⚥ 💅 AJ Donovan🤳⚥ @ajdonovan2k@octodon.social

Speakers of American English! You can help do an actual science just by answering some questions on a topic practically everybody likes to talk about: What Is The Right Word for a Thing?

New online American English dialect survey http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=37429

Stop - you are not a machine.
#latestagecapitalism

Suggested mottos:

FB: Too little too late.
Google: Be as evil as possible.
Apple: No fruit for you.
Amazon: Too rich to care.
Microsoft: What?

"You can ditch Facebook. It's OK. You will survive. And not only will you get through it, but your life will get better."

-- Douglas Rushkoff

@Nigma #MastoDO

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou

Maybe when we learned that a 19-year old Mark Zuckerberg called 4,000 of his fellow Harvard students “dumb fucks” for trusting him with their personal information, we should have believed him the first time.

https://exponents.co/facebooks-built-a-totalitarianism-toolbox/

@Gargron This is awesome, and I'll be sharing it widely. But, I also think now is the time to start talking about how we stop the likes of #CambridgeAnalytica / #Palantir from abusing the Fediverse's model, too. I work for scrapinghub.com - I can see how easy it would be to map and monitor the entire fediverse right now. From there to hyper-targeted fake profiles is a small enough step. How do we harden ourselves against #Twitter / #Facebook-style manipulation without damaging the social fabric?

I published:

#DeleteFacebook: Perspective from a platform that doesn’t put democracy in peril

https://medium.com/tootsuite/deletefacebook-fafdc4090307

@pinkprius

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#vero #socialnetwork

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