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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 20:03:42 JST Miakoda

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   @marjolica @JugglingWithEggs This is precisely what Ive been up to.
   I dropped Google (I just have YouTube with a seperate email for that loging), went back to Meta to clean up my.old abandoned account, left Twitter before it became X, and have been moving more and more to self hosted.

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     MarjorieR (marjolica@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 20:03:43 JST MarjorieR

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     @JugglingWithEggs and if you can avoid doing it don't go to the USA, full stop.

     But remember the (US hosted) Cloud is over here too and we have still not banned use of it it even though it doesn't meet UK or EU data privacy requirements (that in the UK Starmer is now trying to rescind).
     
     So get off Meta, don't use X, don't use MS Office or Google products. Look for Cloud free or if you must store onine switch to European alternatives.

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     Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 20:03:44 JST Juggling With Eggs

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     ‘after a short while we lose our ability to be shocked, unwillingly normalising the cloud, as if now it is a natural phenomenon we must live with.

     As if the cloud simply is. Just don’t take your phone with you to the US. Buy a burner. No big deal. If there is a cloud, get an umbrella and walk faster past those who do not have one.’

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     Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 20:03:46 JST Juggling With Eggs

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     ‘The cloudlike vagueness, fluidity and slipperiness of the system – its everywhereness but at the same time nowhereness – are quite like moving storm clouds.

     Right now it is in #Turkey, operating through the imprisonment of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s political rivals; now it is in #Israel, starving #Palestinian children. After appearing on the #Italian shores to push back refugees to the sea, it suddenly shows up in the US, raining on a new land through the border police’

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     Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 20:03:47 JST Juggling With Eggs

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     ‘writers, thinkers and politicians – try to come up with a catchy term for today’s fascism. At the heart of it, I have come to think, lies not only the desire to analyse but also the urge to attract people’s attention so they are adequately alarmed.

     It may be an all too human urge to think: “If only we could find the right word, people would stop and listen.

     Perhaps then they’ll do something.” In fact, it is good old #fascism, only with many new spectacles and glamorous gadgets’

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     Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 20:03:48 JST Juggling With Eggs

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     ‘what began as a shocking absurdity – academics, intellectuals and ordinary people with ideas being denied entry or sent to prison for weeks based on the search of their phone – quickly became ordinary.

     The unacceptable was normalised at such speed that, only a few weeks into the border crisis, the EU began issuing burner phones to its staff bound for the US.

     Some European countries warned their LGBTQ+ citizens to be cautious visiting the US in a tone akin to Tripadvisor travel tips’

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     Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 20:03:49 JST Juggling With Eggs

     Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right?

     Ece Temelkuran

     #CloudFascism
     #Fascism
     #Trump
     #Normalisation

     https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/cloud-fascism-understand-resist-hard-right