Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
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Provenientes del Panteón de San Lorenzo Tezonco en Iztapalapa -
MORTUM SURFERS -
"Playa del Crimen"
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Without FFmpeg, we couldn't watch YouTube, yet the people who maintain FFmpeg don't get paid. Tell your employer to join the Pledge and #PayTheMaintainers!
@adra
As for the article, well, to try + make a reply as short as possible, yet not pointless, there are a couple of things I would disagree with, but my post was not so much to call attention to this article in particular.
So - What's wrong about it? as in EFF? -
Could I just say, I would not have a problem with eff if they were called something like the "silicon valley corporate and cultural domination promotion psyop foundation". Although that IS a bit of a mouthful, I would have to agree
@adra
That's a good question, and makes me think that I don't really have a lot of desire to get into it here - Which makes me wonder, why then did I post this comment? Perhaps, I too fall prey to the desire to probe for resonance on "social" media. A "fav" or a quick response makes one feel less alone.
I also thought about how one could write something like "it's nuanced", or "If you know, you know", and I put that here now as an insight to the process, not to actually say those things.
#EFF once again giving reasons to question their motives and allegiances
Note to self:
Marath Baruch Bolaños López[1] en la #mañanera hablando sobre Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro y la situación de repartidores - personas con #trabajo en "plataformas digitales" -
#Uber, #Didi, #Rappi
Impedir la explotación es bueno; pienso tb en:
¿que se necesita para que hayan plataformas mexicanas, O mejor, - hasta locales, comunitarias?
¿Formación?
¿Acceso a computadoras? ¿hospedaje de servidores?
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=qF4EcbD21ag&t=16m10s
[1] https://www.gob.mx/stps/estructuras/marath-baruch-bolanos-lopez
So, there was a question in the Presidential Press Conference about a #sovereign #socialnetwork.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=aiRzBFPB27s&t=1h6m12s
Interesting theme.
The question was from ECOS Media Mx, which looks very "startup", not really into sovereignty or autonomy; https://ecosmedia.mx/
Looks more into the standard publicity model, "influencers", centralised platforms + the usual that goes along with that stuff.
All the same, It would be interesting to talk about how they perceive a sovereign "Social Network"
Si alguien responde, se hará otro #PLQQ este jueves 17 de octubre a las 16 horas.
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And I think that leads me to a concern I have been brooding over in the last few weeks:
👉 The #Fediverse is not a drop-in replacement for #Twitter.
And it shouldn't be, because that would undermine the added value that comes
1) from local communities, connected by shared values, that also federate,
2) from empowering individuals to be in control of their identity and data, and
3) from the open standards that allow extending the "language" of the network.
(5/7)
You might rightly suggest that there is bias due to happening to live in these particular times, but here's a statement;
The worst event to ever afflict humanity is the emergence of the #Mobile #Phone, aggravated by the #Internet.
At times I do consider that ironically, recovery could be via the internet itself, or #digital #technology in general. Other times not, and I'd say better cut losses now.
However, many of the people I work worth are not even open to observing the problem. 😞
Why on earth anybody would use #threads is beyond my understanding. #Instagram, I get there are reasons to want to be on there, but threads???
@how@s10y.eu
Funders or Fenders? If that is a typo, I think it should stay!
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Of course there are military Starlinks. Shit.
"The LOFAR researchers also identified more brightly glowing satellites than publicly published orbital data accounted for. The researchers suspect the extras could be military Starlink satellites being deployed for a US Dept of Defense project called Starshield. If they’re right, the satellites are not as secret as the Pentagon thinks—and the interference problem could be worse than the public satellite numbers suggest."
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Reminder of how much we like to criminalize being poor.
Skipping a $3.50 transit fare results in a $425 fine while skipping a $20 parking pass lands you a $70 fine that rich people complained to high heaven about. What justification, other than hating poor people, is there for this not scaling?
Make parking fines $2000 and then let's talk about the fictional "war on cars"
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This is how people used to ignore each other before smartphones existed
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