Migrating to mstdn.social due to abysmal TOS on this instance. Wish me luck!
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Cory DoctorowETA: GOOD NEWS!
https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821
In reading an important discussion of the IP assignment in the new Mastodon.social ToS:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086
I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.
These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)
New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodon
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
Robot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱Canadians should be deeply aware and writing a shit ton of letters to their MPs regarding bill C-2 / the CLOUD agreement right now. If you don't want to be entrenched in the fascism sweeping south of the border you will fight this bill with your life.
Not only for Canadians, but for Americans and other refugees seeking safety and asylum. Do not allow Carney to turn Canada into a police surveillance state.
There are currently a load of bills being tabled to strip you of your rights and privacy. You need to act before this becomes reality. This is the work you are required to do when we say now is the time when voting is simply not enough.
Working Class History#OtD 18 June 2017, a new sculpture in Midleton, Ireland, was dedicated to the Native American Choctaw nation, in recognition of support from the Choctaw people during the great famine in 1847. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9014/choctaw-sculpture-dedicated
Miguel Afonso Caetano"While Bill C-2 does not explicitly state that it is paving the way for new and expanded data-sharing with the United States or other countries, the legislation contains references to the potential for “agreement[s] or arrangement[s]” with a foreign state, and references elsewhere the potential that persons in Canada may become compelled by the laws of a foreign state to disclose information.2 Other data and surveillance powers in Bill C-2 read like they could have been drafted by U.S. officials.
Furthermore, in response to questions at a technical briefing on Bill C-2 by Justice Canada on June 9, 2025, Justice Canada officials acknowledged to the persons present at the briefing that the intent of certain provisions within Bill C-2 is to enable Canada to implement and ratify a new data-sharing treaty, publicly known as the “Second Additional Protocol” to the Budapest Convention (“2AP”). The briefing acknowledged that other cross-border “cooperation” tools were foreseeable.
The federal government’s quiet acknowledgement that new provisions in Bill C-2 are being introduced to implement the 2AP treaty raises broader questions about the full extent of Bill C-2’s impacts as it concerns data-sharing with U.S. law enforcement authorities."
https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/
#Canada #DataSharing #USA #C2 #DataProtection #Privacy #Surveillance
Unspoken Implications: A Preliminary Analysis of Bill C-2 and Canada’s Potential Data-Sharing Obligations Towards the United States and Other Countries - The Citizen Lab
Our preliminary analysis of Bill C-2 situates the legislation within the context of existing research by the Citizen Lab about two potential data-sharing treaties that are most relevant to the new proposed powers being introduced in Bill C-2: the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention (2AP) and the CLOUD Act. Both of which carry significant constitutional and human rights risks.
Aaron RuparNew in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism
“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'
*More of this, please*" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/william-young-trump-dei-lgbtq
The WildTrump axed extreme weather database tracking billion-dollar disasters since 1980. #ClimateChange #Environment #Data
William Lindsey 
"Trump has made clear over and over that he approves of violence done in his name, and that he believes that his enemies — whether protestors, Democratic leaders, or his own vice president — deserve to be physically harmed. That creates a permission structure in which MAGA supporters may feel that they can aid the cause, or advance Trump’s agenda, through threats and violence."
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/hortman-hoffman-maga-political-violence
Dame HollyThe responses to this post show that, even in 2025 with people who accept climate change, most just don't get it.
https://setouchi.social/@David/114687511226804083
Human civilisation collapses by 2 degrees. At 4 degrees, the remnants are functionally extinct.
People act as though we could kill off 10%, 20% of the population and human society would be the same but just with less people.
This is not how it works. Our whole way of life is gone by then. Rich or poor. It won't matter.
David :SetouchiExplorer: (@[email protected])
I have these two sentences stuck in my head these days: A French minister: we need to prepare ourselves for a future when temperatures are 4°C higher. A climate scientist: with a rise of 4°C above pre-industrial age, up to 90% of the world's population may die. (edit: muting the post, it's going way beyond its intended audience, I'd like to be able to see notifications about other things. thanks you all for sharing) #ClimateCrisis #Climate #ClimateEmergency
Prof. Sam LawlerI was recently reminded of this powerful statement by the International Astronomical Union! Yes!
"...no group has the right to change Earth's environment in any significant way without full international study and agreement"
Yes! We need this energy!
...by the way, this is from 1961.
