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!

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Mobilizon is getting a makeover!

The new organiser page or group page will be unveiled soon.

By the way, Mobilizon has a new logo: goodbye to the ‘O’, hello to the ‘M’.

https://
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The revamp has only just begun!

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@alcinnz I don't like exceptions because I feel they obscure clear error handling, but I'm curious about your vision for this.

The important thing is to ensure that folks are lead to handle errors instead of ignoring them.

I do like the non-deterministic/deterministic approach here!

watchOS 27.3 adds new Apple Watch feature that I absolutely love https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/06/watchos-27-3-adds-new-apple-watch-feature-that-i-absolutely-love/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Apple’s funny new Apple Card ad features an awkward therapy session https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/06/apples-funny-new-apple-card-ad-features-an-awkward-therapy-session/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@liberty Yeah, I would want any Alonzo guidance to discourage using this exceptions system. It'd be better to use Maybe or Either types.

I'm intending for such exceptions to be primarily thrown by the runtime, when its deterministic abstractions become leaky.

@neil That does sound surprising.

https://stopdirtydatacentres.eu/

"On 6-7 November 2026 we are taking action across Europe to say Stop Dirty Data Centres.

Local communities are rising up to stop dirty data centres where they live. We will unite and exercise our democratic rights to speak out, assemble, and protest to hold elected officials to account.

We’re calling for an immediate moratorium on large data centres in Europe!"

@SteveFoerster oh, those numbers are even better.

93.4% of humanity is not on Twitter/x.

#socialmedia

Damn… We should really start fighting for a world where people making the option of not using digital technologies are respected, as written in the Off-Punk Manifesto…

When covid started I didn’t know anything about it. I wasn’t on Twitter or reddit or Facebook. I was in college, doing that and had a baby. We watched cartoons and when they slept I’d read and write. I had no idea until no one was on the road or at Walmart with me. I had no idea how to even get information about what was happening, so I went to the county website and found nothing. my professors stopped livestreaming and sent helpful information about it the same week so I got it.

Turned out the city had a Facebook page that people were getting their information from. And there was also a Twitter.

Then my kid gets to be school aged. The fucking school used Facebook and twitter to communicate with parents. I missed so many programs, and lacked information about everything that happened there.

Fucking hate it.

@ansonkennedy @startrekgifs

I had just arrived at United. This was Storm Front II, then.

(I guess if you don't reply directly to the OP, you won't trigger an actual guess.)

Coming up at DNA Lounge!

@paul_ipv6 @markc568 Kind of like what would happen if someone spilled a load of candy bars and chocolate for a crowd of humans, I imagine

@markc568 @ai6yr

so "chompers' block" rather than "gaper's block"?