Olives @olives@qoto.org

It joins Bluesky as a company marketing itself off the possibility it might get federation but not actually doing it.

Oh, look at that, Threads never actually bothered to federate. Another marketing ploy.

Federation coming 🔜

Jack Dorsey appears to be going for an image of a zen guy who goes on meditative retreats with those little ceremonies with the smoke and donning a white robe.

He is still a techbro swooping in with Bluesky (a gated community), in place of the fediverse.

Heh, yes, Twitter is indeed speedrunning the enshittification cycle.

Anecdotally, the fediverse appears to be getting a larger migration in that area.

I don't know whether I would refer to "dozens" as "flock" though. Lol.

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1013241 Japanese illustrators apparently flocking to Weibo in wake of Twitter stupidity. #anime

Nice to see hundreds of academics from many countries signing a letter to oppose the Chat Stasi.

1) Australia is very authoritarian.

2) Australia is one of the biggest exporters of coal in the world.

The Greens (who actually opposed the ridiculous and puritanical think of the children bill) and their supporters are troubled by climate change and frequently clash with them.

Uh oh, the server issues are starting again.

It really feels like he got in a fight with management, got sacked, and went off the deep end.

Oops, it was tens of millions, right.

Meh. Tens of millions. Hundreds of millions. It doesn't make much of a difference. Still ridiculous.

The Stamos angle is because Facebook does end-to-end encryption, that means end-to-end encryption is bad.

He even posted a Q-like angle where he presumed there were hundreds of millions of child predators out there, until he deleted it, to try to get at FB.

He doesn't criticize actual issues, such as the lack of privacy, or the strange puritanism.

Nuclear power is preferable to fossil fuels imo.

https://eu.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/29/ex-ohio-house-speaker-larry-householder-faces-prison-in-corruption-case/70235375007/ Former Republican Ohio House Speaker sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption.

What do you think of retro #anime? Do you spend time watching any of these?

Thinking of economic implications of the #onlinesafetybill.

It will make Britain less attractive to tech investment or to start a tech business.

It would be very cumbersome for tech start-ups, if they're able to operate at all. It would be cumbersome for other businesses as well.

Free expression would mean there'd be more economic activity within the U.K. The bill would undermine that.

I think there is more meaning to free expression than just it's contributions to economic activity, however.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/gfycat_snap_shutdown/ Meme website being shutdown by Snap.

Apparently, Ryukishi finally improved on his art skills in Ciconia.

We know what it was like in Higurashi / Umineko... #anime