Irish speaker/writer; tech, politics + the future. Hope's not a 'nice to have'. It's our moral duty. she/her http://mariafarrell.com
"We need to rewild the internet": https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
"Your platform is not an ecosystem", https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/your-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/
Fiction: "Burning Men" https://westerlymag.com.au/burning-men-by-maria-farrell/
This is wild. A whole population's calls captured, studied, mined.
"Unit 8200 sources said the information stored in Azure amounted to a rich repository of intelligence about its population that some in the unit claimed had been used to blackmail people, place them in detention, or even justify their killing after the fact."
As a friend just suggested, perhaps one day people will speak of Microsoft & genocide, just as history 'never forgets' what IBM did.
(Via @ira)
Just been watching @cwebber 's brilliantly informative and inspirational Fediforum keynote about open social media protocols (some more open than others... but getting there!), and <why> we need secure, often private and fundamentally joyous spaces to organise in and life in.
Just brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSOk8XQuqms
Lots of talk about Ghost today, and rightly so, but don’t forget that a little open source framework @fedify made the ActivityPub plugin possible.
Support open source!
I usually go to bed later than my spouse but when she can’t sleep, we have a thing where she says, “hey can you talk computers to me for a bit”, and I will lie down, pick some technical thing with just the right amount of jargon, and start rambling.
Within a couple minutes, whatever was on her mind is long forgotten, and halfway into describing how to set the timing on a crontab entry I’ll get a loving pat on the arm - my signal to give her a gentle kiss and tiptoe to the living room. It’s a good system.
"Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide. It’s a crime against humanity. It’s a war crime. I have been repeating it and repeating it and repeating it" - Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food
"We have never seen a civilian population made to go so hungry so quickly and so completely, that is the consensus among starvation experts … Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime. Israel has announced its intention to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, simply for being Palestinian … this is now a situation of genocide." (quote from February 2024)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/gaza-starvation-un-expert-michael-fakhri
#Gaza #Palestine #UnitedNations #food #famine #genocide #HumanRights
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