Small kitchen progress

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    "name": "Small kitchen progress",
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    "published": "2022-11-29T03:19:51+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/Johannes_Ernst/status/1597430107827683330",
    "content": {
        "text": "Interesting piece on Jaron Lanier: \u201cbratty little boys\u201d summarizes it pretty well. theguardian.com/technology/202\u2026",
        "html": "Interesting piece on Jaron Lanier: \u201cbratty little boys\u201d summarizes it pretty well. <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/27/jaron-lanier-tech-threat-humanity-twitter-social-media\">theguardian.com/technology/202\u2026</a>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Johannes Ernst (@j12t@social.coop)",
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    "published": "2022-11-29T01:19:18+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1597399771353784320",
    "content": {
        "text": "Scoop w/@CaseyNewton: Twitter is reinstating roughly 62,000 accounts that were suspended, each with more than 10,000 followers. One of the accounts has 5 million followers. 75 have more than 1 million. Internally, employees are calling it the Big Bang: platformer.news/p/why-some-tec\u2026",
        "html": "Scoop w/<a href=\"https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton\">@CaseyNewton</a>: Twitter is reinstating roughly 62,000 accounts that were suspended, each with more than 10,000 followers. One of the accounts has 5 million followers. 75 have more than 1 million. Internally, employees are calling it the Big Bang: <a href=\"https://www.platformer.news/p/why-some-tech-ceos-are-rooting-for\">platformer.news/p/why-some-tec\u2026</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Zo\u00eb Schiffer",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer",
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    "published": "2022-11-28T20:40:50+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1597329695065767936",
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    "content": {
        "text": "Say what you will about @russianembassy but at least they are doing #STEM work with their youth.\n\n#NAFO best keep up or the bio labs will get shut down.",
        "html": "Say what you will about <a href=\"https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy\">@russianembassy</a> but at least they are doing <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23STEM\">#STEM</a> work with their youth.\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NAFO\">#NAFO</a> best keep up or the bio labs will get shut down."
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "jgregorymcverry.com",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106",
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    "post-type": "photo",
    "_id": "33272520",
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    "published": "2022-11-28T18:48:04+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1597301315792769025",
    "content": {
        "text": "Some thoughts on Certified #CMMC Assessors and assurance of trustworthiness in NIST-SP-800-171 Systems: bit.ly/3AS7oWF",
        "html": "Some thoughts on Certified <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CMMC\">#CMMC</a> Assessors and assurance of trustworthiness in NIST-SP-800-171 Systems: <a href=\"https://bit.ly/3AS7oWF\">bit.ly/3AS7oWF</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "jgregorymcverry.com",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106",
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33269638",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-11-28T18:42:38+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/Johannes_Ernst/status/1597299948412108800",
    "content": {
        "text": "Anecdotally, there seem to be a lot of former police officers who later commit major crimes. I may be wrong about the numbers. But nobody who ever got hired as a police officer should end up as a criminal. If they do, the hiring process is frightening. cnn.com/2022/11/28/us/\u2026",
        "html": "Anecdotally, there seem to be a lot of former police officers who later commit major crimes. I may be wrong about the numbers. But nobody who ever got hired as a police officer should end up as a criminal. If they do, the hiring process is frightening. <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/us/austin-edwards-riverside-catfishing-murders/index.html\">cnn.com/2022/11/28/us/\u2026</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Johannes Ernst (@j12t@social.coop)",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/Johannes_Ernst",
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    "published": "2022-11-28T17:51:01+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/Johannes_Ernst/status/1597286958102740992",
    "content": {
        "text": "The first real post-acquisition Twitter #fail. washingtonpost.com/technology/202\u2026",
