erlend

parismarx, 5 months ago to tech

I signed an open letter demanding answers from Substack leadership on why they’re platforming and monetizing Nazis, white nationalists, and other far-right figures.

This isn’t free speech. It’s hate speech.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/substackers-against-nazis

#substack #tech

eloquence, 5 months ago to threads

Earlier this year, #SocialCoop landed on a "limiting" policy for #Threads after a democratic vote: you can follow accounts, but their posts won't make it into other people's feeds who don't follow them.

That works for me so I can follow e.g. NGOs that only maintain a presence on Threads (and sooner or later bug them to get their own instance ;-). I understand why other servers may prefer to suspend, or even why some may prefer to do nothing.

Glad fedi gives us a full range of choices.

erlend, 6 months ago to beeper

https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-mini-is-back

Kudos to #Beeper for their competitive compatibility hijinks as of late.

No doubt they’re intentionally building a case for regulators. They’ve forced Apple’s hand, effectively showing that cross-platform comms is a matter of willingness, not technical limitation.

Seeing as Apple’s company policy is provably anti-competitive, we the users rely on state-mandated policies to overrule them in favor of adversarial interop.

cc @pluralistic

#SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

erlend, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to opensource

https://blog.erlend.sh/big-ai-commons

"They’ve already laid claim to our collective land, labor and attention. With AI, they want to own our thoughts and the last shred of agency that comes with them. If we fail to defend our personal sovereignty at this juncture, a dark age of the corporate singularity awaits us."

"To land a real blow, look for where the machines are at their most materialized. Take aim at their massive bodies of data and strike there with conviction."

#opensource #ai #openweb

erlend, 6 months ago to politics

Do not misconceive of a ‘social construct’ as something that isn’t real.

Make the mistake of disregarding our social reality as a way to circumvent it, and you will find yourself banging your head against the very real walls of sociality until you go mad.

Once you accept the reality of our social constructs you will see they can only be deconstructed and made anew by the collective imagination of our socialized power.

#politics #philosophy #SocialWeb

erlend, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Back in high school, I made some kind of mistake that a teacher scolded me for.

(It’s also quite possible that it wasn’t me who got scolded in this particular instance, but rather I was just empathizing with a fellow student.)

The teacher said “Do you know why I was so hard on you just now? Because this way, the shock of this harsh lesson will make you remember it forever.”

Well, it’s been almost two decades and all that remains with me is the feeling of being yelled at for getting it wrong.

erlend, 6 months ago to random

Partially in response to the excellent juxtaposition of Effective Altruism/Accelerationism by @molly0xfff, @pluralistic writes:

“But the superintelligence true-believers and their criti-hyping critics keep dragging us away from these important questions [about pro-social automation] and into fanciful and pointless discussions of whether and how to appease the godlike computers we will create when we disassemble the solar system and turn it into computronium.”

Amen! 🙏

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/

erlend, 6 months ago to opensource

Thank you @NGIZero! 🙏

https://blog.commune.sh/grant-from-nlnet/

#OpenSource #Matrix #Fediverse

timnitGebru, 6 months ago to random

You know I was resenting every second of the time I had to read anything written by the TESCREAL bundle but it really did help me clarify how they’re getting so many young people into their cults and the ways in which what I want from technology is the complete opposite of them.

chriscoyier, 6 months ago to random

Combined Messaging Apps: https://chriscoyier.net/2023/11/16/combined-messaging-apps/

noybeu, 6 months ago to random

⚠ noyb filed a complaint against the EU Commission

👉 The EU Commission used unlawful micro-targeting on X to promote its chat control legislation

👉 This violated the EU GDPR and undermined established democratic procedures between EU institutions

read more:

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaint-against-eu-commission-over-targeted-chat-control-ads

erlend, 7 months ago to opensource

@photomatt & co have talked about making Tumblr fully open source for a long time. In light of Tumblr’s downsizing, this is the time to do so!

Since it’s failing to make a profit they may as well release it for the wider internet community to go nuts with it.

Better yet, spin Tumblr out as a standalone co-op venture to succeed or fail on its own merits.

https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/733551497286172672/translation-of-internalspeak-to-externalspeak

#OpenSource #coop #tumblr

J12t, 7 months ago to threads

There are quite a few people on #threads who post something along the lines of:

“Dear algorithm, please help me find people who …” with some topics they are interested in.

Usually, everyone complains about “the algorithm”, but in this case, people are seeking it out.

/kbin RTR#7 Summary of the week, preview of the kbin.social update

It's been almost a week since I started describing my work in the devlog. I'm okay with the progress and the pace I've set for myself. But what matters most to me is that developing the project has once again brought me immense joy and satisfaction. The tasks I've completed so far will allow for a more organized life on the...

erlend, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to fediverse

There’s a major convergence of OAuth/OIDC support across #fediverse applications, #Matrix is going all-in on it as its root default, and other social web protocols are tagging along as well.

Like the separation of church and state, it seems prudent to keep the management of our digital identities separate from our social network servers.

Domain-based OIDC accounts with web sign-in, especially when self-hosted, serve the function of a minimum-viable #nomadicidentity

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/autonomous-identity-for-the-pluriverse-based-on-oauth-oidc/3675?u=erlend_sh

mastodonmigration, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

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This week's podcast, on "refund scam gangs" that advertise on Telegram and have stolen millions of dollars of merchandise from big retailers:

https://www.404media.co/artemis-refund-group-stole-700-000-from-amazon/

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