LOL true Mastodon verification:

YOU MUST VERIFY YOURSELF ON MASTODON BY:

- Posting a picture of a cat in your lap
- Random photos of flowers
- Wax poetic about your favorite episode of Star Trek TNG (or your hate of the series)
- Random, undecipherable technical blabbering about ham radio electronics
- Mention something about your favorite Linux command line
- Say hello to your many LGBTQ followers/friends here, just because you're glad they're here
- Toot a picture of some mushroom you ran into while walking in the forst
- Something something astronomy
- Random gadget/device/bicycle post
- Post a random picture of a tree or window
- Photo of your sewing/mending project!
- Hand drawn art post

RE: https://social.overheid.nl/@stasdigi/116137945588485139

The Dutch Minister for Digital Economy and Sovereignty joined Mastodon just now 🥳 Proud of our gov officials for using ethical social media #TheNetherlands

💥 Discord Exodus Begins

｢ Unlike Discord, Matrix is federated. You don't have to use their main server. You can spin up your own homeserver on a Raspberry Pi or rent a VPS in a country that doesn't demand your ID card to send a meme.

The trade-off? The user experience is still... rough. ｣

https://michael-dev-tech.github.io/Website/matrix.html

#discord #matrix #ageverification

You don't need the internet to look stuff up!

You can create your own 100% offline guide to human knowledge by installing @kiwix on your phone or computer and then using it to search offline copies of Wikipedia and other wiki-based reference works. There's more info about this on the official website at:

🌱 https://kiwix.org

(I use Kiwix to store https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page which gives travel tips for the entire planet. It's like a real life "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" 🙂 )

#Wikipedia

Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴

Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/meta-wants-to-scan-every-face-you-walk-past/

Radio is beyond red

Gamma rays, beyond blue

There are 80 octaves of the electromagnetic spectrum

But only one we can view

#science #valentinesday

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.