ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

Elon's take over of Twitter has set a lot of things into motion in the digital world

Tumblr and now also Flickr are thinking about intergrating ActivityPub so it will be able to connect to the Fediverse!

A lot of lay offs in the mainstream social media but the Fediverse is only growing!

The world is waking up Social media can be fun but also privacy friendly at the same time, you got the proof now!❤️

No billioaires needed ✅

I hate to tell a lot of these quick trigger finger Fediblock people this, but it's true:

Fediblock should only be used as the nuclear option.

If you use it for things like, "Someone might do a bad thing," then you are diminishing its power.

@freemo

The far-future is a transhumanist transition to something other these frail, ephemeral biological shells.

@antares

Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th.
New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.
https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=42842&lang=en

"Bad ideas tend to be solutions to problems no one really has". This is the case for the Sending Party Network Pays model that is currently debated in the EU & S. Korea & could kill the Internet as we know it. My latest with @unbeatenpath@twitter.com.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/22/the-global-trend-that-could-kill-the-internet-sender-party-network-pays/ #netneutrality

👉🏼 This morning Politico points to Biden’s $369bn subsidy plan for green industries in the US
🏭 Yes, it’s a threat to European industry
🌎 But only if we don’t similarly invest in green transition
🤔 Can we expect such investment in the UK?
😫 If not, our economy will sink even further

This exclusive @RollingStone report is based on more than two dozen sources. And it is dark as hell. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kanye-west-yeezy-porn-bullying-kim-kardashian-1234635221/

My recommendations that I wish satellite companies would follow are:
1. Access to the unpolluted night sky is a human right and should be protected
2. Keep Low Earth Orbit collision-free
3. Minimize atmospheric pollution (both on launch and re-entry)
4. No uncontrolled re-entries
5. International regulation for satellite orbits and numbers

Launching fewer satellites will help with all of these!

More than a third of Twitter’s top 100 clients have not advertised on the platform in the past two weeks, data shows

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/22/twitter-advertiser-exodus-musk/

Felt the need to address this sudden claim by Musk that while he's going to allow hate speech, he'll be "deboosting" it. That's absolutely not going to happen. Smarter people with infinitely more resources have tried.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-donald-trump-civil-rights-ad-boycott-1849810902

Dear students:

If you’re considering emailing a former professor just to check in and say hi, but are hesitant because you have nothing substantive to say, consider this an invitation to go ahead and send that email. It really means a lot.

Today was movie day in my election integrity class. We deconstructed Pillow Guy and other "stop the steal" videos.

It really struck me how deep a background you need to reliably spot the faulty logic or outright fabrications. The students did fine, but if you're predisposed to believe the elections were rigged, these videos provide easy comfort food.

#ElectionIntegrity

Regular reminder Mastodon ActivityPub and the Fediverse have nothing to do with "web3" or "crypto", at all.

It's a DHT behind ActivityPub AFAIK. Not "crypto" technology but boring old computer science.

Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/

And they mention the word ActivityPub! In the title! In a major article! Not just "Mastodon"!

Wow!

GOP and the media are angrier that Naomi Biden, the grandchild of the President, had a White House wedding they weren’t invited to than they are about the grandchild of a Republican elected official murdering 5 and injuring 18 in an anti-gay rampage

Priorities, amirite? 😒

To my fellow instance admins:

Please don't tell Black people and other people of color to leave your instance and to go find another that's preferable to them.

That's like telling people to go find another neighbourhood. And you know what that sounds like?

Segregation.

Let's not segregate the Fediverse.

@stanstallman @mergerson In reality, the server was trying to *protect* her against an impersonator.

Disturbed by reports of Black Mastodon users—Black women in particular—having negative experiences on this app, including being randomly banned for discussions of racism. Some of these users will not come back. All will share their experiences. The answer is not to condescendingly lecture them on “how the fediverse works,” as if their experiences are inevitable, nor to swear to do better next time. (There may not be one.) It’s to do better now lest the reputation of this app be cemented.

Doing a bit of an experiment. Boost if you agree!

Trans rights are human rights.

Black lives matter.

No human is illegal.

Love is love.

Her body is her choice.

Science is real.

Kindness is everything.