        "html": "The first real post-acquisition Twitter <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23fail\">#fail</a>. <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/27/twitter-china-spam-protests/\">washingtonpost.com/technology/202\u2026</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Johannes Ernst (@j12t@social.coop)",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/Johannes_Ernst",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1482154224800526337/NjdX1tt7.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33268119",
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    "published": "2022-11-28T16:46:04+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1597270611482419200",
    "content": {
        "text": "words unheard\nin touches of\nsmudges as\nfingers dance\nboth singer\nand thinker\nparticles\n\u00a0\u00a0pouncing on partners\n\u00a0\u00a0of opportunity\nin typical\n  but invisible\nlunacy of love\nsirens sound hymnal\nvoices of hues\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0moisten alloys\nand joists\nin flexible lines of\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0verse\n#smallpoems",
        "html": "words unheard\nin touches of\nsmudges as\nfingers dance\nboth singer\nand thinker\nparticles\n\u00a0\u00a0pouncing on partners\n\u00a0\u00a0of opportunity\nin typical\n  but invisible\nlunacy of love\nsirens sound hymnal\nvoices of hues\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0moisten alloys\nand joists\nin flexible lines of\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0verse\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23smallpoems\">#smallpoems</a>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "jgregorymcverry.com",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106",
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    "published": "2022-11-28T16:43:04+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1597269859233980416",
    "content": {
        "text": "eXplore depths\n\u00a0\u00a0of shallows\nby twisting toothpicks\ninto eyelids of\ntidal pools\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a sojourn for\ncrustaceans\nwho can claw\ninto deep\ncrevices\n\u00a0\u00a0of truth swimming'\nbelow your\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cracked\ncarapace\n#smallpoems",
        "html": "eXplore depths\n\u00a0\u00a0of shallows\nby twisting toothpicks\ninto eyelids of\ntidal pools\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a sojourn for\ncrustaceans\nwho can claw\ninto deep\ncrevices\n\u00a0\u00a0of truth swimming'\nbelow your\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cracked\ncarapace\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23smallpoems\">#smallpoems</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "jgregorymcverry.com",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106",
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The Elon-gate’d Man

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        "name": "Jared White",
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    "url": "https://jaredwhite.com/articles/elongate",
    "published": "2022-11-28T08:45:47-08:00",
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        "html": "<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q_65/pattern-of-black-sunglasses-on-pink_qcbvco.jpg\" /><h2>This isn\u2019t actually an essay about Elon Musk. It\u2019s about the fact that we keep trusting these people. And by \u201cthese people\u201d I mean the people who look, talk, and behave like Elon Musk. Perhaps it\u2019s time to bust the myth of the Silicon Valley-style boy genius once and for all, and instead look to egalitarian principles to ensure the health and safety of our digital future.</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s just get this one out of the way: there has only ever been and can ever be one Steve Jobs. Or Bill Gates. Or [fill in the blank magnate from the early days of tech]. Unfortunately, the myth of the (usually white-presenting, usually male) college dropout who has a Big Idea and a Stalwart Passion to \u201cChange the World\u201d and a Cunning Plan to Reinvent Everything\u2026has come back to bite us in the ass. <strong>Big time.</strong></p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s really quite astonishing how many falls from grace there have been in the tech sector over the past decade. Honestly one might say it\u2019s a who\u2019s who of former media darlings heralded as innovators bringing us the \u201cnext big thing\u201d. And even now, perhaps I might begrudgingly agree with the notion that we needed at least some of this raw, albeit problematic energy at the dawn of the digital age, just like in ages past. <em>Yes, Thomas Edison too might have been a real jerk, but hey, we got electric power, the lightbulb, and movies!</em></p>\n\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing. The tech industry has matured. It <em>must</em> mature. <strong>Digital devices are a crucial part of our everyday lives.</strong> Internet communications define many of our waking moments. We pay for things with our smartwatches, and talk to people on video calls (!!) with our smartphones. We unlock our e-cars/bikes/scooters with Bluetooth to head off to work or a store or church, and we plug them in at night.