Notices by Personne (per_sonne@ciberlandia.pt), page 2

@antonyh

Getting rid of Apple or Android is difficult - but it's not "impossible".

We have Volla OS and Ubuntu Touch for mobile phones, already running on many devices. I, and many other people, use them every day since 2015.

@GottaLaff

Their goal is to privatise it, so they and their oligarch friends have guaranteed rent profits for eternity - but that would be so unpopular that they can't say it out loud.
This is just another subterfuge.

Also, compiling and cross-referencing everyone's personal data (social security numbers, addresses, health records, IRS, biometrics, banking, etc.) and feeding it to AI is a great tool for coercion and control, allowing them to enact swift punitive measures for any citizen daring to come out of line with the regime and rewarding those that obey.

I'm surprised that this isn't obvious for the majority of journalists and politicians out there? All the reporting on this seems to lack the sense of urgency and panic it should convey. It's all very "alleged", "claims". We're way past the pretense of politeness and due process. I don't get it.

@GottaLaff

This is right on the money:

“...unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers’ license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses.”

She added that the “defendants, with so-called experts on the DOGE Team, never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government.”

@GottaLaff

"On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later the entire contents of the library were removed and burned."

https://hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-institute-of-sexology/

On Ukraine; a painful, but necessary read.

"According to the dominant narrative, Ukraine should fit into this pattern: a nation emerging from Russian and Soviet oppression, driven by successive national liberation movements, dissident intelligentsia, Maidan revolutions, and the resistance to Russia’s “hybrid war” in the Donbas. This story culminates in the unity and resilience of the Ukrainian people repelling the full-scale invasion of 2022. But this narrative appears fundamentally flawed.

This may be because Ukraine’s is simply one of many post-Soviet trajectories shaped by the modernising successes and later the degradation of the Soviet revolution. Like in many other countries in the region, the state after independence was captured by predatory and comprador elites who prioritised their own interests over the public good.

This failure to deliver meaningful opportunities and protections for the majority of Ukrainians has left the state unable to demand much from them in return. As a result, today, Ukraine is unable to fully mobilise its people who are divided by a profound sociopolitical disconnect."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/23/why-is-ukraine-struggling-to-mobilise-its-citizens-to-fight

Of course Mozilla's CEO worked at McKinsey and AirBnB.

Of course.

McKinsey, enshittifying, dismantling and stripping companies and governments all over the world, since 1926. It's a like a factory of horrible morals, churning out all sorts of human misery possible.
Not to mention AirBnb, the worst company in the world...look at this corpo babble. It's code for enshittification:

"AirBnB: Led the core hosts business, which accounted for three-quarters of the company's operations. Drove a path to reacceleration through growth levers and tech platform transformation"

Jesus Christ on a cracker. I'm never using Firefox again.

"The internet and GPS were first developed through research backed by the Department of Defense, as was the quantum dot technology behind high-resolution QLED television screens. Well before they were useful or commercially relevant, the development of neural networks that underpin nearly all modern AI systems was substantially supported by the National Science Foundation. The decades-long drug discovery process that led to Ozempic was incubated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Institutes of Health. Microchips. Self-driving cars. MRIs. The flu shot. The list goes on and on.

In her 2013 book The Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato, a leading economist studying innovation at University College London, found that every major technological transformation in the US, from electric cars to Google to the iPhone, can trace its roots back to basic science research once funded by the federal government."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1112274/the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity-are-being-dismantled/

From Stacey Patton, journalism professor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Patton

"As a journalism professor, I have spent years watching students struggle to do what should be the most fundamental part of their job: THINK. Not just write. Not just report. THINK.
I watch them attend public meetings, take notes, and file stories that amount to little more than stenography. I ask them why they didn’t challenge an official statement, why they didn’t seek out other perspectives, why they didn’t connect this policy decision to its impact on real people. Their answers are almost always the same: “I didn’t think of that.”

That is what scares me. They aren’t lazy. They aren’t unwilling. They have been conditioned not to think critically, not to question authority, not to challenge narratives, and certainly not to connect the dots between POLICY and POWER.

And make no mistake about it, this didn’t happen by accident. It was engineered BY DESIGN.
For decades, our education system has been steadily chipping away at the very skills necessary for young people to engage meaningfully with the world. Schools have replaced critical thinking with standardized testing, rewarding students for regurgitating information rather than interrogating it. They have spent years sitting in classrooms where the goal is to find the right answer, not ask the right question.

By the time they reach college, they have learned that the safest path is to stay in their lane, follow the formula, and never challenge the system.
And then we throw them into journalism programs and tell them to do the exact opposite.
We ask them to question, investigate, and analyze when everything in their education has trained them to do the opposite.

@CStamp @tobie1 @GottaLaff

When Bush removed rights from prisoners and when the Patriot Act removed privacy from American citizens, the Left was screaming and warning everyone that this would be a slippery slope. Everyone then (and now) claimed this was an exaggeration.
* shrugs *

@Dave_Goldsmith @kahomono

This has been cultivated for many decades, with the slow takeover of SCOTUS, Ronald Reagan / Thatcher destruction of the welfare state, the Koch Brothers funding of the Tea Party extremists, Rupert Murdoch propaganda machine relentlessly changing "hearts and minds", the repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act, Fairness Doctrine...
This didn't happen overnight. The Tech Robber Barons are just the latest instalment of the Neoliberal path we've been taking in the destruction of democracy, since 1979.
Bernie Sanders was the last chance we had in avoiding it and it's gone.
There will be a large scale war (civil or global) in the next 5 to 10 years, to release all the social upheaval boiling beneath the surface.

@patrickleavy @pluralistic

...just leaving this here...

https://ibmandtheholocaust.com/

@RuiSeabra
É uma Constituição que contém direitos, liberdades e garantias, baseada numa concepção universalista de Direitos Humanos e sufrágio universal?
Extrema-esquerda woke!

@jt_rebelo @RuiSeabra

Eu concordo com a Direita de que a Constituição actual está obsoleta e precisa de profunda revisão.
Há anos que defendo a revogação do Artigo 62°.

@darnell
I would be extremely careful before quoting the Daily Mail. Rumours and disinformation are spreading like wildfire.
[Pun most definitely intended]

@jwildeboer

That's nice, but domain names are getting increasingly expensive year over year. For most of us, especially in countries where the cost of living outweighs salaries, it's an added expense. I feel there's a sort of feudalism growing in the medium, where you pay ransom to middlemen to be able to keep your digital ID. How do we get out of that loop? I don't know any domain name nonprofit cooperatives.

@Bruiserzinha Mas custa muito cozer um ovo?!?!

Algures, alguém achou uma excelente ideia criar esta aberração de embalagem individual de vários gramas de plástico PET, tintas, cartão e necessidade de refrigeração para transporte, para vender 4 ovos cozidos e frios. Sou só eu que sinto que estou na linha temporal errada?
#Lidl #wtf

Os ovos normais já vêm com uma embalagem natural de carbonato de cálcio, directamente do cu da galinha e preservam-se relativamente bem! Não entendo.

@aram
Provide a good service --> create a monopoly --> once the monopoly is set --> reduce features --> insert ads --> make them pay for basic features --> take the users and content creators hostage, since they can't move elsewhere --> extract all possible value for yourself. Karl Marx wrote about Spotify, in the 19th century, Cory Doctorow wrote about it today: Enshittification.
It stops when we boycott their arses.