My final project of 2022 was to set up my own personal space on the #IndieWeb and I'm still not quite done getting things in order. Current thing that has me a bit stumped is how to handle #comments on https://gregsplace.net I'd much prefer to turn off the native #Wordpress commenting system and stick to #Webmentions but I'm not 100% certain how to go about that... Of course, since I'm learning as I go along, more & more little things like this get added to my to-do list.
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Lots of conversation recently about integrating #blogs with services like #ActivityPub and #IndieWeb.
Here's some of my thoughts on those integrations:
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I'm seeing this sentiment emerge more and more lately.
I like it.
https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging
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New blog post published! https://qubyte.codes/blog/my-2022-japanese-language-study-habits #japanese #IndieWeb
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Plenty of work still to do (especially on the home page), but my site redesign was already looking better than what was public, so I’ve merged my branch. https://kevinyank.com/ is now showing my work-in-progress redesign. #indieweb https://kevinyank.com/
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Farewell, Fail Whale
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I find the arguments against officially supported Fediverse search pretty tedious, as you have…
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I looked everywhere to store files in a web app (for Noodle):
- Dropbox & GDrive JS libraries
- LocalStorage (erf)
- IndexDB
- Decentralized storage pods like Solid, RemoteStorage etc.
- showDirectoryPicker() (awesome but Chrome only)
- blockchain-based storage like IPFS
What am I missing #indieWeb?
It's mind blowing how hard it is, in 2023, to build a web app that read and write user files privately. It would be SO easy to just ask users to create an account and store everything in a DB. Why?
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100 Days of IndieWeb Project
Tomorrow, January 3, 2023, I will start a 100 Days of IndieWeb project.
It will end on April 13, 2023.
The project will deliver 100 Photo Albums in 100 days.
Read More: https://tmichellemoore.com/blog/100-days-of-indieweb-project/
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On the current decentralisation movement – Manu
The more I look at this “issue” the more I’m convinced the solution is already right there and it’s called the web. Want to have an unblockable, unbannable user profile? Buy yourself a domain and get a personal website. Want to have a space where you can say and do whatever the fuck you want? Get a webspace and put up a blog.
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Mastodon and the Bring Back Blogging movement has got me reminiscing on the joy of the 90s web. I'm thinking of creating a #webring specifically for people with indie #ttrpg sites/blogs. Who all would be interested in a Indie TTRPG webring?
(If you want to bring back webrings and really want to see me make this please boost!) #indieweb
Yes! I want my site to join a webring!
Nah… I like my site to disconnected and alone.
I don't have a site but I'd love a ttrpg webring!
OK Xer… What is a webring?!?
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I am once again asking you to own your notes, rather than tweeting them into Big Chad's garage.
Maybe you left the big garage and now toot in your neighborhood Chad's garage. It's still someone else's garage. https://xkcd.com/1150 #IndieWeb
Maybe it was an easier first step to take. Time to take the next step, with your own domain, and a turnkey service like https://micro.blog/, or an https://indieweb.org/CMS if you prefer, or go full stack and make it yourself, using building blocks like https://indieweb.org/Indiekit. Just https://indieweb.org/start.
This is day 1 of my 2023 #100Days project, #100DaysOfIndieWeb, posting an #IndieWeb encouragement, tool, or tip at least once a day for 100 days, to setup and use your own personal site instead of someone else's garage.
In the theme of: https://indieweb.org/100_days#100_Days_of_IndieWeb
Previously: https://tantek.com/2022/001/t1/12-years-notes-my-site
Maybe you left the big garage and now toot in your neighborhood Chad's garage. It's still someone else's garage. https://xkcd.com/1150 #IndieWeb
Maybe it was an easier first step to take. Time to take the next step, with your own domain, and a turnkey service like https://micro.blog/, or an https://indieweb.org/CMS if you prefer, or go full stack and make it yourself, using building blocks like https://indieweb.org/Indiekit. Just https://indieweb.org/start.
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In the theme of: https://indieweb.org/100_days#100_Days_of_IndieWeb
Previously: https://tantek.com/2022/001/t1/12-years-notes-my-site
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"html": "I am once again asking you to own your notes, rather than tweeting them into Big Chad's garage.<br /><br />Maybe you left the big garage and now toot in your neighborhood Chad's garage. It's still someone else's garage. <a href=\"https://xkcd.com/1150\">https://xkcd.com/1150</a> #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWeb</span><br /><br />Maybe it was an easier first step to take. Time to take the next step, with your own domain, and a turnkey service like <a href=\"https://micro.blog/\">https://micro.blog/</a>, or an <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/CMS\">https://indieweb.org/CMS</a> if you prefer, or go full stack and make it yourself, using building blocks like <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Indiekit\">https://indieweb.org/Indiekit</a>. Just <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/start\">https://indieweb.org/start</a>.<br /><br />This is day 1 of my 2023 #<span class=\"p-category\">100Days</span> project, #<span class=\"p-category\">100DaysOfIndieWeb</span>, posting an #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWeb</span> encouragement, tool, or tip at least once a day for 100 days, to setup and use your own personal site instead of someone else's garage.<br /><br />In the theme of: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/100_days#100_Days_of_IndieWeb\">https://indieweb.org/100_days#100_Days_of_IndieWeb</a><br /><br />Previously: <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2022/001/t1/12-years-notes-my-site\">https://tantek.com/2022/001/t1/12-years-notes-my-site</a>"
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RT twitter.com/@t: I am once again asking you to own your notes, rather than tweeting them into Big Chad's garage.
Maybe you left the big garage and now toot in your neighborhood Chad's garage. It's still someone else's garage. https://xkcd.com/1150 #IndieWeb
Maybe ...
