Mastodawn

Do you own/run a café or a bike shop?
Did you know that 1000s of people rely on the Open Street Map to find facilities like yours?
If YOUR shop isn't on www.openstreetmap.org then I GUARANTEE you're losing out on potential customers!
Go add your business now!
And please boost this?

Saul 1d ago

Jonathan Schofield 2d ago

So far, only about 1% of the British electorate has registered an interest in having a vote on channeling water management away from dumping effluent for profit and instead into public ownership for health.

Perhaps we can bump the numbers a bit, at least to the point where how not to enshittify what we drink and cook with might be debated by MPs?

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership

Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Saul 3d ago

I hope it’s televised. My money is on the Pope.

Saul Apr 10

Show thread

Steve Bellovin Apr 10

@noplasticshower @mattblaze @LeslieBurns You got it! The Alice's Restaurant Photo Tour: https://urbandinosaurs.org/blog/2024-12/2024-12-07.html

BirdBlog -- 7 December 2024

Saul Apr 6

Cory Doctorow Apr 6

What industry calls "personalized pricing" is really *surveillance* pricing: using digital tools' flexibility to change the price for each user, and using surveillance data to guess the worst price you'll accept:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/#veena-dubal

Saul Apr 4

Tom's Hardware Apr 4

LinkedIn is spying on you, according to a new 'BrowserGate' security report — scripts stealthily scan visitors' browsers for over 6,000 Chrome extensions and harvest hardware data

LinkedIn is understood to inject a JavaScript fingerprinting script on every page load that probes visitors' browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects detailed device telemetry.
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/browsers/linkedin-scans-visitors-browsers-for-over-6000-chrome-extensions-and-collects-device-data

Saul Apr 1

For some reason I can’t get a certain Rush song out of my head right now…

Saul Mar 25

This comes as no surprise. It’s what happens when you built a social network for the profit, not the people. It needs to stop and people need good alternatives.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/25/jury-verdict-us-first-social-media-addiction-trial-meta-youtube?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds

Jury in Los Angeles awards plaintiff damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder

The Guardian

Saul Mar 14

David Mar 12

Ship now heading to Southampton with chicken on board, next voyage is back to New York with the sack of grain.

Saul Mar 7

After this latest iOS update, Apple now want me to verify my age on the basis that “It’d be a shame if something happened to your services…”