tripu @tripu@qoto.org

@DrBenway
Either one recommend this for all trollish behaviour on social media, or for none. No need to single out an extremist party; there are others.
Also, what's the point of these tools, if not learning and discovering ideas different from one's own? :P It's a pitiable attitude, that of muting everything that does not match one's preconceived stance.
#Spain

OK, I get that most app publishers can't afford not to sell via the #AppStore and that #iThings are ubiquitous, and I support freer options everywhere (even for #Apple users)…
But, come on — this initiative sounds a lot like:
“Drat! We want people who, on their own volition, decided to go for an expensive, unaccountable, closed, locked system to be able to install and use our apps freely! Isn't that fair? I can has freedom?”.
Read that naïve section “our vision”. A vision is something novel. #FreeSoftware is 35+ years old. And there are open distribution platforms already. Reinventing the wheel.

https://appfairness.org/

@thor
(Not quite: “media hora” in 🇪🇸 #Spanish means “half an hour”.)
Hilarious nonetheless! 🤪

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/why-are-amnesty-international-monitors-not-able-to-observe-the-assange-hearing/

Chatting with a friend about #SocialMedia, #BigTech and #privacy (someone sceptic of the #fediverse, alternative apps or services, and ways to monetise other than #surveillance, who downplays or ignores the need to protect data and fight against #advertising).
He points out that even when the software itself is free, servers are very expensive (thus the need to either pay a lot for services or, more commonly, sell your data & consume ads). I suspect that's a feeble argument, so I looked up how “expensive” each active user is to #Twitter.
In 2019, Twitter had ~330M active users, and reported operating expenses of ~$3B. So if each active user paid a mere $10 per year for the service, Twitter could afford to never share your data, never show anybody a single ad, never tinker maliciously with trends or timelines, and still have a net profit margin of ~6%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly-active-twitter-users/
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWTR/twitter/financial-statements

#Remarkable2, tonight I have dreamt of your (for real)… when will you be mine!?

“What [#SocialMedia companies] sell are more and more accurate predictions of our behaviour to advertisers, and as that gets more refined, you really have as close as we've ever come to #advertising being a kind of sure thing, where it really works. Even there, most people won't necessarily care about that, because if you tell them:
‘Listen, the thing you really thought you wanted, and went out and bought — you were played by the company. The company placed an ad with #Facebook, and FB delivered it to you because you were the perfect target of that ad.’
I think the person can, at the end of the day, own all of that process and just subsume it with their satisfaction at having bought the thing they now actually want.
‘I wanted a new Prius. Right? I mean, it was time. I needed a new car.’”

— #SamHarris, #MakingSense podcast, https://samharris.org/podcasts/218-welcome-cult-factory/ [subscriber edition]

To mention #Fukushima in the same breath as #Hiroshima is like discussing controlled explosions in mines together with bombs planted by the IRA: completely different phenomena, derived from radically opposed approaches, with very different outcomes; both just happen to be related to the same area of research in science and technology.
#nuclear

…and here, #DouglasMurray urges the “silent majority” to stop being silent and to face the illiberal mob with courage.
I see a common pattern among the intelligent commentators.
#IdentityPolitics #woke

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/douglas-murray-2

That explains why I just got a transfer of $18,160.23 and two hundred boxes of lollipops in the mail from you.

Here [subscriber edition], #JohnMcWhorter encourages honest #Americans to be brave to stand their ground against the mob of the “elect” (generally well-intentioned #progressives caught up in the new religion of #IdentityPolitics), to politely express disagreement, and to resist the urge to try to reason with them (it's futile) and instead let the petty scandal of the day dissolve by itself.

Listening to the conversation, I was thinking I should extend that pessimistic, if also liberating, piece of advice to my own country (#Spain) and to other topics beside #racism (#sexism, #EconomicInequality, #nationalism), and try to apply it myself — if nothing else, for my own sanity.

https://samharris.org/podcasts/217-new-religion-anti-racism/

Melomaniac like me?
Mistrustful like me of #Shazam and their use of your mic and your data?
Can't be bothered to keep an app just for identifying music you hear?

https://www.aha-music.com/ just helped me find
https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/rival-consoles-vibrations-on-a-string