Notices by Wladimir Mufty (wlaatje@social.edu.nl)

#Slovenia’s PM Robert Golob:

European leaders giving #Rubio a standing ovation after he says the U.S. and the EU can shape a new shared future…as long as Europe conforms to a new nationalist world order...

😳 Deeply troubling

Instead of applause, someone should have said: The United States is welcome as a partner, but only within a fair and rules-based international order grounded in press freedom, climate responsibility, fair trade, and restraint in war.

Partnership requires reciprocity, not submission to #bigdaddy.

If your fund suspends its ethics rules during a genocide, you didn’t need an “ethics committee”, you just need a portfolio board or a returns committee.

Ethics matter when it’s hard…

#norway #bigtech #ethics

UN report: “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” including the key role of Big Tech:https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/11/05/norway-suspends-21tn-oil-funds-ethics-rules-to-avoid-selling-big-tech-stakes

🛑 #LinkedIn (#Microsoft and their “affiliates”) will use your data for #AI without you necessarily fully understanding what they will, can, and may do with it‼️

Turn it off LinkedIn-people (me)… We can talk later about why this option was ENABLED BY DEFAULT without asking… no time to lose. You can always switch it back on if you consciously want to.

🚨Disable it here: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement

💡AI models can be trained with data,but not “un-trained” yet. Once your data is in, it can’t be removed

So when art looks ugly, or forces us to think… we say: “that’s public art, be tough 💪, good art has to provoke”

But the moment the judiciary ⚖️ is part of the provocation… suddenly we pull a curtain 🚧🙈

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/08/court-staff-cover-up-banksy-image-of-judge-beating-a-protester

#Banksy #PublicArt #Protest #PalestineAction #Arrested #FreedomOfExpression #Justice

@koen @CEDO We’ll see! Always worth giving it a shot on the Fediverse, you never know if a hidden gem (no pointing fingers, ahem like @fkooman, ahem, kuch kuch) has already come up with a brilliant idea in the past to make it work!
If not, then we’re left with those words of JFK about FOSS:

💡 “Ask not what Open Source can do for you, but what you can do for Open Source!”

@koen @CEDO @fkooman
@jlmr

Good news in @peertube 7.3!
💚 https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/7181
💚 https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/6258
💚 https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/official-plugins/-/merge_requests/32

I haven’t fully grasped whether the proposed solution is as straightforward as Mastodon, where each client application simply uses a client key, client secret, and an access token (independent of local or SAML accounts. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/token/), or whether the PeerTube auth-saml2 plugin (in use by university’s) would also need to be updated by its developers?!

The EU (still) wants to scan
your private messages and photos… action is needed!

Europe…take action! 🇪🇺
In just 3 quick steps and 1 minute of your time, you can send your concerns directly to your national representatives and see exactly where they stand. Use this simple tool to make your voice heard! ‼️

🔗: https://fightchatcontrol.eu
🐘: https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol

#chatcontrol #privacy #europe #freedom

From economy of occupation to economy of genocide…

🌍 The UN Human Rights Council report investigates how a network of corporate actors (companies, investors and service providers) is deeply involved in sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial policies, resulting in systemic displacement, #apartheid-like conditions, and acts like what the Rapporteur describes as #genocide

🧑🏽⚖️ On paper now

🔗 https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf

#OHCHR #UN #bigtech #palestine #israel #microsoft #alphabet #amazon #palantir #thiel

The #NoKings protests today throughout the US, with insane numbers of spirited, brave and fed-up protesters, is in such an extreme and unbelievable contrast with the uncritical and cowardly tech-billionaires applauding like fan-boys from the front row seats during the inauguration.
https://canada.masto.host/@Byrnejmf/114683089197880866

In the category: how to make the #Fediverse and #Mastodon better, step by step... 🌱

The University of Twente (@utwente) has made it possible to enter and verify a Mastodon account on the personal profile page at the university! 🔒

The green checkmark, also on places that are important in the #academic ecosystem! ✅📚

🎩 H/T @OpenSciTwente & @SchuberthF

@tyil just read my initial toot and the extra context I gave you about how not everyone knows what open source is and you will have to explain that by explaining the differences between products. And for the rest I would say keep preaching to the choir.

Btw: if you have a toot scheduler you know of, please share! It can be any license or businessmodel, I will make a list and add value by explaining the differences, pro’s, con’s etc. #Merci

@tyil Aaaah! You’re playing the “from us” card! Totally fine! I think in this case, the “us” people value autonomy, the ability to choose for themselves, more highly than the value of “someone else deciding for me what is garbage.” Or do these kinds of interventions work well for you? Have you already had many successes as the watchdog of education and the fediverse? (1/2)

Dear community and #mastoadmin!

I want to make a list of #Mastodon content Scheduling tools to share with educational social media teams.

It can be part of a bigger Social Media Management Platform such as Buffer or Publer, but it should at least support scheduling content to publish to a Mastodon account.

If you know one, or have some experience with them (good or bad) please share!

Open Source, As a Service, payed, free(mium), all good!

@tyil Now, on to the content: the mere fact that you don’t want “garbage” to enter your home makes it necessary to know the differences between what you do and don’t want. I don’t assume that everyone knows what open source is, let alone that they keep a spreadsheet with a column for “OK” and one for “garbage.”If your approach works, by all means, keep going. I choose an approach based on informing, highlighting differences, and ensuring freedom of choice—combined with well-informed users. (2/2)