Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

There are a lot of reasons to dislike #Apple (no-#FOSS #privacy #humanrights #appstoremonopoly...) but providing #iOS security updates to nearly 10 year old phones is really cool.

"Apple gives some older iPhones OS updates, going back to #iPhone 5s"
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/01/23/apple-gives-some-older-iphones-os-updates-going-back-to-iphone-5s

EFF, ACLU Seek to Protect the Public’s Right to Access Judicial Records https://www.eff.org/press/releases/aclu-eff-seek-protect-publics-right-access-judicial-records

Once upon a time I made a scoreboard for Canabalt with the Twitter API. You can still see it at http://capndesign.com/canabalt/. For over year, I worked at ThinkUp which only existed because Twitter and other social sites had an API.

I’ll miss all the fun toys people built because the API was free. Shoutout to everyone who worked hard to keep it accessible and I hope we build even cooler shit on Mastodon.

https://go.thefire.org/book-banning?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid_social&utm_campaign=2023-01-05+-+FIRE+-+Book+Banning+-+Nationwide+-+List+Building&utm_content=Book+Banning&fbclid=IwAR3pxjptROzwkQVtcXpmOZNDtmw_K_4wYFjWwPfaVXrgZMG8QBg5qsJ1Dx0 #bookbanning #censorship

Censorship & BookBanning are dangerous precedents that can slowly erode our freedoms. In these turbulent times everyone needs to have the freedom to learn about the past, other cultures, and plan for the future. Reading a broad spectrum of Books and learning how think is an excellent way to do this.
/;! 🦋🌺🌸🌻🐕‍🦺🍄🐾🪴

We need to talk about allies, friends, and the differences therein. The war that we are fighting cannot be won by splintering into small partisan groups because of idealogical purity.

I will be the first to list my grievances with neoliberals. We share very little political cohesion. This does not mean, however, that I am unwilling to work with neoliberal candidates and movements to achieve mutual goals.

Just because we differ on long-term objectives does not mean that we are doing any good by arguing in the short term while fascists unite under a push toward authoritarianism.

We cannot allow the left to fracture into a bickering rabble. We must present a united front and work with people we may be ideologically opposed to in the service of stopping a greater danger.

If you disagree with this message, then I beg you to put ego and adherence to personal ideals aside until this crisis has subsided, because we ALL know how this ends if we don't.

#Fascism #Democracy #Unity

@stopgopfox Self-admission: I am *extremely* liberal. But here's what I see being needed:

1) Progressives/liberals need frequently to accept less than 100% of what we want, as some is always better than none.
2) Centrist/moderates need to remember that popular, progressive measures get them elected and energize the Dem base, not pandering to conservatives for votes they'll never get. Enough with the 'bi-partisanship' fetish. GOPers can't be negotiated with in good faith anymore.

The planet is warming thanks to human activity.
Sea levels are rising.
Ecosystems are collapsing.
Diseases are migrating.
Storms are becoming more extreme.
And a pandemic is still killing thousands every week.

And a *priority* for this new GOP Congress is...*checks notes*...condemning socialism.

#anticapitalist #capitalismkills #excessvalue #stolenvaluestolenlabor

#blackhistorymonth #blm #teachrealhistorynotpropaganda #notpropaganda #history #herstory

New York AG Letitia James will seek sanctions on Donald Trump and his lawyers over falsehoods in fraud suit.

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-civil-case-new-york-rcna68779

Amazing. Facebook apparently believes it gets to set the rules for web scraping: it can gather what it wants about others, but nobody else can gather data about Facebook.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-02/meta-was-scraping-sites-for-years-while-fighting-the-practice?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&leadSource=uverify%20wall

Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of effectively killing off many useful bots like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, and more (BuzzFeed News)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/twitter-bot-api-changes-killing-fun
http://www.techmeme.com/230202/p45#a230202p45

FTC prescribes GoodRx a $1.5m bill for 'sharing health info' with web giants https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/02/ftc_goodrx_enforcement/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.namazso.eu/TheRegister/status/1621262545091796994

“As veterans, we have sworn an oath to our Constitution — and actually understand it; not like the Oath Keepers, right? We’re the real keepers of that oath.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nazi-hunter-fascism-antifa-veteran-1234672732/

A 22-year-old Black man says he was beaten up three days before Tyre Nichols was attacked by some of the same officers who were with the now-disbanded Scorpion unit. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/memphis-man-says-was-assaulted-scorpion-officers-charged-tyre-nichols-rcna68860

The next time you use any navigation device, software or Google Maps thank Dr. Gladys West. Her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of Earth, and her work on the development of the satellite models that were eventually incorporated into  the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. #BlackMastodon #BlackHistoryMonth

Column: The stupid and dishonest idea of raising the Social Security retirement age is back https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-02-02/the-stupid-and-dishonest-idea-of-raising-the-social-security-retirement-age-is-back

Some people will be happy that a Twitter Co-Founder is advising Mastodon. Some people will hate it.

Regardless, the Fediverse isn't about people. It's about ideas.

Twitter Co-Founder @biz has offered to advise the Mastodon team.

@Gargron accepted the offer for help.