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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@CivilityFan @BlueDot I DON'T CARE IF YOU FIND ME UNKIND. STOP REPEATING BULLSHIT.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
digitalsnow@social.lol ("Kerri :usad: :prami_pride_bi:") wrote:

So, um, I just finished writing my novel (!!!)

This thing started way back in 2013 when I was an MFA student at Lesley University. It’s gone through ups and downs, and while it still needs some pretty massive edits, I AM DONE.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I realize I'm probably pissing people off here, but actual reality matters.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

More on mastodon.social's new Terms of Service:

Here's a thread on the odious binding arbitration clause from @pluralistic -- https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114706885462760813

And, there's a bunch of discussion in the github issue at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086#issuecomment-2982642642

#mastodon

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@CivilityFan @BlueDot Suggestion: Rather than reposting any old bullshit you read on the Internet, just don't.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
franklinlopez@kolektiva.social ("Franklin López") wrote:

Yo, real talk—what the fuck are we gonna do when the internet gets shut off?

We've seen it in #Gaza, in #Iran, and when Elon “I-play-God” Musk blacked out Starlink in Ukraine. Every time shit gets heavy, the state or some oligarch clown just pulls the plug. It ain’t just a glitch—it’s strategic, it’s repression, and it’s a fucking reminder that most of our comms infrastructure is in the hands of fascists, corporations, or both.

I’ve been working with indigenous comrades who rely on #Starlink to stay connected in remote areas. And yeah, it’s wild that you can be deep in the bush and still shitpost from a mountaintop—but that signal still runs through a pipeline owned by a Nazi tech bro.

We need to be talking more about mesh networks, autonomous infrastructure, all that good shit that anarchist tech nerds have been yelling about for years. Decentralized, resilient, community-controlled comms aren’t just cool—they’re necessary for survival.

Let’s keep this convo alive and start building the lifelines before the next blackout. Shit’s coming fast.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/activists-are-designing-mesh-networks-to-deploy-during-civil-unrest/

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

@Gargron Also, I saw your note on the Github issue about using pro-bono counsel. If you'd like me to ask EFF's lawyers about helping Mastodon come up with fair and user-rights-preserving ToS, please email me at cory@eff.org

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
mirrorsandstuff@hachyderm.io ("Mirrors And Stuff") wrote:

@pluralistic @mcc has a GitHub issue on this with a pretty strong write up of the issue: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
lispi314@udongein.xyz ("LisPi") wrote:

@pluralistic Binding arbitration should just be illegal.

What's the point of being a citizen if some random contract can completely cut off one from the local legal system?

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

An important clue (aside from basic common sense and logic) that these nutso claims about 2024 don't deserve your attention is who *isn't* repeating them: The candidate from whom the election was supposedly stolen.

If there were convincing evidence that Harris had the election stolen from her, she'd be *all over* it. But nope.

Do you think they got to her, too?

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

And since mastodon.social is the flagship instance, which sets the moral example - and the workaday template - for most instances in the Fediverse, this catastrophically bad clause is likely to proliferate far and wide throughout the Fediverse, rendering most of this new, better internet unfit for use.

Please, @Gargron, reconsider this. It is a very bad look - and worse still, it's a very, very bad example.

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

I am trying not to be dramatic here, but this is a deal-breaker for me - literally. I changed dentists because I wouldn't sign binding arbitration. I changed solar installers because I wouldn't sign binding arbitration.

I could never, in good conscience, recommend that someone use a service that required binding arbitration as a condition of use - which means that as of July 1, I would no longer be able to recommend that people get an account on mastodon.social.

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

I am very shocked to see this in the ToS for the flagship Mastodon instance, promulgated by the Mastodon nonprofit.

To be clear, I think this is *much* worse than, say, requiring users of mastodon.social to agree to have their posts used to train LLMs. The harms of having your work fed to an AI are mostly hypothetical and relate to moral qualms.

By contrast, a binding arbitration waiver would literally allow the management of mastodon.social to cause your DEATH and face no consequences.

