Excellent piece in the Hollywood Reporter about a scheme -- funded by the 0.01% -- to discredit journalism they don't like: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/peter-thiel-tribunal-journalists-trial-1236617579/

The HR often does noteworthy reporting about our increasingly bizarre media culture, and this is an example.

Musk has now hoarded $1 Trillion—making him the greediest hoarder on all Earth. To put that obnoxious amount of hoarding in perspective:
•1M seconds from now is in 11 days
•1B seconds from now is in 32 years
•1T seconds from now is in 32,000 years

This isn’t “hard work.” It’s greed and exploitation. Tax billionaires & trillionaires out of existence. Protect working people. Save our society.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/949259/the-worlds-first-trillionaire-is-a-killer

There’s a lot of controversy around social media age limits — and rightfully so. But six months after Australia’s youth ban, other countries are already learning lessons.

Legislation in Brazil and Canada pairs age limits with design standards, including an opt out if platforms are “safe by design.” Experimentation is the route to better policy, instead of endlessly debating while tech companies evade accountability.

https://disconnect.blog/social-media-policy-is-evolving-beyond-age-limits/

#tech #socialmedia #auspol #cdnpoli #canada #cdntech

Following a thread is now available in the latest version of #HolosSocial. #ActivityPub already lets you follow an object, not only an account, so a Follow can target a post. You then receive new replies, even from accounts you do not follow. A thread is short-lived, so the Follow uses the standard endTime property to expire on its own. It works best when other servers support it, that's why I want to turn it into a #FEP.

For people curious about the idea: https://tom79.dev/posts/follow-a-note/