Wat een prachtige dag weer voor de bootlickers in de Nederlandse pers en politiek, om te tonen dat ze nog erger zijn dan Fox News.
Vergelijk gewoon even. Bijvoorbeeld The Atlantic, Nieuwsuur en Rutte.
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Hospitals are treating regular flu and bird flu patients in the same wards, increasing the potential for bird flu to pick up genes from other flu strains in a way that would facilitate human-to-human transmission.
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Musk-Trump’s first month in office has represented such an all-out assault on the functionality of government that it’s hard to comprehend the totality of what is happening. But one way to view it is that each Trump appointee heading a different aspect of the federal system has their own destructive potential. When acting in concert, the result will be catastrophic.'
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What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a presence on X—and other US platforms are not a good long-term solution either. More should follow the example of the @EUCommission and provide their updates directly, without middlemen, through the fediverse.
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I think that if that happened, people would sort it out quite quickly, but I am also very happy to be on Mastodon in any case.
@samsonite
Sometimes "quickly" is too late.
Even five minute delay can easily collapse the stock market, for example.
Indeed. One of the Fediverse's strengths is that, like ec.social-network.europa.eu/ any country or coalition could set up an official and hardened server that assures the public of a trusted source of information dissemination.
The time for this is now.
European Commission on Mastodon
Mastodon instance managed by the European Commission.Mastodon hosted on ec.social-network.europa.eu
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@NoRomBasic @EUCommission can you actually view the link you gave? i can't
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The European Commision that are the EU politicians who loves to go to a war (read send our childeren to their dead). In name working for peace but looking after minerals under the dead bodys. A corrupt collection of people busy with corruption and taxes everything for the good of big coperations.
A verry trustworthty thing if you loves corruption and war. There are worst things but that are not saints and more a lie than Santa Claus.
@NoRomBasic Back in October 2023 I have advised the European Commission to do & coordinate this. And I have repeated this advice in 2024, January 2025 and February 2025.
They should have done it before the European elections, but the second/best time is yesterday. Momentum is growing. #LetsDoIt
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The new paradigm is quality over quantity.
The trustworthy, not corrupted communication is key.
AI, algorithms, aggressive agents make a quality communication impossible.
The future belongs to the brave ones.
Go for Fediverse.
DO IT NOW.
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There are also examples of him just stealing handles he wanted, so it's not unprecedented.
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Not just in Europe... US state and local governments, and agencies like fire, police and other emergency management, should all be sending communications through publicly owned and accessible channels.
"What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account"
If Musk does that, it would only accelerate the currently rapid decline in usage and value of a server he paid $44 billion to gain control over.
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Musk now controls much more than $44 billion
Musk now controls much more than $44 billion
@elCelio Musk seems to be following a 'chaos capitalism' model similar to Trump's where the gains of a previous venture give leverage in the higher stakes next one, all the while previous stepping stones are destroyed and abandoned along with their debts.
Tesla car sales have collapsed in Europe as no-one wants to buy or be seen in a swasticar.
Politicians who are unaffiliated with Musk need to get off Twitter/X immediately. Why would you allow him to control your voice ?
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having all those social media CEOs at the inauguration proves this medium matters. the question is when everybody will start taking it seriously, including lots of people here. it's bigger than hanging out with only the people who agree with you. we have private groups for that. what we're doing here matters for civics and the only way to do that right is decentralized without corporate ads or algos. #SocialWeb
People/Companies should at least post on multiple platforms.
If you are or know a decider on where to post for press statements, please consider posting on mastodon in addition to where you do now.
Not for your sake, but for ours. Early adopters might get some extra love though, so it might be worth for you as well 😛
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@SheDrivesMobility we‘re smart enough to not trust stuff written on X thaaat blindly by now, I‘d think.
What stops Musk from cancelling Ukraine's ability to use Starlink?
Nothing. I expect that will be announced tomorrow at the latest.
"¿Qué puede impedir que Musk, que ya ha intentado interferir en las elecciones alemanas, se apodere de la cuenta X de Zelensky o de cualquier otro líder europeo y publique algo con consecuencias geopolíticas nefastas? Ya hemos superado el punto en el que es sensato que los líderes e instituciones europeos dependan de una presencia en X, y otras plataformas estadounidenses tampoco son una buena solución a largo plazo. Más personas deberían seguir el ejemplo de @EUCommission y proporcionar sus actualizaciones directamente, sin intermediarios, a través del fediverso."
I hate to put this out here because I would hate for somebody to see it and give anybody an idea but I’ve been worried for hours about the muskrat turning off Starlink in Ukraine.
Here in Canada, maybe our PM will post something about this concern on X...🙄
@adventure_tense It's pretty clear now that X and Facebook have migrated into being tools of right wing propaganda. To be using them (as well as Threads), is to be willing to expose oneself to that toxicity and feel it won't harm one's self.
It will.
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I think its safe to say US and EU interests no longer align and the EU would benefit controlling its own data and media because they've been pumping feeds with anti EU messaging for years by tweaking with algorithms
If you still have an X account, you're not part of the solution.
Everyone needs to get the hell off Twitter. Even if you think Musk is on your side, he'll abandon you as soon as he thinks it's good for him. If you don't control your own social media presence, you're under someone's boot.
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I agree. I cannot believe so many top European key people and leaders still post on a Nazi's platform. It's like the EU giving Russia weapons to attack Ukraine and greater Europe. It's quite unbelievable.
Nothing.
But to be honest, #Musk can also play stupid games with Ukraine's internet.
@EUCommission @briankrebs
I never understood why democratic institutions or officials publish statements via a platform which is privately owned and in a foreign country instead of publishing a news release on a server they control.
I recommend to write/talk to our official again and again and remind them. For instance with the question: I saw xy statement from you on X, is it fake or can you confirm ?
Thanks @EUCommission for regaining control
Thanks. But the handle? ec.social-network.europa.eu? WTF! I would like to have a European response to Meta and X. Think big. A @ europa.eu handle. Just imagine KajaKallas@europa.eu
What you say is the reasonable, right thing to do. We all wish that'd happen. But, for reasons that escape my comprehension, they won't do it. And if they were gonna do it, they would have done before now.
Our Twitter Space Nazi on Ketamine is itching for this opportunity to meddle again. So restrict X during all elections
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tpfkaTwitter is not my big fear from the goofy super-villain.
half of Ukraine *was* relying on the Musk monopoly #Starlink for a while, lets hope they found back-up systems.
simply put, there needs to be a strong movement against this new American style fascism, which isn't so much different then Nazi style fascism. I just don't think we are quite there yet. Not enough people have been disinfeanchised by all of this, yet!
Seems time for a coordinated withdrawal / boycott by all people / organisations / countries who value freedom.
It would be good if Mastodon stop using US provider for hosting.
@Linux what do you mean by mastodon, joinmastodon.com? mastodon.social? Mastodon as a whole of course is spread all over, IIRC some stats site said majority of the instances are located in europe.
well, you still didn't say what services you meant but I see after checking that I asked about are what you meant. Here's actually an article on Fastly's site talking about how they provide free hosting: fastly.com/customers/mastodon
I will say this doesn't make what @Gargron pointed out moot since it is still the case that Mastodon is more than just the servers run by Mastodon GmbH and the European Comission probably does not host their instance in the USA. Ofc you didn't claim that.
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Mastodon scales and protects social media app servers and reduces egress by 75%.www.fastly.com
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I would think if he did it would be an instant banning of all his companies and hold all funds
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The European Commission is on Bluesky too: bsky.app/profile/ec.europa.eu, but hopefully they’ll be able to switch to their own PDS or one based in Europe one day…
#Bluesky #ATProtocol #Europe #EU
Absolutely! Looking forward to when it's normal for governments and new organizations to have an official Mastodon instance that simply gets relayed to wherever needed.
Why to stop Musk or anyone in speaking?
Because nobody is skilled to answer him? Realy?
Free speech is the diverence between a freedom or tyrany. Are whe for a tyrany or for freedom?
Humanity know for ages, even since the beginning, misleading speaches. Whe have Sects, Kings, KGB, Mosad, CIA, USAID, NSA and a million other organisations with the most important purpose of misinformation. Freedom survived with al of them. But when speech is forbidden everyone dieds.
Oh, i'm 90% positive he's using the entire twitter user data analytics on a rebooted Cambridge Analytica Ver. 2 to try and bend elections. He's got something shaking & baking his "project dojo" so bad it causes local blackouts regularly, and somehow I doubt with the types of LLM specialists he's got roped off on his 'special project' they're dinking with his cars visual recognition problems.
as someone who loves Musk, this really is the better way. Can't live one someone else's platform when communicating is that important.
there’s a broader discussion to be made about why there are no social media companies from the EU, and the dominant platforms are all from the US. China at least has their own homegrown alternatives. Feels like the EU indirectly dug their own grave by making the business landscape so unfriendly towards social media businesses.
thank you for these clear and reasonable words!
your server is located in the United States.
when will be the time to leave?
when will be the time to leave?
They will wait until they will have their profiles blocked, excluded or shadowbanned.
his lack of creativity, don’t give him ideas.
What's to stop Musk from creating fake accounts for people not on X?
a likelier threat scenario is shadowbanning
same goes for META
we should seriously consider the concept of European social media platforms which would be administered by an independently elected body made up of representative states. The infrastructure and social reach already exists in the Eurovision platform via the EBU and could be subscription based or funded by state media.
That's probably for the public to decide. However, I think Elon Musk is becoming overly concerned with issues that don't contribute to US growth. He should focus on his role in the Department of Government Efficiency and avoid meddling in other countries' affairs.
That's one way to describe fascism, but I don't think it's a very accurate way.
I imagine the almost immediate shutdown of X in Europe if this happened would prevent him but expecting behaviour based on some rational self interest has long gone out the window
If posting on a social media platform has geopolitical consequences, it is the era of Idiocracy
@kaito02 Could you explain this? It's kind of hard for a "normie" to catch the finer nuances of such issues 😅 You can host your own server just like Mastodon, right?
Technologically this is pretty easy to accomplish. For example, many (if not most) of the Fediverse-compatible server platforms allow for anonymous browsing of posts. So even now there is no real restriction for people that merely wish to read communications. Replicating those feeds onto a more “classic” website server instance is not that complicated from a coding or server admin standpoint.
So the capability to do that is already there.
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that's going to be the point where world politics will hopefully no longer be played out on social media....
On the other hand: there is an expression in German "don't wake sleeping dogs", meaning: don't give them ideas they have maybe not yet had. @EUCommission
At that point we could expect the total collapse of the stocks of all US-based social networks and dire consequences everywhere but inside the US
this already happened on reddit years ago.
you had me at "stop musk"
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"What problems does this solve?"
"You see, now it is on the blockchain"
"You see, now it is on the blockchain"
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We had similar thoughts, I see.
@oli I don't always agree with him but he cited my blog at an awards show and I was really chuffed by that level of recognition and then he *immediately* turned around and did this stupid fuckup
@glyph @oli people may be great at analyzing tech oligarchy and enshittification but such excellence does not carry over to making software or making choices about software architectures. A great music critic can not automatically emit good music themselves etc a Marxist does not automatically come with a convivial vision of an anti-capitalist community.
