We shouldn’t be forced to use toxic platforms that track and profile us in order to get public information.

Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube track and profile their users so that they can target advertising towards them.

Their business models fuel online harms by pushing more and more extreme content to users. Despite this, these platforms are one of the primary ways that government departments share public information.

Tell your MP to support the EDM calling on the UK Government to ensure that all public sector social media content is published on open, decentralised and federated platforms!

Act now: …openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-government-must…

#socialMedia #UK #politics #UKpolitics #fediverse #initiative

i think you’re wrong and a bad person for having that opinion

The last-ever Bawdy Storytelling event is tonight in SF. Definitely the end of an era. These shows were always filled with sex-positive stories from some really great storytellers.

Believe it or not, I actually told a yo-yo-related story at one of these events about 15 years ago, and it went surprisingly well! https://brokeassstuart.com/p/bawdy-storytelling-is-shutting-down

The road sign with Highgate on it was accurate because Dick Wittington (and his cat) walked up Highgate Hill leaving London and turned around when he heard the Bow Bells.

#totp

“Steam gets a boatload of restored Wing Commanders and Ultima ports after EA producer stumbles across cupboard of old tapes”: Wow EA did something good for once! But go grab those at GOG instead, you’ll thank me later. I already owned these games there, and apparently it’s a free update? Nice. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/steam-gets-a-boatload-of-restored-wing-commanders-and-ultima-ports-after-ea-producer-stumbles-across-cupboard-of-old-tapes

@arstechnica

So like two RAM sticks?

@GrapheneOS Congratulations 🎉

Al Jazeera: Protesters break into Microsoft AI data centre site in Amsterdam

More than 100 activists broke into a Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam, climbing cranes and hanging anti-AI banners. This marks the start of two days of coordinated protests across 16 countries against the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/11/6/protesters-break-into-microsoft-ai-data-centre-site-in-amsterdam

#AI #AIpocalypse #protests

@JoBlakely Gov.-elect Bottoms seems to have a very different view of criminal justice than I do. Besides Cop City, the tell would be that her response to her father's arrest does not apparently include decriminalization. Add to that that "God told her to run for office", and I'm looking at, essentially, a conservative.

@jalefkowit it'll be a shitshow that a legion of Dem politicians can pick apart.

Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas

6 pallets of hardware vanished en route to Texas, with no arrests 2 months later.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/11/nvidia-hardware-worth-11-4m-vanished-between-oakland-and-texas/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@ai6yr oh no... stop... thats not nice... **hands out hammers**

@lydiaconwell

Do you expect me to remember Bloefeld?

_No, Mr. Bond! I expect you to forget!_

Report: Apple captured half of global smartphone revenue in Q3 https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/05/report-apple-captured-half-of-global-smartphone-revenue-in-q3/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"This country owes a debt to the thousands of local and national Black organizers, students, leaders, institutions, creators, journalists, and neighbors who have helped (and continue to help) bring democracy back from the brink and slow the threat of autocracy. Here are a few of the groups that must be highlighted and funded..."
https://www.thecut.com/article/2026-midterms-blue-wave-black-voters-organizations.html

#BlackMastodon #CivicEngagement #organizing #voting #midterms #elections #USpol