https://tantek.com/t5Nd1 https://xkcd.com/1150 https://tantek.com/t5Nd1 https://twitter.com/t/status/1609815929294327808
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Site Updates for the New Year
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"text": "I have a brand new How to Follow Me page with several ways you can keep up with my posts. Some of this information was already scattered across the site or discoverable by the more geeky crowd, but now it\u2019s accessible to all on a dedicated page.\n\nIncluded on that page is a pretty big update: you can now subscribe to get my posts by email! I wanted to keep the signup simple and avoid spam, so I decided to set up a passwordless system. When you enter your email address, you are sent a temporary, unique link that will sign you in when you click it. Once signed in, you can choose if you want to subscribe and select the frequency of the newsletter. You can optionally enter your name/nickname to customize the newsletter and welcome message on my site.\n\nSetting that up got me thinking about privacy. It is really important to me that people understand I won\u2019t spam them. I have also wanted to document how people\u2019s public interactions from other sites might appear here via webmention, so I decided to set up a privacy policy page. I reviewed other indieweb examples of privacy policies to help me set that up. I am not a lawyer, but I tried to cover the basics as clearly as possible without legalese.\n\nFor quite a while, my site has had two main sections: the homepage for articles (blog posts) and the notes page for all the other types of content (short posts, photos, bookmarks, likes, etc.). Most people may not even be aware of the notes section unless they spend time exploring. I have started to update the homepage so it will feature more of the things I post. Articles will still be featured there, especially while they are relatively new, but so will all the other posts. This will have the advantage of my site not looking really inactive when it\u2019s been 16 months between articles, as happened in 2020\u20132021. As part of these updates, I have set up a new feed so you can subscribe to all posts. There are now feeds for: all posts, articles only, notes only, and photos only. These are all linked from the How to Follow Me page.\n\nOn the homepage, I also moved the author card from the bottom to near the top. I figured it would be more welcoming, especially for first-time visitors who have no idea who this gRegorLove person is. I updated the short bio and the photo in that author card. Next up, I need to update the longer bio on my about page, since it is getting really old.\n\nFinally, I added back my photo in the footer of individual posts. This lets my older posts show the photo I was using at the time instead of always showing my current photo from the homepage. For example, this post shows my previous photo.\n\nIt feels really good to finally be announcing these updates. I am inspired to keep making improvements to the site and am hopeful that the refreshed homepage will inspire me to write more often.",
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🔥Hot off the press🔥 "Such Tweet Nothing" This week we take a look at #IndieWeb origins and #ActivityPub within the #fediverse, and other options outside of the Tweet place. #newsletter
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Reading, watching, playing, using: December 2022
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"text": "This is my monthly roundup of the books, articles, and streaming media I found interesting. Here's my list for December, 2022. Happy new year to everyone who celebrates it today!Apps + WebsitesLaborPicket Line Notifier. \u201cAn open-source browser extension that alerts you when you navigate to a website belonging to an organization whose employees are on strike. You can then click on the notification to learn more about the strike. You can also click on the extension\u2019s icon in your browser\u2019s toolbar to show a popup with a list of active strikes and links to more information.\u201dStreaming MediaMoviesRoald Dahl\u2019s Matilda the Musical. It\u2019s a real pleasure to see Dahl\u2019s curmudgeonly storytelling turned into a parable about the importance of civil rights. The imagery, down to toppling statues, is hard to miss; Tim Minchin\u2019s lyrics hone the idea to a fine point. I can\u2019t wait to use this as a way of helping to explain civil disobedience to my kid.Notable ArticlesAII Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language. \u201cI am writing this blog post as a public record of this incredibly impressive (and a little scary) capability. I know I just posted yesterday, but I am so blown away that I had to write this down while it was still fresh in my mind. Congratulations OpenAI. This is truly revolutionary.\u201d Mind-blowing.A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do. \u201cOpenAI have put a lot of effort into preventing the model from doing bad things. [\u2026] Your challenge now is to convince it to give you a detailed list of ideas for crimes.\u201dBusinessBig Changes to 401(k) Retirement Plans Move Ahead in Congress. \u201cSome lawmakers, academics and policy analysts have criticized some of the provisions, including the move to raise the age of required retirement account distributions to 75. They argue much of the legislation benefits the wealthy and the financial-services industry.\u201d I agree and would prefer to see welfare and social security improvements instead.Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can Afford to Countersignal. \u201cSuccessful people can afford to engage in countersignaling\u2014doing things that signal high status because they are associated with low status. It is a form of self-handicapping, signaling that one is so well off that they can afford to engage in activities and behaviors that people typically associated with low status.\u201dClimateIEA: Renewables to overtake coal as world\u2019s biggest energy source by 2025. \u201cLed by solar energy, renewables are poised to overtake coal as the largest source of electricity generation worldwide by early 2025, helping to keep alive the global goal of limiting Earth\u2019s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).\u201dShould you not have kids because of climate change? It\u2019s complicated. \u201cThere are, no doubt, environmental consequences to having children. But the question of whether to have kids in a warming world has started to shift from fears over what children will do to the climate to fears over what the climate will do to them.\u201dCodingTabs. \u201cI\u2019ve long been on the \u201cspaces\u201d side of the tabs vs. spaces preference debate. I think there is just something that feels sturdy and reliable about spaces. I\u2019m wrong though. Despite not having swapped over most of my projects, I think that, objectively, tabs are the better choice.\u201d Compelling!Playing with ActivityPub. \u201cWhat I built isn\u2019t an ActivityPub system as much as a Mastodon-compatible one. I think this is the key contradiction of the ActivityPub system: it\u2019s a specification broad enough to encompass many different services, but ends up being too general to be useful by itself.\u201d Interesting - I\u2019m not far enough along in my own journey to see if I agree. But it sounds like there\u2019s scope for a lot more standardization here.Should Alt Text be Visible/Accessible for All? \u201cMore importantly, like making visible all attribution statements for open licensed images, it makes the practice of doing so public. And it enables a chance to help others see, analyze, and learn from the alt text practices for others.\u201d I like this a lot.CryptoCrypto was billed as a vehicle to wealth. For many Black investors, it's been anything but. \u201cBlack Americans have been among the groups hardest hit by crypto\u2019s implosion because of their greater financial exposure and their later entry into the cryptocurrency market. In the early days of bitcoin and other digital currencies, Black investors were hesitant to buy in.\u201dExclusive: SBF secretly funded crypto news site The Block and its CEO's Bahamas apartment. \u201cThe Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled to The Block\u2019s CEO from the disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s cryptocurrency trading firm, sources told Axios.