Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

The original sin of both tech boosterism and tech criticism is to focus unduly on what a given technology *does*, without regard to who it does it *to* and who it does it *for*. When it comes to technology's effect on our daily lives, the social arrangements matter much more than the feature-sets.

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Kanye has dinner with Nick Fuentes and Trump, then praises Hitler as someone that didn't just do bad things, and then forces "free speech absolutist" Musk to relativize his stance and ban him... In a way this can be seen as a form of involuntary performance art. It throws a hand grenade in the palace if bullshit built by Trump, Elon and Co.

Documentation vs User experience.

"After a month on Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
by @malwaretech

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

In which chatgpt explains the free speech benefits of Section 230 better than many "experts"

Cats do it
Dogs do it
Even educated hogs do it
Let's do it
Let's sleep most of the day

Why is Google pushing an ad for a #typosquatter to the top of its search results for "humble bundle"?

Fake site presents a convincing login screen, presumably aimed at stealing creds of registered Humble Bundle users.

oh no

got my 2022 Finder Unwrapped, here's just the Renamed section

There are so many (so so so many!) things I could have included here, but it seems notable that not only is Elon Musk jumping around the content moderation learning curve... he doesn't actually seem to be learning anything. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/01/elon-musk-continues-along-the-content-moderation-learning-curve-but-doesnt-seem-to-be-learning-a-damn-thing/

It's not enough to squat a Mastodon handle that you never use.

It's not enough to automatically repost your Twitter timeline.

You have a chance to be part of something new. Something important. To shape it in the right way.

With all of us.

Breathe life into *this* community and *this* network by posting here, creating here, connecting here.

Be here now.

Why is it that whenever lawmakers have to confront corporate greed, they roll over and penalize workers who are most immediately harmed by it?

@doxy_cycling I am such a knucklehead! #adventofcode is "an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like." It is run by Eric Wastl and you can find more information at https://adventofcode.com/.

It is extremely well done. Puzzles get more complex over the month. Many will post solutions and thought processes so I've found it's a nice way to learn too!

Refuse

Hive Social got popped already. Warning: do not use Hive Social: We found a number of critical vulnerabilities, which we confidentially reported to the company. After multiple attempts to contact the company we finally reached them by phone and they...
https://jwz.org/b/yj7B

The City of #Denver is planning to conduct sweeps (forced displacement) of people experiencing #homelessness tomorrow despite snow and sub-freezing temperatures. Sweeps in normal weather are cruel & harmful. Forced displacement, where police dispose of tents, sleeping bags, clothes, IDs, & meds in the middle of a #winterweatheradvisory is cruel, inhumane, and unnecessary. This is state sponsored violence led by Michael Hancock, mayor.

How decades of tax cuts (mostly to further enrich the wealthiest among us) have helped to bake inequity into our society: https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/taxes/unequal-burden/how-four-decades-of-tax-cuts-fueled-inequality/

By Jim Steele, one of the great journalists of our era...