Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

Bluesky’s having a bit of a moderation crisis, which got me thinking about the ways in which the major Twitter clones approach moderation:

#Bluesky has libertarian “free speech at all costs”.
#Threads has puritan neoliberal top-down moderation.
#Twitter (Musk era) has Nazis-to-the-front anti-moderation.
#Mastodon has community moderation, a server covenant, and vote-with-your-feet accountability.

The first three are run by tech-bro billionaires. The latter is not. And it shows.

reddit is just privatized usenet. slack is just privatized irc. streaming is just privatized piracy. social media is just privatized blogging

Last October I preordered the ClockworkPI uConsole...

Well I just had the notification from FedEx, it should arrive on Tuesday 😂

So hopefully I'll finally have a portable 4G capable #raspberryPi - it'll only been 9 months since I ordered it to getting it

#linux #clockworkPi #uConsole

Elon Musk notoriously steals content and passes it off as his own. He even justified stealing other people's content to me directly in a response to a story I wrote about this topic for the NYT just 2 years ago https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/style/elon-musk-memes.html

OMG who did this? I am crying

Apple’s anti-remote policy allows them to legally discriminate against both disabled and older applicants.

- many disabled people are fully qualified to do a job, yet can’t be in an office environment.
- older applicants often have established families that are impossible to relocate. Owned housing. Spouses/partners with established careers.

Being remote doesn’t disqualify you from being able to do many Apple jobs. I was fully remote for 12 years at Apple. Pre-webex. It was never an issue

In solidarity with the writers strike I will

The old computer desk is getting ever more busy. After some restoration work this weekend, I hope I can get the last ones working again. #retrocomputing