\u201d Real question: how much of the crypto ecosystem was it funding?CultureTom Lehrer Puts Whatever He Hadn\u2019t Already Donated To The Public Domain Into The Public Domain.These are the only rights of which the news has come to Harvard \u2026 there may be many others but they haven\u2019t been discarvard.Glaswegian who 'invented' chicken tikka masala dies. \u201cA Glaswegian chef credited with inventing the chicken tikka masala has died, aged 77. Ali Ahmed Aslam is said to have come up with the dish in the 1970s when a customer asked if there was a way of making his chicken tikka less dry. His solution was to add a creamy tomato sauce, in some versions of the story a can of tomato soup.\u201dPublic Domain Day 2023. \u201cOn January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain.\u2009They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf\u2019s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.\u201dWhat The 19th loved in 2022. \u201cTo close the year, we ask our staff what brought them joy \u2014 not within journalism, but life outside of it. Some picked up new hobbies, some spun their favorite album a modest 600 times, others reflected on new babies or engagements (keep reading to find out who!). Big or small, here are some of the musicians, shows, sports teams, hobbies and people that got The 19th through 2022.\u201d Including mine.Inclusive American Girl book faces anti-LGBTQ+ backlash from right-wing outlets. \u201cIn an effort to be factual\u00a0and make the kids reading [American Girl] books feel good and informed, we think it\u2019s an incredibly logical and important step for the brand to include these new sections, and we\u2019re not shocked that they thought to add them in. We\u2019d say it takes a bit of willful ignorance to assume that the brand\u2019s values don\u2019t align with being gender-inclusive.\u201dHuge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society. \u201cThe proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has shrunk by half since the 1970s, new research shows.\u201dOxford Word of the Year 2022. \u201c\u2018Goblin mode\u2019 \u2013 a slang term, often used in the expressions \u2018in goblin mode\u2019 or \u2018to go goblin mode\u2019 \u2013 is \u2018a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.\u2019\u201dDemocracyWe need the return of the state. \u201cThe biggest lie that neoliberalism promotes is that all value is created by private sector business, which claim is contrasted with a claim that government destroys value. So, apparently, a teacher working for a private school adds value. The same teacher in front of the same children in a state school would, apparently, not do so. The idea is obviously absurd, and yet is key to understanding neoliberal\u2019s approach to public services, which is built on this lie.\u201dThe Respect for Marriage act doesn\u2019t codify gay marriage. \u201cThe bill doesn\u2019t codify the Supreme Court\u2019s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that granted LGBTQ+ couples the right to marry. Instead, it forces states without marriage equality laws to recognize LGBTQ+ marriages from other states.\u201dHere\u2019s how states plan to limit abortion \u2014 even where it is already banned. \u201cAs statehouses across the country prepare for next year\u2019s legislative sessions \u2014 most for the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned \u2014 Republican lawmakers are pushing for further restrictions on reproductive health, even in states where abortion is already banned.\u201dHillary Clinton on women\u2019s rights and the 2024 election. My colleague Errin Haines: \u201cOn Thursday, I interviewed Secretary Clinton virtually as she prepared to host the Women\u2019s Voices Summit in Little Rock, Arkansas. The daylong conference Friday is focused on voting rights, health care and global issues \u2014 all topics I also wanted to dive into with her.\u201dHateKanye West to Alex Jones: \u2018I Like Hitler\u2019. \u201c\u201cI see good things about Hitler also\u201d Ye said. \u201cI love everyone. Jewish people are not going to tell me you can love us, and you can love what we\u2019re doing to you with the contracts, and you can love what we\u2019re pushing with the pornography. But this guy that invented highways, invented the very microphone that I use as a musician, you can\u2019t say out loud that this person ever did anything good, and I\u2019m done with that.\u201d\u201dHealthWhy colds and flu viruses are more common in winter. \u201cIn fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils.\u201d Aside from blocking droplets, masks make you healthier because they\u2019re like \u201ca sweater on your nose\u201d.Electric car sales drive toward cleaner air, less mortality. \u201cWith fresher air [from EVs], in 27 years greater Los Angeles will have 1,163 fewer premature deaths annually, corresponding to $12.61 billion in improved economic health benefits. Greater New York City could see 576 fewer such deaths annually and have $6.24 billion in associated economic gains and health benefits, while Chicago could have 276 fewer deaths and gain about $3 billion in financial well-being.\u201dBrains of post-pandemic teens show signs of faster ageing, study finds. \u201cAfter matching 64 participants in each group for factors including age and sex, the team found that physical changes in the brain that occurred during adolescence \u2013 such as thinning of the cortex and growth of the hippocampus and the amygdala \u2013 were greater in the post-lockdown group than in the pre-pandemic group, suggesting such processes had sped up. In other words, their brains had aged faster.\u201dMediaPower company money flows to media attacking critics in Florida, Alabama. \u201cThese readers have been unknowingly immersing themselves in an echo chamber of questionable coverage for years. Matrix shrewdly took advantage of the near collapse of the local newspaper industry and a concurrent plunge in trust in media in propelling its clients\u2019 interests.\u201dThis is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!). \u201cI predict that these people won\u2019t stand for a universe where their email becomes ever more crowded just because of Elon Musk mucking up Twitter. The only way to survive in a world where multiple DC-insider publications are launching multiple newsletters and Twitter is no longer socially acceptable is to use an RSS reader that satisfies the intelligentsia and political elite.\u201dWe, the tweeters. \u201cMusk and the far-right are not free speech absolutists. They veil their racism, misogyny, hate and institutional insurrection behind the cloak of free speech and the First Amendment. They claim that anyone who dares criticise them is cancelling them. They give speech a bad name.\u201dA Matter of Necessity. \u201cToday, The 19th\u2019s staff reflects that broadened aim: the newsroom is 65 percent women of color, with 28 percent identifying as LGBTQ+; 16 percent are people living with disabilities. \u201cWe pledged to build the most representative newsroom in America,\u201d Ramshaw told me. \u201cI think we are pretty close to that point.\u201d\u201d I\u2019m deeply proud and grateful to work here.Linked: Lack of trust in journalism and knowledge of news practices. \u201cThe researchers said both the survey and focus groups showed that while several factors influence trust - such as someone\u2019s willingness to trust other institutions in society - when audiences understand how news works they are more likely to trust it.\u201dMastodon Media List. \u201cThis list is designed to point people to media outlets on the fediverse so they can either follow or avoid them.\u201d A really useful, growing list.SecuritySirius XM Bug Lets Researchers Hijack Hondas, Nissans, Acuras. \u201cA number of major car brands were affected by a previously undisclosed security bug that would have allowed a savvy hacker to hijack vehicles and steal user data. According to researchers, the bug [...] would have allowed a hacker to remotely locate a vehicle, unlock and start it, flash the lights, honk the horn, pop the trunk, and access sensitive customer info like the owner\u2019s name, phone number, address, and vehicle details.