That sound you just heard was that of a certain enshittification expert's hand slapping resoundingly into his face.
Nothing wrong with building a handy fire exit onto the blockchain.
Did you know it's decentralized? Ooooh! Maybe we'll get NFTs!
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Glad you pointed that out. I was pretty bummed to see him shill for bsk AND this grift. I await an update.
Glad you pointed that out. I was pretty bummed to see him shill for bsk AND this grift. I await an update.
@oli Cory Doctorow was somehow directly involved in this, so uh... 🙃
It's so funny, it's like what if you got a bunch of celebrities and tech ppl with big names on their resumes, give them a ton of money, and then they did absolutely zero work and had zero thoughts about what to do.
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"The blockchain makes it so no single entity has control over a network, except for the kinds of things that can be on the blockchain, their structure, and the stuff you can do with them, that's decided by 5 uh.... wallets"
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This is like how Free Our Feeds is overseen by the mysterious 9 Custodians of Wisdom.
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you know how the whole deal with blockchains is how they are like distributed consensus and provide a means of deciding between parallel, competing histories of events? not this one. it's so complicated to do distributed consensus in literally 1kb subsets of messages that we just reject out of order changes
now you have two problems.
"First I had a problem, so I put it on the blockchain. Now I have two problems."
solving for "how can I make this _useless_ but _technically_ permanent?"
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@glyph
If I didn't actually care about p2p and just be a grifter it would be so easy to just become stupid rich in the dweb space
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If I didn't actually care about p2p and just be a grifter it would be so easy to just become stupid rich in the dweb space
@jalefkowit thought you wrote "dweeb" there for a second, and… uh… okay maybe you did
the first law of cryptodynamics applies
oh that’s incredible levels of grift, let’s see how it works out for them @davidgerard
Considering its origins, I am not surprised.
Let's solve the problem of the centralised expensive database by moving it to an even more expensive database!
let's keep it centralized without saying we're keeping it centralized, by making it prohibitive for it to be decentralized
Infurialarious.
@jalefkowit @glyph
Just the name "Project Liberty" sets off an alarm.
I don't know if everyone on this thread is in the USA, but usually any group with the words "Freedom", "Liberty" or "Patriot" is a right-wing grift.
@jalefkowit @glyph I say do it anyway, but funnel all that coin into good. Much better for the planet than in the pocket of an asshole.
lol holy shitting christ that's incredible
@davidgerard Disappointed to see Audrey T apparently involved in this bullshit.
@oblomov @kittylyst @davidgerard i don't know how... big pool of money, closed group of high-status people... bad vibes only as far as i was aware
waiting for it to be sold off as an NFT
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Apparently we aren't Fash enough for @protonprivacy
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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Feeling kind of spicy today.
Might regret later.
honestly this whole argument of taking up resources seems like such horseshit. With various publishing tools supporting mastodon... It's not that much added effort.
Plus it shows that you give a shit as a company.
There are so many companies on fedi that don't even come close to Proton's revenue and they're magically able to do it
Plus it shows that you give a shit as a company.
There are so many companies on fedi that don't even come close to Proton's revenue and they're magically able to do it
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also find it interesting how they didn't post this to their mastodon account. Instead just letting it die without anyone on here noticing xd
@thibaultmol maybe this is their way of telling is "the intern lost the password and we don't care enough to reset it".
@thibaultmol I post here regularly, on almost no budget whatsoever.
What...how fucking hard is it to use an app that posts to multiple platforms?
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@jcrabapple
That was my thought exactly. Or heck, even copy and paste.
That was my thought exactly. Or heck, even copy and paste.
@jcrabapple they got a looot of shit here, but rarely any arguments
@Kierkegaanks @jcrabapple
they got a lot of shit on bsky as well, but they're not leaving there for Some Reason
they got a lot of shit on bsky as well, but they're not leaving there for Some Reason
@jcrabapple
Really? Make an effort.
Really? Make an effort.
First Substack, now Proton. Someone needs to write an article about it. Call them out.
Michael, add the hashtag 😂
@manualdousuario it's the text in their bio !
I can't understand why they didn't put a pined post announcing their literal departure of the platform
"People on Mastodon keep being mean to our Fash CEO and his feelings are more important than our products"
Typical Tech Bros mentality, I guess the rot has set in at Proton, 'Swiss company' or not.
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Oh, I see Proton are touting some kind of 'Bitcoin Wallet' now so we know which way this shithouse is going......very disappointing and not what the customers asked for, but fuck us right?
We're just a resource to exploit, American style!
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@Lazarou I'd be happy if it wasn't shoehorned into every user's faces. If I want to do transactions in cryptocurrency for whatever reason (I'm sure there are a few valid ones) I'll get an appropriate program to do so, I don't like how companies are joining in on this bandwagon as a marketing fad.
@Lazarou Yeah, I had a Proton account for several years and was *this close* to doing a big migration of 10+ years of Gmail to them, when the following happened in about a 6 month period:
- cryptocurrency integration. Ok, meh, don't like that sort of thing, but there's probably non-trivial overlap between "better privacy/security" people and cryptocurrency people so ... I can live with it. For now. Continue working out Gmail migration.
- "AI" doohickeys. Optional, and fairly restrained, but a classic entry point for enshittification. Put planned Gmail migration on hold.
- CEO kissing up to Trump, or at least thinking he can actually trust anything Trump says or does to mean anything: Start actively looking elsewhere for private email.
- CEO putting a disguised "88" in user name: oh hell no, this really is not someone I can trust. I don't care if they might have been born in 1988, they sure AF weren't born in 191011000, and they *really, really* wanted something that looks like a disguised "HH" in their user name...
Really? Oh boy. As a Proton visionary customer I am really getting annoyed by the recent 'news' created by Proton.
I am not on Reddit. I don't want to be on Reddit. If Proton forces me to use Reddit to be contact, this means I will need to reconsider my subscription.
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it's not a post, it's just in their bio.
They didn't want to make a post about it because they didn't want people to realize they stopped caring about us probably
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Thanks for this. It reminded me to cancel my subscription (not easy to find) which will expirer in 15 months.
: please edit your post to say that this is was posted several years ago and that Proton came back and is now actively posting on the Fediverse.
So, yeah, this is fake news.
EDIT: I was wrong, they recently did the same mistake as years ago.
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@sams : wait, what ? They posted exactly that message years ago ! (circa 2022)
What are game are they playing?
"We thought you would like our scam better so we're focusing our attention where people do and pretending this never happened"
I had been trying to de-Google myself over the last couple years, and today I finally had to delete my Proton account. I feel bad for people that work there, but Proton can fuck off into the sun.
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@cadusilva now i need to move arround this horseshit, suggestion guys?
@v_raton @cadusilva I would suggest staying away from companies that provide "encrypted email". There's only one company that offers full encryption of everything (unlike Proton) which is Tuta. But you're locked into using their clients as they don't use PGP. You can decide whether you care about that.
I personally use Migadu. They're much smaller and require you to own a domain, but their support is excellent and their cheapest plan is very affordable.
Then again, almost any email provider is a step up from Proton.
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the CEO of @protonprivacy is a TechBro that don't like to receive criticism for advocating about some things and do the contrary things
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still need to go cancel all my proton things. Ugh, just stop being garbage. I have too much shit to do to cancel everything as soon as a company turns out to be absolutely shit.
I had already cancelled my subscription. This is the impetus I needed to fully delete my account.
That's unfortunate.
Just today I wanted to subscribe to their email and vpn service, but now I won't.
Will check Tuta.
Just today I wanted to subscribe to their email and vpn service, but now I won't.
Will check Tuta.
ah, well, @protonprivacy probably didn't like the type of questions they were getting here. Isn't it ironic how a company valuing privacy as much as they claim to do leaves the social media platform with the greatest user control to keep using an ad and spam ridden platform?
I don't blame them. It seems lately that instead of suggesting ways that Proton could improve their policies or actions they should take, people here on Mastodon have just been calling them names. Why would they stay?
@Anne_Delong Agree. The only thing I blame Proton is that they haven't created their own Fediverse instance, but almost no company or gov do it anyway.
They made their choice a while ago and got the deserved backlash for it
Run little piggies, run @protonprivacy 
they didn’t get enough apologists here like they did on reddit
Which used to be the one of the best features of twitter. The amount of times I got proper help because I bitched at a corporate account there was quite high.
I know it's contentious, but I would love to have that experience here.
wow. @protonprivacy just digging in on being complete fucking losers, huh?
"follow us on reddit" is a whole... Choice.
I love when an organisation claims they don't have enough resources to do what millions of individuals manage to do all the time
Oh... Reddit ?
The site who has AI training contracts with Google? No thanks.
The site who has AI training contracts with Google? No thanks.
They are too busy lying about what kind of information they collect
honest question: what’s a good alternative to proton? Self hosting is not really a valid option (did that for years, it’s just a nightmare as you’re by default treated as a spammer).
What's important for you? Only encryption? A full suite of tools like Drive, Calendar, Pass etc? Support any business to compete with US-BigTech?
If everything you need is a simple e-mail, look for Tuta or Posteo.net. Tuta is the direct competitor of Proton.
I use Posteo and Proton. I keep a Gmail address for spam. I have nothing against Tuta, it's just that the other arrived first. 😀
@veroandi oh tuta looks great! European, mail and calendar, encryption… thanks!
@veroandi @NicolasRinaudo Do you know a better full suite alternative? I want to cut Google/Apple Drive, mail and calender, 1 Password etc. and without scattering things too much.
I don't know any pro-privacy company that offers, today, a full suite with password manager and VPN as Proton does, only the classic suite (email/calendar/drive/office/etc).
For a classic suite, I'm sure there are many options, but I'll let what I know without thinking too much:
Murena.io from France:
murena.com/workspace/
Infomaniak from Switzerland:
infomaniak.com/fr/ksuite
You can create a free account to test their services before adopting it 😀
Murena's Workspace
Murena Workspace is your complete, fully deGoogled, online ecosystem!Murena - deGoogled phones and services
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@christianschwaegerl @veroandi @infomaniak_network except maybe for the bit about IA which might be fair enough, but has also turned into a bit of a red-flag for me 😀
yeah, they're ableist and fash fucks, sorry but they are, and sadly all pseudo privacy mails are like that, there's not single one that isn't.
a very good point made on Reddit...
Leave the platform where you have the biggest following?
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@silvermoon82 @ret heyy sorry for going offtopic, what's with protonmail and their ceo? I haven't followed the news around them(i use other privacy email server)
@lina @silvermoon82 good summary... theintercept.com/2025/01/28/pr…
Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)
@ploum check my post:
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as if it was not enough to do it once, they are actually making the same mistake twice
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it is not even the first time #protonmail leaves #mastodon first time they moved to #twitter
reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/commen…and now they are leaving for #reddit
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Kind of makes sense. It's because they pivoted to crypto and mastodon is pretty anti-crypto.
