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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:
Trust me when I say this book will come in handy. Chapter 1 is titled "Resist."
Options:
- https://www.adafruit.com/product/3532
- https://www.digitapub.com/products/how-to-be-a-digital-revolutionary
- https://www.amazon.com/How-Digital-Revolutionary-Violet-Blue/dp/1521338280
Mastodon Feedjensorensen ("Jen Sorensen") wrote:
This panel from a comic I drew in June 2024 has aged pretty well.
Mastodon Feedheidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
I'm much calmer tonight than I thought I would be. Some thoughts on the verge of a Republican Fascist regime: https://heidi-says.ghost.io/resolve/.
Mastodon FeedBREAKING: I will be ignoring the internet, and specifically "the news", on Monday, Jan 20, 2025. Whatever stupid shit happens, I will learn about in *abbreviated* digest form on Tuesday, rather than following along with whatever mortifying nonsense happens in realtime elevated-heart-rate horror. If it is important, it will come back.
This is self-care and I strongly urge you to consider it.
Mastodon FeedComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:
Mastodon FeedRadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:
"You can't shoot a fire, so why does LAPD get over 25% of our budget"
Poster spotted in Los Angeles
Mastodon FeedRadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:
Anti-surveillance sticker spotted in Clearwater, Florida.
We've got a bunch of copies of this sticker and numerous other designs.If you're interested in buying a mix pack of radical slaps, check out: https://radicalstickers.bigcartel.com/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rek@merveilles.town ("R E K") wrote:
First entry for Goblin Week!
Meet Arnar!
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This kind of rubber-hitting-the-road proposal is where you'll see the most furious push-back from folks more attached to power and status than improving the ecosystem. The idea of incubation venues like WICG (et. al.) make Apple folks (e.g.) Big Mad because they create the risk they won't be able to bottle up progress as effectively. It's incredibly telling when you know what you're looking at.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
What's the alternative? Separating design from standardisation as much as possible.
Different, focused rooms with only the people trying to solve specific problems in them tend to make very fast progress by comparison, so create those spaces, and make the job of formal WGs what SDO's process docs claim they are: IP and compat re-risking processes. The less that changes in a design between incubation and final WG signoff, the better. WGs should serve as clearing houses, not design salons.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The true chef-kiss version of this co-opts generous and hopeful developers into serving as "invited experts", lending an aura of accomplishment and reputational affinity to them, and bringing them into the (artificially exclusive) room where they will feel special.
It takes real guts to stand up and say true things in those venues, and schedules are managed such that there isn't even much opportunity.
And nobody outside will hear if/when they do.
The perfect way to de-fang critique.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So if you want to scuttle progress as an implementer, your best tactics are:
- minimally (but consistently) attend formal WGs with terrible track records
- communicate loudly that you won't engage anywhere else
- delay in committee anything you don't want, but string along as "on the right track" (usually buys 3+ years)
- loudly announce anything you deign to let through
- claim anyone who wants faster progress is reckless in ways that are hard to falsify
Sound like anyone in particular?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
That web developers keep falling for the same shit, year after year, is proof that there is such a thing as too much patience. All of the platform's core languages are defended by similar processes, often with no relationship to the technical merits of proposals or the market urgency for solutions. But people keep going to meetings, which looks like doing the job. When they deliver late, they can claim earlier proposals were "bad", safe in the knowledge survivorship bias will cover their tracks
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This process laundering of low ambitions has two goals, and only one beneficiary.
The goals? To preserve the status of the folks in the room as deliverers of progress in the minds of folks who aren't, and to insulate them from challenge by processes that would falsify their blame to the credulous.
The beneficiary? The implementer with the least interest in spending money to fix platform problems.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
One of the worst failure modes of web standards is that many folks are easily convinced that we should accept the rate of progress that large, old WGs deign to bless as, somehow, the natural or correct pace – and often cite fig leafs like invited experts to claim that they are in touch. It's tragedy repeated until it comes back as farce.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Timeline— Biden’s New Media: a few months ago I made a timeline of the Biden Administration’s efforts to both ban TikTok and use TikTok influencers as political messengers. Figured it’s relevant now. https://wiki.fromjason.xyz/Entries/Timeline%E2%80%94+Biden's+New+Media
Mastodon FeedChrisPirillo ("Chris Pirillo") wrote:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
So we have Meta working with Republicans, and Republicans working with Democrats to ban the app.
Outside of a tantrum in 2020, Trump had no power to do anything. It's only now that he won that he's making moves.
We were sold out for corporate interests.
And that's why I think Meta will somehow take control of TikTok. It looks like Zuck has been able to get in Trump's good graces.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
FCC workers resigned and went to work for Targeted Victory, the company that Meta hired to run smear campaigns against TikTok.
Dems knew this and said nothing.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/06/30/fccs-carr-once-again-heads-to-the-fainting-couch-over-tiktok/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The first piece of legislation came in 2023.
The RESTRICT Act was bipartisan from the start.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
FTC chairman Brendan Carr started the offical process in 2022, months after private negotiations between Biden and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew fell apart.
Trump start calling for the ban during his 2020 election campaign because people on TikTok organized and reserved all the tickets to one of his rallies. Remember him crying like a baby over it?
The ban process started two full years after Trump was out of office.
https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/carr-letter-apple-and-google.pdf
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Before we all jump on the "Trump started this [tiktok ban]" rhetoric, consider the subtext.
We're basically saying that what?
That the dems caved to Trump when Biden signed the ban into law? To Meta when Zuck lobbied for the ban? That Trump listens to his constituents and changes his mind when they ask?
The funniest part is, it wasn't Trump that got it banned. It was a consorted and bipartisan effort from Dems, GOP and Meta.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@tammymakesthings [waves hello]
Mastodon Feedmolly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
Mastodon FeedInternetEh@dads.cool ("Sid🇵🇸") wrote:
Incredible things happening in China
Mastodon Feed@jef So this was a performative suicide attempt. Can you get a 5150 hold for a corporation? Corporations being people and all.
Mastodon FeedMissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Breaking: Matt Gaetz will attend Trump’s inauguration as Washington DC temperatures are now expected to be under 18.
Mastodon Feedubik@fedi.turbofish.cc ("pedro 🍉") wrote:
Stolen from Bluesky
Mastodon FeedSynchro@phpc.social ("Marcus Bointon") wrote:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Our masters are squirrels with short attention spans.
