A cabal of notorious and/or legendary #european#legislative#transparency orgs and people is looking for someone who can build an #online#platform. Are you made of the material that is worthy of joining this Oceans eleven of democratic badassery? Do you know someone? Pls boost #fedihire#development
Interested in #contentmoderation? The EU is inviting researchers to develop tools to make use of #platform#transparency data under the #DSA: https://hackathon.peren.fr/ (can't link directly to the English version for some reason, switch to English in top right corner in desktop view)
#MaziPilip, #GOPcandidate running to replace the seat vacated by #GeorgeSantos has not provided much of a #platform & refuses to answer reporters questions on her stance on #abortion (not that MsM even asks, others do). Pilip continues to not speak publicly and has turned down all requests for #debates (which are traditional) against Democrat #TomSuozzi.
A 2D platform game with a persistent world. When Edgar's father fails to return home after venturing out one dark and stormy night, Edgar fears the worst: he has been captured by the evil sorcerer who lives in a fortress beyond the forbidden swamp....
"We 1st discuss the current state of #platform#governance scholarship, followed by background on #Mastodon. We then explain #covenantalfederalist political theory, followed by an examination of Mastodon’s #covenant. Such an approach will clarify an alarming case in Mastodon’s history: the intrusion of the alt-right platform Gab into the Mastodon. We conclude with critiques of Mastodon’s covenantal approach and calls for further research." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2147400
After 13 months I've decided to shut down my single-user Mastodon cluster and join a big server. Sooo, time for a new #introduction!
My name's Chris. I'm a native Texan but I've lived in the United Kingdom for around 29 years.
I'm a proud alumni of #TheOpenUniversity and holder of a BSc in Environmental Management and Technology that I gained mostly for fun.
In those almost 3 decades, I've worked across the entire spectrum of enterprise IT from development to operations and ending up somewhere in between.
I currently run my own limited company as a consultant (freelance) #DevOps / #platform engineer and #cloud architect and I look for contracts focussing on #kubernetes and/or #terraform.
#ElonMusk appears to be fully committed to destroying the #platform he hilariously paid $54 billion for. I guess he didn't think #advertisers were fleeing fast enough. 🤷♂️
My year with Mastodon (#MastodonWrapped)
I celebrated my first #Mastoversary a few days ago. It’s been a good first year on Mastodon for me; I like the #Fediverse idea, I like people here, and I like the calm vibe this place offers.
Also, I ditched all of my other #SocialMedia accounts. All but one.¹
As I say, Mastodon is a good #platform to be, however there are a couple of things I’ve been struggling with the whole time. I’m going to put together a brief summary below in hope that someone can help me with them.
¹ I still keep Instagram to exchange cute pics of sloths and pandas, and ice-hockey reels with my sons. 😁
«Markets have been “replaced by digital trading platforms which look like, but are not, markets”. The moment you enter amazon.com “you exit #capitalism” and enter something that resembles a “feudal fief”: a digital world belonging to one man and his algorithm, which determines what products you will see and what products you won’t see.
If you are a seller, the #platform will determine how you can sell and which #customers you can approach. The terms in which you interact, share information and trade are dictated by an “algo” that “works for [Jeff Bezos’] bottom line”.
The capitalists who rely on this mode of selling are granted access to the digital estate by its virtual landowners, the Big Tech companies. And if “vassal capitalists” don’t abide by the laws of the estate, they are kicked out – removed from #Apple’s App Store or #Google’s search index – with disastrous consequences for their business.
Access to the “digital fief” comes at the cost of exorbitant rents. Varoufakis notes that many third-party developers on the Apple store, for example, pay 30% “on all their revenues”, while #Amazon charges its sellers “35% of revenues”. This, he argues, is like a medieval #feudal lord sending round the sheriff to collect a large chunk of his serfs’ produce because he owns the estate and everything within it.
This is not extracting profit through the production or provision of goods and services, as these platforms are not a “service” in the sense in which the term is used in economics. They are extracting rents in the form of the huge cuts they take from the capitalists on their platforms.
There is “no disinterested invisible hand of the #market” here. The Big Tech platforms are exempted from free-market competition. Their owners – “cloudalists” – increase their wealth and power at a dizzying pace with each click, exploiting a new form of rent-seeking made possible by the new algorithmically structured digital platforms. Parasitic on capitalist production, they are now dominating it.
But something even more transformative has happened, Varoufakis argues.
Even though most of us are regularly interacting with capitalists and earning wages via our labour, now, for the first time in history, all of us contribute to “the wealth and power of the new ruling class” through our “unpaid labour”.
Every time we use our cloud-linked devices – smartphones, laptops, #Alexa, Google Assistant, #Siri – we replenish the capital of the Big Tech cloudalists. This in turn increases their capacity to generate more wealth. How? We train their algorithms, which train us, to train them, and so on, in a feedback loop whose goal is to shape our desires and behaviour. They are “selling things to us while selling our attention to others”.»
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Alex vs Bus (github.com)
A platform runner game for Android and PC in which Alex needs to catch the bus on time
Tux (luckeyproductions.itch.io)
Tux! now has screen space ambient occlusion as a setting....
Edgar 1.37 (github.com)
A 2D platform game with a persistent world. When Edgar's father fails to return home after venturing out one dark and stormy night, Edgar fears the worst: he has been captured by the evil sorcerer who lives in a fortress beyond the forbidden swamp....