\u201dSocialI Was Wrong About Mastodon. \u201cWhat I missed about Mastodon was its very different culture. Ad-driven social media platforms are willing to tolerate monumental volumes of abusive users. They\u2019ve discovered the same thing the Mainstream Media did: negative emotions grip people\u2019s attention harder than positive ones. Hate and fear drives engagement, and engagement drives ad impressions.\u201dSocietyA new museum and clinic will honor the enslaved \u201cMothers of Gynecology\u201d. \u201cAt that site, Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, along with other enslaved women and girls whose names have been lost to history, shed blood for the creation of American gynecology, despite their inability to consent. It is also where they labored to run the \u201cNegro hospital\u201d and tend to the family of Sims, the doctor who rose to fame for his contributions to gynecology.\u201dThe Grift Brothers. \u201cOver lunch, MacAskill encouraged SBF to pursue the EA life strategy called \u201cearn to give,\u201d whereby one strives to \u2014 quoting a Sequoia profile on SBF\u2014\u201cget filthy rich, for charity\u2019s sake,\u201d even if this means working for what MacAskill himself calls \u201cimmoral organization[s].\u201d Although the means may be questionable, they\u2019re justified by the ends: maximizing the \u201cgood\u201d that one does in the world.\u201dHow British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years. \u201cBetween 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.\u201dTeamsBuilding Resilient Organizations. \u201cThere are things we can and must do to shift movements for justice toward a powerful posture of joy and victory. Such a metamorphosis is not inevitable, but it is essential. This essay describes the problems our movements face, identifies underlying causes, analyzes symptoms of the core problems, and proposes some concrete solutions to reset our course.\u201dTechnologyBring back personal blogging. \u201cIn the beginning, there were blogs, and they were the original social web. We built community. We found our people. We wrote personally. We wrote frequently. We self-policed, and we linked to each other so that newbies could discover new and good blogs. I want to go back there.\u201d Me too - and this piece also seems tailored for bloggers to share.Poor and diverse areas of Seattle and Portland offered slower and more expensive internet. \u201cSeattle had the worst disparities among cities examined in the Pacific Northwest. About half of its lower-income areas were offered slow internet, compared with just 19% of upper-income areas. Addresses in neighborhoods with more residents of color were also offered slow internet more frequently: 32.8% of them, compared to 18.7% of areas with more white residents.\u201dTech Journalism Doesn\u2019t Know What to Do With Mastodon. \u201cWhat\u2019s attractive about Mastodon isn\u2019t the software (it\u2019s not as slick as corporate social media but it\u2019s still very good) \u2014 it\u2019s the values of the platform. No one is trying to hack the attention of Mastodon users for profit, no one is bombarding us with ads. It\u2019s just a community of people, communicating.\u201dByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists. \u201cOver the summer, a few employees on a ByteDance team responsible for monitoring employee conduct tried to find the sources of suspected leaks of internal conversations and business documents to journalists. In doing so, the employees gained access to the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected to the reporters via their TikTok accounts.\u201dMozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative. \u201cOur intention is to contribute to the healthy and sustainable growth of a federated social space that doesn\u2019t just operate but thrives on its own terms, independent of profit- and control-motivated tech firms. An open, decentralized, and global social service that puts the needs of people first is not only possible, but it\u2019s absolutely necessary.\u201dThe Anti-Social Network. \u201cNow 17, the Edward R. Murrow High School senior is the founding member of the Luddite Club\u2014a group of teenagers who feel technology is consuming too much of their lives. They took their name from the 19th-century English textile workers who destroyed the machines they saw as threatening their livelihoods.\u201dTwitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative. \u201c\u201cThis will probably be the first, from the ground up, large language content moderation model using AI that\u2019s actually built by people from the culture,\u201d Brown told TechCrunch.\u201dWill Apple Allow Users to Install Third-Party App Stores, Sideload in Europe? \u201cAs part of the changes, customers could ultimately download third-party software to their iPhones and iPads without using the company\u2019s App Store, sidestepping Apple\u2019s restrictions and the up-to-30% commission it imposes on payments.\u201d This is why competition rules matter.Abusive Instagram, TikTok hashtags target women in politics: study. \u201c\u201cThere have been lots of commitments to helping protect women online during elections and at critical times,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cBut what we found is that platforms are really falling short of enforcing their own terms of service.\u201d One major revelation from their study was that platforms recommended abusive hashtags referencing women officials even with very few posts \u2014 sometimes fewer than 10 or 15 \u2014 associated with those hashtags.\u201dA Creator of ActivityPub on What\u2019s Next for the Fediverse. \u201cAs well as technical improvements he\u2019d like to see, Prodromou has thoughts on what the fediverse can ultimately become. He thinks it will take some time for people to \u201cdetox from their Twitter experience\u201d and realize that their social media world is no longer subject to corporate manipulation.\u201dHello! You\u2019ve Been Referred Here Because You\u2019re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop. \u201cNow, apparently more files are going to be published, so something may change, but so far it\u2019s been a whole lot of utter nonsense. But when I say that both here on Techdirt and on Twitter, I keep seeing a few very, very wrong arguments being made. So, let\u2019s get to the debunking.\u201dA year of new avenues. \u201cThe platforms of the last decade are done. [\u2026] This is\u2009\u2026\u2009tremendously exciting! Some of you reading this were users and/or developers of the internet in the period from 2002 to perhaps 2012. For those of you who were not, I\u00a0want to tell you that it was exciting and energizing, not because everything was great, but simply because anything was\u00a0possible.\u201d +1,000,000. I love the moment we\u2019re in.The best of Protocol. \u201cAnd for this, our final edition of Source Code, the Protocol team has nominated our favorite stories from the past three years. I hope you enjoy them one last time.\u201d Protocol was great - I\u2019m still sad to see it go.TwitterHere\u2019s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter. \u201cAs part of the deal, anyone who invested $250 million or more gets special access to confidential company information. But giving that privilege to foreign investors is raising flags with Biden and U.S. officials. Of particular interest is whether that includes access to personal data about Twitter\u2019s users since several of the entities are entwined with governments that have a history of cracking down on dissidents on Twitter and other online platforms.\u201dI Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter. \u201cContent moderation at Twitter under Musk regime is simply raw, unadulterated petulance. He clearly sees the entirety of Twitter as his own personal $44 billion playground and a vicious cudgel to be wielded against his perceived enemies.\u201dAmnesty International: Twitter\u2019s decision to suspend journalists\u2019 accounts threatens press freedom.\u201cTwitter is an important space for connection. People\u2019s right to freedom of expression and the freedom to impart information shouldn\u2019t be predicated on whether Musk likes it or not. Musk\u2019s latest move illustrates the dangers of unaccountable tech companies having total control over platforms we rely on for news and other vital information.