</p>\n\n<p>And with this maturity <em>has to come</em> broader awareness that Big Tech can\u2019t simply act like 21st century echoes of the robber barons. Either the tech sector must demonstrate its ability to police itself and show good corporate governance and a willingness to let bottom-up creativity and entrepreneurship flourish in the marketplace of ideas, or <strong>we must call for increased regulatory scrutiny on all fronts</strong>. Scrutiny into how social media platforms try to consolidate all online collaboration and information flow around themselves, shutting out competing tools and protocols. Scrutiny into how app stores attempt to monopolize all digital commerce and control access to goods and payments. Scrutiny into how tech companies operating in traditional sectors like transportation try to leach off of generous government funding one day, only to behave the next day like spoiled brats wanting their whole cake while eating it too.</p>\n\n<p>And for the love of all that is holy, we <em>must</em> rid ourselves of this absurd myth that a single person just shows up one day with a skip in their step and a spark of genius in their brain to change everything overnight. <strong>Never again should we fall for an Elizabeth Holmes.</strong> Never again should we fall for an <strong>Adam Neumann</strong>. Never again should we fall for a <strong>Sam Bankman-Fried</strong>. Never again should we fall for a <strong>Mark Zuckerberg</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>And then, <strong>there\u2019s Elon</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>Remember all the people who\u2014prior to the official takeover of Twitter\u2014were telling us that Elon Musk would moderate his behavior and behave more like a grown up because too much money and prestige were at stake? (Hmm, much like a certain former U.S. President once he held office? Look how that turned out!)</p>\n\n<p>Remember all the people who said that because Elon (seemingly) had been unilaterally successful in bringing us fancy new space rockets and fancy new electric cars, he could now bring welcome insight and innovation into a rapidly-degenerating and fractious social media landscape?</p>\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the pertinent question: <strong>why do we keep believing this myth?</strong> As we\u2019ve seen over recent years and especially recent months, it\u2019s being proven <strong>decisively, tragically wrong</strong>\u2026over and over and over again.</p>\n\n<p>At this point, it\u2019s not which once-media-darling, VC-fueled tech titan will fall next, <strong>it\u2019s which one won\u2019t</strong>. What\u2019s perhaps even more disturbing is that some of scrappy nerds on the edges of Big Tech <em>who themselves have often taken pot shots at the mainstream industry</em> have gone off the deep end as well. (Just look at the utter tripe being promoted on David Heinemeier Hansson\u2019s blog these days\u2026)</p>\n\n<p>Let\u2019s face it. Clearly the tech industry, taken as a whole, has completely and undeniably failed to rein in its worst impulses. <strong>Something is rotten in the state of free enterprise</strong>, and one would be forgiven for expanding this out to \u201clate-stage capitalism\u201d in general\u2014but that\u2019s beyond my pay grade. I\u2019m a web developer, not an economist, dammit!</p>\n\n<h3>Are we the baddies? (Don\u2019t answer that!)</h3>\n\n<p><strong>So what\u2019s to be done about it?</strong> How do we <em>inoculate</em> ourselves from the scourge of Zuckerbergism, Muskism, Kalanickism, and all the rest? How do we disentangle ourselves from the dystopian nightmare that is Silicon Valley? How do we ensure the open web actually remains the open web and won\u2019t just further descend into miserable corporate-tainted bullshit run in large part by a small number of mediocre white men?</p>\n\n<p>We need to pound the table, and pound hard, to (<strong>a</strong>) sound the alarm that enough is fucking enough\u2014<em>we\u2019re mad as hell and we aren\u2019t going to take this anymore</em>\u2014and (<strong>b</strong>) reinforce our crystal-clear, historically-supported <em>obligation</em> to prioritize <strong>open standards &amp; protocols</strong> over vendor lock-in and <strong>open platforms &amp; technologies</strong> over closed consolidated silos fueled by greed and paranoia.</p>\n\n<p>We\u2019re seeing this whole scenario play out yet again in real-time with the waitlisted beta launch of Post. <a href=\"https://post.news/article/2I8KY7PphGpEorYcxGJsSdGuWlC\">This is a startup company being funded in large part by A16Z</a>. Yes, you heard me right: Silicon Valley VC money is being used to \u201cfix\u201d the problems created in the first place by Silicon Valley VC money. <strong>You can\u2019t make this shit up.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Former CEO &amp; co-founder of Waze Noam Bardin who\u2019s now creating Post claims that \u201cwhen I decided to raise money, I spoke to 3 of the top VC\u2019s and A16Z was the fastest in making a decision. Within 7 days we had money in the bank. I wanted a full service VC to help us move fast and A16Z has been great on all fronts. This does not mean that I am a Crypto fan, that I think they should have funded some of the personalities they funded lately or that I agree with every statement of theirs.