ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

So how did we get from the gleaming promise of the digital age as imagined in the 70s to the harsh cyberpunk reality of the 20s?

Centralization, rent seeking, planned obsolescence, surveillance, advertising, and copyright.

How do we move forward?

Re-decentralization, a rejection of the profit motive, building for the future/to be repaired, building for privacy, rejecting advertising, and embracing Free software.

#jacob_rees_mogg #jrm #tories #hypocrisy #law #tridentine #COVID #corobavirus #pandemic #lockdown #global #UK

#Georgia voters-

Today is the last day you can vote in your runoff elections for the U.S. Senate and flip control of the Senate to Democrats.

A Democratic-controlled Senate would pass help for you on health care, COVID relief, climate, and more. Winning Senate control would also allow Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader — rather than Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader — to decide which bills come up for a vote.

Vote for both Rev. Raphael Warnock and and Jon Ossoff to bring 'yes' back to the Senate and end deadlock.

Mask up and drop off your mail-in ballot or VOTE TODAY, Jan. 5!

#VoteWarnockAndOssoff
Voter hotline: 888-730-5816, seven languages spoken. ☎️
Where to vote: https://www.mvp.sos.ga.gov/MVP/mvp.do

Stop. Buying. Apple. Products.

Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-technology-apple-uighur/

Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties, despite the company's promises to hold itself to the 'highest standards,' report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-labor-supplier-3-years-cut-costs-2020-12

Nike and Coca-Cola Lobby Against Xinjiang Forced Labor Bill
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.html

If you seriously think like the OP in this meme you can kindly go fuck yourself, thanks.

Power returned around 3:30-ish. Woo! Heat! Light! Computers! Internet that is not on a damn small phone screen! No more smelling paraffine!

Ok, a brighter 2021 everyone!

I'll start the day off healthy with a new year's walk with my mother soon!

Dear web developers and admins,
please stop embedding Google's hideous #ReCaptcha into your websites. Its algorithm is faulty, forcing regular users to click dozens or even hundreds of fire hydrants, bicycles, or traffic lights each day. It puts a 'suspicious activity' flag on users who won't obey to Google's business model - such as people who don't sign into Chrome, use anonymity VPNs, or use browser extensions to suppress common tracking mechanisms. Enough is enough. Stop it.

@sir why ?

@freemo @QOTO How is the "Q" in "QOTO" pronounced?
As in "queen" ("quoto")?
Or as in the English pronunciation of "Qatar" ("koto")?
I personally prefer the former but I'm wondering what the official stance is.

@freemo @xandrachurch@mas.to I can imagine of such a scenario, say, 1000 or 8000 years later(if humans haven't went to extinction )when humans are living together with other Intelligent animals whose ancestors were treated badly by humans but somehow have gained equal rights as human beings at last. If that is the case, maybe all humans living today would be considered by as "human superemists" according to the moral standard at that time. Well maybe it's improper to use animals as an example, but what I am trying to say is that unless you believe that the current developing stage of human society marks the end of history and the close of moral progress, then it's inevitable that some parts of our once-generally-agreed opinions would be considered unacceptable by the future.

Sad news today. I went to photograph the #tree20 liquidambar tree today as it’s right at the end of the year and so my project is almost complete. Except that it has been cut down! When I saw that it was gone, I felt devastated. It has literally been cut down in its prime. I’m not an expert and so maybe it had some disease. I couldn’t bear to photograph the void it has left behind today.