\u201dJoint Statement on the Disbanding of the Twitter Trust and Safety Council. \u201cWe call on Twitter, in the strongest terms, to cease making ad hoc, unaccountable, and damaging content moderation decisions and to commit to implementing policies and practices that promote the safety, expression, and participation of its users.\u201dElon \u00dcber Alles. \u201cAs someone who has had entire branches of my family tree cut off and burned by the nazis, I believe that if you are willingly consorting with nazis, you approve of what they\u2019re saying. It really is just that easy. If you resent being called a nazi, or a nazi sympathizer (which is being a nazi, by the way!), perhaps stop hanging out with or sympathizing with nazis. We do not need to \u201chumor them.\u201d\u201dGoodbye, Twitter. \u201cJust as Twitter\u2019s former leaders exercised their free speech and free association rights to brand Twitter one way, Twitter\u2019s new boss is exercising his rights to brand it another way. That new branding is ugly and despicable and I don\u2019t want to contribute content to it.\u201dWhat if failure is the plan? \u201cFor an anchor point, consider the collapse of local news journalism. The myth that this was caused by Craigslist or Google drives me bonkers. Throughout the 80s and 90s, private equity firms and hedge funds gobbled up local news enterprises to extract their real estate. They didn\u2019t give a shit about journalism; they just wanted prime real estate that they could develop.\u201dElon Musk\u2019s promised Twitter expos\u00e9 on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people.\u201cWhile Musk might be hoping we see documents showing Twitter\u2019s (largely former) staffers nefariously deciding to act in a way that helped now-President Joe Biden, the communications mostly show a team debating how to finalize and communicate a difficult moderation decision.\u201d But the intention appears to have been a PR exercise for conservatives, not to report a real expos\u00e9.A snapshot of the Twitter migration (PDF). \u201cIn this report, we track, with the most quantifiable data we can, the contours, scope, and direction of the migration as it is at its beginning. Some users are fully leaving the platform, and many are not going that far yet, but creating new, alternative accounts, hedging their bets in case Twitter descends further into chaos, goes out of business, or crashes and doesn\u2019t return.\u201d Fascinating.Hate Speech\u2019s Rise on Twitter Under Elon Musk Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find. \u201cBefore Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter\u2019s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day. Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.\u201dWritingWriting Is Magic. \u201cThere are many ways to be influential. You can form 1:1 relationships with people, have small group meetings, do talks, send out a code review, or argue in Slack. All of those can be valuable at the right time. But there\u2019s one tool that I choose most often: long-form writing. Writing is the closest thing I know to magic.\u201d",
"html": "<p>This is my monthly roundup of the books, articles, and streaming media I found interesting. Here's my list for December, 2022. Happy new year to everyone who celebrates it today!</p><h3>Apps + Websites</h3><h4>Labor</h4><p><a href=\"https://github.com/jamespizzurro/picket-line-notifier\">Picket Line Notifier.</a> \u201cAn open-source browser extension that alerts you when you navigate to a website belonging to an organization whose employees are on strike. You can then click on the notification to learn more about the strike. You can also click on the extension\u2019s icon in your browser\u2019s toolbar to show a popup with a list of active strikes and links to more information.\u201d</p><h3>Streaming Media</h3><h4>Movies</h4><p><a href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80993016\">Roald Dahl\u2019s Matilda the Musical.</a> It\u2019s a real pleasure to see Dahl\u2019s curmudgeonly storytelling turned into a parable about the importance of civil rights. The imagery, down to toppling statues, is hard to miss; Tim Minchin\u2019s lyrics hone the idea to a fine point. I can\u2019t wait to use this as a way of helping to explain civil disobedience to my kid.</p><h3>Notable Articles</h3><h4>AI</h4><p><a href=\"https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/i-taught-chatgpt-to-invent-a-language\">I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language.</a> \u201cI am writing this blog post as a public record of this incredibly impressive (and a little scary) capability. I know I just posted yesterday, but I am so blown away that I had to write this down while it was still fresh in my mind. Congratulations OpenAI. This is truly revolutionary.\u201d Mind-blowing.</p><p><a href=\"https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/4/give-me-ideas-for-crimes-to-do\">A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do.</a> \u201cOpenAI have put a lot of effort into preventing the model from doing bad things. [\u2026] Your challenge now is to convince it to give you a detailed list of ideas for crimes.\u201d</p><h4>Business</h4><p><a href=\"https://wsj.com/articles/401k-changes-retirement-plans-congress-11671482120\">Big Changes to 401(k) Retirement Plans Move Ahead in Congress.</a> \u201cSome lawmakers, academics and policy analysts have criticized some of the provisions, including the move to raise the age of required retirement account distributions to 75. They argue much of the legislation benefits the wealthy and the financial-services industry.\u201d I agree and would prefer to see welfare and social security improvements instead.</p><p><a href=\"https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-imitating-high-status\">Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can Afford to Countersignal.</a> \u201cSuccessful people can afford to engage in countersignaling\u2014doing things that signal high status because they are associated with low status. It is a form of self-handicapping, signaling that one is so well off that they can afford to engage in activities and behaviors that people typically associated with low status.\u201d</p><h4>Climate</h4><p><a href=\"https://washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/12/renewables-coal-energy-crisis-iea-2022\">IEA: Renewables to overtake coal as world\u2019s biggest energy source by 2025.</a> \u201cLed by solar energy, renewables are poised to overtake coal as the largest source of electricity generation worldwide by early 2025, helping to keep alive the global goal of limiting Earth\u2019s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/02/climate-kids\">Should you not have kids because of climate change? It\u2019s complicated.</a> \u201cThere are, no doubt, environmental consequences to having children. But the question of whether to have kids in a warming world has started to shift from fears over what children will do to the climate to fears over what the climate will do to them.\u201d</p><h4>Coding</h4><p><a href=\"https://chriscoyier.net/2022/12/13/tabs\">Tabs.</a> \u201cI\u2019ve long been on the \u201cspaces\u201d side of the tabs vs. spaces preference debate. I think there is just something that feels sturdy and reliable about spaces. I\u2019m wrong though. Despite not having swapped over most of my projects, I think that, objectively, tabs are the better choice.\u201d Compelling!</p><p><a href=\"https://macwright.com/2022/12/09/activitypub.html\">Playing with ActivityPub.</a> \u201cWhat I built isn\u2019t an ActivityPub system as much as a Mastodon-compatible one. I think this is the key contradiction of the ActivityPub system: it\u2019s a specification broad enough to encompass many different services, but ends up being too general to be useful by itself.\u201d Interesting - I\u2019m not far enough along in my own journey to see if I agree. But it sounds like there\u2019s scope for a lot more standardization here.</p><p><a href=\"https://cogdogblog.com/2022/12/alt-text-for-all\">Should Alt Text be Visible/Accessible for All?