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  2. 1 hour ago

    Also, as always, we are not funded by Big Tech or by so-called “tech for good/privacy orgs” that are themselves funded by Big Tech… we are funded by the people like you and me. If you want to help us continue to exist, you can make a one-time donation or become a patron at (1/2)

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    streaming (see our latest Small Is Beautiful on the subject: ) so we’ll be switching to using Owncast for upcoming live streams and downgrade to Vimeo Pro to keep hosting the recordings. (2/2)

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    Our Vimeo Premium (which we got with a substantial discount coupon last year) is coming up for renewal at full price (€840/year) and our tiny two-person not-for-profit (Small Technology Foundation) can’t afford to renew it and, plus, I really want to explore small video (1/2)

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Whose truth is it anyway? The English Wikipedia page on Janissary calls it “child slavery” (which it was): The Turkish page states that Christian children were “taken and raised” with no mention of slavery at all:

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  6. 3 hours ago

    protesters. After crushing the Gezi Park demonstrations, the party set its sights on destroying the Kurdish HDP opposition…” (2/2)

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  7. 3 hours ago

    “To understand what is happening in modern Turkey is to watch how one political party was able to achieve absolute power and then worked to remove a series of ‘enemies’ in a Stalin-like purge of Turkish society. The AK Party began with targeting secular and left-wing (1/2)

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  8. 3 hours ago

    Data isn’t oil, whatever tech commentators tell you: it’s people’s lives Been trying to tell people that for a while now… :)

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  9. 4 hours ago

    RT @[email protected] Sources :

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    May 30

    cc

    Files d'attente virtuelle: des magasins "profitent" du Covid pour imposer des QR codes pour entrer dans les magasins et donner son numéro de portable. Et en lisant les conditions, on découvre qu'ils peuvent utiliser, conserver, vendre votre numéro...
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  11. 4 hours ago

    They’re called Amazon’s devices, not your devices for a reason. Those who own and control technology decide how it works. If we don’t like this, then WE – individuals – must own and control technology, not trillion-dollar corporations or governments. See

    June 8, Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors - hello privacy nightmare.
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    May 29

    this thread might be interesting to you.

    incoming… google more unsealed docs, this time in the Google case led by Arizona Attorney General. The newly unsealed material is underlined in green unsealed this week (left). Last year, Google proactively unsealed less risky material (right) when Judge first ruled. /1
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  13. May 29

    Today on Twitter Can’t Count: Twitter ended up following two more people for me. One of whom had no followers while I was apparently following them. These are the systems folks trust to filter reality for them, eh?

    Screenshot of Tweetbot showing me following two accounts, one that has zero followers.
    The account I’m supposed to be following: showing that it has zero followers.
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    May 28

    Another world is possible Stop racism Stop fascism Stop white supremacy Stop exploitation Stop homophobia Stop femicide Stop misogyny Stop xenophobia Stop capitalist system Abolish The Police

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    May 28

    Like you always say, we will get the Facebook version of privacy…

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  16. May 28

    “Linux is about freedom. It’s about the little guy sticking it to the big guy.” Meanwhile, The Linux Foundation board of directors… 🤔

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  17. May 28

    Another odd side-effect (effect?) of unfollowing everyone on Twitter* is that Twitter no longer shows you your mentions (Tweetbot does). * Why? It’s nothing personal… read: Hell Site –

    Screenshot of my Twitter account in a desktop browser showing the Mentions tab: Nothing to see here – yet.
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  18. May 28

    So this morning I wake up to see that Twitter has followed six people for me again (it was three yesterday and three the day before, both sets that I’d manually unfollowed). Bug? Feature? *goes to manually unfollow again*

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  19. May 27

    RT @[email protected] These two ex-Uber programmers want to replace college academic buildings with carbon nanotube field-effect transistors

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  20. May 27

    could be misread … [mRNA vaccines, which don’t have the same issue,] deliver the genetic material of the coronavirus spike protein only to fluid found inside cells, not to the nucleus of the cells.“ (2/2)

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