telling me to get out now, since I called customer service to try to get a new place because they painted my room without warning and it's making me ill. Her income depends on airbnb and is angry about the bad review and taking it out on me... And I can't stay here.
