Olives @olives@qoto.org

Just sorting out the wording.

https://x.com/yamadataro43/status/1868147750384386352 #Japan lawmaker again voices concerns about financial censorship after financial firm went after dating site for nerds. #FreeSpeech

https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/norway-to-host-igf-2025 #Norway to host #IGF 2025.

https://noisypixel.net/holy-undead-delisted-from-steam-week-before-release/ "#HolyUndead Delisted from #Steam A Week Before Its Release" #FreeSpeech #anime #games

https://noisypixel.net/hyperdimension-neptunia-rebirth-death-end-request-nintendo-switch-cancellation/ "#HyperdimensionNeptunia Re;Birth Series & Death end re;Quest: Code Z Will No Longer Launch on #Nintendo Switch Due to Nintendo Guidelines" #FreeSpeech #games #anime

If someone is spending many hours on on-boarding clients, there likely is a way to speed that up with tech, however, "#AI" as pitched by the likes of Sam Altman are an unreliable form of tech for accomplishing that.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/12/14/tech/ai-agents-next-breakthrough/ This is a bad idea. Not only is #AI unreliable, it can fail in really weird ways.

https://bsky.app/profile/kkomaitis.bsky.social/post/3laokazrudc2r IGF 2025 is going to be held in #Norway. #HumanRights

https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2024-dc-cride-dc-iot-age-aware-iot-better-iot While many civil society folks are scared to go to Saudi Arabia, there are think of the children folks there to, uh, promote AI powered "age verification" IoT robots.

Bluesky should probably add private accounts.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/eff-and-45-organizations-tell-un-reverse-decision-host-igf-saudi-arabia "EFF and 45 Organizations Tell UN: Reverse Decision to Host IGF in Saudi Arabia" #FreeSpeech #HumanRights

https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-tomiwa-ilori
"I think freedom of expression is like oxygen, more or less like the air we breathe. There is nothing about being human that doesn’t involve expression, just like drawing breath. Even beyond just being a right, it’s an intrinsic part of being human. It’s embedded in us from the start."
Good way of putting it.

Silicon Valley executives (or former executives) seem to be having great difficulty comprehending the concept of *decentralization*. They keep trying to find ways to add the centralization in when pondering on it, presumably because that is how *their* sites work.

Kerbal Space Program was an interesting idea. It's a game where you run your own space program and get to launch little green astronauts into space on your own spacecraft.

Well, there isn't much for me to go on so far with it.

Since it's early days, and it's clearly under construction, I don't really have an opinion on the former. But, I'm aware it's there. I would prefer something more grass-roots than what this seems to be though.

In the case of the latter, the guy was a more effective internet freedom advocate prior to launching the org (where he mainly did that anyway). I don't understand why he did that.

Even though it looks early days, COSL is better than that "child protection" org which seemed like it would have been better off launching itself as an internet freedom org.