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In other words, now is a fantastic time to "delete" (I get the feeling that still means something, when Twitter is clearly doing all they can to cut down on storage) all your stuff on Twitter they currently have license to mostly do with what they wish.

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I fully expect that, if Twitter actually goes down hard with the sort of insurmountable technical problems outgoing engineers have described, they'll dust off their hands, perhaps roll out a cheaper new system, and sell the entire archive directly into the unaccountable data ocean, or turn it into part of an AI product, or an effectively re-identifying aggregator

@Gargron

EMBRACE!!!!!! <----- You are here
EXTEND!!!!!
EXTINGUISH!!!!

@Gargron I'm confident you're familiar with the historical threat that would present, and hopefully you share the analysis that corporate actors will invest in the most adverse possible interpretation of and engagement with what we've created here. We can only expect them to extract as much and return as little benefit as possible, in force and at scale. Full preparation for its corrosion is impossible.

If Meta is really working on a new ActivityPub-powered social network, I see it as a very positive signal overall--my personal feelings towards Meta notwithstanding. For one, it's validation for our entire ecosystem from the biggest player. It also tells me that they don't see themselves as strong enough to keep users locked inside their walled garden anymore. It means the tide is really turning for interoperable social media, and that's always been the goal.

I have so much to write and speak about, and work on, but so little time or energy to spend on it, I feel like I'm going to explode. Every day

Just a few more weeks and things will be different, very different

Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.
-- David Graeber

#anarchism #quote #bot

Found a method to see inside some chips, without having to unmount or destroy the chips.

Best part - the method only relies on lightly modded off-the-shelf cameras and lenses.

Read more at bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6712

Every once in awhile I come across a computer so filthy that I realize I should have turned on the camera before the air compressor, and also that I need a shower now.

Sorry to deny you all "centimeter-thick sheets of dust peeling off the backs of ISA cards and exploding in slow motion 720fps ASMR"

New: A Ring doorbell owner in December received a subpoena for an investigation on his next door neighbor.

Ring fully complied with police requests, including for footage inside his home that wasn't related to the investigation at all.

politico.com/news/2023/03/07/p

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At this rate Twitter isn't even making three nines this year

Apparently this is happening to a lot of people! Tried three different connections with or without logins, no luck. sickos_yes.png

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Sorry I haven't gotten a damn thing done on my software & video projects in months. I'm enduring a sort of lightning round personal torture hell at the moment. In a couple weeks I will be done moving my family to the new place and can finally get back to my own work. At least, if I hopefully don't injure myself doing this entirely alone, or my truck's deferred maintenance catches up to me on the highway and it just explodes in a fireball of pure exhaustion / spite

@bobbyd0g
also the lesson of the no-fly list &c. isn't that the state is omniscient, it's that it can make a thousand people ruin your life because a computer told them to with very little regard for why your name is in the computer

@bobbyd0g
also the assumption that you have to do stuff to get in trouble

like, cops shot that protestor in january and now they're trying to charge everyone else who was there with his death

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