I tried them for a few hours. I don't know what was wrong, but the VPN was only giving me about 6mb/s when I have a 150mb/s connection.
Also, the app had a huge banner advertising Black Friday deals. I don't expect ads in the actual app itself!
Deleted account, got my refund.
I now use Mullvad.
bye Felicia
- Or the Boot
I recommend people read this article:
yeah well I left after the last musk suckup, this does not come as a surprise
very disappointed
LOL! Bye Felicia.
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@SpaceLifeForm @mailbox_org and @Tutanota are two great mail services that are present on Mastodon, mailbox even runs their own instance. Support them instead.
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reddit? Really??
Social media manager copy and pasting a post is hard work.
Or you could just use an app that automates posts on all platforms.
All I can say to @protonprivacy is
they caught too much blowback here when their CEO started fluffing Trump on Xitter
let's move to unencrypted password manager then…
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It’s nothing to do with that.
It’s to do with the massive backlash they got on Fedi for their CEO being all Trumpy and somewhat horrible right wing.
So they’ve run away because they were made to feel unwelcome on account of us not letting their BS fly.
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so a company that prides itself on freedom and privacy is giving up on the free social media network that costs nothing to post to, in favour of using a website that has consistently made decisions that harm its users lately?
Makes total sense...
@protonprivacy Good riddance to bad rubbish.
i am way out of the loop... what happened with proton?
well first of all they were integrating ai into their shit. then it was warmly accepting the trump administration and then they made articles about how they will "refuse to comply with subpoenas issued by the trump administration" and now this. idk, honestly at least when it was the ceo endorsing trump and then them backtracking and trying to erase that it wasn't that bad now it's like watching a dog chase its tail. really no idea what will come next from proton but i certainly know they have lost any sense of credibility (if they had any to begin with)
thank you! i didnt know about any of that!
Wow, don’t love this. Privacy enthusiasts are a major constituency on Mastodon.
i use their services, i support them and their advocacy for the privacy, but all the stuff that they do socially and what they don't to their services is letting me down hard
I was wary of Proton from day 1. And over the years they have proven that my first reaction was correct.
Can't wait until we find out they have been lying about your privacy this whole time.
Can't wait until we find out they have been lying about your privacy this whole time.
The idea that posting on mastodon is "too expensive"... wtf?
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Tuta doesn't have IMAP, I've become somewhat reliant on Thunderbird for a few reasons but can't use it with Tuta because they don't have IMAP. Does anyone know of a good alternative with IMAP?
Tuta doesn't have IMAP, I've become somewhat reliant on Thunderbird for a few reasons but can't use it with Tuta because they don't have IMAP. Does anyone know of a good alternative with IMAP?
sorry, but where can I find that post? It's not on their official account.
@sturmsucht it’s their profile bio
You can moderate on Reddit and remove unwanted replies. 🤷
@ErickaSimone Just when I thought there‘s a full-set European alternative.
@christianschwaegerl Mozilla is in the states failing us currently. Seems as if enshittification is up everywhere.
@ErickaSimone As it takes quite a bit of personal energy and time to move digitally as a freelancer, I‘d want to exclude any US provider at this point just to avoid disappointment thru more and more „anticipatory obedience“. So I‘m looking for a full suite and reliable European alternative with drive, calender, password, email if possible, and without the CEO quotes, Proton looks like one. Any other recommendations welcome!
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Not sure it does everything you need, but for email and calendar I have found Fastmail to be excellent for over 20 years.
They had some recent(ish) conflict with a union but I could not find a lot of information, nor could I find an alternative I liked, so I've stayed with them.
@sennoma @christianschwaegerl @ErickaSimone This list might have something useful on it: misskey.de/notes/a3rcto65dn
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@christianschwaegerl @ErickaSimone some folks have been recommending tutamail in light of proton being canceled. They've been on my radar for a while now, I just landed on proton first. I need to make some time to look into them but I will probably switch over. I have no time for fascist sympathizers.
Yet they go to Reddit?
This seems to justify my approach of limiting proton use to vpn and email for specific non-personal purposes requiring a separate email, and not moving everything until the dust has settled. I feel it is more honest of Google to just be the Google we know, than for #proton to turn weird in outlook. I use google drive and calendar because it works and will decamp to self hosted perhaps when the tech and my skills have developed to make it a non full-time job.
Did @protonprivacy walk back on this. The post is deleted, it seems.
Aha, well, @protonprivacy risk loosing me. Reddit is not some place I visit freely.The decision makes no sense.
Proton verlaat Mastodon? Best bijzonder voor een bedrijf dat veel klanten te danken heeft aan een federatief product (mail). Het wordt N.B. ook hier vaak aangeraden als alternatief voor US bigtech. Oke, privacy is wsl goed geregeld, maar als je email (of docs) als dienst wilt afnemen verwijs ik toch liever naar lokale hosters die open technologie gebruiken. Er zijn er zat Volgens mij zijn we niet op zoek naar nog een hele grote speler.
@wtfismyip soooo many resources required to post on mastodon. How do we even manage over here?!
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Kort internationaal AI nieuws.
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- OpenAI heeft aangekondigd dat het een flink aantal veiligheidsmaatregelen uit ChatGPT wil slopen om de coup in de VS te steunen. Voortaan wordt genocidale en extreemrechtse taal omarmd als even waardevol als het tegendeel.
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- Uit onderzoek van de BBC blijkt dat AI chatbots niet in staat zijn om accurate samenvattingen te maken van nieuws. In het onderzoeksrapport staat dat de chatbots niet alleen feitelijke onjuistheden bevatten, maar ook "moeite hadden om onderscheid te maken tussen mening en feit, redactionele opmerkingen maakten en vaak essentiële context over het hoofd zagen".
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- Slechts drie dagen later kondigde The Guardian aan dat ze een deal met OpenAI hebben gesloten. OpenAI mag alle teksten van The Guardian gebruiken om haar AI mee te trainen, zelfs al hebben journalisten, columnisten, brieven- en opinieschrijvers daar helemaal geen toestemming voor gegeven.
The Guardian geeft haar imago van kwaliteitskrant volledig op, nu ze ChatGPT in gaat zetten om artikelen te schrijven, "nieuwe producten te ontwikkelen" en ongetwijfeld vele journalisten gaat ontslaan.
Het regent opzeggingen.
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- Labour, de Britse partij die ooit sociaaldemocratisch was maar die onder Keir Starmer een soort mix van racisme en neoliberalisme omarmt, heeft een wetsvoorstel gelanceerd om het copyright op te heffen voor AI. AI bots mogen zichzelf dan trainen op alle muziek, tekst en andere data die eigenlijk onder copyright vallen, ook zonder toestemming van de makers.
Het voorstel wordt uiteraard verkocht alsof het juist goed zou zijn voor artiesten en tekstschrijvers, maar vrijwel niemand trapt daar in. Creatieven zouden per case bezwaar mogen maken, maar dan moeten ze zelf elk gebruik van hun materiaal opsporen en één voor één naar al die bedrijven stappen, wat natuurlijk onmogelijk is.
Een grote groep celebrities (Kate Bush, Elton John, Hans Zimmer, Annie Lennox, Billy Ocean, Tori Amos ea) heeft uit protest een album uitgebracht waarop je alleen het geluid van lege studio's hoort.
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- The Guardian heeft blijkbaar veel last van alle opzeggingen, en dus verscheen er vandaag een redactioneel waarin ze zich grote zorgen maken over de macht van AI en de rechtse Techbro's. Ze verklaren zich solidair met Kate Bush & co, en vinden dat copyright verdedigd moet worden. Lachwekkend, want de deal met OpenAI zet The Guardian gewoon door: iedereen copyright behalve iedereen die voor de Guardian schrijft.
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- Niet helemaal AI nieuws, maar er sterk aan verwant:
Datzelfde rottige Labour eist van Apple dat er een achterdeur in wordt gebouwd in hun beveiliging. Zowel Apple als overheden kunnen dan voortaan op iCloud meekijken in bestanden. Omdat Apple graag haar naam hooghoudt weigerde ze dat tot nu toe, maar nu heeft Apple plotseling de beslissing genomen om end-to-end encryptie voor iCloud (die ze ADP, Advanced Data Protection noemen) dan maar helemaal te verwijderen voor de Britten.
Apple blijft dus weigeren om een achterdeurtje in te bouwen, maar haalt in plaats daarvan eigenlijk de voordeur en de muren weg. Om te beginnen voor nieuwe gebruikers, later moeten ook oude accounts er aan geloven.
Volgens Amnesty is dit het gevolg van een bevel van de Britten. Apple voldoet echter nog niet helemaal aan dit bevel, want Starmer eist dat Apple de end to end encryptie voor iedereen in de hele wereld verwijdert (!)
Het is vrij bizar dat Apple nu half aan het bevel gehoor geeft. Ze zijn nu volgens de Britten nog steeds illegaal bezig. Rechtszaken zijn dus sowieso te verwachten. Was dan all the way gegaan... maar ja, aangezien ook Apple zich solidair met Trump heeft verklaard hoeven we niets meer van ze te verwachten.
Andere aanbieders bieden nog steeds wel end to end encryptie aan. Maar nu de belangrijkste speler om is, zal het voor hen veel moeilijker worden om te volharden. Signal heeft al laten weten dat ze in dat geval stoppen met hun dienst aan te bieden.
Dit is een enorm verreikende beslissing van Apple, met wereldwijde gevolgen. Het betekent dat Starmer mee kan kijken in alle versleutelde bestanden die je op Apple host of gebruikt, tijdens het uploaden. En vanwege de al lang bestaande deals tussen de UK en USA, kijkt Trump dan ook mee.
We mogen dit gerust als een enorme ramp zien, want dat is het. Encryptie die pas in de cloud gebeurt is zo goed als waardeloos: ook terwijl bestanden van je telefoon of laptop naar de cloud reizen moeten ze versleuteld zijn. Dit wordt nu in de UK opgeheven, maar met wereldwijde effecten: andere overheden zullen nu hun kans ruiken.
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- Toch ook nog een klein beetje goed nieuws, verrassend genoeg uit de VS: De Copyright Office heeft daar besloten dat pure generatieve AI geen copyright kan hebben. Helaas kunnen menselijke werken met AI elementen dat wel hebben, en waar de grens ligt is onduidelijk. Maar een hitje of kunstwerk laten maken door AI, puur gebaseerd op tekst-prompts, dat is in elk geval niet meer beschermd.
Ook dit besluit heeft redelijk grote gevolgen: de VS is op dit moment de belangrijkste markt voor AI, en lamtakken die nog te beroerd zijn om zelf energie in hun 'kunst' te steken, kunnen nu in elk geval geen geld meer verdienen aan hun diefstal.
- edit: tekst van punt 6 aangepast en uitgebreid na terechte kritiek.
