Notices by Andrew 🄵 Lyons (aiefel@mastodon.social)

@hacks4pancakes if I hear "they can't do that" one more time about things under way...

Re-weird the web...
https://aftermath.site/website-musk-twitter-facebook-internet

@aral I hate having to figure these things out when the cash runs out. Unsolicited advise, but if they're archived could you flat site them and make github pages or some other free-hosted thing that the domain gets pointed at?

In my day we just had to read '1984' and write a book report. Now it seems like schools are giving their students a more immersive experience.

“…every homework assignment, email, photo, and chat on your school-supplied device is being monitored by artificial intelligence for indicators of drug and alcohol use, anti-social behavior, and suicidal inclinations.”
https://kansasreflector.com/2024/07/28/spyware-turned-this-kansas-high-school-into-a-red-zone-of-dystopian-surveillance/

Huge scoop by Reuters on the Pentagon's anti-vax disinformation campaign targeting Filipinos during the height of the pandemic in their country, all because the U.S. was getting a bit tetchy about China's influence in the Philippines. This ran under both Trump and Biden administrations. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

@aral excellent talk and demo. On the chat, sad the name CryptoCat has been taken. Excellent stuff though and the ethos behind it all is what we need in the world.

Why not just say it's an investigation on corruption and fraud? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68146054

GDPR 2 needs to require how cookie option pop-ups are supposed to work. There's a lot of mess and dark pattern bad faith efforts.

The Atlantic has reached peak neoliberalism.

Elon is daily attacking journalists and news outlets on his Twitter while former Twitter boss Jack trundles support to anti-vaxxer conspiracy nutter RFK jr. on his walled-in Bluesky beta. Maybe the answer to how to build reliable online communities isn't billionaires.