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>No offense to Noam Bardin\u2014perhaps he\u2019s a decent chap when he\u2019s at home\u2014but I really don\u2019t give <em>two fucks</em> which \u201cfull service VC\u201d was able to \u201cmove fast\u201d in \u201cmaking a decision\u201d to pump Post full of quick bucks. <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/109417660136660262\">As I posted on IndieWeb.Social</a>, \u201cthere is no universe in which that\u2019s even remotely a good idea for anything which purports to be a noteworthy replacement for [Twitter].\u201d</p>\n\n<p><strong>We need to loudly and with real finality chase this kind of misguided mindset off the internet for good.</strong> We need to shout from the rooftops that we\u2019re <em>done</em> playing at being digital serfs in a neo-feudalist commercial hellscape. No more of it. <strong>We are done. DONE!!</strong></p>\n\n<p>While it\u2019s true that corporations run many of the \u201cpipes\u201d and nodes which keep the base infrastructure of the internet up and running, and there\u2019s probably not much we can do about that, we can at least maintain the stance that our primary user-facing vehicles for online communication, identity, news gathering, and creative collaboration should be supplied by systems which are built using principles of multi-party interop, data portability, and\u2014if at all possible\u2014open source software. And those aren\u2019t concepts which companies can \u201cpromise\u201d to implement at some unknown future date (as Post apparently has). <strong>Those are fundamentals which <em>must</em> be baked into the very fabric of the daily services we use from Day 1.</strong></p>\n\n<p>And I swear to god, if I hear one more person tell me \u201cbut most people who use email use Gmail, so centralization is inevitable\u201d I\u2019m going to pop a blood vessel. In the nearly 30 years I have been active on the internet, <strong>I have never once used Gmail for my own email</strong> (only sporadically as part of specific use cases within other team projects which use Google apps internally). And more importantly, I have never once felt like I was missing out on any crucial internet experience for lack of using Gmail. I\u2019m perfectly within my rights to use alternative email providers, <strong>and I do</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>Yet choosing to refrain from using Facebook, or Instagram, or Twitter, or TikTok, etc., etc., <strong>comes with real cultural and societal costs.</strong> These aren\u2019t neutral decisions. People are now being routinely locked out of opportunities and communities\u2014losing real social capital in many cases\u2014by opting to stay away from these platforms.</p>\n\n<p><strong>This is blatantly unacceptable.</strong></p>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/12/why-does-decentralization-matter/\">Fediverse</a>, as folks have come to know it, is the <em>only</em> antidote to this terrible state of affairs at the present moment. No new proprietary service, whether Post or Hive or anything else\u2014even a resurgent Tumblr, unless it truly remakes itself as a fully-fledged ActivityPub participant\u2014is an acceptable replacement for Twitter et al. We\u2019re not on the lookout for the Next Big Thing in social media. We\u2019re looking for the very technical underpinnings of the open web itself to <em>de facto</em> provide us with the digital experiences we crave <em>minus</em> the inhumane costs imposed upon us by user-hostile commercially-driven concerns.</p>\n\n<p>Listen, I\u2019m not here to say <em>Down with Capitalism!</em> I\u2019m really not.</p>\n\n<p>But what I <em>am</em> saying is unequivocal: down with <strong>surveillance capitalism</strong> eroding our trust and access to free and fair online communications.</p>\n\n<p><strong>We can do better. We must do better. And increasingly\u2014thanks to Mastodon, ActivityPub, and other open source projects &amp; protocols recently exploding in popularity\u2014we are.</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo credit: <a href=\"https://burst.shopify.com/photos/pattern-of-black-sunglasses-on-pink?q=men+sunglasses\">Avelino Calvar Martinez on Burst</a></em></p>\n\n\n\n  <br /><p>\n    \n      <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/Twitter\">#Twitter</a>\n    \n      <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/Fediverse\">#Fediverse</a>\n    \n      <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/journalism\">#journalism</a>\n    \n      <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/politics\">#politics</a>\n    \n  </p>",