Links naar bronnen:
1 - techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/open…
2 - bbc.com/news/articles/c0m17d88…
3 - theguardian.com/gnm-press-offi…
4 - nos.nl/artikel/2557241-muzikan…
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5 - theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
6 - bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4…
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amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202…
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theverge.com/news/617273/apple…
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'Slechts drie dagen later...' dan...?
Dan de publicatie van het onderzoek van BBC.
@Dagtwitter Apple een deal gesloten met de UK overheid? Die link zegt niks over een deal, maar juist over dat Apple ADP maar afschaft voor UK gebruikers, waarschijnlijk omdat ze geen backdoor voor de UK willen (en ook technisch niet kunnen!) bieden.
Dat de UK een backdoor geeist heeft mag Apple overigens wettelijk ook helemaal niet wereldkundig maken, dus de communicatie rond dit onderwerp ziet er altijd wat vreemd uit.
De gevolgen zijn eigenlijk hetzelfde, maar je hebt gelijk met de nuance die je vraagt. Ik heb de tekst aangepast.
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“The world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist.”
– Israel to Palestinians, in leaflets dropped on Gaza threatening them to leave their homeland or die
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No, no, please, tell me again how this is not genocide.
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #fascism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #apartheid
Israel drops leaflets threatening Gazans to 'leave or die'
Israel has been accused of admitting Gaza ethnic cleansing and launching a psychological warfare tactics on Palestinians.The New Arab Staff (The new Arab)
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Everyday more disgusting words from the Monsters of Israel. Every friking day. #gazaholoc4aust #gazagenocide #fkcisrael
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Of course the point of Solnit is that resistance is not spontaneously "popping up like mushrooms", but the fruit of the mycelium of years of organising.
Which doesn't mean that you need years before doing anything, but it does mean you need to start organising NOW if you didn't already.
Find people, at least one. Or even better: join an existing organisation.
Then do something.
Just a little thing. Call a representative, and ask them to put up a fight. Or print a poster of a burning swasticar and hang it in the street. Or collect clothing and food for the people who need it most. Or ask an activist or an organisation you like, what they need most.
You don't have to invent the wheel. You can be a little brick. We don't need heroes, we need to organise. And we need many people who take a little step, and another one, and another one, until the mushrooms bloom.
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Ik hou mijn hart vast voor de Duitse verkiezingen.
Als je de meeste Nederlandse media moet geloven gaat de strijd tussen radicaal-rechts (AfD) en het centrum (CDU). Ze zijn daarnaast ook niet te beroerd om Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) "populistisch links" te noemen.
Bullshit. AfD is zelfs volgens de veiligheidsdiensten grotendeels extreemrechts, noem dat dan ook zo. Merz (CDU) is een mini-Trump, en Wagenknecht is helemaal niet links maar zo racistisch als de neten. Ze is niet voor niks snel uit Die Linke vertrokken voordat ze eruit gemieterd zou worden.
Hoop is er: van de honderdduizenden mensen die steeds weer tegen de verrechtsing demonstreren. Maar nauwelijks vanuit de politiek.
De aanslagen die zo vlak voor de verkiezingen om de haverklap gepleegd worden, zullen helaas grote invloed hebben. Dat gold zelfs voor de eerste aanslag in de rij, die nota bene niet werd gepleegd door een islamist maar door een extreemrechtse terrorist met banden met de AfD. Omdat hij niet wit was, leidde het toch evengoed tot meer steun voor de AfD. Gekmakend.
Wat moeten we van die andere aanslagen denken, die wel door islamisten werden gepleegd?
Ik ben niet van de samenzweringstheorieën.
Toch ben ik verbijsterd dat media hier doen alsof het allemaal maar toeval is. Gewoon, je bent van de IS en je denkt: 'wanneer zal ik eens iemand gaan vermoorden', en dan denk je puur toevallig allemaal: 'weet je wat, laat ik dat vlak voor de verkiezingen doen want daar wordt de islam vast sterker van'.
Nope, beste mensen. Terroristen mogen dan afgrijselijke dingen doen, dat wil niet zeggen dat ze gek zijn.
Of er werkelijk een samenzwering is weet ik niet. Dat is ook niet per sé nodig: ook zonder geheime ontmoetingen van schimmige figuren in achterkamertjes, kunnen klootzakken beseffen dat ze gedeelde belangen hebben. En klootzakken zijn er genoeg. Take your pick, alleen al uit Poetin, Musk, Trump, AfD en IS.
Wat is dan dat gedeelde belang?
IS en extreemrechts hebben elkaar nodig. Ze leven van hun vijandsbeeld.
Sterker nog, in feite zíjn ze allebei extreemrechts.
Tegen vrouwenrechten, tegen trans, tegen minderheden, tegen homo's, tegen zieken, tegen menselijke waardigheid, tegen vrijheid van meningsuiting (ondanks dat ze het omgekeerde beweren), tegen milieu, tegen vernieuwing, tegen democratie, tegen vrijheid, tegen gelijkheid, tegen solidariteit.
Vóór extreme machtsverschillen, vóór geweld, vóór het recht van de sterkste, vóór het verafgoden van de grote nieuwe Führer (hoi Musk), voor de totale uitbuiting van de massa's in een hyperkapitalistische wereld, voor gewetenloosheid.
En ze hebben ook een zeer vergelijkbare methodiek: beiden willen zoveel mogelijk zo extreem mogelijke crises scheppen, en daar dan een zondebok de schuld van geven. Want ze weten dat onzekere mensen vaker voor autoritaire ideologieën en 'sterke mannen' kiezen.
Dat werkt helaas zeer goed. Zeker in een omgeving waarin vrijwel niemand hen echt tegenwicht biedt, en velen hen naar de mond praten, hun ideeën normaliseren en overnemen "om rechts de wind uit de zeilen te nemen"- met het omgekeerde effect.
En dus hou ik mijn hart vast.
Wat moeten wij dan doen?
NIET COLLABOREREN. Elke medewerking weigeren. Altijd.
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(afbeelding: Studiovanorigine voor Grutjes in 2016)
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"... tegen vrijheid van meningsuiting (ondanks dat ze het omgekeerde beweren)"... Dat is 'woke' van hen 😉 😉
Overigens doen 'wij' vooral goed aan behalve niet meewerken aan hun narigheid het tegenovergestelde ervan opbouwen en onderhouden, toch? 😉
Overigens doen 'wij' vooral goed aan behalve niet meewerken aan hun narigheid het tegenovergestelde ervan opbouwen en onderhouden, toch? 😉
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"Het is bijzonder ongepast dat Bosma namens de Tweede Kamer op 25 februari een krans komt leggen tijdens de herdenking van de Februaristaking. Met ongekende moed kwamen werkende mensen in Amsterdam, waarvan vele zelf Joods, in actie tegen de deportatie van de Joden. Dit verzet is juist een inspiratie voor de strijd tegen extreemrechts vandaag de dag.
Het comité kan een voorbeeld nemen aan het Ninsee dat vorig jaar onder druk van onderaf besloot de uitnodiging voor Bosma aan de herdenking van het slavernijverleden in te trekken. Welk nut heeft herdenken als we onze kop in het zand steken voor de parallellen met het heden?"
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Bosma is altijd overtuigd anti-communist geweest. Dat is zijn goed recht, maar het lijkt me reden temeer om hem de herdenking van de Februaristaking te besparen.
"Overtuigd anticommunist"? Dat is ook een manier om een fascist te beschrijven...
serieus, de man ziet al jaren overal communistische complotten. Een beetje de laatste aanhanger van McCarthy. Zoiemand moet je een herdenking van een communistische opstand besparen.
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Capitalism has failed. Neoliberalism has failed. Two-party representative “democracy” has failed.
Not failing.
Not might fail.
Failed.
The sooner we realise that in places where we’re not under the yoke of fascism yet and the sooner we abandon such folly, the more of a chance we will have at staving off the worst of it and perhaps even charting a different, better, path forward.
CC @EUCommission
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The world consensus will only reach this conclusion when it is forced to against its will, which is the very nadir of its ability to deal with it.
Democracies historically tend to fail.
We had such a good run that we forgot there’s nothing holding it together but us.
@gimulnautti in a long enough timeline all ruling systems break down. this is not useful information.
@thegarbagebird It’s not information, but a call to think about why.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the west made all kinds of false statements about the inevitibilaty of #democracy.
All of it was wrong. And as we stopped working on keeping our democracy, it quickly degraded and is now slipping away.
I hope you catch my argument this time, have a nice day.
@gimulnautti oh i got it the first time, i just thought it was silly.
i know this isn't your intent, but you have phrased it like you only just found out that representative democracy hasn’t been real since the before the cigarette lobby. the horse has bolted. i don't think it is useful to talk about how important it is to keep the gate closed
thank you for your civility. manners are the most impactful weapon we have in the fight for #freedom.
you have a nice day too #democracy #resistance #StillWithHer #VoteBlueNoMatterWho #RidingWithBiden
we in Germany have a Deja Vu from 1933 - and it’s not surprising that so called Neoliberalism and conservatism ends in racism and fascism.
One could argue that it was a feature, not a bug.
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Ga gewoon.
22 maart 2025, De Dam Amsterdam, 14:00 uur
Landelijke demonstratie tegen racisme en fascisme
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Wow, Stephen Fry, je weet wel, de voormalige lievelingsschrijver en -acteur van veel mensen, die onlangs full JK Rowling ging door o.a. transrechten ‘nonsensical’ te noemen? Zie youtu.be/d5PR5S4xhXQ?si=GuJcus… Die komt een lezing houden bij boekhandel Atheneum in de Oude Lutherse Kerk in Amsterdam. Laten we allemaal mailen naar info@atheneum.nl dat ze dat echt niet kunnen maken. Ik heb al gemaild. En voor de deur gaan staan om te protesteren. 27 maart vanaf 19.30 uur. Delen mag! (edit: link aangepast)
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Misschien handig om het juiste mailadres te vermelden 😀 want mijn mail bouncte.
Dat is klantenservice@athenaeum.nl
Dat is klantenservice@athenaeum.nl
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If you’re in the UK, cancel your iCloud subscription.
(Or the government will have access to all your data. Just like how things work in China.)
Your best bet is to take offline backups yourself as any cloud service provider that does business in the UK will have to either do the same or leave the market.
bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4…
PS. This is why we left the UK ten years ago. So we could on our own terms and wouldn’t have to do so later on. ar.al/notes/so-long-and-thanks…
#UK #surveillance #Apple #icloud mastodon.social/@vascorsd/1140…
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
There has been a fierce backlash to the request from privacy campaigners and US politicians.Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)
Apple Caved and pulled end-to-end encrypted backups in the uk
sh.itjust.works/post/33197558
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yep, left the UK last year while being able to do so on our own time & terms.
That will be my iCloud subscription cancelled 🤦
Be in no two minds about it: Britain has been Digital China more than China has for the last 50 years at least. We are the most surveiled state.
"just like how it is in china" lmao sinophobic white imbeciles the world 'round.
Meanwhile the only country on earth qualified as a "tankie" nation is the US, who have been using armored vehicles and tanks against peaceful protestors since tanks and armored vehicles have existed. 😆
If a nation/state is going to have my data, Im going to wager that nations that have NOT terrorized the world for 100+ years for PROFIT are better off with it.
