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Around the world, technology is increasingly being used to stifle dissent, assert control and diminish human rights.
Our new Global Report on the Authoritarian Use of Technology documents how states are deploying surveillance technologies to monitor people, target communities and entrench systems of control.
https://privacyinternational.org/report/5873/global-report-authoritarian-use-technology/
@fname Down with corporate subsidies!
@mpjgregoire
Agreed. Whenever it comes to ‘austerity’ and ‘tightening out belts’ inevitably it’s the underprivileged and vulnerable that are asked to make sacrifices, yet the massive amounts of public money flowing to companies that don’t even really need it are conveniently overlooked.
Buying a large-format hardback edition of The Lorax and taking it to the Labour conference to hit every one of those fuckers squarely upside the head with it
Everyone knows exactly who Mark Zuckerberg is but they keep using his products, ensuring the wealth that makes him dangerous.
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So not unlike the groupthink you encounter on the Fediverse? Where it’s even more perverse due to defederation and due to the networks being much smaller
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@Vivaldi just discovering this now! Great new addition!
"Wenn einer Lehrkraft das Tragen eines Sea-Watch-Shirts verboten wird, tragen wir es eben alle"
Unter dem Motto „Wochen der Seenotrettung“ starten die GEW Bremen, die GEW Hessen und die Organisation Sea-Watch eine gemeinsame Kampagne. Diese soll Aufmerksamkeit für die zivile Seenotrettung im Mittelmeer schaffen. Zugleich machen die Organisationen deutlich, dass demokratisches Engagement von Beschäftigten im Bildungsbereich nicht eingeschüchtert oder unterbunden werden darf.
Man lässt keine Menschen ertrinken Punkt!
Solidarisch. Nicht neutral!
https://sea-watch.org/gew-bremen-gew-hessen-und-sea-watch-starten-gemeinsame-kampagne/
We cannot adapt to an unlivable planet.
It’s time to demand justice 👉 https://act.gp/3RLI2EV
Witness the Septopert, which is not just the smallest known Nopert at 7 vertices, but we now know it is the smallest possible Nopert!
New Noperts drop: https://github.com/tom7/noperts
The fact that it contains a Triforce and the eponymous 7 is not a cheeky easter-egg, but simply a BEAUTIFUL PROPERTY OF MATHEMATICS.
I want writers to be paid, just like I want to be paid. But here’s the deal. If I wanted to pay to follow your Substack or Patreon, I would. But posting links to those sites on social media doesn’t really make sense. It’s a tease into a paywall. The problem is, if I’m not a subscriber, I don’t have any reason to follow your social media account. There really has to be a better way.
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I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.
That makes for a pretty bad experience.
yes, assuming you are there for a discussion and not entertainment.
most folks are on reddit for entertainment, let’s not kid ourselves. very tiny sliver of the users were there for discussion.
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For me reddit got bad because of grouphink and terrible moderation (you were not nice to some idiot? banned for life!). I never used any 3rd party apps (nor the official app for that matter, only the website with adblock).
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one sub i recently visited talking jobs/layoffs got meme-fied recently. because happen tor each the front page a couple times, it drawn into many trolls and bots.
biblically accurate angels blew up cuz they made neet husks in youtube comments sections glimpse the marvelous for the 1st time since they were 7, then the internet spent the last decade working tirelessly, out of love, to petrify and print millions of their now-predictable listless forms out for twee window dressing as if they're any other coming and going meme, unable to see any other way to love anything in the 21st century.
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I noticed a profound change in moderating about the time TheDonald became popular. People started getting bans after this for things they would have never been banned for before and it wasn’t the racist/sexist people getting banned.
I eventually received a subreddit ban after leaving a comment in a conservative Reddit effectively stating the Republicans should take out Ron Desantis like the dirty diaper he was. When I pointed out to the moderators that what I said was rather tame compared to other comments they claimed I was harassing them (for exactly one appeal message). I received a 24hr site ban over this which was both bizarre and confusing. I started to disengage after this and after the API changes I stopped using it completely.
@Kurorori ha, ich auch!
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