moving to @ni.hil.ist
Mondoweiss 🇵🇸The huge antiwar protest for Palestine at New York's Grand Central Station was the kind of media event that the mainstream press should eagerly cover. They ignored it.
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Verso books is offering its books about Palestine for free:
Key texts
Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe
The Palestine Laboratory
The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy (about the 2009 invasion of Gaza)
Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/solidarity-with-palestine-free-resources-and-further-reading
Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading
Here we have collated our free ebooks, reading lists and ongoing publishing on the Verso Blog. These resources challenge much of the zionist ideology concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel, as well as offering a clear history of the occupation, Israel's military industrial complex, and
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"Games for Gaza" Itch.io bundle
256 titles for $10, donated to the organization "Medical Aid For Palestinians"
James BakerLots of people saying they will get a VPN to avoid the UK’s online safety bill. I can see it won’t be long until so called democracies start cracking down on them too. If I were a VPN provider I’d be happy at the short term boom but very worried about medium and long-term legislative environment #onlinesafetybill #vpn #privacy
I'm so pissed off with Unity right now. My anxiety over choosing a game engine for my next potential game was really a blessing in disguise because why would they attach a fee to game installs? Developers will now be forced to switch to Unreal/Godot/other engines. Now I wish I kept on with Unreal instead of focusing on Unity after final year of university. I feel really bad for mobile developers because Unity is the most used engine for mobile games. What engine are they gonna switch to?
LOL not Jack agreeing with Elon on removing blocking on Twitter by saying there should only be a mute function on Bluesky. I hate that these apps have become a central and daily aspect of people's lives that they have no choice to stay. I've been saying this IRL for a while now that tech savviness is now essential for society instead of something that's a useful skills to have. We are living in the worst cyberpunk dystopia. On the bright side, it looks like decentralisation will be more popular.
Open Rights GroupDuring the debate on the Online Safety Bill in the UK House of Lords, Lord Moylan laid out the dangers of the encryption-busting clause that threatens our privacy and security.
Take action to stop the spy clause as the Bill moves into its final stages.
WanderbotI wrote a blog post about why the long-term loss of what Twitter used to be sucks, if you want to see a more business-side perspective on its decline, and why social media is crucial for small creators in general.
That said, I'm immensely glad the site is burning to the ground. That place hasn't been okay for ages, and it's unlikely to recover.
Losing Twitter Sucks — Wanderbots
The decline of Twitter, and to a lesser degree Reddit, has been a weird tragedy to watch unfold over the last few months. Technically it’s been happening for years, with countless controversies and issues that always made the future of social media look just a bit worse. The most recent issues, howe
Cameron MacLeod🧵 1/5 If you've seen a headline about Mastodon & child abuse material (yikes!), some comments:
1. Mastodon is just software, not a company or a place, so this is like saying 'lots of child abusers use MS Office'
2. These sites appear in many blocklists and the admins of many Mastodon servers block them, so that crap never travels to your neighbourhood.
3. This is primarily in Japan.
4. Still bad, moderation and blocking are important areas to build up.
Link to article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/24/twitter-rival-mastodon-rife-with-child-abuse-material-study-finds/
Meredith WhittakerOpen letter from UK-affiliated cybersecurity academics laying out why the Online Safety Bill's spy clause is dangerous and unworkable: