Mosntrous destructive snowstorm in Minnesota, monstrous destructive rainstorm in Kauaʻi...
#climatechange is real. Stop denying.
I'm tired of companies thinking that I'm just a fat wallet that needs squeezing in order to get content. I'm content to look elsewhere and discover folks that aren't as quick to play keep-away with their content.
California's #SB822, which would create model #NetNeutrality rules for states, passed through its first hearing and will be heard by the Judiciary Committee next. https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/17/net-neutrality-bill-moving-ahead-in-california/
NASA Mission Control during the Mercury missions
September 10, 1962
I love this.
I love this so much
One of my unironically favorite things about federated social networks is that they all choose names that people can't remember how to spell. Mastodon gets "Mastadon" all the time, Pleroma gets "Plemora".
I've chosen "WelRed" for my federated link-sharing network so I feel like I'm in good company.
i'm computer fairies, and so can you! with our lovely stylish mugs from redbubble!
margins are set very low so we barely see any money from this, but proceedings still help us keep computer fairies in the air, and besides, that is a sexy logo, come on.
The WHY in why Facebook (YouTube, Snap, Twitter, Et. al) are bad is so much more than their data policies or advertising it's that their entire existence is predicated on a LIE.
A lie so pervasive that almost the entire wold believes it.
That there service is "free" and that our contributions are not valuable.
When in fact there is nothing more invaluable than our time and attention, of which we are each given only a finite amount to spend.
open source federated fully automated gay space luxury communism
The universe is cold, uncaring and has no inherent meaning, but humans feel things like joy and suffering so we might as well build fully automated luxury space communism
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
- Smedley Butler
And as we expected, Zuckerberg also insisted that Facebook “does not sell user data.” While that may be technically true, it’s beside the point. No matter how the CEO slices it, Facebook’s business revolves around monetizing user data and attention.