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Hypothesis: Even if social media are only toxic as a result of capitalist-based engagement-maximizing interfaces, that doesn't necessarily mean that free and open interfaces that mimic the corporate experience won't also be toxic.

Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics.

Overnight shipping, advertising, and private jets no longer exist, but health care, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all.

“The Growing Popularity of Degrowth”

See -- https://grist.org/looking-forward/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Degrowth

Fun facts:
you own the data on your electric meter.
Until only a few years ago, inexpensive recording meter readers were available (e.g., black & decker EM100B). Non-hard-wired meter readers are no longer commercially available. But there’s an easy, low-cost, scalable hack to get your data. Your data is worth money, & others profit from your data.
That might be why they discontinued meter readers. We are piloting a ratepayer collective where we get/wield our own data, in concerted fashion.

There's some buzz about Nevada trying to block Meta from offering end-to-end encryption for Messenger.

My brain is currently burning out on the idea that Meta would offer end-to-end encryption on *anything*. I thought their entire profit model was built on selling user data to advertisers.

What part of this story am I missing?

Blogs! Do you want one? If so, what's currently stopping you?

I want to understand where people are on this—how many people just don't know how to create one or can't afford the option they like, or feel like there are other impediments such as privacy/context collapse.

✅ Please boost for reach!

As previously mentioned, here's what Einstein had to say about segregation:

"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."

For the last 20 years of his career, Einstein declined almost all public speaking engagements, except those at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

This photo was taken at Lincoln University, an HBCU.

Hot take: #IP port numbers are a mistake.

They are just the final, hard to route, part of the address.

Maybe they made sense for firewalls when the 'net was friendly and welcoming and traffic unencrypted. Or when people had to memorize them.

Now servers are on #DNS, and #SRV records tell you where the service is.

And if the service is ad-hoc and doesn't have DNS, then you have to know the addressport anyway.

With #IPv6 we can finally give every service an address!

#networking #internet

For how long should we let police violate our privacy & safety without accountability & oversight? ”A small band of tech billionaires have joined forces to raise over $1 million to convince us the answer is at least one year,” EFF’s Nash Sheard said. #NOPEonE
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/breed-police-ballot-measure-18682557.php

Barring incarcerated people from talking to journalists or publishing their own writing is blatantly unconstitutional.

These restrictions have nothing to do with protecting crime victims and everything to do with allowing prisons to operate in secrecy. https://theappeal.org/south-carolina-prison-media-ban-illegal-aclu/

An absolutely bonkers assault on encryption is happening right now in Nevada.

This week, the state AG moved for a temporary restraining order to stop Meta from rolling out default E2EE on Messenger for under-18 Nevadans. The state's brief characterizes E2EE apps as a tool for child predators. It argues that Meta's claims about E2EE protecting privacy & security are deceptive, so E2EE is a CONSUMER PROTECTION VIOLATION. Oh, and half the brief is redacted.

Brief is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qq9ZkJaLHEsEiMg2rSd2hqI1SPSQb0Y8/view?usp=sharing

The evidence could not be more clear: abortions with mifepristone, one of the most studied drugs in history, are extremely safe. The few flimsy and biased studies suggesting otherwise were just retracted https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flimsy-antiabortion-studies-cited-in-case-to-ban-mifepristone-are-retracted/

Yesterday, our mod team began receiving a number of reports about one of our users, who had repeatedly expressed criticism of #TheBadSpace. To the best of our knowledge, this exchange involved a series of comments on a thread about the prospects of collective, decentralized blocklists, followed by a post on their own timeline in which they called out The Bad Space, listed the instances participating as Sources for its rating system, and linked to an article on the subject that was critical of the project. The post framed Kolektiva's inclusion on The Bad Space list as an 'attack on our community', and could be reasonably construed as an effort to rally users to respond to this 'attack.'

While some members of our mod team were already familiar with the controversy around The Bad Space, and the litany of accusations of anti-Black racism and transphobia/transmisogyny associated with these debates, this understanding was not equally shared across our team. It should be mentioned that our moderation team is composed of volunteers who do our best to keep on top of the moderation load as best we can, when we can. Several times since 2020, we have been caught off-guard by a snowballing controversy that most of our active mods needed some time to learn about and properly understand.

In an effort to avoid further escalation and division, and to avoid contributing to a new wave of harassment of Black and trans Mastodon users, one of our mods temporarily froze and limited the #Kolektiva user's account yesterday. This was done to give our team time to all research the issue and discuss it collectively (because that is how Kolektiva operates, for better or worse).

The post calling out The Bad Space and its partipating Source instances has been removed for violating of our code of conduct - specifically our policy against targeted harassment.

We realize that people are going to be upset with Kolektiva actions. Unfortunately, we see that as fairly unavoidable in situations like this.

Members of the Kolektiva mod team share concerns about the potential abuse of power that stems from centralized block lists, and the way that these threats can be magnified by the personal biases of the instance moderators who are tasked with deciding who gets included on these lists. That said, we also fundamentally respect instance operators' right to decide who they want to federate with, and we understand and appreciate the important role that tools like The Bad Space play in seeking to address the very real oppression and harassment faced by marginalized communities on the fediverse. As anarchists, we understand these efforts as manifestations of the principles of autonomy and voluntary association.

As we research this issue further, we encourage people to reach out to members of our mod team to share past or current examples of anti-Black racism or transphobia related to this issue, particularly if you think it provides pertinent context to this current situation.

We thank people for their patience and support, and encourage everyone to avoid playing broken telephone and otherwise furthering divisions between already maginalized groups.

Finally, we refer people to our About section, and specfically to the sections on Targeted Harassment, and the headings SAFETY AND DANGER ON THE FEDIVERSE and DEFEDERATING FROM OTHER INSTANCES.

https://kolektiva.social/about

#FediBlockMeta #KolektivaMod

The pandemic really highlighted the correlation between essential jobs and low wage jobs

the 'use a password manager' stat (27% of respondents) is grim.

“Prop. E is an extension of the policies that were created that criminalized Black and brown communities by over-policing us, over-charging us and pushing us deeper into the cycles of incarceration,” @youngwomenfree's Lucero Herrera said. #NOPEonE https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/prop-e-foes-demonstrate-outside-y-combinator-hq/

The Kids Online Safety Act may have been revised, but it’s still a censorship bill. Student journalists are one of the groups it will censor. https://freedom.press/news/the-kids-online-safety-act-will-censor-student-journalists/

While some people might think that the Nginx/Freenginx CVE controversy has some hidden benefit to Russian intelligence, if you see a CVE for HTTP then you can seed where that bug sits. Putin on the risk.

#security #nginx

David Farrier today tells us of how Brian Houston, the rich pastor of Hillsong fundamentalist church, tweeted “Ladies and girls kissing” to his 10,000 followers this week. It seems he thought he was doing a google search, this fine upstanding Christian man who demonises gay people for their sin.
He then quickly deleted the tweet (but of course not before screen capture and replies) and 16 minutes later let everyone know ‘I seem to have been hacked’.

You couldn’t make this shit up.

Buying residents’ geolocation data? A swarm of police drones overhead? Robot dogs? San Francisco Police could pursue any of these and much more without accountability under Prop E, EFF’s Saira Hussain tells @reasonmagazine. #NOPEonE https://reason.com/2024/02/22/proposition-e-would-make-it-easier-for-police-to-surveil-san-francisco/

Reddit's S-1 filing makes it pretty obvious why it wants to go public -- net loss of $90 million last year and $160 million the year before. Also, there will be multiple voting shares of course, so even if you buy stock you will have zero say https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024006294/reddits-1q423.htm