Privacy is not a science, it is a human right

https://ar.al/2019/02/14/privacy-is-not-a-science-it-is-a-human-right/

My response to a dangerous turd of an article by Bart van der Sloot (co-founder of Amsterdam Privacy Week – sponsored by Palantir and Google – and docent teaching “Privacy and Big Data” at Tilburg University)

Mr. Sloot attempts to reframe privacy as a “science” and shame those who work to protect it for having a “pro-privacy agenda” & not being “neutral”. He also calls for “new rules” to disallow such biased behaviour.

George H. W. Bush lived to the ripe old age of 91 and had the best of everything in his years as a former President. He was born to wealth and privilege, but deserved little of what he enjoyed in life.

Dying in bed of old age after decades of comfort and security is a privilege most people are denied. This must change if we are to have a world worth preserving.

Okay so tumblr is banning rotating cubes saying it's porn and facebook banned saying "i'm gay" saying it's sexual solicitation and Twitter always seemed like it could disappear at any moment

I feel like we need to be getting ready for Mass Migration to Mastodon, which means we need to fix anything that keeps Mastodon from being usable, and there is in fact something that keeps Mastodon from being usable, there's one specific thing, it's this:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177

I’m so glad that Thanksgiving is over, now I can sit back with some spiced rum and enjoy some real Baltimorean Christmas music:

https://youtu.be/j3Sj6VKYt4I