        "text": "This isn\u2019t actually an essay about Elon Musk. It\u2019s about the fact that we keep trusting these people. And by \u201cthese people\u201d I mean the people who look, talk, and behave like Elon Musk. Perhaps it\u2019s time to bust the myth of the Silicon Valley-style boy genius once and for all, and instead look to egalitarian principles to ensure the health and safety of our digital future.\n\n\n\nLet\u2019s just get this one out of the way: there has only ever been and can ever be one Steve Jobs. Or Bill Gates. Or [fill in the blank magnate from the early days of tech]. Unfortunately, the myth of the (usually white-presenting, usually male) college dropout who has a Big Idea and a Stalwart Passion to \u201cChange the World\u201d and a Cunning Plan to Reinvent Everything\u2026has come back to bite us in the ass. Big time.\n\nIt\u2019s really quite astonishing how many falls from grace there have been in the tech sector over the past decade. Honestly one might say it\u2019s a who\u2019s who of former media darlings heralded as innovators bringing us the \u201cnext big thing\u201d. And even now, perhaps I might begrudgingly agree with the notion that we needed at least some of this raw, albeit problematic energy at the dawn of the digital age, just like in ages past. Yes, Thomas Edison too might have been a real jerk, but hey, we got electric power, the lightbulb, and movies!\n\nBut here\u2019s the thing. The tech industry has matured. It must mature. Digital devices are a crucial part of our everyday lives. Internet communications define many of our waking moments. We pay for things with our smartwatches, and talk to people on video calls (!!) with our smartphones. We unlock our e-cars/bikes/scooters with Bluetooth to head off to work or a store or church, and we plug them in at night.\n\nAnd with this maturity has to come broader awareness that Big Tech can\u2019t simply act like 21st century echoes of the robber barons. Either the tech sector must demonstrate its ability to police itself and show good corporate governance and a willingness to let bottom-up creativity and entrepreneurship flourish in the marketplace of ideas, or we must call for increased regulatory scrutiny on all fronts. Scrutiny into how social media platforms try to consolidate all online collaboration and information flow around themselves, shutting out competing tools and protocols. Scrutiny into how app stores attempt to monopolize all digital commerce and control access to goods and payments. Scrutiny into how tech companies operating in traditional sectors like transportation try to leach off of generous government funding one day, only to behave the next day like spoiled brats wanting their whole cake while eating it too.\n\nAnd for the love of all that is holy, we must rid ourselves of this absurd myth that a single person just shows up one day with a skip in their step and a spark of genius in their brain to change everything overnight. Never again should we fall for an Elizabeth Holmes. Never again should we fall for an Adam Neumann. Never again should we fall for a Sam Bankman-Fried. Never again should we fall for a Mark Zuckerberg.\n\nAnd then, there\u2019s Elon.\n\nRemember all the people who\u2014prior to the official takeover of Twitter\u2014were telling us that Elon Musk would moderate his behavior and behave more like a grown up because too much money and prestige were at stake? (Hmm, much like a certain former U.S. President once he held office? Look how that turned out!)\n\nRemember all the people who said that because Elon (seemingly) had been unilaterally successful in bringing us fancy new space rockets and fancy new electric cars, he could now bring welcome insight and innovation into a rapidly-degenerating and fractious social media landscape?\n\nHere\u2019s the pertinent question: why do we keep believing this myth? As we\u2019ve seen over recent years and especially recent months, it\u2019s being proven decisively, tragically wrong\u2026over and over and over again.\n\nAt this point, it\u2019s not which once-media-darling, VC-fueled tech titan will fall next, it\u2019s which one won\u2019t. What\u2019s perhaps even more disturbing is that some of scrappy nerds on the edges of Big Tech who themselves have often taken pot shots at the mainstream industry have gone off the deep end as well. (Just look at the utter tripe being promoted on David Heinemeier Hansson\u2019s blog these days\u2026)\n\nLet\u2019s face it. Clearly the tech industry, taken as a whole, has completely and undeniably failed to rein in its worst impulses. Something is rotten in the state of free enterprise, and one would be forgiven for expanding this out to \u201clate-stage capitalism\u201d in general\u2014but that\u2019s beyond my pay grade. I\u2019m a web developer, not an economist, dammit!\n\nAre we the baddies? (Don\u2019t answer that!)\n\nSo what\u2019s to be done about it? How do we inoculate ourselves from the scourge of Zuckerbergism, Muskism, Kalanickism, and all the rest? How do we disentangle ourselves from the dystopian nightmare that is Silicon Valley? How do we ensure the open web actually remains the open web and won\u2019t just further descend into miserable corporate-tainted bullshit run in large part by a small number of mediocre white men?\n\nWe need to pound the table, and pound hard, to (a) sound the alarm that enough is fucking enough\u2014we\u2019re mad as hell and we aren\u2019t going to take this anymore\u2014and (b) reinforce our crystal-clear, historically-supported obligation to prioritize open standards & protocols over vendor lock-in and open platforms & technologies over closed consolidated silos fueled by greed and paranoia.\n\nWe\u2019re seeing this whole scenario play out yet again in real-time with the waitlisted beta launch of Post. This is a startup company being funded in large part by A16Z. Yes, you heard me right: Silicon Valley VC money is being used to \u201cfix\u201d the problems created in the first place by Silicon Valley VC money. You can\u2019t make this shit up.