*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

IMPORTANT:

I just dropped the tick ✅ from my handle here on Mastodon. Here's why...

Consider your options when deciding on home surveillance. Allowing audio and video recordings to be uploaded to a centralized server can allow intruders (#hackers, #google, #amazon, #governments, #police) access to your home, circumventing the protection you originally hoped for.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/103067981371758017

#Privacy matters.
#Freedom matters.

Be part of the solution to end #surveillance #capitalism.

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. https://t.co/dk6UsMkmd5

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

@moonshine@freespeechextremist.com

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

spicy new docu-drama series on netflix but you can't watch this kind of thing during the middle of a bright, sunny day... just seems weird

"we won't return to normality because normality was the problem"
#chile

Han Solo, Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, Luke Skywalker, and R2D2.

RT @xaxat@twitter.com

@doctorow@twitter.com But, but….

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/xaxat/status/1193906214284996609

Hi Friends,
The Mercury transit has begun.Remember the next time mercury travels across the face of the sun (from the earths perspective ) will be on 2032.so dont miss this journey.it goes on for about 5.5 hours, so you can tune in when your free.

If you own a telescope with appropriate sunfilter, you can watch the transit.its visible from Europe,parts of west Asia, Americas,Africa, Atlantic & pacific ocean.
If you can't see it,dont worry NASA has you covered with SDO lives.The solar dynamics observatory would be doing live broadcasts,link down here
https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/2019/
Happy watching :)