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This was inevitable. Such activities will continue—and escalate—until states move to ban the commercial trade in digital weapons. This criminal model of business effects everyone, everywhere. It produces only harm. t.co/dk6UsMkmd5

Desktop site is loading normal for me right now.

I don't see the full URL on your browser, but just opened theatlantic.com/technology/

@Surasanji Now, did he/she/they get some of that coffee that you had on the desk? 😜

@nlvraoin This server had 174 new users joining in the last day.

Surely there's something bring all these people in, right? 😃

It's like Twitter, but with less corporate control or aggravating, radicalized users. More moderation, and each server controlling what their place looks and feels like.

Cory Doctorow's review of Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record" book is very good. The book is on my wishlist.

boingboing.net/2019/09/24/pard

"Just one set of numbers, from the University of California, Berkeley, economist Gabriel Zucman:

The 400 richest Americans — the top .00025 percent of the population — now own more of the country’s riches than the 150 million adults in the bottom 60 percent of wealth distribution. The 400’s share has tripled since the 1980s."

nytimes.com/2019/11/11/opinion

watching a (non-fediverse) volunteer moderation team spin its wheels for a very long time as people slowly get burned out

volunteering emotional labor is hard. doing it in an environment dominated by hand-wringing and inaction where you feel dis-empowered to effect change is 10 times harder. doing it when some of the userbase wants to kill people like you and gets to stick around anyway is 10 times harder again

only solutions i can come up with are radical decentralization of online spaces fediverse-style, or making moderation paid (w/ good mental health benefits). neither are good solutions for large traditional (non-decentralized) volunteer comms systems

@mostlystardust Been reading a lot on the mastodon feedlines since getting started here last week. I had just finished "Code Ezra" by Gay Courter. An interesting read.

goodreads.com/book/show/119037

@Surasanji I haven't seen it mentioned yet (usually Mango, mint, menthol mentions) but it would be a good idea.

Sure would help sell more coffee, once people vapped it, want the real thing.

@moonshine@freespeechextremist.com

@Grandtheftautism @Jojothegoodperson@freespeechextremist.com @Supernothing
JoJo trying to pass age verification.

@Surasanji LOL, Yeah, I imagined that. I just thought it could be a good complimentary line for the company. Here, buy some coffee to go with your vapping supplies. Ca-shing.... 🏧

@Grootoq I hope so too, only have been here for a few days, but I like it. Have fun and welcome!

@jnlsosses Hola jnlsosses!

Quizá se añades una leyenda en Ingles más personas comprendan la mensage?

Bienvenido.

"It's not the same, to go and fight an enemy rather than your own people. As a young man, it did not appeal to me to confrontign people who are in the same fight to change this country." Daniel Veloso, soldier detained for disobedience.

(country, pais ? Venezuela. o Chile?)

@daryoosh Hello and welcome, Daryoosh. Make yourself at home, add some content and enjoy all the action.

Find some interesting posts and follow people, soon your Local and Home feeds will be alive. Have fun! 😃

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