Chris Adams

@mrchrisadams
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Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my tweets. I'm an organiser at climateAction.tech, and I work at the greenwebfoundation.org. He/Him.
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climateAction.tech (community)https://climateaction.tech
Green Web Foundation (work)https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org
Personal Sitehttps://chrisadams.me.uk
Testing out Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mrchrisadams.bsky.social
The Badger Badger Badger video is in the British Film Institute's archive of significant British films. ๐Ÿ˜ณ https://replay.bfi.org.uk/video/fe55f1ff-bd71-5f02-8f89-6d6829c75d0d
Badgers | Replay

Not to be outdone by Ireland, The Netherlands has just picked TikTok, Meta and Uber's lawyer as the new head of the Dutch Privacy Authority. Well done everyone. For shame. https://nos.nl/artikel/2614241-advocaat-van-tiktok-en-meta-wordt-voorzitter-privacywaakhond-ap
Advocaat van TikTok en Meta wordt voorzitter privacywaakhond AP

Geert Potjewijd verdedigde jarenlang grote techbedrijven als TikTok, Uber en Meta tegen claims van toezichthouders en actiegroepen.

AOC is all of us.

#RFKJr

GitHub is getting very close to zero 9s of uptime
one way to understand all this is the worldโ€™s largest petrostate kneecapping its lowest cost competitors, potentially for years, all in the name of protecting the security of their region.

This is a dark, beautiful, sobering post. We all live downstream from the mindset of "violence, then rebuild, all the while profiting from it".

Read it.
https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116212328257230121

#signal #digitalInfrastructure #capitalism

EDIT: author @shibacomputer is on Mastodon

๐”ฐ๐”ฅ๐”ฆ๐”Ÿ๐” ๐”ฌ (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under @[email protected]'s stewardship. In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory? The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory. It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager. California has a lot to fucking answer for. https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

post.lurk.org
Just wild how like half of the stories about oil right now don't even mention the electrification of transportation.

Every developer or dev team can relate -

#dev #development #Tech #techdev

For the first time in my life on Masto, I read alt text that made me wish the person hadnโ€™t bothered. After a wordy post, they wrote in the alt text field something like, โ€œI donโ€™t really want to write alt text and train the AI for free, but okay, person holding a computer.โ€ Iโ€™m going to assume they didnโ€™t think about what a slap in the face this was to me, and possibly to anyone else who relies on alt text. 3 Times I started an acerbic reply and deleted it, but Iโ€™m still seething, so Iโ€™m asking anyone who is so disingenuous to just not bother; youโ€™ll create less hard feelings that way.
A very good use of Gorton.