📢   Ever wondered if Dutch universities can ditch Microsoft? The International Criminal Court just did it, and now universities are exploring open-source alternatives. Let's talk about digital sovereignty and the risks of big tech dependency. Check out this insightful article! 🌐🔒

https://dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dutch-universities-do-without-microsoft

#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #TechIndependence #Microsoft #Education

Wisst ihr was? Eigentlich bin ich extrem stolz. Ich war mal nur ein Student, dem der Hass und die Lügen zu viel wurden und einfach dagegen unternehmen wollte, und ich habe #Volksverpetzer gegründet. Ohne politischen Support, ohne Finanzspritze, einfach nur ich und paar Mitstreitende.

Heute muss der Axel-Springer-Verlag, die rechtsextreme AfD, ein rechtsradikaler Ex-Verfassungschutzchef und einige andere Lügen und Diffamierungen über uns verbreiten, weil wir ihnen ganz offensichtlich gefährlich werden. "Zuerst ignorieren sie dich, dann lachen sie über dich, dann bekämpfen sie dich und dann gewinnst du."

Ich möchte euch danken, dass ihr mich und inzwischen mein Team dabei unterstützt, dass das möglich ist. Danke. - Thomas Laschyk.

It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from https://data.cdc.gov/

"Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."

EDIT at 18.43 CET - the website seems to be BACK UP - looks like for about an hour, from my notifications.
It was done when I posted the original. I wouldn't have posted if it was not.

What may be removed to become 'in compliance', I do not know.

Michel Friedman tritt aus Protest gegen das Merz'sche AfD-Gekuschel aus der CDU aus und sagt zu dem nun aufkommenden Reue-Geschwurbel:

"Die Naivität derjenigen, die bei der CDU uns erklären wollen, dass das alles ja nicht gewollt war, dass man deren Stimmen gar nicht haben wollte, ist so unterkomplex, dass man da gar nicht mehr hinhören kann."

Das ist zwar viel zu höflich, aber dennoch sehr treffend formuliert.

All of these hot takes about how Mastodon is too hard to use for mass adoption are missing the point entirely. We are not some tech startup trying to "disrupt" the social media ecosystem. We don't have VCs breathing down our necks pushing for continuous growth at all costs. We're just regular people out here building communities.

If people don't like Mastodon and decide to go back to Twitter, that's fine. They are not commodities to be exploited. If people like Mastodon and decide to stay, that's great! They are going to be more invested in the community because they are actually deriving real value from it.

If there's one thing the global capitalist system cannot fathom is that value can exist that is not fungible with monetary value. There are plenty of ways to create value for people that do not involve buying and selling. In fact the whole notion that value = monetary value is a relatively recent innovation in human history.

I'm not saying that capitalism doesn't have its benefits, but our minds have become so warped by its zero-sum game vision of the world that it's easy to believe that generating profits is the only thing that matters. We may have to play that game to justify our existence on this planet, but there's a whole world of value to be found outside of it. Just because we're forced to play the game doesn't mean the game is all there is.