Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇

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Poetician from #Iceland. Cocreated a couple of political movements: we got ‘em both into parliament with almost 0 funds: the Movement & the Pirate Party. Spent 8 years in parliament. I believe we need to create new commons including political engagement and governance in order to having functional democracy in the digital era.
Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇Jun 17, 2023
Alex WildJun 14, 2023

"We" aren't failing at controlling climate change. That's because "we"- the actual people- have little power to make the decisions necessary to fix things.

Instead, this is being done to us.

The small group of sociopathic billionaires driving the destruction would like nothing more than for us to blame ourselves for what they are actively doing to us, absolving them of blame.

So stop saying "we" are failing. We're not. We're fine.

Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇Jun 14, 2023
Carl T. BergstromJun 12, 2023

Not surprising that today's New York Times article about the singularity launders bullshit for big tech with just enough skepticism for plausible deniability.

More impressive: the article quotes 15 different people.

Sundar Pichai
Reid Hoffman
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Baldur Bjarnason
John von Neumann
Irving John Good
Hans Moravec
Ray Kurzweil
Rodney Brooks
Jerry Kaplan
Ryan Schaeffer
Eric Schmidt
Charlies Stross

Yes, every single one of them is a man.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/technology/silicon-valley-confronts-the-idea-that-the-singularity-is-here.html

Silicon Valley Confronts the Singularity

The frenzy over artificial intelligence may be ushering in the long-awaited moment when technology goes wild. Or maybe it’s the hype that is out of control.

The New York Times
Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇Jun 14, 2023
The MarkupJun 13, 2023

#News: Dozens of websites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline—988—are sending visitor data to Facebook.

By @jonkeegan and Colin Lecher, copublished with @STAT: #MentalHealth #Privacy #Data https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/06/13/suicide-hotlines-promise-anonymity-dozens-of-their-websites-send-sensitive-data-to-facebook

Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook – The Markup

The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel

Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇Jun 14, 2023
Anil DashJun 13, 2023
Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I'd love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a *massive* DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs
Mitigating DDOS in the Fediverse with Mastodon | Fastly

Experts from Mastodon and Fastly’s CSOC team share lessons learned from mitigating DDOS attacks on Mastodon Social and techniques for protecting federated architectures.

Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇May 6, 2023
WinstanleyMay 6, 2023

RT @JustStop_Oil
This is Kush. He is 33-year-old doctor.

Today he was planning to quietly hold a sign saying JUST STOP OIL, whilst in the crowd for the Coronation. He was arrested along with 20 others.

Free speech is a core British value – and we have just lost it.

Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇May 5, 2023
Andy ScollickMay 5, 2023
Excellent video report by Damien Gayle https://www.theguardian.com/news/video/2023/may/04/are-french-protesters-more-effective-meet-the-next-level-climate-activists-video
Are French protesters more effective? Meet the ‘next level’ climate activists – video

Damien Gayle visits an Extinction Rebellion protest in London and a demonstration in France against a new motorway project to see how they compare

the Guardian
Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇May 5, 2023
Micah LeeMay 5, 2023
Elon banned me from Twitter for doing journalism. Good riddance. https://micahflee.com/2023/05/elon-banned-me-from-twitter-for-doing-journalism-good-riddance/
Elon banned me from Twitter for doing journalism. Good riddance.

Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇May 4, 2023
Action Jay 🐾 May 4, 2023

So just a quick rundown of how social media platforms handle bitcoin scammers

🐦Twitter: Hell yeah we love that shit. Heck, we're owned by a bitcoin scammer!

☁ Bluesky: look, free speech is free speech. But if you'd like to filter them out we'll tag it "Finance Advice"

🐘 Mastodon: GET TAE FACK OUT AND DONNAE LET THE GOOD LORD SEE YAE LEAVIN

Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇May 4, 2023
JamesMay 4, 2023

I get crypto #spam tagged on #Twitter once every other day. I report it every time and have to manually block them every time. It doesn’t get better.

I’ve gotten one crypto spam tag on #Mastodon this morning, and it was already removed before I clicked the notification.

Having real people that care running your community makes a difference. Thanks for holding it down @Gargron and team! 🙏

Birgitta Jonsdottir 🎇May 4, 2023
tanteMay 3, 2023
Kinda tired of the whole "I made a lot of money building the Torment Nexus but now I quit and am warning you about the Torment Nexus (buy my book)" redemption arch for tech people we seem to have settled on.