Please help Nadeen and her family who are running out of time to evacuate before Israel starts slaughtering anyone who is left behind. Please donate if you can or share this so it might reach someone who can. They desperately need to secure a place they can move to and the money to actually move.

Mastodon

Dr.Nadeen (@Dr_Nadeen98@mastodon.social)

🚨URGENT‼️ Only 36 hours left until the evacuation decision😭😭 Otherwise we will be surrounded⭕️ Please help me and my family to ev...

Fabio is the opposite of a Nazi and I am sick and tired of people WHO ARE OPPOSING A LITERAL GENOCIDE being perpetrated by Israel constantly having to defend themselves from accusations of antisemitism. The dregs of humanity who are supporting, apologising for, and complicit in Israel’s genocide are the people and instances we should be blocking here not antifascists like Fabio who is spending his time trying to get aid to Palestinians on the ground in Gaza. Ask yourselves what kind of person tries to have someone who is trying to get aid to people who are being starved blocked on the fediverse. And then decide who should be blocked and who shouldn’t. (And remember that history is watching.) #fediblock https://manganiello.social/objects/4290e22d-b4ae-4adc-92c2-4e82d7fb8295

Admin of todon.nl, and rightly so, suggests the default/flagship Mastodon instance (isn’t decentralisation great?) be moved to a more neutral jurisdiction than Germany: “Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new Mastodon server in a more neutral jurisdiction, which can then serve as a new flagship server. The trigger for this is the regular negative moderation of people who speak out against the largest and bloodiest genocide of our time, the one in Palestine. In particular they use (or abuse, how you want to look at it) of a German law that seeks to counter so-called Holocaust reversal. With hiding behind this law, the moderators of mastodon.social (and especially its owner) are also unwittingly sitting in the chair of the (German) judge. Apart from the fact that one local law should not affect the entire Mastodon project, the question is whether this law and the concept of Holocaust reversal are legally tenable in an international context.”

GitHub

Move the Mastodon flagship to a more neutral jurisdiction · mastodon/mastodon · Discussion #34747

Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g...

Mastodon mod closes the ticket after stating that “There is no current plan to make changes to the Mastodon instances operated by Mastodon gGmbH. People are free to choose any Mastodon server when signing up for the platform.” And this is what that “choice” looks like (and this – along with the fact that they didn’t close registrations after hitting a certain size to create a social precedent and allow distribution to other servers – is why there is a flagship instance – an absolute contradiction of terms in a system that purports to be decentralised.) #fediverse #mastoson #mastodonSocial #todonNL #Germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza

His crime is being Palestinian in America during the genocide of his people by Americans and Israelis. #America #USA #Israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank https://kolektiva.social/@cthon1c/114338393259857387

Wow.

CyberInsider

Sweden's Tax Authority Accused of Selling People's Data to Advertisers

noyb filed a lawsuit against Sweden's Tax Agency, accusing it of selling citizens' personal information to marketers and advertisers.

#sweden #privacy #noyb #EU

*DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US!* “‘I learned with concern that a French researcher,’ on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), ‘who was going to a conference near Houston was banned from entering American territory before being expelled,’ said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). ‘This measure was allegedly taken by the American authorities because this researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relationships in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy,’ he added.”

Client Challenge

#USA #fascism #EU #France #science #freedomOfSpeech #privacy #travelWarning

I miss the days when I wasn’t sure how to spell fascism.

“I don’t care about Palestine.” – Jerry Seinfeld, Asshole. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1ir5n6q/jerry_seinfeld_i_dont_care_about_palestine/ #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #JerrySeinfeld #asshole

Cunt.

Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support – POLITICO

Europeans starting to realise the US is the enemy. Meanwhile, Middle Eastern folks…

So maybe now some folks can see why having trillion-dollar people farmers as sponsors is a problem too. Maybe? I don’t know… Too soon? #fosdem #institutionalCorruption #JackDorsey #billionaires #capitalism #openSource

Aral’s fediverse server

Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)

In the past, I’ve called out @fosdem@fosstodon.org for having Google as a sponsor: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/100974215641531155 So this year,...

Oh, for fuck’s sake, it’s apparently not the only non-existent book the little shit is telling people I wrote. PS. It’s “human rights”, you dimwit, not “user rights”. #ChatGPT #AI #bullshit #siri #apple #macOS

Mastodon

Edwin Martin (@edwin@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image @aral@mastodon.ar.al Where can I find this book? 😄

This fucking Free Our Feeds bullshit is basically trying to do for Bluesky what Mozilla does for Google. And guess what, there’s Mozilla’s executive director and president on as custodians alongside two guys from AI companies and the executive director of Meta partner Social Web Foundation. I’m so bloody sick and tired of bloody Silicon Valley asshats sucking all the oxygen out of the room with their bullshit and I truly hope the folks roped into legitimising it realise this and distance themselves as quickly as possible (you know who you are).

Free Our Feeds

Free Our Feeds

#FreeOurFeeds #SiliconValley #SanFrancisco #BlueSky #SocialWebFoundation #bullshit

If Mozilla are activists, I’m a mushroom.

Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech | The Mozilla Blog

Mozilla isn’t just another tech company — we’re a global crew of activists, technologists and builders, all working to keep the internet ...

🍄 #mozilla #AI #VC #SiliconValley #BigTech #bullshit #activismWashing #privacyWashing #honeypot #PR #mushroom

OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Access After Artists Released Video-Generation Tool in Protest: ‘We Are Not Your PR Puppets’

OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Access After Artists Leak Video Tool in Protest

OpenAI suspended access to the Sora generative-AI video system after artists in an alpha-test program released it publicly in protest.

Famous Big Tech bottom feeders: “We don’t understand… what’s wrong with being PR puppets?” Via @npub19anq...vvyh #AI #OpenAI #protest #backbone #artists #PR #BigTech

“[S]ometimes we need to stop hedging and just call things as they are. So here it is, plain and direct: Musk’s alignment with authoritarian ideologies makes him a fascist in both action and effect, regardless of his personal proclamations.” — ChatGPT, as radicalised by @npub196du...w4f8

ChatGPT

ChatGPT - Musk Royal Society Controversy

Shared via ChatGPT

#ElonMusk #fascist #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI

Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today? #BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI

Dear Americans, Vote for Kamala Harris even though both candidates will continue to arm Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people because, yes, the alternative is worse and, yes, because your country – and others like it (the UK and Germany spring to mind) – is so morally bankrupt and undemocratic that your political system doesn’t even leave you the option of not supporting a genocide. But don’t you dare stop there and pat yourselves on the back. (1/3)

New blog post: Optimal automation

Aral Balkan

Optimal automation

Where optimal automation augments human abilities, excessive automation removes the human from the equation altogether. The concept of optimal auto...

This has been on my mind quite a bit recently so I just wrote a little something about it. #optimalAutomation #automation #technology #economics #society #AI #LLMs #selfDrivingCars #capitalism #growth #degrowth #climateChange #BigTech #postCapitalism

If people have to hack your privacy-respecting browser to make it respect their privacy, maybe your privacy-respecting browser isn’t really privacy respecting. #mozilla #firefox #privacy #privacyWashing #AI