@milkman76 Yeah, how about we don’t fanboi any authoritarian regime or, heck, even not assume anyone’s ethnicity from their photo alone. In any case, you may go now.
Re: "If you’re in the UK, cancel your iCloud subscription."
Surely even if you're not in the UK you should cancel your iCloud subscription. The government ordered a backdoor to iCloud accounts worldwide. The B.B.C. article even says "It is not clear that Apple's actions will fully address those concerns, as the IPA order applies worldwide and ADP will continue to operate in other countries"
@adamsaidsomething The way they’ve complied doesn’t warrant that (no pun intended) at the moment. Then again, who knows what they’ll do next and who knows what other countries will now demand after this precedent.
@Adam
We can only rely on whistleblowers to know what they'll do next (tho we can make some pretty good guesses) since these things come with strict gag orders
@vascorsd The government *already* had access to your iCloud data, in or out of the UK, unless you had ADP enabled.
Pulling it from the UK didn’t change that, except on the edges for those who had it enabled (or would have done so).
ADP is a massive privacy improvement, but most customers aren't using it and were (and remain) vulnerable to spying.
This is an effective return to the status quo from before ADP was introduced in Dec. 2019.
And naturally, Apple won't leave this market.…
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@JasonAnthonyGuy @vascorsd Naturally, under capitalism. Which is anything but natural.
I suspect Trump will be taking notice of this. Will the US be far behind?
Me too…on both counts!
We looked at moving to Ireland (or the Netherlands) after brexshit, but my wife’s elderly father was still alive and she wasn’t comfortable with not being able to jump in the car if he needed her 😣
@Squozen First Sweden, then Ireland. (Nowhere’s perfect. And the way things are going, it looks like we’re all going to have to make a stand wherever we are sooner or later.)
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"Something I learned from trail hiking is if you're ever lost in the woods, do not panic, don't go off trail, just say loudly and clearly "Elon Musk is not a Genius", and several of the most unfuckable men alive will appear out of nowhere to call you poor, then you can follow them to the parking lot where their Tesla exploded."
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Het kabinet wil de IVA uitkering afschaffen, voor mensen die voorgoed #arbeidsongeschikt zijn. Zij zouden dan voortaan onder de gewone WIA (#WGA) vallen, waardoor hun uitkering omlaag gaat en ze bovendien steeds herkeurd moeten worden, zelfs al weet iedereen dat ze nooit meer beter worden.
De Kamer protesteert, maar alleen tegen verlaging van de uitkering.
Het grote probleem met de plannen om de #IVA af te schaffen is echter niet de verlaging, al is dat ook ontzettend klote.
Maar mensen die nooit meer beter worden, onderwerpen aan het strafregime wat de #WIA steeds meer is, en de terugkerende onzekerheid van zinloze keuringen, dát is nog veel erger.
Mensen die nooit meer kunnen werken verdienen veiligheid en zekerheid, in plaats van deze enorm stresserende martelgang, die de willekeur van de #UWV keuringen met zich meebrengen. Hoeveel zwartboeken wil je nog krijgen?
Behoudt de IVA!
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Yep. Alleen zijn de consequenties enorm veel groter. Als je bij een WIA keuring wordt goedgekeurd, of slechts voor een deel wordt afgekeurd, verlies je je inkomen, en daarmee ook vaak je huis. Mensen vallen dan in de bijstand, terwijl we het hebben over mensen die niet kunnen werken, en dikwijls ook niet voor zichzelf kunnen zorgen.
De al verschenen zwartboeken staan vol met de meest absurd schrijnende verhalen, tot en met bedlegerige mensen aan toe die worden goedgekeurd
En doe iets tegen de instroom door eindelijk aan preventie tegen SARS-Cov2 te gaan doen.
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Billionaire co-founder of AirBnB Joe Gebbia has joined Elon Musk's DOGE team, so let's spread awareness and make sure nobody books a goddamn thing through AirBnB ever again, shall we?
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Airbnb is a company that provides security between strangers who can easily find paying guests, accommodations, and/or experiences in a way no other company does. Everyone in team Elon M. deserves to drown in a pile of shit, but they shouldn't drag small entrepreneurs with them. Without an alternative to Airbnb, I'm unable to sell my bicycle tour, for instance.
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Indeed, fascists can be so very handy...
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I’m quite confused when I hear my fellow European citizens worry about our dependence on American Big Tech, and that in case America goes full Nazi we have no way of building our future.
American Big Tech is overwhelmingly dependent on free and open-source software that is overwhelmingly built and maintained by volunteers on both sides of the pond.
From the Linux kernel that powers basically all the large servers in the world, to the most popular distros built around that kernel, to the most popular database systems (MariaDB, Postgres, MongoDB…) and messaging systems (Redis, Kafka…), to Elastic (based in Amsterdam), to Blender (also based in Amsterdam), to all the open programming languages that power today’s world (Rust, PHP, Python [also invented by a Dutch developer], Kotlin [developed by JetBrains, also headquartered in Amsterdam]), to the Web servers that serve most of the content (nginx, Apache…), to the Grafana+Loki+Prometheus+OTEL stack that makes the backbone of observability in most of today’s large companies, to the numpy+pandas libraries that are the backbone of all of today’s AI hype, large American companies could do NOTHING, and I mean literally NOTHING, without open-source software that is built out of collaborations between European and American developers (who are often unpaid, uncredited and on the verge of burnout).
If you want a glimpse of today’s technological avantgarde, you don’t have to go to flashy and hollow events like ESC in Las Vegas, or any Silicon Valley sponsored event. You have to go to FOSDEM in Belgium.
American Big Tech has the ability of putting together these freely available building blocks, building finished products with them, monetizing them aggressively through unethical business models based on addiction, stalking, profiling and digging monopolistic moats, funding them through some of the richest men in the world (because the VC world is still dominated only by rich white men), locking them up as services that run into their private clouds (companies like AWS literally fill up bottles with free tap water and make outrageous amounts of money by renting access to that water), and sucking up generous subsidies from the federal government, while the EU gives literally peanuts to those building this infrastructure - we had to wait for years and beg the commission before getting something like Next Generation Internet up and running, which provides these projects with literally 0.01% of the money that the US has provided to its already deep-pocketed giants through things like the CHIPS act, and we also have to periodically send them letters like this pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI# to make sure that we don’t lose even those peanuts.
Imagine what we could build in Europe if only we had coherent technological programs that just funded the talent that we already have.
Imagine what we could do if instead of a couple of millions of spare change (and Von der Leyen never putting her wallet where her mouth is, because if we had one million every time she said “EU 🩷 open-source” all the EU-based volunteers on Github will be millionaire by now) we had even a fraction of the funding of acts like CHIPS.
Imagine what we could do if European companies firmly grounded in the values of open-source and ethical business models (like Nextcloud or Blender) had enough funding to compete with the American giants, instead of having to hear technologically illiterate megalomaniacs like Draghi and Macron argue for “European champions” that simply mock the unsustainable and unethical business models championed by America.
Our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic lately are going a bit nuts (like Nazi nuts). It’s time to start decoupling and de-riskifying from them, nurturing our own sustainable open-source ecosystem, and, if they start leveraging their own Big Tech as a weapon against us, pull the drawbridge and cut them out of the European open-source software that runs their servers. We can survive without their products; they can’t survive without our free code.
In a world where code and data are the new oil, access to open-source software means access to the raw materials required to make your industry wealthy. We shouldn’t underestimate that.
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Amazing post, thanks for taking the time to write it.
Just have to prevent MS and Red Hat dominating into the Linux kernel and the boot loader system (systemD already there)..
@Marrekoo As someone building non-corporate free software that has been denied EU funding over and over again, I agree we should be funding free software (and hardware) with an emphasis on technology for everyday people not corporations and licenses that preclude corporate enclosure. (PS. FOSDEM is sponsored by Silicon Valley. Google is their cornerstone sponsor. We can do so much better. fosdem.org/2025/about/sponsors…)
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@icing We need to define our needs. Do we build an American equivalent that caters to consumption and selling or do we build what is needed for survival?
Actually, all it takes for the US-based tech stack to collapse is for @bagder to change the #curl license so it can’t be used by American companies - unless they explicitly condemn Donald Musk and they pledge to be more accountable for all the user data that they scoop up.
Good luck rewriting their HTTP layers on all of their devices and services otherwise.
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It's not that simple.
If we primarily define big tech as companies that most Europeans use and depend on, such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, etc, then we can roughly divide each of those companies into two layers:
Hardware layer - stuff that makes Google's, Amazon's, etc servers tick. This stuff is not open source at all, and most of it is US owned.
Software layer: most of it is open source but there is also plenty of 'secret sauce' that hyperscalers use and never open.
Europe must urgently start supporting companies that could replace US companies, for the start at least Google, and importantly both for the search and phone parts of it. Google is literally everywhere, they literally have access even to the most guarded state secrets.
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how do you „cut people off“ from access to FOSS?
@felixf that’s a good question and I’ve been thinking about it for the past couple of days. I’m no legal expert, but I think that license amendments may be possible. Just like GPL limits what you can do with FOSS (like you can’t repackage a modified version as closed source), and AGPL limits what FOSS software you can run in your private cloud and profit from it as a service, I don’t think it’s unfeasible to limit the usage of FOSS so it can’t be used by openly illiberal governments. I mean, if SQLite could get away with a license that seems straight out of a pastor’s sermon, I don’t think that constraints on a political basis are unfeasible. The definition of “illiberal” however is something that probably needs careful planning.
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"EU-based volunteers on GitHub" need to get off of Microsoft's GitHub, and onto something more free software and EU-based like Codeberg. It's really easy to move, and Microsoft will then lose access to harvesting their data.
You can't close off access to free software. It belongs to everyone. It's part of the cost of being a free software advocate.
Yeah really, most places I've worked the codebase has been nothing but a thin brittle layer over a giant heap of open source dependencies and a few paid services like AWS and Datadog.
That said American big tech still does control some critical OSS like React.
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Bruinhemden nemen de straat.
Dit is Parijs. Ik weet nog dat we zo'n 2 jaar geleden over Forum voor Demagogie zeiden: het is een kwestie van tijd, dan zullen de bruinhemden ook op straat komen. En zie, in Parijs is het nu zover, zo lang zal het niet meer duren voordat hier hetzelfde gebeurt. WEES WAAKZAAM!!!!
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Gewapende fascisten vallen filmvertoning aan, bezoeker zwaargewond - Joop - BNNVARA
Gewapende fascisten vallen filmvertoning aan, bezoeker zwaargewond.BNNVARA
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This is the visual #artist Jonathan Harris from #Detroit #Michigan
The title of his work is called "#CriticalRaceTheory"
(his website: jonathanharrisart.bigcartel.co… )
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I'm not saying I'm happy we're getting fascism back. But in a world where I cannot immediately change that, I will say that this is a great time for art. And punkrock.
he is _good_, but a bit too pricey for my wallet
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"Entering?" I'd say we've been there for a while.
agreed but we certainly went over a cliff jan 20
Also, note they're not painting it over with something they might try to sell as "better" - just a layer of classic Dictatorship Grey™️...