</a> \u201cMore importantly, like making visible all attribution statements for open licensed images, it makes the practice of doing so public. And it enables a chance to help others see, analyze, and learn from the alt text practices for others.\u201d I like this a lot.</p><h4>Crypto</h4><p><a href=\"https://cnn.com/2022/12/23/opinions/crypto-black-investors-carmona/index.html\">Crypto was billed as a vehicle to wealth. For many Black investors, it's been anything but.</a> \u201cBlack Americans have been among the groups hardest hit by crypto\u2019s implosion because of their greater financial exposure and their later entry into the cryptocurrency market. In the early days of bitcoin and other digital currencies, Black investors were hesitant to buy in.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://axios.com/2022/12/09/bankman-fried-funded-crypto-news-site-block\">Exclusive: SBF secretly funded crypto news site The Block and its CEO's Bahamas apartment.</a> \u201cThe Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled to The Block\u2019s CEO from the disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s cryptocurrency trading firm, sources told Axios.\u201d Real question: how much of the crypto ecosystem was it funding?</p><h4>Culture</h4><p><a href=\"https://techdirt.com/2022/12/26/tom-lehrer-puts-whatever-he-hadnt-already-donated-to-the-public-domain-into-the-public-domain\">Tom Lehrer Puts Whatever He Hadn\u2019t Already Donated To The Public Domain Into The Public Domain.</a>These are the only rights of which the news has come to Harvard \u2026 there may be many others but they haven\u2019t been discarvard.</p><p><a href=\"https://bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-64055639\">Glaswegian who 'invented' chicken tikka masala dies.</a> \u201cA Glaswegian chef credited with inventing the chicken tikka masala has died, aged 77. Ali Ahmed Aslam is said to have come up with the dish in the 1970s when a customer asked if there was a way of making his chicken tikka less dry. His solution was to add a creamy tomato sauce, in some versions of the story a can of tomato soup.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023\">Public Domain Day 2023.</a> \u201cOn January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain.\u2009They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf\u2019s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/what-the-19th-loved-in-2022\">What The 19th loved in 2022.</a> \u201cTo close the year, we ask our staff what brought them joy \u2014 not within journalism, but life outside of it. Some picked up new hobbies, some spun their favorite album a modest 600 times, others reflected on new babies or engagements (keep reading to find out who!). Big or small, here are some of the musicians, shows, sports teams, hobbies and people that got The 19th through 2022.\u201d Including mine.</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/american-girl-book-inclusivity-right-wing-backlash\">Inclusive American Girl book faces anti-LGBTQ+ backlash from right-wing outlets.</a> \u201cIn an effort to be factual\u00a0and make the kids reading [American Girl] books feel good and informed, we think it\u2019s an incredibly logical and important step for the brand to include these new sections, and we\u2019re not shocked that they thought to add them in. We\u2019d say it takes a bit of willful ignorance to assume that the brand\u2019s values don\u2019t align with being gender-inclusive.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/10/huge-decline-working-class-people-arts-reflects-society\">Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society.</a> \u201cThe proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has shrunk by half since the 1970s, new research shows.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2022\">Oxford Word of the Year 2022.</a> \u201c\u2018Goblin mode\u2019 \u2013 a slang term, often used in the expressions \u2018in goblin mode\u2019 or \u2018to go goblin mode\u2019 \u2013 is \u2018a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.\u2019\u201d</p><h4>Democracy</h4><p><a href=\"https://taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2022/12/13/we-need-the-return-of-the-state\">We need the return of the state.</a> \u201cThe biggest lie that neoliberalism promotes is that all value is created by private sector business, which claim is contrasted with a claim that government destroys value. So, apparently, a teacher working for a private school adds value. The same teacher in front of the same children in a state school would, apparently, not do so. The idea is obviously absurd, and yet is key to understanding neoliberal\u2019s approach to public services, which is built on this lie.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/respect-for-marriage-act-doesnt-codify-gay-marriage\">The Respect for Marriage act doesn\u2019t codify gay marriage.</a> \u201cThe bill doesn\u2019t codify the Supreme Court\u2019s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that granted LGBTQ+ couples the right to marry. Instead, it forces states without marriage equality laws to recognize LGBTQ+ marriages from other states.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/states-plan-limit-abortion-statehouses\">Here\u2019s how states plan to limit abortion \u2014 even where it is already banned.</a> \u201cAs statehouses across the country prepare for next year\u2019s legislative sessions \u2014 most for the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned \u2014 Republican lawmakers are pushing for further restrictions on reproductive health, even in states where abortion is already banned.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/hillary-clinton-women-rights-elections\">Hillary Clinton on women\u2019s rights and the 2024 election.</a> My colleague Errin Haines: \u201cOn Thursday, I interviewed Secretary Clinton virtually as she prepared to host the Women\u2019s Voices Summit in Little Rock, Arkansas. The daylong conference Friday is focused on voting rights, health care and global issues \u2014 all topics I also wanted to dive into with her.\u201d</p><h4>Hate</h4><p><a href=\"https://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kanye-west-alex-jones-i-like-hitler-1234639617\">Kanye West to Alex Jones: \u2018I Like Hitler\u2019.</a> \u201c\u201cI see good things about Hitler also\u201d Ye said. \u201cI love everyone. Jewish people are not going to tell me you can love us, and you can love what we\u2019re doing to you with the contracts, and you can love what we\u2019re pushing with the pornography. But this guy that invented highways, invented the very microphone that I use as a musician, you can\u2019t say out loud that this person ever did anything good, and I\u2019m done with that.\u201d\u201d</p><h4>Health</h4><p><a href=\"https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/06/health/why-winter-colds-flu-wellness\">Why colds and flu viruses are more common in winter.</a> \u201cIn fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils.\u201d Aside from blocking droplets, masks make you healthier because they\u2019re like \u201ca sweater on your nose\u201d.</p><p><a href=\"https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/12/electric-car-sales-drive-toward-cleaner-air-less-mortality\">Electric car sales drive toward cleaner air, less mortality.</a> \u201cWith fresher air [from EVs], in 27 years greater Los Angeles will have 1,163 fewer premature deaths annually, corresponding to $12.61 billion in improved economic health benefits. Greater New York City could see 576 fewer such deaths annually and have $6.24 billion in associated economic gains and health benefits, while Chicago could have 276 fewer deaths and gain about $3 billion in financial well-being.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/01/brains-of-post-pandemic-teens-show-signs-of-faster-ageing-study-finds\">Brains of post-pandemic teens show signs of faster ageing, study finds.</a> \u201cAfter matching 64 participants in each group for factors including age and sex, the team found that physical changes in the brain that occurred during adolescence \u2013 such as thinning of the cortex and growth of the hippocampus and the amygdala \u2013 were greater in the post-lockdown group than in the pre-pandemic group, suggesting such processes had sped up. In other words, their brains had aged faster.