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

No one, and I do mean NO ONE, should ever, ever, EVER agree to a binding arbitration waiver.

These are the most grotesquely unfair contractual terms in routine use today. The potential for abuse is literally unlimited.

Remember when a Disney World visitor died of an allergic reaction after being assured that her food order was allergen-free? Disney argued that her family couldn't sue because her husband had clicked through an arbitration waiver when signing up for a free trial of Disney Plus.

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

In reading a fascinating and important discussion of the lack of a termination clause in the new Mastodon.social Terms of Service, I was GOBSMACKED to discover that the new ToS including a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.

These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"In general undocumented immigrants don’t take good jobs away from native-born Americans. By and large they take jobs the native-born don’t want or would only take at much higher wages. This means that immigrants are complements, not substitutes, for native workers. They increase, not reduce, native-born wages. And mass deportation, if it really gets going, will be an economic as well as a human catastrophe."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #economy

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-deportations

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social ("Juggling With Eggs") wrote:

I have had basically this conversation with most of the people I consider close to me over the past few months…we all agree with Snoopy regardless of age and previous political persuasion…

Snoopy says: “Stop shaming the POOR for buying things that might not be necessary, and start shaming the RICH from profiteering off everything that is essential”

#Inequality
#WealthGap
#Privatisation
#EatTheRich

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org ("Framework :fedora: :ubuntu:") wrote:

Wanna change the world with us? We're hiring! A special call out to those with Windows and *Linux* chops. Other key must haves in the "What you need" section.

https://ats.rippling.com/framework/jobs/66ee8c26-51c1-49a1-a0f0-41a4aad476fd

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
antifaintl@kolektiva.social ("Antifa International") wrote:

#antifa, #nazis, #weimar #history, #WeimarRepublic

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
miriamboosh.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Miriam Boosh") wrote:

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

The memes declaring "Gaza must be freed from Hamas" miss the critical point that after Netanyahu again broke the January ceasefire, Hamas themselves said they will relinquish all power in Gaza, release all hostages, and leave, on the condition that the Israeli military stop occupying Gaza—and Netanyahu rejected the offer because he refuses to give up Gaza.

This man is a war criminal committing genocide, and people are still focused on Hamas as if they control Israel's military.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
iFixit wrote:

The @frameworkcomputer Laptop 12 might be the most repair-friendly laptop we’ve ever opened. Seriously. It’s shockingly easy to take apart, and for a touchscreen convertible, that’s rare. It earned a 10/10 on our repairability scale thanks to clever engineering choices:

- Screwless SSD clip.
- Cable-free battery removal.
- Clearly labeled mainboard.
- QR codes on every major part.

We tore it down. You can fix it up.

Full article: https://www.ifixit.com/News/111201/tough-tiny-and-totally-repairable-inside-the-framework-12

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year.

Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year.

Capitalism kills.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Take the masks off. Show your badges. This is America.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d much rather have an entire undocumented immigrant family with two happy trans kids living right next door to me than a white supremacist or a racist MAGA lunatic any day of the week.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

“But Trump (and/or Musk) CONFESSED to stealing the election!!”

Again, no.

But even if they did, whether by talking shit in a speech or in a written confession to the DA, someone admitting to something is not proof that it happened.

I killed Laura Palmer, by the way.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Irrationaliity is an important part of atheism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/18/people-are-irrational-by-nature/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E2FfvO9U6M

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

“Reading is the most subversive thing you can do.” https://www.wesleyan.edu/about/news/2025/05/percival-everett-reading-is-the-most-subversive-thing-you-can-do.html

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mihobu@social.lol ("Michael Ⓜ️🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Hacking Weblog Again

I have a new hack/automation that pulls my Mastodon statuses, including any attached images, into posts on weblog.lol. Sort of the reverse of what EchoFeed does. I wanted a way to automatically save my “microposts” for posterity. Not sure whether this makes long term sense but I’m trying it out.

And here is a picture of some street tacos.

#IndieWeb #Mastodon #AWS #Lambda #TacoTuesday