I find the bland and grab Grey to be a perfect symbol of what you're entering into
immediately thought about this too. When art becomes/equals reality 😱
Looking back at the #AmericanExperiment, it seems the preparedness to not bring everyone along was the fatal flaw.
Slaves, white women, Native Americans, Blacks, Jews, the Irish, the Chinese, the factory-workers, the rural folk, and the non-elite all were/are deemed sacrificable.
Now the US fed gov is openly against bringing everyone along.
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fascism turns the world grey.😢
so much for free speech...
powerfull piece
@laxla i know the meme, and it is similar, and a hopeful theme, which we need
but things are so grim nowadays jonathan's message resonates
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i think so, i agree. i don't think jonathan painted it though. it would be amazing if he did
you piqued my interest
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"On May 5th, 2012, Flickr[1] user thisisrorydean uploaded a photograph of a watercolor painting depicting the handshake (shown below, left). On September 6th, DeviantArt[2] user MILOSLAVvonRANDA uploaded a chalk drawing titled "EPIC handshake by Dillon and Dutch" (shown below, right)"
and there it is:
deviantart.com/miloslavvonrand…
and they're in the czech republic
Epic Handshake
Epic Handshake, also known as the Predator Handshake, is a memorable scene from the 1987 science fiction action film Predator in which two men greet each other with an arm-wrestle handshake.Don Caldwell (Know Your Meme)
it's a famous scene from the movie "predator" between arnold schwarzenegger and carl weathers
😁
Good work. I first learned about Jonathan Harris in this #PBS profile.
pbs.org/video/jonathan-harris-…
One Detroit | Jonathan Harris' Viral Painting 'Critical Race Theory' | Season 7 | Episode 30
Jonathan Harris discusses his viral painting "Critical Race Theory" and CRT in schools.www.pbs.org
#pbs
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"a picture is worth a thousand words" and all that
but some visual works like jonathan's, it hits out of the ballpark
it says more than a whole library
nothing can make it better
perfection
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how's the trolling going today bottom feeder?
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oh yes, i'm crying, you got me chud, yes yes, look at me cry. mmm
is that a little projection there sweetie?
say tell me something bootlicker: what is your point exactly with shitting on my nice post, besides a demonstration to the world of what a pathetic edgelord you are?
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oh you're fucking with us, i see
you mean, in your view, these little turds of toots of yours here are some sort of brave exciting statement by you, and not, you know, pathetic edgelord shit that is deeply embarrassing, if you had something larger than a walnut for a cranium? 🤣
oh dear, i'm fucking with you, i'm so sorry. you're supposed to be fucking with me 🤣
say chud: why aren't you on twitter licking elon's anus which you enjoy so much like a good little brainwashed zombie? 🤣
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i have a problem:
i enjoy mocking them
i get them talking a little and goad them into more actionable content
then when i get bored playing with them, i report
i've done this a number of times
Most of these chuds are bots. Best to report them to the mod and block them.
awesome! send me a link chud
it's nice to see dum dums trying hard, high fiving their fellow zombies, and celebrating how awesome they are in their hilarious dim wit mediocrity
i'm so proud of you! 🤣
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the way i view it is sarcasm
similar to how much of the bs from MAGA land is deeply hypocritical bullshit, it's a witty and ironic thing to do to call a racist erasing black history "critical race theory"
I feel shame for immediately noticing the comical rationalization that sees the white person so INCREDIBLY gifted as to paint a group-picture of famous people, single-handedly only with a paint roller.
Also relaxes makes me to see how my gut instantly tells me that the alternative interpretation is just wrong.
Thanks for sharing! Just ordered a 12x18.
oh I thought "white wash" was just used metaphorically, TIL it's a name for a paintjob
Thank you for sharing.
This is such a powerful image.
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Just made one with FOSS 😀
#Friendica tips
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Mensen krijgen door algoritmes in hun sociale media bubbel bijna alleen nog het nieuws te lezen wat hun mening bevestigt, hoe onzinnig die mening ook is.
Dat extreemrechts in heel de wereld opkomt, wordt voor een zeer belangrijk deel hierdoor veroorzaakt. Het is een enorme ondermijning van democratie: bevolkingsgroepen leven inmiddels in volkomen verschillende werkelijkheden, zeker nu media ook steeds vaker geen keuze durven te maken en feiten brengen als 'ook maar een mening'.
Gelukkig heeft NU.nl de oplossing gevonden 🙄🥴
"Weet je wat, laten we dat nog erger maken!"
Hoofdredacteur Lindsay Mossink (die we toch inmiddels wel als de grootste ramp voor Nederlandse media kunnen beschouwen sinds Marcel Gelauff) gaat lezers van NUnl voortaan gepersonaliseerd nieuws voeren. Ook op het meest gelezen online nieuwsmedium gaat een algoritme bepalen welk nieuws je te lezen krijgt, en wat niet. En krijg je voortaan te zien wat je al vond.
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Alsjeblieft, NUnl. Hef jezelf op voor je nog meer schade aanricht.
PS: @Bits of Freedom als dit geen kanshebber is voor de komende Big Brother Award, dan weet ik het ook niet meer.
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Fuck 'em all up
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Special Edition Swasticar 😂
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Don’t FCK Nazis, fight them.
Don’t FCK Nazis, fight them.
Yeah but a bit confused because they are more like Nazi panzers, certainly not Chinese communists.
brilliant and accurate foreshadowing
It is actually a vehicle that can be remotely controlled to perform strange movements, so calling it a tank is not entirely inaccurate.
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動画：チェチェン首長、マスク氏非難 武装テスラ車を「遠隔操作で使用不能に」
【9月20日 AFP】ロシア南部チェチェン共和国のラムザン・カディロフ首長は19日、米電気自動車大手テスラのイーロン・マスク最高経営責任者から贈られたと主張する同社のトラックを「遠隔操作で動作不能にされた」として同氏を非難した。AFPBB News編集部 (AFPBB News)
A powerful image, on many levels.
The German translation says 2400 people died in this week.
That's the ticket, that's the way to do it.
How appropriate...
That the Cybertrucks take up a lane-and-a-half is a perfect detail! 🎖️🏆:chefsKiss:
This guy is super-brave - it is likely that the Chinese tanks had working brakes.
From the news it appears that Chinese made Tesla's sometimes do not have working brakes.
apnews.com/article/tesla-china…
AP investigates Tesla's aggressive legal strategy in China
Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation – and won just about every time.ELSIE CHEN (AP News)
This would be even better if it wouldn't be posted from bluesky. (corporations = corporations)
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Teslananmen Square
Perfeito!
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This needs to win the Internet today,
Let's break America
One Tesla at the time
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For me it means, that our IT business is using European infrastructure services, not one of the big American ones. It's a nice bill every month that doesn't go there.
Viva la France !
That's finest art, excellent.
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can someone explain this? I dont get it
judging by the size of that person, I'm not sure the intended effect is going to be achieved...
businessinsider.com/tesla-full…
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VIDEO: Tesla crashes into child-sized mannequin in FSD test
Tesla has told drivers that the system does not replace a licensed driver and instructs them to keep their hands on the wheel at all times.Grace Kay (Business Insider)
For anyone too young to remember the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre and "Tank man"
This is what the #EditorialCartoon is referring to.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
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Referring to the courageous 'Tank Man', Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 5 June 1989.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
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as someone said on Bluesky: 'Totally ridiculous comparison. A Cybertruck would never stop for a pedestrian'.
And there will be another iconic picture like that in hopefully not too many years.
Ich weiß genau, wie DIESE Geschichte weitergeht. Es ist entsetzlich.
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Weet iemand in Nederland nog waar de Pride vandaan komt?
Antwoord: De Stonewall Riots.
De website van Stonewall is zojuist gecensureerd door het Amerikaanse fascistische regime.
Alle referenties naar Trans en Queer zijn verwijderd.
(En, beste homonationalisten, denk maar niet dat jullie wel gespaard zullen worden.)
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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
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The people who need to read this don't read. >🙁
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Chilling. Not in the good way.
OK … and what we do NOW ?
fascism is when capitalism’s defense antibodies start devouring its body politic. #democracy
“awwww, you brought me another pillow!! How sweet! Can you put it under my head please? No. No! <muffled> I said UNDER my head…. snnnrrrkkk.”
Beep beep beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee….
Literally, in the Weimar case.
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This is unhinged and sociopathic.
US Govt forced Indigenous people to relocate. It was genocide.
Nazis forced Jews to relocate to concentration camps. It was genocide.
Myanmar forced the Rohingya to relocate. It was genoicde.
WSJ is advocating for more genocide. Horrific.
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Do my British eyes see the Americans calling the Partition "a good thing?"
Support for the Empire now is it lads? Well, you've got a king now, so.....
@Lazarou The American colonies saw how their British colonial masters could just order subservient territories to pay extra taxes and decided they wanted their own empire.
"there are many ethnic cleansings in history, what's one more?" yeah a lot of people unfortunately think that way.
Is he saying “partition was good actually”?!
This is not America.
It absolutely is genocide 💔💔💔
Give them a peace of New Jersey. The people there can then relocate etc etc
Rich people get richer off genocide. Russia was built off genocidal population removals too.
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Sociopaths like Mellon, Musk, & Koch always believe that's an acceptable trade-off. Other people dying to make themselves richer..
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They think Gaza will make them into the next IG Farben, Krupp, or Flick.
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‘People should be more aware’: the business dynasties who benefited from Nazis
In his new book Nazi Billionaires, David de Jong explores the damning history of companies who have refused to examine their murky history with HitlerDavid Smith (The Guardian)
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@Npars01 Do remember The US was also built this way by genocide and appropriation, plus enslavement.
Opinion article. Still awful.
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That's something even The Onion would hesitate to write about.
That is so fucking sickening that I don't even know what to say.
Absurd but the guys a turd - so
Trail of Tears 2; Dystopic Boogaloo
Isn't the partition in India regarded as one of the worst human crises of the 20th century?
we should re-locate all WSJ writers/readers to gulag so they can learn a trade that is useful for society.
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Worst thing to say about genocides is that “there are plenty of examples from the 20th century”. Yes, there are.
We call it the hall of shame.
What about you?
I can't stand clickbait headlines from any publisher. I would really need to see the article before getting outraged. A lot of times lately a headline like this is trying to get stupid people to read a story re "Why not do this thing that Trump says is reasonable?"
Since you don't link the article, your toot is also clickbait. Please, do better. Linking the source is basic internet etiquette (unless you're trying to sell something, then withholding the source is the way).
oh, India and Pakistan. That is such a success story, if I remember right? Wasn't there something about Kashmir and a few other regions? Something about two nuclear powers in a constant state of war?
