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Building the secure messenger for the social internet. CEO and co-founder of Germ Network. Erstwhile literacy scholar. SF by address, Chicago by birth. The tweeter formerly known as tessalaprofessa. 
We’re in the App Store, send me a card. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/germdm/id6446882771

Every little website is being pushed onto Facebook thanks to the computer illiterate duckheads in UK Parliament. We'll played MPs, people are much more vulnerable on Facebook you cuckwombles 🤬

#uk #OnlineSafetyAct

just realized that as soon as tech companies made the shift from siri style "personal assistants" to "AI" that you were supposed to trust for actual answers about things, they stopped gendering them all as feminine. grok, chatgpt, claude, they're all either neutral or masculine

GLAAD has discovered that Meta AI has been recommending and promoting conversion therapy to #queer users who interact with its products.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/anti-gay-conversion-therapy-pushed-by-meta-ai-d0d4ce5211cd

#LGBTQ #GLAAD #ConversionTherapy #Meta

Anti-Gay Conversion Therapy Pushed by Meta AI - Prism & Pen - Medium

It has recently come to light that Meta — the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — has shifted even further to the extreme, positioning itself with anti-LGBTQ+ policies to lobby with…

Prism & Pen
A world without Caesars: How the atproto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/a-world-without-caesars-how-the-atproto-community-is-rebuilding-the-web-to-return-power-to-the-people/
A world without Caesars: How the ATProto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people | TechCrunch

The first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol — which powers Bluesky — was held in Seattle.

TechCrunch

Skype is shutting down in May. I've been using it to speak with my grandmother, and I am looking for an alternative, with the following features:
* can do live subtitles (in French)
* works without a phone number/sim card
* can call your contacts and be dialed (i.e. not only invite by email/calendar/url…)
* simple UI/UX (with big buttons) is far more important than feature rich.

I know various things that do some of the above, but I'm not sure what (other than Skype) does all of it.

Any help?

Cool to see @pixelfed and @peertube mentioned in this new interview in the NYTimes with @mike

unpaywalled link at https://archive.ph/gbK2V

Bluesky wants us to imagine a 'world without Caesars'

Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

Mashable

I just wanna say I’m on the bus right now in SF and I’ll be really mad if I can’t take the bus home at night anymore.

Fund transit.

Here’s How America Uses Its Land

The 48 contiguous states alone are a 1.9 billion-acre jigsaw puzzle of cities, farms, forests and pastures.

Bloomberg.com
… I miss the denser emoji keyboard