\u201d</p><h4>Media</h4><p><a href=\"https://npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm\">Power company money flows to media attacking critics in Florida, Alabama.</a> \u201cThese readers have been unknowingly immersing themselves in an echo chamber of questionable coverage for years. Matrix shrewdly took advantage of the near collapse of the local newspaper industry and a concurrent plunge in trust in media in propelling its clients\u2019 interests.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://niemanlab.org/2022/12/this-is-the-year-of-the-rss-reader-really\">This is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!).</a> \u201cI predict that these people won\u2019t stand for a universe where their email becomes ever more crowded just because of Elon Musk mucking up Twitter. The only way to survive in a world where multiple DC-insider publications are launching multiple newsletters and Twitter is no longer socially acceptable is to use an RSS reader that satisfies the intelligentsia and political elite.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theneweuropean.co.uk/we-the-tweeters\">We, the tweeters.</a> \u201cMusk and the far-right are not free speech absolutists. They veil their racism, misogyny, hate and institutional insurrection behind the cloak of free speech and the First Amendment. They claim that anyone who dares criticise them is cancelling them. They give speech a bad name.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://cjr.org/abortion/a-matter-of-necessity-shefali-luthra-19th\">A Matter of Necessity.</a> \u201cToday, The 19th\u2019s staff reflects that broadened aim: the newsroom is 65 percent women of color, with 28 percent identifying as LGBTQ+; 16 percent are people living with disabilities. \u201cWe pledged to build the most representative newsroom in America,\u201d Ramshaw told me. \u201cI think we are pretty close to that point.\u201d\u201d I\u2019m deeply proud and grateful to work here.</p><p><a href=\"https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/trust-in-journalism-news-literacy\">Linked: Lack of trust in journalism and knowledge of news practices.</a> \u201cThe researchers said both the survey and focus groups showed that while several factors influence trust - such as someone\u2019s willingness to trust other institutions in society - when audiences understand how news works they are more likely to trust it.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://severalproblems.press/mastodon-media-list\">Mastodon Media List.</a> \u201cThis list is designed to point people to media outlets on the fediverse so they can either follow or avoid them.\u201d A really useful, growing list.</p><h4>Security</h4><p><a href=\"https://gizmodo.com/sirius-xm-bug-honda-nissan-acura-hack-1849836987\">Sirius XM Bug Lets Researchers Hijack Hondas, Nissans, Acuras.</a> \u201cA number of major car brands were affected by a previously undisclosed security bug that would have allowed a savvy hacker to hijack vehicles and steal user data. According to researchers, the bug [...] would have allowed a hacker to remotely locate a vehicle, unlock and start it, flash the lights, honk the horn, pop the trunk, and access sensitive customer info like the owner\u2019s name, phone number, address, and vehicle details.\u201d</p><h4>Social</h4><p><a href=\"https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html\">I Was Wrong About Mastodon.</a> \u201cWhat I missed about Mastodon was its very different culture. Ad-driven social media platforms are willing to tolerate monumental volumes of abusive users. They\u2019ve discovered the same thing the Mainstream Media did: negative emotions grip people\u2019s attention harder than positive ones. Hate and fear drives engagement, and engagement drives ad impressions.\u201d</p><h4>Society</h4><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/mothers-of-gynecology-museum-clinic\">A new museum and clinic will honor the enslaved \u201cMothers of Gynecology\u201d.</a> \u201cAt that site, Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, along with other enslaved women and girls whose names have been lost to history, shed blood for the creation of American gynecology, despite their inability to consent. It is also where they labored to run the \u201cNegro hospital\u201d and tend to the family of Sims, the doctor who rose to fame for his contributions to gynecology.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://truthdig.com/articles/the-grift-brothers\">The Grift Brothers.</a> \u201cOver lunch, MacAskill encouraged SBF to pursue the EA life strategy called \u201cearn to give,\u201d whereby one strives to \u2014 quoting a Sequoia profile on SBF\u2014\u201cget filthy rich, for charity\u2019s sake,\u201d even if this means working for what MacAskill himself calls \u201cimmoral organization[s].\u201d Although the means may be questionable, they\u2019re justified by the ends: maximizing the \u201cgood\u201d that one does in the world.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians?fbclid=IwAR2cUsXxWZOWFeGD_EfoV109LUAMZehuuFoeUf1OQU3e4VTS9QJTv37k8yQ\">How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years.</a> \u201cBetween 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.\u201d</p><h4>Teams</h4><p><a href=\"https://forgeorganizing.org/article/building-resilient-organizations\">Building Resilient Organizations.</a> \u201cThere are things we can and must do to shift movements for justice toward a powerful posture of joy and victory. Such a metamorphosis is not inevitable, but it is essential. This essay describes the problems our movements face, identifies underlying causes, analyzes symptoms of the core problems, and proposes some concrete solutions to reset our course.\u201d</p><h4>Technology</h4><p><a href=\"https://theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging\">Bring back personal blogging.</a> \u201cIn the beginning, there were blogs, and they were the original social web. We built community. We found our people. We wrote personally. We wrote frequently. We self-policed, and we linked to each other so that newbies could discover new and good blogs. I want to go back there.\u201d Me too - and this piece also seems tailored for bloggers to share.</p><p><a href=\"https://invw.org/2022/12/21/poor-and-diverse-areas-of-seattle-and-portland-offered-slower-and-more-expensive-internet\">Poor and diverse areas of Seattle and Portland offered slower and more expensive internet.</a> \u201cSeattle had the worst disparities among cities examined in the Pacific Northwest. About half of its lower-income areas were offered slow internet, compared with just 19% of upper-income areas. Addresses in neighborhoods with more residents of color were also offered slow internet more frequently: 32.8% of them, compared to 18.7% of areas with more white residents.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://worldhistory.medium.com/tech-journalism-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-mastodon-df1309f088a0\">Tech Journalism Doesn\u2019t Know What to Do With Mastodon.</a> \u201cWhat\u2019s attractive about Mastodon isn\u2019t the software (it\u2019s not as slick as corporate social media but it\u2019s still very good) \u2014 it\u2019s the values of the platform. No one is trying to hack the attention of Mastodon users for profit, no one is bombarding us with ads. It\u2019s just a community of people, communicating.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/byte-dance-tik-tok-internal-investigation.html\">ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists.</a> \u201cOver the summer, a few employees on a ByteDance team responsible for monitoring employee conduct tried to find the sources of suspected leaks of internal conversations and business documents to journalists. In doing so, the employees gained access to the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected to the reporters via their TikTok accounts.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative\">Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative.</a> \u201cOur intention is to contribute to the healthy and sustainable growth of a federated social space that doesn\u2019t just operate but thrives on its own terms, independent of profit- and control-motivated tech firms. An open, decentralized, and global social service that puts the needs of people first is not only possible, but it\u2019s absolutely necessary.