\n\nFormer CEO & co-founder of Waze Noam Bardin who\u2019s now creating Post claims that \u201cwhen I decided to raise money, I spoke to 3 of the top VC\u2019s and A16Z was the fastest in making a decision. Within 7 days we had money in the bank. I wanted a full service VC to help us move fast and A16Z has been great on all fronts. This does not mean that I am a Crypto fan, that I think they should have funded some of the personalities they funded lately or that I agree with every statement of theirs.\u201d\n\nNo offense to Noam Bardin\u2014perhaps he\u2019s a decent chap when he\u2019s at home\u2014but I really don\u2019t give two fucks which \u201cfull service VC\u201d was able to \u201cmove fast\u201d in \u201cmaking a decision\u201d to pump Post full of quick bucks. As I posted on IndieWeb.Social, \u201cthere is no universe in which that\u2019s even remotely a good idea for anything which purports to be a noteworthy replacement for [Twitter].\u201d\n\nWe need to loudly and with real finality chase this kind of misguided mindset off the internet for good. We need to shout from the rooftops that we\u2019re done playing at being digital serfs in a neo-feudalist commercial hellscape. No more of it. We are done. DONE!!\n\nWhile it\u2019s true that corporations run many of the \u201cpipes\u201d and nodes which keep the base infrastructure of the internet up and running, and there\u2019s probably not much we can do about that, we can at least maintain the stance that our primary user-facing vehicles for online communication, identity, news gathering, and creative collaboration should be supplied by systems which are built using principles of multi-party interop, data portability, and\u2014if at all possible\u2014open source software. And those aren\u2019t concepts which companies can \u201cpromise\u201d to implement at some unknown future date (as Post apparently has). Those are fundamentals which must be baked into the very fabric of the daily services we use from Day 1.\n\nAnd I swear to god, if I hear one more person tell me \u201cbut most people who use email use Gmail, so centralization is inevitable\u201d I\u2019m going to pop a blood vessel. In the nearly 30 years I have been active on the internet, I have never once used Gmail for my own email (only sporadically as part of specific use cases within other team projects which use Google apps internally). And more importantly, I have never once felt like I was missing out on any crucial internet experience for lack of using Gmail. I\u2019m perfectly within my rights to use alternative email providers, and I do.\n\nYet choosing to refrain from using Facebook, or Instagram, or Twitter, or TikTok, etc., etc., comes with real cultural and societal costs. These aren\u2019t neutral decisions. People are now being routinely locked out of opportunities and communities\u2014losing real social capital in many cases\u2014by opting to stay away from these platforms.\n\nThis is blatantly unacceptable.\n\nThe Fediverse, as folks have come to know it, is the only antidote to this terrible state of affairs at the present moment. No new proprietary service, whether Post or Hive or anything else\u2014even a resurgent Tumblr, unless it truly remakes itself as a fully-fledged ActivityPub participant\u2014is an acceptable replacement for Twitter et al. We\u2019re not on the lookout for the Next Big Thing in social media. We\u2019re looking for the very technical underpinnings of the open web itself to de facto provide us with the digital experiences we crave minus the inhumane costs imposed upon us by user-hostile commercially-driven concerns.\n\nListen, I\u2019m not here to say Down with Capitalism! I\u2019m really not.\n\nBut what I am saying is unequivocal: down with surveillance capitalism eroding our trust and access to free and fair online communications.\n\nWe can do better. We must do better. And increasingly\u2014thanks to Mastodon, ActivityPub, and other open source projects & protocols recently exploding in popularity\u2014we are.\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Avelino Calvar Martinez on Burst\n\n\n\n  \n\n    \n      #Twitter\n    \n      #Fediverse\n    \n      #journalism\n    \n      #politics"
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    "name": "The Elon-gate\u2019d Man",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-11-28T12:58:41+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1597213388681011200",
    "content": {
        "text": "NEW: Elon Musk has sent another email to Twitter engineers warning them about code reviews. \u201cAll managers are expected to write a meaningful amount of software themselves. Being unable to do so is like a cavalry captain who can\u2019t ride a horse.\u201d"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Zo\u00eb Schiffer",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1564799885794086914/ZU6qMT_n.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33260922",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-11-28T00:12:38-0500",
    "url": "https://martymcgui.re/2022/11/28/001238/",
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        "caturday"
