Pyotr🌹Koronov @kingkoronov@octodon.social

Today I quickly put together this tool that has been doing pretty well: find a working Sci-Hub domain.

http://whereisscihub.now.sh/

Tip: http://whereisscihub.now.sh/go immediately redirects you to a working domain.

#OpenAccess

imagine how advanced society would be if silicon valley was a bunch of FALGS communists instead of Libertarian techbros

Microsoft is testing a new change to its future version of Windows 10 which will probably annoy anyone using the operating system. The software giant revealed today that “we will begin testing a change where links clicked on within the Windows Mail app will open in Microsoft Edge.” The change means if you have Chrome or Firefox set as your default browser in Windows 10, Microsoft will simply ignore that and force you into Edge when you click a link within the Mail app.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/16/17130566/microsoft-windows-10-mail-edge-default-links

I wrote a birbsite bot that replies to uses of the (extremely offensive) term r*pefugee with biblical admonitions to welcome refugees and strangers. https://github.com/celesteh/invandringsbot

The people using this term don't give two shits about #rape or sexual assault. What they want is ownership of white women's bodies.

Which is why I wonder if a second bot that invites them to donate to rape crisis centres is a good or bad idea?

"Medium honors DNT but we track..."

THEN YOU DON'T HONOUR DNT AT ALL, YOU SHITSQUIDS.

"According to MIT Technology Review, the president of Y Combinator Sam Altman is one of 25 people who have put down a $10,000 refundable deposit to join a waiting list at Nectome — a company whose sole purpose is "the goal of archiving your mind." There's just one, rather huge catch: They have to kill you first. Like, literally kill you.

But why wait? Just die now. And take all your rich friends with you.

https://mashable.com/2018/03/13/sam-altman-nectome-brain-upload-y-combinator

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Today would be a good day to abolish #wageslavery.

A lot of organizations I care about used to have an IRC presence (eg Creative Commons) and moved primarily Slack based on the justification of "well there's an IRC / XMPP bridge". But it turned out that was a bait and switch: https://opkode.com/blog/slacks-bait-and-switch/

i would love to see more non-programming job postings circulating on the masto

i hear slack is closing its irc gateway.

so, um

when is mastodon, but for slack

RT @bhilburn@twitter.com: Whoever made this is a genius. I'm still chuckling.

Google providing services to the military is something @yashalevine@twitter.com outlined in his "Surveillance Valley" book as well.
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I mean, it's only the company whose image recognition identified black people as gorillas. Nothing to worry about. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-helping-the-pentagon-build-ai-for-drones-1823464533
https://twitter.com/hypervisible/status/971081697851789318

How do we retain agency in a world heavily mediated by corporations?

How do we know our cognitive resources (attention, trust, hopes) are not being allocated to the highest bidder in the marketplace, in units too subtle for us to perceive?

A future of hive-mind slavery at least provides for basic needs. We'd be free agents, alienated and alienating others.

We must devote our minds to it.

http://telekommunisten.net/2016/11/20/dkn-knowledge-1/

Hiveway announces it's shutting it's doors

AFTER raising 108k dollars in ETH

With nothing more than a page of faces, a single blog post, a free Masto instance, a website, and a compelling PDF.