Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@social.cleverlibre.org

I suppose another takeaway from this whole "Twitter Files" circus is that access journalism is complicit in the rise of American fascism— but I feel like we already kinda knew that

Reminder:

The people who work for you have three resources: time, energy, and give-a-fuck.

Time is the cheapest. It replenishes one hour every hour.

Energy is more expensive. When you're out, you need lots of time off to recharge.

Once give-a-fuck is burned, it's gone forever.

Interesting. I have been using a cross-poster to bring tweets between Twitter and Mastodon - http://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br - Mastodon posts no longer are allowed onto Twitter - Twitter is severely limiting third party tools. This is really, really bad news.

On Twitter it took us almost 5 years to reach to 50,000 followers.

Here at Mastodon we may be able to do it within one month.

Support our mission & amplify our voice.

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Okay, so I used to regularly do this on the other site, but now let's do this here: If you are a reporter and you are writing about a lawsuit where you have access to the complaint and DON'T link to the complaint in your article, you are failing at your job.

It hit me this morning that often what I find frustrating in discussions around "intellectual property", piracy, large datasets for training things like CLIP, &c. is that IP is a really really poor substitute for actually useful conversations around consent and respect

Like Elsevier asking me to "pwease no steal uwu" about journal articles is very different than, like, an individual selling self-published books on the side saying "hey I need this money to pay rent, so please purchase it legit"

An artist saying "hey I don't like for-profit companies building generators from my work that I posted to deviant art" is very different than Disney cracking down on people making shit with characters they "own".

Someone saying "hey this is really personal work, I don't really want it passed around and edited without my consent" is not the same as pebbleyeet getting mad at anti-fash edits of his comics.

IP is bullshit but that doesn't mean we have to take unnuanced all-or-nothing approaches to things.

That would be like saying if you want to support squatters taking over an airbnb then you can't have a lock on your bathroom door: it's conflating such wildly different things that it's a little silly.

The ability to opt-in to encrypted iCloud backups is a really big win for users and bad news for law enforcement, who loved to request iCloud backups to save them the trouble of breaking into a phone.

Paul Gosar has tweeted his support of terminating the US Constitution.

...

When I took vows, I promised "perpetual chastity, poverty, and obedience in the Society of Jesus"

When Senators take the oath of office they promise "to support and defend the Constitution of the United States."

If I were to suddenly say, "I think I'm going to stop honoring my vows, I would no longer be a Jesuit.

...🤔

Just sayin'

https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-gosar-donald-trump-termination-constitution-arizona-2020-election-2022-12?r=US&IR=T

Okay, here we go: my new post: "Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden’s Laptop"

Feel free to refer people to it as needed. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/07/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-twitter-and-hunter-bidens-laptop/

To all Mastodon-admins: seems like there's an attack on all instances by troll accounts. Servers get slow because of it.
They use thousands of subdomains of activitypub-troll.cf. My 'pull' queues skyrocketed.

I now blocked the domain activitypub-troll.cf and all is back to normal. Please check if you're hit too.

The original sin of both tech boosterism and tech criticism is to focus unduly on what a given technology *does*, without regard to who it does it *to* and who it does it *for*. When it comes to technology's effect on our daily lives, the social arrangements matter much more than the feature-sets.

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Kanye has dinner with Nick Fuentes and Trump, then praises Hitler as someone that didn't just do bad things, and then forces "free speech absolutist" Musk to relativize his stance and ban him... In a way this can be seen as a form of involuntary performance art. It throws a hand grenade in the palace if bullshit built by Trump, Elon and Co.

Documentation vs User experience.

"After a month on Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
by @malwaretech

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

In which chatgpt explains the free speech benefits of Section 230 better than many "experts"

Cats do it
Dogs do it
Even educated hogs do it
Let's do it
Let's sleep most of the day