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    "video": [
        "https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/video/upload/vc_h264/mmmgre/09/b6/4a/8c/8f5225f2e36828b3b3f145ac435f350921a8430f325bb0b59ed12b5a.mov"
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    "content": {
        "text": "How are you kicking off a new week during eternal Caturday?",
        "html": "<p>How are you kicking off a new week during eternal Caturday?</p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Marty McGuire",
        "url": "https://martymcgui.re/",
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I'm (back) on "the Fediverse"

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    "name": "I'm (back) on \"the Fediverse\"",
    "content": {
        "text": "If you've got an account on a Mastodon server, or any server that speaks ActivityPub, you should be able to follow me at: @marty@martymcgui.re\nScreenshot of my profile page on Bridgy FedMany thanks to Ryan for creating and running Bridgy Fed, which makes this possible. Over the years I've built a lot of IndieWeb building blocks into my site, and Bridgy Fed works with those to federate my posts with ActivityPub-powered sites like Mastodon.\nSo far I can send replies, let people know I'm following them, and they can follow me as well. You can see this in action on my site's Bridgy Fed profile page: https://fed.brid.gy/user/martymcgui.re\n\n  For now I'm manually choosing which posts to share via Bridgy Fed. I'll be using it for replies and likes, but haven't yet decided how much original content I'll be posting. For example, I don't know how well my daily Eternal Caturday video loops will come through, or if folks would actually want so many cat videos!",
        "html": "<p>If you've got an account on a Mastodon server, or any server that speaks ActivityPub, you should be able to follow me at: <a href=\"https://fed.brid.gy/user/martymcgui.re\">@marty@martymcgui.re</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/65/f2/94/00/d4f506e863892130d6e5c38c0f1ea328a007be2951bb833660b4e9bd.png\" alt=\"\" />Screenshot of my profile page on Bridgy Fed<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"https://snarfed.org/\">Ryan</a> for creating and running <a href=\"https://fed.brid.gy/\">Bridgy Fed</a>, which makes this possible. Over the years I've built a lot of <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Category:building-blocks\">IndieWeb building blocks</a> into my site, and Bridgy Fed works with those to federate my posts with ActivityPub-powered sites like Mastodon.</p>\n<p>So far I can send replies, let people know I'm following them, and they can follow me as well. You can see this in action on my site's Bridgy Fed profile page: <a href=\"https://fed.brid.gy/user/martymcgui.re\">https://fed.brid.gy/user/martymcgui.re</a></p>\n<p>\n  For now I'm manually choosing which posts to share via Bridgy Fed. I'll be using it for replies and likes, but haven't yet decided how much original content I'll be posting. For example, I don't know how well my daily <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/tag/caturday/\">Eternal Caturday</a> video loops will come through, or if folks would actually want so many cat videos!\n  <br /></p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Marty McGuire",
        "url": "https://martymcgui.re/",
        "photo": "https://martymcgui.re/images/logo.jpg"
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    "_id": "33252123",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-11-27T23:42:11+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/afitnerd/status/1597012945103458305",
    "content": {
        "text": "In 2015 I deleted my facebook account and I\u2019ve never missed it. I use the birdsite for a mix of work and personal stuff. So, I\u2019m trying moa.party out so I can use mastodon exclusively. This should be the forst toot to also become a tweet\u2026",
        "html": "In 2015 I deleted my facebook account and I\u2019ve never missed it. I use the birdsite for a mix of work and personal stuff. So, I\u2019m trying <a href=\"https://moa.party\">moa.party</a> out so I can use mastodon exclusively. This should be the forst toot to also become a tweet\u2026"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Micah Silverman - #StopWar",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/afitnerd",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1169746170740137984/R7RpX8Q7.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33250487",
    "_source": "2773"
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-11-27T20:27:47+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1596964022183944192",
    "content": {
        "text": "Hey #NAFO if you are looking for the types of tweets that people may often bonk look at the #Donestk hashtags.\n\nYou are seeing a coordinated effort claiming #Ukraine bombs Donbas and hits power grid.\n\nYou can purview these accounts to see the types people choose to bonk",