The "unthinkable" was overtly colonial policy before World War 2, then covertly, as the empires tried to co-opt anti-colonial movements and claim opposition to fascism as the basis of their legitimacy. As they have given up the pretense of opposing fascism, they also no longer see any point to co-opting anti-colonial movements, so the empires are now again overtly colonial. We've moved from bad to worse.
They know it’s genocide. That’s why they want it.
"Population Transfer"
OOOUUUCH!
OOOUUUCH!
There were no problems with India Pakistan partition were there?
The Muslims remaining in India are perfectly well accepted with zero discrimination. India and Pakistan are peaceful neighbors with zero tension.
If we did partition, what is the worst thing that could happen? Two nuclear states, in perpetual tension, waiting for the chance to nuke each other into oblivion.
Hard to see a down side to that.
Well you know, Hitler did it.
I'm imagining the WSJ add for an editorial writer:
"Must have good spelling and grammar while writing batshit crazy stupid thoughts."
the WSJ is so weird. On one side you have top notch reporting and on the other the opinion page which is a MAGA love fest.
@stevel @danahilliot ok this helps understand why it is ultimately an identity erasure even if people are offered the "finest homes" (bla bla), but I want to understand: when critics abhor the connection to India/Pakistan they talk about killings. No question in my mind that the Gaza war is genocide. But am I correct to understand that the "certain acts" that constitute genocide, such as relocation, do not necessarily have to include killing?
@danahilliot author
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His PoV is that once the children of refugees are born in a different country, they are not refugees but children of the new country. That is: they'll become Egyptian or Jordanian.
Author is from India, though now at the American Enterprise Institute. So he does know the history -but obviously doesn't consider the partition leading to or amplifying the long-standing grudges which the two states now hold with each other.
fucking disusting and ignorant fascist pretending to be a journo
So apparently to this op-ed writer the Trail of Tears was a cross country family vacation. How does he still have a job?
Why yes, Sadanand Dhume, the 20th century is full of horrific war crimes, humanitarian disasters, and human rights violations: why do you think that means we should fill the 21st century with them too?
The Turks forced the Armenians to relocate in during WWI. It was genocide.
Not to mention that the partition cost about a million dead, as far as I remember.
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Well, why would he? There was the genocide against Native Americans and US soldiers were part of that.
Well, why would he? There was the genocide against Native Americans and US soldiers were part of that.
WTACTUALF?!?
Is the author's name really "Dhume"? Like "Doom"? Talking about forced relocations being fine because they've happened before?!
WSJ Does know that partition was one of the worst and bloodiest mass migrations in history, yeah? WTH!
holy shit- this person is either unimaginably ignorant about Partition (and in general) or an absolute sociopath. Most likely both
Uuumm, sloppy journalism.
India ( the then one country) was split into two separate countries based on religious majority: India, primarily Hindu, and Pakistan'
Glancing at the Wikipedia page for Partition should inform a person to never write these words.
Here is the original article text for full context.
OMG they are beast-brained
@cammerman I wonder if Mr. Dhume's family has stories of being refugees during the Partition. I had refugees in the generation before me. (They walked from (now) Poland to West Germany, fleeing the Russians at the end of WWII.) It worked out in the end – as Mr. Dhume says the Partition did – as they went from being peasant farmers to bourgeoisie – but their stories didn't inspire an attitude of "oh, it was OK, then."
oh yeah, everything about Partition went Just Great.
by this standard, we should all murder each other. Why not? It’s been done, so now we can do it. Smh.
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Tweede Kamer vindt Faber niet racistisch genoeg.
De rechter verbood vorig jaar de strafkampen voor asielzoekers die Yesilgöz eufemistisch 'procesbeschikbaarheidslocaties' noemde. In die kampen werden asielzoekers opgesloten die geen enkele wet hadden overtreden, maar die "kansloos" of "overlastgevers" zouden zijn.
Kees Loef, een vertrouweling van Yesilgöz, deed er zijn uiterste best voor om de definitie van "overlast" zoveel mogelijk op te rekken en zoveel mogelijk asielzoekers in de kampen op te sluiten, ondanks protesten van zelfs de Vreemdelingenpolitie, die het "gewoon discriminatie" noemde.
Uiteindelijk verbood de rechter deze strafkampen dus, omdat ze een duidelijke schending van mensenrechten zijn.
Fascist Faber probeert de strafkampen nu alsnog in te voeren, via een juridische omweg, waarbij mensen niet letterlijk zijn opgesloten, maar in de praktijk toch eigenlijk wel: ze moeten zich zo vaak melden dat ze geen tijd hebben om ergens anders heen te gaan.
De Tweede Kamer vindt dat plan niet racistisch genoeg, en eist dat asielzoekers nog zwaarder gestraft worden voor het vragen om veiligheid. Dat de rechter dat verbood interesseert onze Tempel der Democratie geen hol.
Fuck de rechter, fuck mensenrechten en fuck de rechtsstaat, aldus de Kamer.
Bronnen:
Uitstekend onderzoek van NRC van vorig jaar naar de achtergrond van de procesbeschikbaarheidslocaties, en de totale lak van Yesilgöz en Van der Burg aan de rechtsstaat:
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De lijst met verboden woorden van Trump waardoor je wetenschappelijke paper gemarkeerd wordt bij NSF als verdacht
(Het is gewoon fascisme, duidelijk en zonder twijfel.)
Elk federaal agentschap in de VS probeert momenteel uit te zoeken hoe het verboden woorden kan verwijderen uit online gepubliceerde documenten, in een wanhopige poging om te voldoen aan het uitvoeringsbevel van president Donald Trump om “DEI” uit elk facet van het Amerikaanse leven te verwijderen. En nergens is die poging zo bizar als bij de National Science Foundation, die op dit moment websites en onderzoekspapers uitkamt op een lange lijst woorden als “vrouwelijk”, “handicap” en “LGBT”, naast nog een heleboel andere.
De herziening is een reactie op een memo van 29 januari van het Office of Personnel Management, geschreven door waarnemend directeur Charles Ezell. Elk bureau heeft de memo een beetje anders geïnterpreteerd, maar bij NSF hebben ze een lijst samengesteld met woorden die gevonden moeten worden en die een herziening in gang zetten om te zien of het is toegestaan.
Volgens de Washington Post zal een woord als “vrouwen” de inhoud markeren, maar zal het handmatig moeten worden bekeken om te bepalen of de context van het woord gerelateerd is aan een verboden onderwerp onder het anti-DEI bevel. Trump en zijn medefascisten gebruiken termen als DEI om alles te beschrijven wat hen niet aanstaat, wat betekent dat het woord “vrouwen” op de verboden lijst staat terwijl “mannen” geen aanleiding geeft tot een beoordeling.
Hetero blanke mannen worden door het MAGA wereldbeeld gezien als de standaard mens en zouden dus niet verdacht zijn en een herziening nodig hebben. Elk ander type identiteit is inherent verdacht.
Sommige van de termen die worden gemarkeerd, zijn vooral opvallend in het licht van de Hitlergroeten die Trump-aanhangers sinds zijn aantreden brengen. Bijvoorbeeld, de term “haatdragende taal” wordt bij NSF gemarkeerd voor verdere beoordeling. Het herdefiniëren van termen als “haatzaaien” is duidelijk onderdeel van het fascistische project.
Darby Saxbe, een professor aan de Universiteit van Zuid-Californië tweette de lijst met verboden woorden op maandag, inclusief een beslisboom die volgens haar naar alle programmamedewerkers bij NSF is gestuurd.
Nogmaals, dit gebeurt niet alleen bij NSF. Zoals Gizmodo vorige week meldde, is het CDC ook zijn websites en rapporten aan het zuiveren van verboden woorden.
Dit gebeurt allemaal terwijl miljardair Elon Musk, een ongekozen vertegenwoordiger van Trumps regering, zich een weg plundert door de federale bureaucratie en toegang krijgt tot zeer gevoelige gegevens zonder dat iemand hem tegenhoudt.
Het is niet duidelijk hoe dit verder zal gaan. Maar dat ze nu al woorden als “vrouwen” en “trauma” als verdacht markeren, terwijl ze nog geen drie weken bezig zijn, voorspelt niets goeds.
vertaling van artikel van Gizmodo:
The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF
It's fascism, plain and simple.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
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Open vraag, niet aanvallend bedoeld: Waarom vind je het de moeite waard om naar het gif van die fascist te luisteren? Geeft hij zich erg bloot, of wat is de reden?
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Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.
Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.
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I'm all for making sure creators are rewarded for their work. When third parties are allowed to buy and "own" that output, that creates seriously perverse incentives, like destroying someone who is seen as threatening your financial stake while conducting legal activity. Even if Swartz's actions were questionable, the reaction was out of all proportion. He was crucified to scare away anyone else considering exercising their legal rights.
Did I get that right?
Please know that I'm saying this with the understanding that you may just not know what to say, and that I hope it doesn't come off as rude, even though it probably will.
Meme images like this don't make it look like you actually feel anything or that you care, it makes you look flippant and irreverent. That's not the tone I think you're trying to convey. If it is though, that kinda sucks.
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@delric In situations like this, memes are like greeting cards. They're a stand-in for when you can't, or can't be bothered to, think of something to say.
I'm not trying to virtue signal, I just see things like this and it feels so impersonal and not respectful at all.
Oof that hits hard..
Aaron is such in incredible loss for all of humanity 
In America, no good deed goes unpunished. No bad deed goes unrewarded.
Barrett Brown, in his recent book, referred to the culpability of the government in his suicide:
"This entirely unnecessary tragedy brought national attention to the DOJ's habit of pressuring defendants into pleading guilty to lesser crimes by threatening them with inappropriately lengthy sentences if they took the case to trial."
Brown has also, in several interviews, made sure that he is not forgotten.
Huh? Aaron did not create Markdown.
@shinmera Swartz didn't create Markdown, no, but John Gruber credits him with a pretty instrumental role in its development:
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@csilverman @shinmera Right, that. He didn't single-handily create Creative Commons either but not clear it would've happened without him.
@shinmera According to Wikipedia:
In collaboration with John Gruber, Swartz co-created Markdown – a lightweight markup language for generating HTML – and was the author of its html2text translator. The syntax for Markdown was influenced by Swartz's earlier atx language (2002), which today is primarily remembered for its syntax for specifying headers, known as atx-style headers
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So it seems he was a co-creator.
@DeltaLima Yes John is the creator but scroll down to the "Acknowledgements" section:
> Aaron Swartz deserves a tremendous amount of credit for his feedback on the design of Markdown’s formatting syntax. Markdown is *much* better thanks to Aaron’s ideas, feedback, and testing. Also, Aaron’s html2text is a very handy (and free) utility for turning HTML into Markdown-formatted plain text.
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Today we released our archive of data.gov on source.coop. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archi...lil.law.harvard.edu
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hey, thanks for doing this! I’m super interested to see what you’re collected. I’ll just need to increase my storage capacity by a factor of thirty.
make it a torrent so we can all share!!
I’m depending on libraries to save us from totally slipping into a new dark ages.
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Thank you for securing vital information. 👏🏻 
I've been wondering where Harvard would come down in this coup. Glad to see them doing at least some of the right thing.
