Philipp

@computersaysno@digitalcourage.social
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Icecream does not ask silly questions.
Icecream understands.
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Philipp13h ago
Nietzsche21h ago
Um das klarzustellen: EINE EINZIGE Milliardärsfamilie verkackt es versehentlich (!), die Erbschaftssteuer zu dodgen und verursacht dadurch Steuereinnahmen, die die gescheiterte BUNDESWEITE Kindergrundsicherung zu 166% abgedeckt hätten. Imagine, man würde alle Superreichen konsequent fair besteuern.
Philipp2d ago
Digitalcourage2d ago

Mastodon ist jetzt offiziell „Digital Public Good“ – also digitales öffentliches Gut – und steht damit auf einer UN-Liste neben Projekten wie Wikipedia oder LibreOffice. Das Fediverse bekommt damit Rückenwind als gemeinwohlorientierte Alternative zu Big Tech. Anerkannt wurde Mastodon von der Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), einer Initiative der UN. Die Kriterien: Open Source, Datenschutz, kein Konzerninteresse. Für alle, die digital unabhängig und demokratisch kommunizieren wollen, ist das ein starkes Signal.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #DigitalPublicGood #UN #DigitaleDemokratie #BigTechAlternativen

https://blog.campact.de/2025/06/mastodon-ist-als-digitales-oeffentliches-gut-anerkannt/

Mastodon ist als digitales öffentliches Gut anerkannt!

Inklusiv, nichtkommerziell und unabhängig: Mastodon ist jetzt als digitales öffentliches Gut anerkannt und wird bei Nutzern immer beliebter.

Campact Blog
PhilippJun 16
noyb.euJun 16

🚨 Meta announced today that it will introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This move further consolidates Meta's social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this.

https://noyb.eu/en/whatsapp-getting-ads-using-personal-data-instagram-and-facebook

WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook

Meta is expanding its ads business on WhatsApp using your data from Instagram and Facebook

noyb.eu
PhilippJun 10
tanteJun 10

"The cult of goal-setting thrives in this illusion. It converts uncertainty into an illusion of progress. It demands specificity in exchange for comfort. And it replaces self-trust with the performance of future-planning."

(Original title: Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits)

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/smart-people-dont-chase-goals-they-create-limits/

Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits

A few years ago, I sat across from a friend at a late dinner. He was telling me about his new promotion, the big title, the bonus, the corner office. I remember watching his face as he described it. He looked like someone describing a story he’d once believed

Westenberg.
PhilippJun 7
Roni LaukkarinenJun 7
Every website in 2025.
PhilippJun 4
Tadzio MuellerJun 4

"Kein Verwaltungsgericht bestimmt die Regierungspolitik. Auch nicht das in Berlin. Die Regierung muss bei ihrer Migrationspolitik bleiben."

Die deutsche Rechte bereitet sich gerade darauf vor, die #Judikative de facto zu entmachten. #Faschisierung.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/urteil-zu-zurueckweisungen-regierung-muss-kurs-halten-110514545.html

Urteil zu Zurückweisungen: Regierung muss Kurs halten

Kein Verwaltungsgericht bestimmt die Regierungspolitik. Auch nicht das in Berlin. Die Regierung muss bei ihrer Migrationspolitik bleiben.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
PhilippJun 3
Prof. Stefan RahmstorfJun 2
In 2022, China overtook the United States as the leading country for natural-sciences output. In 2023 China was top overall - according to the Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/nature-index-research-leaders-india-follows-china-footsteps
By slashing science funding, the US is handing global science leadership fully to China.
PhilippMay 31
Gregg GonsalvesMay 31
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
PhilippMay 26
Prof. Stefan RahmstorfMay 26
Was ist schlimmer?
PhilippMay 25
Mario Sixtus 🇭🇰馬六May 25
Martin Oetting hat ein tolles Video über Sytemwandel, Marktwirtschaft, Kapitalismus, Monopole, Diktaturen und überhaupt gedreht, und Ihr solltet das ansehen:
https://youtu.be/Kj3kHGKt2aA?si=ZZ_-FpftBBMEajbM
Systemwandel – Kapitalismus vs. Marktwirtschaft und der Weg in die Diktatur

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Roni LaukkarinenJun 7
Every website in 2025.
Show threadjbzJun 7
@rolle at least they're being "transparent" about it
Show threadRoni LaukkarinenJun 7
@jbz Haha! Good one.
Show threadIbiJun 8
@jbz @rolle Quite humorous lol
Show threadT Jones NoKings FilmICEJun 7

@rolle

Nissan collects sexual information.

Show threadPatrickJun 7
@rolle That's what it feels like lol. The yearly "we've updated blah blah blah" seems to translate to "oh look we found more ways to use and abuse your data, by continuing to use our website/app you agree to all of this. Pray we don't alter the deal further."
Show threadRob Johnston 🍁Jun 7
@rolle What a shit show it has all become.
Show threadDavid SardariJun 7
@rolle The mandatory "We respect your privacy. We have updated our privacy policy." is missing.
Show threadMartin UedingJun 7
@duxsco @rolle
"We and our 752 partners respect your privacy."
Show threadP StewartJun 8

@martin_ueding @duxsco @rolle I'm always a little amazed that whenever I see that notice it's never three partners or twelve partners or forty partners, but always several hundred, sometimes a thousand or more.

The "cleanest" site I've seen lately still says 177.