        "html": "Hey <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NAFO\">#NAFO</a> if you are looking for the types of tweets that people may often bonk look at the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Donestk\">#Donestk</a> hashtags.\n\nYou are seeing a coordinated effort claiming <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Ukraine\">#Ukraine</a> bombs Donbas and hits power grid.\n\nYou can purview these accounts to see the types people choose to bonk"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "jgregorymcverry.com",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1586874242913734658/3GMcjnTC.jpg"
    },
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33246908",
    "_source": "2773"
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-11-27T19:30:00+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily/status/1596949478434476034",
    "content": {
        "text": "Live now over on youtube youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4cjG\u2026",
        "html": "Live now over on youtube <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4cjGcbmMY\">youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4cjG\u2026</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Lillian Karabaic",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1455236306162761732/jPv9ROKG.jpg"
    },
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33245971",
    "_source": "2773"
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-11-27T17:47:12+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily/status/1596923607464411137",
    "content": {
        "text": "Feeling like 2022 has flown by, time for yearend goals planning live stream. Plus looking at my 2023 planners (yes, two of them) Live at 11:30 PST/2:30 EST.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4cjG\u2026",
        "html": "Feeling like 2022 has flown by, time for yearend goals planning live stream. Plus looking at my 2023 planners (yes, two of them) Live at 11:30 PST/2:30 EST.<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4cjGcbmMY\">youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4cjG\u2026</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Lillian Karabaic",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1455236306162761732/jPv9ROKG.jpg"
    },
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33244236",
    "_source": "2773"
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-11-27T12:10:46+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1596838942871281664",
    "content": {
        "text": "Hey #NAFO calls by @GOP and @GOPLeader  to cancel Defense funding grow stronger\n\n huge threat to #Ukraine\n\nRepublicans have never abandoned US military and NATO\n\nIf @GOPLeader turns back on  military and does not pass NDAA this year more children die\n\ngettr.com/post/p1zu2q14d\u2026",
        "html": "Hey <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NAFO\">#NAFO</a> calls by <a href=\"https://twitter.com/GOP\">@GOP</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/GOPLeader\">@GOPLeader</a>  to cancel Defense funding grow stronger\n\n huge threat to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Ukraine\">#Ukraine</a>\n\nRepublicans have never abandoned US military and NATO\n\nIf @GOPLeader turns back on  military and does not pass NDAA this year more children die\n\n<a href=\"https://gettr.com/post/p1zu2q14d4d\">gettr.com/post/p1zu2q14d\u2026</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "jgregorymcverry.com",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/jgmac1106",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1586874242913734658/3GMcjnTC.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33239069",
    "_source": "2773"
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-11-27T00:28:54-0500",
    "url": "https://martymcgui.re/2022/11/27/002854/",
    "category": [
        "caturday"
    ],
    "video": [
        "https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/video/upload/vc_h264/mmmgre/1d/0a/6b/58/b234c7a15e455c32bc84a53f0f5325a9ff3288d6665ba8375f797c9c.mov"
    ],
    "content": {
        "text": "Is your comfy space yours alone during eternal Caturday?",
        "html": "<p>Is your comfy space yours alone during eternal Caturday?</p>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Marty McGuire",
        "url": "https://martymcgui.re/",
        "photo": "https://martymcgui.re/images/logo.jpg"
    },
    "post-type": "video",
    "_id": "33234248",
    "_source": "175"
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-11-27T00:52:08+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/Johannes_Ernst/status/1596668159418781698",
    "content": {
        "text": "Hey @gitlab, how come all of a sudden I can't access private repos through https remotes (neither pull nor push), but it works with ssh? All without making any change on my end?",
        "html": "Hey <a href=\"https://twitter.com/gitlab\">@gitlab</a>, how come all of a sudden I can't access private repos through https remotes (neither pull nor push), but it works with ssh? All without making any change on my end?"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Johannes Ernst (@j12t@social.coop)",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/Johannes_Ernst",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1482154224800526337/NjdX1tt7.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33231240",
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