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   Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Jul-2025 22:42:37 JST Open Rights Group

   Lights are going out across the Net for UK users.

   Age verification is driving sites to shut down, geo-block the UK or restrict features and content.

   In trying to tackle to worst of the Net, it's harming the best.

   🗣️ ORG Exec Director, @jim

   #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #ageverification #ageassurance #freedomofexpression #digitalrights #censorship #ukpol #ukpolitics

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   Chuck Darwin (cdarwin@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 12:03:50 JST Chuck Darwin

   The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out claims that the Biden administration unlawfully coerced social media companies to remove contentious content.

   In reaching its conclusion, the court overturned an injunction that would have limited contacts between government officials and social media companies on a wide variety of issues if it were allowed to go into effect.

   The Supreme Court had previously put the injunction on hold.

   Writing for the majority, conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett said the plaintiffs, Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, along with five social media users, had failed to show they had suffered harm at the hands of specific government officials.

   She noted that social media platforms routinely moderated content even before the alleged coercion happened
   https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-tosses-claim-biden-administration-coerced-social-media-c-rcna151356

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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 18:48:02 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   in reply to

   @eniko

   Sometimes when you link to a YouTube video from an external site that support, instead of providing an auto-embedded player per Mastodon's media API and YT's embed API, you'll get a non-interactive link summary. This usually happens with "mature" or otherwise gated content.

   In this particular case, however, I was using the wrong style of inbound link to YT (m. and .be links don't embed). Personal error.

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   volkris@qoto.org's status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 05:46:34 JST volkris

   in reply to

   @persagen

   All of these groups promoting conspiracy theories about the Federalist Society, as opposed to simply going through the reasoning in the opinions themselves, are really misleading the public, coming across as if they’ve never actually listened to any FedSoc content.

   In reality, the Federalist Society is one of the most evenhanded outfits I know of, presenting both sides of debates, including pro-affirmative action speakers.

   Seriously, go pull up their content and give their debates a listen. They are nothing like the evil right-wing monster so many are trying to frame them as.

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   Evan Prodromou (evanprodromou@evanp.me)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:39:40 JST Evan Prodromou

   I’m excited to say that I turned in my manuscript for the ActivityPub book for O’Reilly Media today. I started working on it in September of 2023, with a lot of interim checkpoints and deadlines since. In April 2024, I finished the first draft of the manuscript. Over the month of May, I’ve been working on improvements suggested by the technical reviewers who agreed to look over the book, and from my own re-read.

   In total, my TODO file for this month has about 250 changes to be made. Some are small — just changing a word or two — but one required adding a whole new chapter, and many required multi-paragraph sections.

   I took the last week of May off from my work at Open Earth Foundation to concentrate on making changes. My team was really supportive, which I deeply appreciated. I went to our country house in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and I spent the week writing, editing, drawing and thinking.

   Now, the next stage of book making starts: production. The production team at O’Reilly will be copyediting, indexing, and laying out the book. Their designers will be taking my UML diagrams and turning them into professional-looking illustrations. We have two rounds of quality control on code samples and fact checking on content.

   In September 2024, the final e-book will be available for sale. I’ll have a link here for the pre-sale version when it comes out. If you’re eager to read the book, I highly recommend reviewing the early release version.

   Thanks so much to my friends, family and colleagues who’ve made space and time for me to do this work. It has meant a lot to me. I hope the final product helps more developers create cool projects using ActivityPub.

   https://evanp.me/2024/06/03/i-turned-in-my-manuscript/

   #activitypub #book

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   HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 00:21:02 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

   in reply to

   @specked

   Thank you for these sources and the interesting content.

   In particular, #TheDailyBeast states that it could not verify the veracity of the source.
   The #UN, on the other hand, confirms ("only") "sexual torture," but does not take about the recording.

   Alas, my gut feeling is that the recordings are realnand some #UNWRA employees are implicated.

   I side with the #EU Commission's President, #UrsulaVonDerLeyen, who states that all the #Gazans can be held hostage for the atrocious crimes