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Dutch femby living in Sweden.
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"Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things," Huffman said. "We are not in the business of giving that away for free."

You and me, we're just data sets. Years of interaction with fellow human beings, building community, sharing insight and creativity…it’s all just data. Data to be mined and monetized.

Huffman's not mad Reddit was scraped for a chatbot. He's mad he wasn't paid for the privilege. It's his data, you see. His. Not yours.

The world is melting, infrastructure is crumbling, facist regimes are on the rise, continuing education is more expensive than ever, there’s very few jobs that pay enough to even rent an apartment after college, let alone buy a home, and the queerest generation ever is seeing their identities legislated away by an increasingly out of touch oligarchy.

But sure… phones are why teenagers are depressed.

"There is a place for you" instead of "fend for yourself".
Your contribution is valued instead of your survival being kept hostage.
All thrive, together, instead of making ends meet, separately.
Communities instead of institutions.
Aid instead of suppression.
Potential instead of obligation.
Empathy instead of violence.
Capitalism has convinced you RSS is antiquated. The real reason it's fading is because it doesn't have ads and tracking. You going to tell me the news article is truly better on a browser with ads than on a little program you can open any time, on or offline?

This is BIG. A new study in the Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, has highlighted a regret rate of only 0.3% for gender-affirming surgeries.

To put that into context, the regret rate for knee replacements is around 20% and plastic surgery can be up to 65%. Gender-affirming surgery... 0.3% 🤷

Yet MORE scientific research debunking the misinformation that's spread about the trans and gender diverse community 🎉 Read more on this research below ❤️

https://www.gendergp.com/new-study-confirms-regret-rates-of-gender-affirming-surgery-are-non-existent/?ma=1

This argues that - because of the "perils of a public good in private hands" - not just discussion should move from twitter to mastodon, scholarly institutions should now also create instances in the fediverse that make publicly available: papers, data & code.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
Mastodon: a move to publicly owned scholarly knowledge

Letter to the Editor

@aurynn Agreed.
Also worth noting that the Internet wasn't built by capital. It was built by academics, government employees, and government contractors. (E.g. ARPANET, UNIX, TCP/IP, and the WWW.) Its purpose wasn't to make anyone rich but to share knowledge and serve the public interest. Capital saw an opportunity to enclose the commons and start demanding rent for what was then a public good, and in the 90s lobbied governments to be allowed to do so, then in the 00s-10s used slick marketing to convince everyone that abandoning open standards was for the best. Now Silicon Valley corporate types claim they built the Internet, but it's a lie. Open protocols create public good and public spaces, and must be defended!
Mastodon is wild, you get CWs for things like food and eye contact but the endless parade of escalating anti-trans news is just right there out in the open.

Still people keep saying- the trans boys NOW? They're the real victims of the social contagion. Forget about the trans boys from 5 yrs ago or 7 yrs ago. This cohort who are transitioning RIGHT NOW are the victims of a social contagion and THEY are going to detransition in huge numbers and experience massive regret.

Why should we believe it? There's been no evidence. There's just this theory that keeps predicting a huge wave of detransitions, always just another year or two out.

No one thinks you should give a child blockers or hormones a week after saying they're trans or might be trans.

But it's harmless to call them what they want to be called and let them wear their hair and clothes however they want. And if you do that and they say it helps them, and persist, then there's no justification for calling it "rapid onset" or denying them access to the next steps.