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My daughter came into the room distraught and bemused by #TikTok going dark. She knew it was coming, but still...a lot of GenZ are feeling kind of rootless, like a personal landmark was pointlessly destroyed by govt who clearly give no fucks about actual data security, or these laws would have applied to all the American data harvesting commercial social media platforms.
And I, being an old, and having seen many things come and go since the days of blue boxes and usenet, tried to sympathize...but she rightfully pointed out that none of those things were legislated out of business. This is different. This is government deliberately controlling speech and demanding the sale of private property. Using the same canards they've been using her whole life: It's national security. It's for your own good. You can't see proof, it's classified.
She's right, it's nonsense.
The vibe here is way different, I don't know if we'll see an influx of #tiktokrefugee, but welcome if you're here!
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TikTok gets a lot of condescension from people who donโt use it, but my last few days on it my entire fyp was people telling stories of how it helped them start their business, get discovered by employers, educate themselves based on content from independent experts, gain the awareness and confidence to escape abusive relationships, etc etc
Also if it was such a National security risk, then why was like 50% of Washington on it? Rightโฆ
Well, except that TikTok wasnโt blocked at all. Bytedance itself decided to stop answering US-originated requests. Thereโs been no order to block; and no ISP taking that action.
What weโre seeing is a dance, moving around looking for bargaining chips. Pretending this is the govt blocking things is one of the feints in that dance.
The Alt-Right Playbook x PhilosophyTube: Doublewrong
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An investigation with ground penetrating radar has detected 114 unmarked burial features on the former property of McIntosh Indian Residential School (IRS) in the Kenora district of northwestern Ontario
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Reminder: โMany providers will send you abortion pills before you need them, to have on hand just in case. Pills are available in all 50 states and US territories.โ
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Them: "We are launching a new publication"
Me: ๐
Them: "We intend to do journalism differently"
Me: ๐
Them: "We will be beholden to no one in our search for truth"
Me: It's a Substack isn't it?
Them: "You will be able to subscribe using the Substack platform"
Me: (closes tab)
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A thing that has annoyed me the last couple of days is that I have friends to finally, FINALLY, decided to leave Facebook, Instagram etc (which I've been telling them for literally years) and then they say they are moving to Substack. Oh. Right.
I don't know what to say to them. I mean, it is good that they move off Meta's services, but if I start telling them what I think of Substack they might just...well...not move. I still see them not moving as worse than them moving on to Substack, but I might be confused here in my thinking that if they have started moving they might be more open to other, better, services (than Substack).
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EU Probes Apple's New App Store Fees
#AppleNews #DigitalMarketsAct #TechRegulation #AppleAppStoreFees #DeveloperConcerns
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EU Probes Apple's New App Store Fees - Slashdot
European Union regulators are investigating Apple's revised app store fees amid concerns they may increase costs for developers, according to Bloomberg News.apple.slashdot.org
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Any sufficiently obsolescent masculinity is indistinguishable from present femininity; any sufficiently obsolescent heterosexuality is indistinguishable from present day...well whatever given alternative you want to talk about.
As women evened the score, queers and freaks came out of hiding, patriarchal white masculinity did not disappear. Rather it shed what restraints it had on its own cruelty and rapaciousness. Not that these restraints were a proper check, mind.
What this means is that it sheds qualities that are deemed weakness. In order to more sharply define itself. And to be able to act with less restraint in re-establishing supremacy.
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So if transparency is important, what did Mastodonโs leadership talk to Facebook about when they met?
Itโs fine. Iโll wait. mastodon.social/@Mastodon/1138โฆ
Transparency is a key part of our transition to non-profit ownership. Follow us to stay informed about our progress, priorities, and the move to community-driven governance. Together, we're building a safer, more open Fediverse. Join us ๐blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/โฆ
The people should own the town square
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership.Mastodon Blog
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The Ladybird browser is a thing. Definitely dependent on commercial sponsorship, but so far all their sponsors are much smaller than the "big tech" tier of corporations.
What would really allow other organizations to step up would be a simplification of the Web Standards. Complexity of standards equals high entry cost equals oligopoly or monopoly.
I think the best thing going might be Gemini, a massively simplified version of the Web Standards, and there are plenty of Gemini browsers that have been implemented noncommercially. Only downside, the community of Gemini users probably isn't large enough to form a critical mass.
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The great thing about the recent #NetNeutrality court decision is that it allows service providers to get into the #enshittification game. Now theyโre no longer required to observe neutrality with respect to content sources, they can (a) deliver an inferior experience to consumers โ phase 1 of enshittification, per @pluralistic โ AND (b) extort more money from content providers โ phase 2.
Welcome to Year 0 of the true enshittocene, when ubiquitous enshittification REALLY kicks into high gear.
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It's interesting that if you hit ctrl-f on this you won't find "corona" or "COVID" or "pandemic" anywhere in this article about the whole network of hospitals being massively over capacity.
Stuff like this is why I am not so worried about #CBC destruction at the hands of the Conservatives; the CBC is not on your side when it counts, just like the other media. Also every CBC story about landlords, boy does CBC love landlords.
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What (when, and where in Friendica) is the use case for the "export all" file from a Friendica account?
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The only #socialmedia I am now left on is Mastodon, Pixelfed and LinkedIn.
After being cyber-flashed on #BlueSky - bombarded by abuse on Twitter where I had blocked 4,500+ accounts - Russian "ladies of the night" trying to follow me on Instagram - bombarded with ads and animal abuse on Facebook, I now feel I'm in a better place.
Maybe my blog article is a bit of a rant but it felt better to clear my head.
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State of Social Media January 2025 - Steven D Rowe
The state of my social media accounts in relation to the Meta CEOs unhinged statement about taking away fact-checking to kowtow to Trump.Steven (SDR Web Design)
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hello new people 
fleeing all things Meta
welcome to web 4.0, where we cultivate our own resilient social media graphs organically
free of ads
free of rage bait algorithms
free of murky VCs seeking ROI
... and... free.. as in beer ๐ป
remember it is acceptable to point & laugh at the web 3.0 griftclowns and their enshittification schemes 
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I read that Zuckerberg is calling people who leave his platforms, "virtue signalers." Yup. Indeed. I'd also add, "ethics and morality signalers and patriots." We should all signal that we don't support this kind of behavior. With action.
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well, I suppose he could refers to us as mentally ill household objects.
PS I virtue signalled years ago.
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โAs If Sheโd Have a Crystal Ballโ: Supporters Race to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bassโ Defense As MAGA ...
As wildfires raged uncontrollably across the Los Angeles area, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate and leaving at least five dead, conservatives within the MAGAA.L. Lee (atlantablackstar)
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i will die on the hill of closure isn't a group axiom
closure is a requirement of a binary operation
and a group is definitionally a set under a binary operation
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Today I'm going to start building a new website from scratch using Guile Scheme!
The goal is to create a production website that could get a fair amount of traffic. This ongoing project should be a good example of real-world Scheme hacking!
Join us here at 07:30 UTC (in around an hour):
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- twitch.tv/SystemCrafters
#gnu #guile #scheme #webdev #programming
Kicking Off a New Guile Website Project! - Crafter Hours
Welcome to Crafter Hours where we try to build something new every stream! Stream recordings will eventually be turned into shorter channel videos.#gnu #gui...YouTube
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If Merrick Garland can release the Robert Hur Special Consel report which was a political hit job on President Biden, then he can release the Jack Smith Special Counsel report.
If he doesnโt release the report, then heโs not just a coward, heโs complicit.
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A while back I read that the best way to teach a puppy how to behave is to do so in the presence of an adult dog who has already been trained to behave the way you need to. The adult dog will teach the puppy.
As I read this, I was amazed!! Dogs teach their young human behavioural expectations!!!
Then I realized: everything I know about how to behave around dogs I learned as a child, from an adult human.
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this is also the big problem with animals in captivity. The issue isn't the breeding every time, sometimes it's that the captive population fundamentally can't survive the wild because they don't have an adult to teach them "street smarts".
And unfortunately to bring the tone down a bit, the reverse: destruction of context without destroying life happens with slavery or with (in Australia's case) with the stolen generation.
Elon Muskโs European political meddling is โworrying,โ says Norwayโs PM
European backlash grows against billionaire ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
After buying the US President and a place in the Oval Office, Musk looks for world power and influence for his right-wing whack-a-doodles.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Musk #Twitter #x #Fediverse #socialmedia #Mastodon
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In terms of annual household income, for 2023:
Mississippi comes in dead last, ranked #50, at $54,203.
Alabama is ranked #44 at $62,212.
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