Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@TonyStark @DeterminedTherapist @MariaHill It's incensing me to hear "protesters" on TV.

It's vandals, rioters, terrorists, and maniacs.

RT @schnibben@twitter.com

Do you remember, @realDonaldTrump@twitter.com ?
#WashingtonDC

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/schnibben/status/1346923307380199430

Happy new year @strypey - in case you missed it, we're now on Mastodon 3.3.0...

@TonyStark

This makes me sick! This is insurrection! A Dark Day for Democracy!

@zleap
No. They don't care. They would sooner cut off the world. It is pathetic and really, anti-American.

Thank you. I hope so, too.
@MariaHill

The U.S. Is Building a Bike Trail That Runs Coast-to-Coast Across 12 States
https://www.ecowatch.com/great-american-rail-trail-2649733595.html

(submitted by Xplor)

Louisville detectives involved in Breonna Taylor shooting fired https://abc11.com/louisville-detectives-involved-in-breonna-taylor-shooting-fired/9407986/ #kentuckypoliceshootingu.s.&worldraceinamericabreonnataylor

School For Africa is an initiative by a Kenyan teacher to help educate some of the poorest kids in the world. You can follow the project at:

➡️ @Jonathan

The project's website is https://schoolforafrica.org

It's run by Fediverse user Jonathan Mburugu, who also posts on his personal account at:

➡️ @JonathanMBR

#SchoolForAfrica #Africa #Education #Schools #Development #Charity #Kenya #Activism

Small is Beautiful

Our first stream for 2021 is tomorrow.

Join @laura and me for an update on our work on @better, Site.js (https://sitejs.org), and Small Web (https://small-tech.org/research-and-development/).

Have your webcam/mic and headphones ready if you want to join the conversation in the studio.

https://small-tech.org/events/small-is-beautiful/

#SmallIsBeautiful #SmallTech #SmallWeb #LiveStream

RT Hannah Murphy
Facebook is ramping up expansion into APAC as pace of growth in developed markets slows

But it's also quietly caving to demands from autocratic govts in the region to censor content, thereby prioritising profits over free speech

Story w/ @JohnReedwrites https://www.ft.com/content/6aa6d57c-bc55-491f-83d9-98666b4fdcef https://twitter.com/MsHannahMurphy/status/1346848183591206912

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The server upgrade went fine, everything should be back to normal.

Some good news everyone should know about:

"Tucked inside the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 6395), which just became law, is a new requirement for federal military and civilian law enforcement personnel involved in the federal government's response to a "civil disturbance" to wear visible identification of themselves and the name of the government entity employing them. That's good news, because requiring such identification should be a no-brainer in a democracy. When government employees are interacting with members of the public and exercising government authority, such as the power to arrest people, the public should have the right to know who the employees are and which agency employs them."

New Law Requires Federal Agents to Identify Themselves to Protesters-
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/new-law-requires-federal-agents-to-identify-themselves-to-protesters/?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=soc&initms=210104_protest_blog_tw&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=soc&ms=210104_protest_blog_tw

Telegram Feature Exposes Your Precise Address To Hackers https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/01/06/0319243/telegram-feature-exposes-your-precise-address-to-hackers #privacy

Mandatory WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update Allows User Data To be Shared With Facebook https://m.slashdot.org/story/21/01/06/1358228/mandatory-whatsapp-privacy-policy-update-allows-user-data-to-be-shared-with-facebook

Via @slashdot@twitter.com

#facebook #whatsapp #eula #privacy

Best wishes for the new year everyone! 🙂

And to start 2021 the right way... I've deployed a beta version of my little #ActivityPub side project to permit following #Twitter users on the #Fediverse very easily (you just have to search for the user on the instance).
Before I go fully public with it, I'll need some beta testers so that I can monitor the hardware usage of my stuff, maybe run into early bugs, and maybe even run into some security issues that will end by burning the web to the ground (maybe).

If you're interested to be that kind of fearless users, being la crème de la crème of beta testers, please contact me via this status or via DM, I'll give you access to it. 😉