Notices by DeadTOm :d20: (deadtom@dice.camp)

I'm way, waaaaaay over on the far end of the skepticism crowd with this one, simply because Meta is on the list of advisors.

Meta.

They are not in this because they believe deeply in an open internet, or public discourse, or they want a diverse ecosystem.

Meta is involved because they see it as a way to exploit a massive set of users that have specifically chosen not to be a part of their machine.

Goddammit.

#Meta #SocialMedia #SocialWebFoundation

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/

@evacide High school english teacher. They will lose interest with amazing speed.

We still have parts of town without power. People have been asked to stay out of the rivers because of all the downed power lines, and debris in the rivers.

We've also been asked to conserve water because our usual water source, which is gravity fed, still isn't cleared out, so the city has pumps running on generators to pump water to the city.

The governor declared our county, and the one west of us, to be disaster areas.

All of this is a direct result of climate change.

#ClimateChange

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When I was a kid, up until around 2005-ish, forest fires were rare here. If there were two or three over a five year period, that was a lot.

Now, we are surrounded by them every summer, and the smoke rolling in means the air is brown, and a health hazard for most of the summer. Those of us with lung problems wear shop respirators to walk to and from work.

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This is normal now, but it used to be the stuff of 1970s and 1980s sci-fi movies about dystopian futures where the wealthy plundered the environment, exploited the working class, and were generally above the law.

Here we are, and no one seems to notice it.

Anyway, good afternoon.

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Every time I install Windows 11 at work, I feel like I've sold off a little more of my soul.

This operating system is one of the biggest privacy disasters to ever be forced upon the world of personal computing.

Seriously, I know it's intimidating, I know computers are complicated, but you need to ditch Microsoft, and Google. They are not your friends. They are using and exploiting our entire population.

It's time to move away from them.

#Windows #Google #Microsoft

@matoakit @Alkaris Seeing a lot of this in the last few years. Lots of very far/over reaching anti-porn laws have been passed in the US, and it's affecting everything. I've been wondering how much longer Patreon is going to continue to allow it.

@aral I like getting monetised good and hard.