A modern equivalent of the famous Library of Alexandria.
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Just wanted to say … I love that logo. And their vital work, too!
You guys rock your Patriotism. TY!
Dont you mean to assist Dump & Musken to collect MORE information on the people of this country?
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Is Harvard saving any copies/backups of these to storage locations within the EU?
can't seem to mirror it with rclone, us-west-2. thing doesn't resolve?
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Did you get the financial services that was taken down this weekend?
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Desbanda (Spaanse dodenmars)
Vandaag was ik voor het derde jaar op rij naar de herdenking van de dodenmars die de bewoners van Malaga liepen tot Alméria (240 km) in 1937. Tussen de 100.000 en 150.000 burgers sloegen op de vlucht voor de fascisten van Franco. "De vergeten Guernica" ook wel genoemd. Toen Franco op het punt stond ook Malaga in te nemen vluchtten veel inwoners de stad uit. Het leek in Alméria iets veiliger. Maar hier in het dorp tijdens het doorwaden van de Guadalfeo rivier werden ze gebombardeerd door Italiaanse bommenwerpers en vanuit zee onder vuur genomen door nazi schepen. Minstens 5000 mensen kwamen om. Tijdens de verschillende toespraken (ook door de vervanger van de burgemeester) werd in allerlei toonaarden opgeroepen de strijd tegen het nieuwe wereldwijde fascisme op te voeren. Het was veel drukker dan vorig jaar.
Ik moest de hele tijd denken aan de vlucht van de Palestijnen van zuid naar noord Gaza.
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Remember Aaron♥️
Fuck #Meta 
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Aaron war ein toller Mensch, und er hätte viel für die Menscheit tuen können. Ich sehe es als globale Sünde, das man ihn in den Selbstmord getrieben hatt. ❤️ 🙏
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For anyone who doesn't know Aaron, I really recommend watching this docu about him
And yes, at this point i don't care anymore if this docu is legal or illegal on YT
youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6Fzbgs_L…
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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It is also available on Peertube - peertube2.cpy.re/w/04af977f-42…
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Thanks! I'd never seen that. This particular link has some audio censorship shenanigans due to the mention of "suicide" toward the end, but I was able to find another YT link that doesn't edit it out. youtube.com/watch?v=9vz06QO3Uk…
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014)
This is the FULL MOVIE! - The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Sw...YouTube
never heard of that story but I’ll definitely check this out , thanks !
the @internetarchive has a copy up as well.
archive.org/details/TheInterne…
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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz : Brian Knappenberger : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews...Internet Archive
I guess Zuckerberg being Elon Trump's sub has its benefits.
Best is that Aaron Swartz merely downloaded, and in a way that should be entirely legal.
Meanwhile Meta/Facebook definitely illegally downloaded it all *and* then made a derivative product out of it.
Meanwhile Meta/Facebook definitely illegally downloaded it all *and* then made a derivative product out of it.
and the sad part is that they will get away with it, especially in the US.
When 1 person does it, jail. When an exciting new disruptive corp does it, it’s okay.
Thanks for posting this. I'm not especially techie, so I'm learning things here. . . . Good, bad, and sad 😔
I wonder if Aaron's judge, Carmen Ortiz, will have the guts to punish the Meta in the same way
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@ujeenator I suspect that she'll be conspicuous by her silence.
Just reinforcement of the saying "The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer". If you are WHITE and RICH you can get away with anything.
"Rules for thee, but not for me".
RSS daddy, the best thing the web ever had
Happy to see truth getting out. I did warn people back, then that it was piracy to download, but nobody listen to me. Sometimes greed overtakes our mental capacity to be rational. Case in point #ZuckTheSchmuck #Muskrat #Bezos #LarryPage #SergeyBrin
Why is it relevant what they use it for?
Did they have a permission to download it? If not it was illegal.
If so, I hope they signed the contract with blood and it cost Zuck jr.
There exists a group photo of Aaron Swarz and Zuckerberg at MIT. Same story, different intents, different outcomes. Sadly not the good intention had the better outcome.
Edit: It was Sam Altman. But the point still remains. mamutovo.cz/@Razemix/113978218…
Edit: It was Sam Altman. But the point still remains. mamutovo.cz/@Razemix/113978218…
Radomír Žemlička (@Razemix@mamutovo.cz)
Attached: 1 image @TheAlgorythm@chaos.social @stux@mstdn.social That would be Sam Altman (OpenAI), not Zuck.Mamutovo
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Long live #AaronSwartz and his fight against Internet bullies!
❤️🔥
@Intel-Graphy \ - v - / @stux⚡ Well we wouldn't want to ruin their promising swimming career for ruining a woman's life would we?
burn the tech companies 🔥put them to jail! All of them!
It is only a crime when users do it…
That's fiscal conservatism for you - Corporations should have all the rights of human beings, but none of the responsibilities.
That is the world we live in. The state is the henchman of big capital and will utterly destroy any ordinary citizen who is deemed a threat to the income of big capital. A very educational film on that matter.
the difference is that Aaron wanted to make public research free, and Meta wanted to make a profit.
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His website is still up at aaronsw.com.
Among other things, he co-authored RSS at 14, cocreated Open Library and Reddit, was influential in Creative Commons, and founded Demand Progress. All of this in his too-short twenty-six years on this planet.
Aaron Hillel Swartz, may his memory be for a blessing.
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should have paid the fine and bribed a few other politicians, like High-Class people do.
I’m not sure why you would say it’s illegal. Anna’s makes everything open for downloading and opposes copyright. The authors of those works could object but they would also very much object to Anna’s having “illegal “ copies and making them available outside of any protection.
Is the rich versus us all the time
we will never forget him. Thank you for the reminder. He's our martyr.
And this could be said of every company training LLMs.
Oh… THAT’S what Meta did (I had read random comments online, but wasn’t sure what they did and then got distracted by the avalanche of news coming at me.)
Ugh… that’s freaking HORRIBLE!
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who created/controls Meta? Fine and jail them.
And isn't the result kinda...pathetic? You steal one of the largest libraries, an inconceivable amount of human knowledge, brilliant ideas, beautiful art and make... this? A digital parrot that is often wrong, but when it's right, it's kinda good?
Makes you wonder about the utility of IP a little... if corporations disregard others' IP (ie. Everything on the Internet) then perhaps we do away with IP altogether. Or greatly reduce copyright protections in favor of copyleft perhaps.
:underheart:Aaron
I hope the prosecutors in this case end up loosing a trans grandchildren to suicide.
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Throwback Pic From 2005 Featuring Emmett Shear And Sam Altman Goes Viral
In 2005, Sam Altman and Emmett Shear were in the inaugural class for Y Combinator, the startup accelerator.Ritu Singh (NDTV)
yup that is a tragic story. and Aaron helped inventing great things like Rss feeds, and did not published the downloaded articles, and was not helped by his university to counter the harassment from elsevier. v_v
Rich can commit crimes!
Asymmetric enforcement of property rights is absolutely not a mistake. It's core to how capitalist competition functions. zirk.us/@MidniteMikeWrites/113…
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Attached: 1 image @dgfitch@kolektiva.social @KarlSchroeder@mastodon.social A lot of people view the cruelty of capitalism as just a straight forward consequence of market incentives: profit maximization, arbitrage of information asymmetry, etc.zirkus
The purpose entirely different. Aaron wanted the knowledge to be free to be used for furthering human intellectual advancement and enrichment. AI is going to replace and never credit the ownership of anything. No citing of sources, no scholarly notations, just amalgam of secretive manufactured output inevitable owned by someone.
Que dice sobre Aarón swart? No manejo inglés.
more of commentary on a failed politically compromised justice system
I only downloaded like 3 gigs or something, but somehow, and I agree. I'm the worst.
I've got a few hundred gigabytes of pirated PDFs and EPUBs lying around, more than half of that scientific publications, mostly due to that fact that those are full of images. The sheer number of files in the fictional literature directories is larger by several orders of magnitude, but since pure text compresses down to next to nothing, the entire Dune series, J R R Tolkien's collected works, even the entire Discworld series, all take up no more than a few megabytes each, while a single scientific book is often more than 100MB due to all those images. PDFs about biology are often larger than those about Physics because there are more high resolution photographs and much fewer simple vector graphics.
So the sheer data volume doesn't tell us much about how many pieces of text we're dealing with, how many papers, magazines, books. It could be huge libraries of fiction, history, politics, or philosophy, or it could be just a few books on botany or zoology with a lot of HR photographs.
So the sheer data volume doesn't tell us much about how many pieces of text we're dealing with, how many papers, magazines, books. It could be huge libraries of fiction, history, politics, or philosophy, or it could be just a few books on botany or zoology with a lot of HR photographs.
The world's biggest thieves.
society failed this man
you have courts of law not justice. They want you to play fair since they never will
@markhburton @rickf @jeremiah Settler Colonialism unsurprisingly uses the same rulebook: Israel currently, USofA, Australia NZ SAfrica....
@dacig you are way out of place
@pluto In a way. The post honours Aaron Swartz memory I get it. Part of his work as an activist was to make what he considered to be Digital commons to be publicly available. He was, I think, against the system of enclosure and privatization of the commons that characterizes capitalism . I was agreeing with a previous comment, expanding it to the most cruel forms of capitalism.
Maybe a bit far from the original post, but in a continuum in my estimation.
Maybe a bit far from the original post, but in a continuum in my estimation.
"aaron swartz took his own life"
uhmm actually...
uhmm actually...
How many of the people agreeing to that it's a outrage are still using Meta?
How many are still using Meta and simply ignored all the previous violations the company performed?
Bigots.
Btw, the thread's discussion is maily about Aaron, which is not the main topic. See how fast people get distracted.
It's about Meta's THEFT and copyright violation, not about Aaron (RIP)!
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meta being a leecher on Anna's Archive is meta not only being above the law, but also the worst kind of pirate, using a ton of bandwidth, causing cost, but for no good reason. a bad actor, in every senses that word can have, for everyone except itself
many complains in comment, but why no collective judge complain on meta?
I want my blog to show tags, but I know my default would just be keyword stuffing the tags. So I was wodne if folks had a standard set of tags that they consistently use on their blogs
Some noteworthy books by Aaron Swartz and about him
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iirc about the same time evil began to rise exponentially.
Soooo when we set this in comparison and scale it up according to the theft of intellectual property what Meta did for training it's Algorithms, how many Billions would that be? 🙄😁
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How is this only "fuck Meta"?
obviously since scumbags always have more rights than normal people.
How do we know Meta used libgen etc?
aaronsw was an acquaintance in real, and we had exchanged emails and were FB friends.
He was principled, charming, talented, and much loved.
But he was also entitled and arrogant.
MIT blocked his access to JSTOR passively a number of times and he kept working around ip blocks, etc.
MIT had very good surveillance abilities, when we had a compromised guest laptop at One Laptop per Child IS&T called me in like 5 minutes and told me you have five minutes to get this off the net.
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It’s the latter that has been on my mind this week."
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