Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

There's a Mastodon instance for people who want to toot in Esperanto.

https://esperanto.masto.host/

I'm old enough to remember when Yahoo! Groups unceremoniously nuked every single LGBT mailing list overnight, leaving people completely untethered from communities they had relied on and loved. When that happened, we got angry at Yahoo!. And yet when people flee from Twitter, anger is directed at those "defectors". Twitter is not a country, and we were not its citizens. It is a corporation. If Twitter is driving people away, it's Twitter's fault. It's not our job to fix it. #noxp

How to ban 3600 books from school libraries

This year, at least 102 books have been removed from the shelves of school libraries in Clay County, Florida. Many of these books were pulled at the request of one man: Bruce Friedman. . . Friedman said he had compiled "a list of over 3,600 titles that I believe have concerning content"...One is The Girl From The Sea, about a 15-year-old girl who develops romantic feelings for another girl. There is no sex, and no nudity. 
https://popular.info/p/how-to-ban-3600-books-from-school

The Flickr Foundation is a new nonprofit organization "dedicated to keeping the wonderful Flickr collection around for 100 years". The Flickr Commons is one of the best things on the internet and I'm glad they're building on it. https://www.flickr.org/announcing-the-flickr-foundation/

PowerBook 540c with PowerPod 500

So, your Mastodon instance:

- who are the admins?
- who is holding the bag legally for content on the server?
- what is the editorial policy around trending hashtags? Trending posts?
- how active are the moderators?
- can they tell the difference between someone harassing a user, and someone just being generically awful,, and which ones do they moderate?
- is there a different standard for local behavior than remote?
- what reports will they act on?
- how timely?
- how are decisions on all of the above made?

Today is the birthday of Peter Kropotkin—anarchist, scientist, and author of Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution.

To honor the occasion, we invite you to read this account of his daring escape from prison:

https://crimethinc.com/KropotkinBreakout

anybody no longer considering a raspberry pi for their next project might consider one of these 20 other single board computers https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-raspberry-pi-alternatives/

AI image generation tech can now create life-wrecking deepfakes with ease. All it takes is 5 social media photos

It might be time to take your photos off the Internet

I wrote about it for Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/thanks-to-ai-its-probably-time-to-take-your-photos-off-the-internet/

i dunno what to tell the whole "trust free" crowd except that every act of running computer software is a delegation which requires trust

Attendance in school is mandated by law; as such, lunch should be provided for the kids. Name any other situation where state or federal government compels someone to be present for 4 or more hours and does not provide nourishment, or compensation and time to procure nourishment.

Robin Sloan's essay "A Year of New Avenues" about the end of the big social media platforms and the start of a new era of experimentation on the web is genuinely inspiring. Also I'm a little jealous I didn't write it. https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/