“All the world will be your enemy,
Prince with a Thousand Enemies.
And whenever they catch you, they will kill you.
But first they must catch you."
help me Mastodon, you're my only hope!
Is there sg wrong with sdf? I can't connect via ssh nor to the irc.sdf.org! :(
I'll stick to Mastodon, thanx
Soooo everyone in twitter is talking about Vero. Another proprietary social network fad made by a billionaire businessman who in his previous endeavor stopped paying his employees. Oh, and fully built by a team of Russian developers.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG
Hey after some health issues I'm back! What did I miss?
How Companies Use Personal Data Against People: A Working Paper
When you pretend to throw your dog the ball but instead pump fake for the fifth time in a row https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/IKUCewkkJGOHzjw4K0E
*William
(argh)
25 years ago, Willian Gibson wrote this masterpiece about Singapore. "Disneyland with the Death Penalty"
Peertube, a federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent:
This is a superb article: A Plan To Rescue The Web From the Internet
https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html
If they ever make a biopic about Richard Stallman that doesn't feature Cooper Andrews I'll be very mad. https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/SEjwuRLBJLXosFM5l3s https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/jBc51ApdjzVUhruHKnY
It's so crazy to think how you could buy TWO Eames Longe Chairs and Ottoman for ONE BITCOIN when five years ago it couldn't even buy a pizza.
#nowplaying Aimee Mann - The Moth (Les Deux Love Orchestra Cover)
https://soundcloud.com/indiesome/aimee-mann-the-moth-les-deux-love-orchestra-cover
No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move
Let's Just Admit It: Capitalism Doesn't Work
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/11/13/lets-just-admit-it-capitalism-doesnt-work
It's been 40 years since that film premiered and that quote is so relevant nowadays is terrifying.
There is no America.
There is no democracy.
There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon.
Those are the nations of the world today.
(...)
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business.
- Network (1976)
Eight of the fifteen largest cities in the European Union are governed by women:
- Madrid
- Rome
- Paris
- Bucharest
- Warsaw
- Barcelona
- Prague
- Sofia
Way to go!
I've always been weary of Assange's motivations, for he's full of hatred towards the Dems (and Clinton), but always maintained that Wikileaks is a fundamental stone in the fight against mass surveillance capitalism.
Boy, was I wrong.