⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

We can't (and shouldn't) bring back the old, good internet.

We can (and must!) make a NEW, good internet.

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

#enshittification #interoperability #labor #news #FreedomOfReach #bossware

Pornhub wins injunction that blocks Texas age-verification law

Texas was supposed to start enforcing the law tomorrow.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/pornhub-wins-injunction-that-blocks-texas-age-verification-law/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

UK peeps: Please consider signing this parliamentary petition (Stop the passing of the Online Safety Bill)? https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

"Whoa there" yourself, Adobe. I am mildly annoyed by the phrasing that makes it look like it's my fault that a corporation can't be bothered to develop for Firefox.

When I joined Amazon in 2017, it prided itself on being a data-driven company. If you had an idea for a product or a service or a process, and could back it with credible data, you’d get support to implement it.

Andy Jassy has lost sight of that core principle. In a much-newsed temper tantrum, “Mr Jassy declined to share data that motivated his decision to require employees to return to the office. … “Mr Jassy told Amazon staff he had spoken to many other CEOs and ‘virtually all of them’ preferred having their employees back in the office.”

Oh, honey… talking to other CEOs who share your executive blinders (and lower level managers who tell you what you want to hear) is not the same as having actual data about the productivity you claim will be gained, and indeed Jassy “said it was a ‘judgement call.’”

IMO, the real drivers of the back-to-office push include:

• All that expensive commercial real estate sitting empty looks bad to shareholders.
• All those expensive homes near the office (owned by the higher echelons of the companies, who can afford them) will lose value if being near the office no longer matters.
• Executives feel that employees gained too much power during the pandemic, and are desperate to regain control — even at the cost of reneging on “forever” promises. Forcing employees to do something they don’t want to shows you’re in control.
• Managers and execs are stuck in an old worldview where being able to look over your crew of peons in person and “actively manage” them is a marker of power, regardless of what useful work those people are actually performing.
• Executives are like teenagers in their need to be part of the in crowd. The in crowd of corporate execs has now decided that a “strong leader” gets people back into the office, and they are increasingly draconian in their anxiety to catch up with their peers. Their employees are not their peers, and execs do not care what those employees think about them.

…probably you can come up with more on your own!

“Facebook has already shifted users’ agreements for UK users away from the EU to its US terms, does not allow UK users to opt-out of personalised advertisements, nor do they plan to switch to a consent-based model of advertising like is happening in Europe.

It's more than obvious that Facebook doesn't believe the Information Commissioner's Office will enforce UK data protection standards."

🗣️ @marianods for ORG

#GDPR #dataprotection #meta #ukpolitics

https://theferret.scot/uk-privacy-watchdog-threads-app-probe/

Have a very lovely lady (late twenties? smart, fun, well travelled, very positive and chatty) who I have placed in a London role (front end dev, Oxford Circus) moving to London for first time and looking for a flat share or room. Ideally within 30 mins public transport of Oxford Circus, and obv with someone lovely. Please can you boost this for reach? She needs a place in the next 2 weeks. Thanks! (thayer@team-prime.com)

Today we are running our first #joydiversion as part of the Right to the Streets project in Trafford. It will be a day of meandering, exploring and discovery. Using avatars, maps and unusual activities. #psychogeography #meandering #safety

KTM X-Bow (Pullback)
#klemmbausteine #lego #afol #afob #pullback #ktm

@addressforbots @Gieljan Worse than that: it was a coronavirus that gave everybody a really bad cold once a year, knocking 10-20 IQ points off them for a month via brain fog, thereby blunting the "too much thinking/computing" problem bringing about CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN. So, yeah, that aged really well …!

Pleased to say that my UK ISP have taken the Open Rights Group out from behind their "adult content" block. It comes after me asking why they were blocking it and them repeatedly denying that they were. I wonder if I can get them to take any part of archive.org from behind the "adult content" block.

England's data watchdog warns national health service it needs to show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement. Reminder: that's 40+ million patients' data, if they don't opt out. More from @datadictum on The Reg here https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/29/nhs_fdp_palantir_lockin/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.fdn.fr/TheRegister/status/1696484845428322688

Welp, I just took my twitter account private and will no longer be posting there except for a monthly "don't delete me, bro" check-in. We'll see how long it lasts. Meanwhile I'm over here and same name at Bluesky. (@cstross).

It could be worse; you could be on call for the UK air traffic control.
✈️

@cstross

And the worm was probably transmitted by a python.

I'm going back to using Perl.

Darwinia from Introversion Software gets a big compatibility upgrade https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/darwinia-from-introversion-software-gets-a-big-compatibility-upgrade/

#Gaming #PCGaming #Linux

In 2017 a man, after some thought, had a simple but genius idea and took a camera on a Southwest flight from Portland, Oregon to St. Louise and captured one of the most breathtaking images of all time.

Jon Carmichael's "108" is probably my favorite #eclipse image and provokes introspection every time I see it.

#space #astronomy #astrophotography #photography

The Expanse - A Telltale Series (2023): The Artemis

Lead Environment Artist Tommy Spampinato: "I had the task of taking the Artemis ship from a little more than a prototype to a final asset. Some new details I made but most was kit bashed from assets that the [Deck Nine Games] team made."

The third episode is now available.

Two years have flown since I unleashed my cyberpunk anthem, "AKIRA" 🎶

To celebrate its birthday, grab a complimentary download on Bandcamp for the next 24 hours.

Plug into the vibe!

💾 https://revengeday.bandcamp.com/album/akira-single

#fedimusic #MastoArt #drumandbass #dnb