Today marks 1 week since I started using Mastodon. It is honestly so I'll media utopia we are all living. I'm glad I joined when I did..... I don't know if (or when) this place will turn into hell but.... Im glad I'll be able to say I've lived throught the best of its days..🌺 🌹
Also, I'm sure all of us here don't agree with each other a 💯. But I'm glad many chose to simply ignore toots they don't agree with/ find stupid.
I don't know it's its the layout which doesn't tempt you to "call out"
Speaking of...
Here is some calligraphy I did a while back of the word "minimum" written so its the same upside down and reversed as it is right side up.
Not perfect I should try it again.
“Metropolitan Life Insurance Company” 1958 ad https://danismm.tumblr.com/post/188981890888/metropolitan-life-insurance-company-1958-ad
Documentary Recommendation on a Snowy day... 😃
A favourite since I first saw it, Professor Betanny Hughes wrote and presented "When Moors Ruled Europe".
I loved and was fascinated by it, years later had the opportuinity to see Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada in the Andalucia region, Souther Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_The_Moors_Ruled_In_Europe
There's a full copy on Youtube.
Consider your options when deciding on home surveillance. Allowing audio and video recordings to be uploaded to a centralized server can allow intruders (#hackers, #google, #amazon, #governments, #police) access to your home, circumventing the protection you originally hoped for.
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/103067981371758017
#Privacy matters.
#Freedom matters.
Be part of the solution to end #surveillance #capitalism.
This was inevitable. Such activities will continue—and escalate—until states move to ban the commercial trade in digital weapons. This criminal model of business effects everyone, everywhere. It produces only harm. https://t.co/dk6UsMkmd5
Desktop site is loading normal for me right now.
I don't see the full URL on your browser, but just opened https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/
Found an eBook version at Archive.org.... Downloadable ePub or other formats.
https://archive.org/details/edwardsnowdenpermanentrecordmetropolitanbooks2019
Cory Doctorow's review of Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record" book is very good. The book is on my wishlist.
Like Father, like Son...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/11/donald-trump-jr-triggered-protest
"Just one set of numbers, from the University of California, Berkeley, economist Gabriel Zucman:
The 400 richest Americans — the top .00025 percent of the population — now own more of the country’s riches than the 150 million adults in the bottom 60 percent of wealth distribution. The 400’s share has tripled since the 1980s."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/opinion/billionaires-warren-wealth-tax.html
watching a (non-fediverse) volunteer moderation team spin its wheels for a very long time as people slowly get burned out
volunteering emotional labor is hard. doing it in an environment dominated by hand-wringing and inaction where you feel dis-empowered to effect change is 10 times harder. doing it when some of the userbase wants to kill people like you and gets to stick around anyway is 10 times harder again
only solutions i can come up with are radical decentralization of online spaces fediverse-style, or making moderation paid (w/ good mental health benefits). neither are good solutions for large traditional (non-decentralized) volunteer comms systems
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Books, Bicycles & Cats, Life is Good. Books, hardcover. Bikes, Classic sport and Touring ones. Cats, any colour or size. Aquarius with Virgo rising. INTJ.
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