Show threadيوريو / xy0roJun 8
@duxsco @rolle I Agree it's Good Websites But Not The Best
Show threadAlida AntoniaJun 7
@rolle My Samsung TV does the same thing.
Show threadCyberLoner Jun 7
@AlidaAntonia Smart TVs in general are the literal hardware version of spyware. You'd be surprised how much data they collect on you, what you watch, when you watch it, how long you watched it for, and more if they have microphone or camera features.
Show threadAlida AntoniaJun 7
@Cybergeek I know. I keep refusing to read their privacy policy, go to settings and click on “Do not share my information,” but then after about two months the drop down menu again wants me to read their new privacy settings.
Show threadPoloniousmonkJun 7

@Cybergeek @AlidaAntonia

Some have hidden cameras behind the screen. Some of those admit it in the ToS, some keep it completely hidden.

The "internet of things" is one of the greatest cons ever pulled. Second only to "AI", I guess.

Show threadAlida AntoniaJun 7
@Uair @Cybergeek mine doesn’t have a hidden camera or any way to use any software to zoom. It’s an old Samsung TV. Doesn’t even update anymore. I’ll keep it until it dies.
Show threadPoloniousmonkJun 7

@AlidaAntonia @Cybergeek

I watch video on my computer monitor. I don't even own a teevee.

And I've never paid for cable. Fuck teevee in general. I can always torrent the good shit.

Show threadAlida AntoniaJun 7
@Uair @Cybergeek I used to do that with my Mac Mini and my ancient Monitor and had an old fashioned Tube TV. I just love watching movies on my very old Samsung (not too Smart TV.) My friends torrents movies. Other than that, he just subscribes to YouTube TV.
Do what you have to and what makes YOU happy.
Show threadCarl O.S. ©Jun 7
@Cybergeek @Reddish5 @AlidaAntonia probably, they're only surpassed by modern cars highly controlled by software apps.
Show threadnowhereman (nicht der andere!)Jun 7
@AlidaAntonia @rolle
You lucky one!
My TV never used my toilet, what explains a lot about the content it provides.
Show threadArthur van der HargJun 7
@rolle It’s OK. They’re one-way mirrors.
Show threadSir ToootensteinJun 7
@ArtHarg @rolle 🤣
Show threadEmilis 🇺🇦Jun 7
@ArtHarg @rolle Sadly that's the right metaphor.
Show threadBruce HeerssenJun 8
@ArtHarg @rolle
Oh good! You get to watch yourself poop along with everyone else.
Show threadnoave 💻🥷 binjaJun 7
@rolle I have nightmares with this same scenario.
Show threadpurple despairsJun 7
@rolle but don't worry, no trans allowed /s
Show threadAndrew ZonenbergJun 7
@rolle (Darth Vader voice) Pray we don't update it further
Show threadKotesJun 7
@rolle "We have improved our transparency!"
Show thread拔刀问路Jun 7

@rolle

no privacy for old men

Show threadHoward Chu @ SymasJun 7
@rolle along those lines #privacy #PrivacyIsAHumanRight #monero
Show threadPoached DarklingJun 7
@hyc @rolle It's odd how privacy, which we've had for thousands of years is now something authorities are using big tech to eradicate
Show threadBruxoJun 7
@rolle yep , exactly :D
Show threadDane BroderickJun 7
@rolle I have no privacy
Show threadElricJun 7
@rolle No no. First you have to prove you're human. Then you get to take a shit in public.
Show threadSine-Nomine🇵🇸FREE🇵🇸PALESTINEJun 7

@rolle i ALWAYS USE a "discardable email" i use a rotating browser obfuscator, rotating VPN, all the adblockers & tracker blockers, never saving ANY data on closing browser etc. Scorched earth policyl.

"Give them nothing! Take from them everything!"

Show threadMelissa snyderJun 7
@rolle
Show threadvozer 🎀Jun 7
@rolle this and mechanical hands reaching from the underneaths of the glass
Show threadTFed 🍉🌻Jun 7
@rolle this is a picture of my phone
Show threadTFed 🍉🌻Jun 7
@rolle not gonna lie it's a picture of everybody's phones...
Show threadRyickJun 7
@rolle toilet paper is replaced with AI that wipes you clean while recording every data point possible of the experience (e.g. curvature of the buttocks, anus print, color and texture of the excrement, etc.).
Show threadBruce HeerssenJun 8

@ryick @rolle

... that might be worth it.

Show threadRyickJun 8
@bruce @rolle I am sure it is for some people, but that doesn’t change the horrible ethics of forcing that experience on people that feel violated by it.
Show thread𝗣𝗠𝗝 👽Jun 7

@rolle

"we have disbanded it cause we want the money"

Show threadSuperMoosieJun 7

@rolle

Not quite.

Needs about 240 'partners" standing there with clip boards and cameras.

Then some DNA testers, chemical analysers machines.

Show thread64 Islands Aroha CooperativeJun 7
@SuperMoosie @rolle yes exactly - the equipment used to train computers how to poop like humans do
Show threadJohn Skiles SkinnerJun 7
@rolle
Also, this is every website in 2025
Show threadSchafstelze 🎗🖤Jun 7
@rolle this loos were made for stalking
Show threadkolyaJun 8
@rolle sigh. *puts on Bachman-Turner Overdrive and unzips*
Show threadDaniel LyonsJun 8

@rolle

"Privacy is a fundamental human plight."

Show threadيوريو / xy0roJun 8
@rolle Why This So,True
Show threadيوريو / xy0roJun 8
@rolle For Real
Show threadيوريو / xy0roJun 8
@rolle There are good sites.
Show threadيوريو / xy0roJun 8
@rolle Not really I don't agree there are good sites websites