Navigator Pirx

@navigatorpirx@mastodon.world
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History, architecture, archaeology and urbanism.

European and US politics.

Art.

Crypto is a scam.

Elon Musk is a clown.

Putin is a monster.

While we’re worrying about AI, the bollards are planning a global revolution...
I guess it’s time to put this back up 🤣
Elon Musk as pioneer of degrowth
Logging on to Mastodon… I think I will read six hundred posts today. Perhaps I shall even indulge myself and read six hundred and one
Twitter, once the most powerful real-time information system ever built, so much so someone accidentally live tweeted the death of bin Laden, now not only can’t be used to save lives from bad weather, but won’t even let the existence of bad weather be seen by the weather people.
Jack Dorsey enthusiastically co-signed the deal that betrayed 200 million Twitter users and handed their accounts over to a fucking right wing egomaniacal billionaire. You’ll have to excuse me if I’m not eager to sign up for another one of this dude’s schemes.

It was the decade of knowing that something will be abused at scale while refusing to acknowledge the responsibility that comes with running services at that scale, because actually doing proper enforcement and abuse handling would cut into the profits too much.

Just claim that you're a neutral platform, that you're working on machine learning that will fix it, or go whole hog on free speech absolutism while quietly terminating anything and anyone that might cause you legal trouble.

Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Cloudflare; the list is long.

25/ 🧵

This one is doing the rounds tonight.

Rep. Katie Porter wins the evening.

#SpeakerVotes #Speaker #KatiePorter

Networking 101