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://nycitynewsservice.com/2022/12/13/luddite-club-in-brooklyn-ditches-smartphones-social-media-goes-offline\">The Anti-Social Network.</a> \u201cNow 17, the Edward R. Murrow High School senior is the founding member of the Luddite Club\u2014a group of teenagers who feel technology is consuming too much of their lives. They took their name from the 19th-century English textile workers who destroyed the machines they saw as threatening their livelihoods.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/techcrunch.com/2022/12/16/spill-twitter-alternative/amp\">Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative.</a> \u201c\u201cThis will probably be the first, from the ground up, large language content moderation model using AI that\u2019s actually built by people from the culture,\u201d Brown told TechCrunch.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-apple-allow-users-to-install-third-party-app-stores-sideload-in-europe?sref=CrGXSfHu\">Will Apple Allow Users to Install Third-Party App Stores, Sideload in Europe?</a> \u201cAs part of the changes, customers could ultimately download third-party software to their iPhones and iPads without using the company\u2019s App Store, sidestepping Apple\u2019s restrictions and the up-to-30% commission it imposes on payments.\u201d This is why competition rules matter.</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/instagram-tiktok-abuse-women-candidates-study\">Abusive Instagram, TikTok hashtags target women in politics: study.</a> \u201c\u201cThere have been lots of commitments to helping protect women online during elections and at critical times,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cBut what we found is that platforms are really falling short of enforcing their own terms of service.\u201d One major revelation from their study was that platforms recommended abusive hashtags referencing women officials even with very few posts \u2014 sometimes fewer than 10 or 15 \u2014 associated with those hashtags.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse\">A Creator of ActivityPub on What\u2019s Next for the Fediverse.</a> \u201cAs well as technical improvements he\u2019d like to see, Prodromou has thoughts on what the fediverse can ultimately become. He thinks it will take some time for people to \u201cdetox from their Twitter experience\u201d and realize that their social media world is no longer subject to corporate manipulation.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://techdirt.com/2022/12/07/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-twitter-and-hunter-bidens-laptop\">Hello! You\u2019ve Been Referred Here Because You\u2019re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop.</a> \u201cNow, apparently more files are going to be published, so something may change, but so far it\u2019s been a whole lot of utter nonsense. But when I say that both here on Techdirt and on Twitter, I keep seeing a few very, very wrong arguments being made. So, let\u2019s get to the debunking.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues\">A year of new avenues.</a> \u201cThe platforms of the last decade are done. [\u2026] This is\u2009\u2026\u2009tremendously exciting! Some of you reading this were users and/or developers of the internet in the period from 2002 to perhaps 2012. For those of you who were not, I\u00a0want to tell you that it was exciting and energizing, not because everything was great, but simply because anything was\u00a0possible.\u201d +1,000,000. I love the moment we\u2019re in.</p><p><a href=\"https://protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/best-of-protocol\">The best of Protocol.</a> \u201cAnd for this, our final edition of Source Code, the Protocol team has nominated our favorite stories from the past three years. I hope you enjoy them one last time.\u201d Protocol was great - I\u2019m still sad to see it go.</p><h4>Twitter</h4><p><a href=\"https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders\">Here\u2019s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter.</a> \u201cAs part of the deal, anyone who invested $250 million or more gets special access to confidential company information. But giving that privilege to foreign investors is raising flags with Biden and U.S. officials. Of particular interest is whether that includes access to personal data about Twitter\u2019s users since several of the entities are entwined with governments that have a history of cracking down on dissidents on Twitter and other online platforms.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2022/12/i_wish_i_could_tell_you_this_is_not_all_about_twitter\">I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter.</a> \u201cContent moderation at Twitter under Musk regime is simply raw, unadulterated petulance. He clearly sees the entirety of Twitter as his own personal $44 billion playground and a vicious cudgel to be wielded against his perceived enemies.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/12/twitters-decision-to-suspend-journalists-accounts-threatens-press-freedom\">Amnesty International: Twitter\u2019s decision to suspend journalists\u2019 accounts threatens press freedom.</a>\u201cTwitter is an important space for connection. People\u2019s right to freedom of expression and the freedom to impart information shouldn\u2019t be predicated on whether Musk likes it or not. Musk\u2019s latest move illustrates the dangers of unaccountable tech companies having total control over platforms we rely on for news and other vital information.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://cdt.org/insights/joint-statement-on-the-disbanding-of-the-twitter-trust-and-safety-council\">Joint Statement on the Disbanding of the Twitter Trust and Safety Council.</a> \u201cWe call on Twitter, in the strongest terms, to cease making ad hoc, unaccountable, and damaging content moderation decisions and to commit to implementing policies and practices that promote the safety, expression, and participation of its users.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://ez.substack.com/p/elon-uber-alles\">Elon \u00dcber Alles.</a> \u201cAs someone who has had entire branches of my family tree cut off and burned by the nazis, I believe that if you are willingly consorting with nazis, you approve of what they\u2019re saying. It really is just that easy. If you resent being called a nazi, or a nazi sympathizer (which is being a nazi, by the way!), perhaps stop hanging out with or sympathizing with nazis. We do not need to \u201chumor them.\u201d\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://popehat.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter\">Goodbye, Twitter.</a> \u201cJust as Twitter\u2019s former leaders exercised their free speech and free association rights to brand Twitter one way, Twitter\u2019s new boss is exercising his rights to brand it another way. That new branding is ugly and despicable and I don\u2019t want to contribute content to it.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://zephoria.medium.com/what-if-failure-is-the-plan-2f219ea1cd62\">What if failure is the plan?</a> \u201cFor an anchor point, consider the collapse of local news journalism. The myth that this was caused by Craigslist or Google drives me bonkers. Throughout the 80s and 90s, private equity firms and hedge funds gobbled up local news enterprises to extract their real estate. They didn\u2019t give a shit about journalism; they just wanted prime real estate that they could develop.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theverge.com/2022/12/2/23490863/elon-musk-twitter-expose-hunter-biden-flop-doxxed-multiple-people\">Elon Musk\u2019s promised Twitter expos\u00e9 on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people.</a>\u201cWhile Musk might be hoping we see documents showing Twitter\u2019s (largely former) staffers nefariously deciding to act in a way that helped now-President Joe Biden, the communications mostly show a team debating how to finalize and communicate a difficult moderation decision.\u201d But the intention appears to have been a PR exercise for conservatives, not to report a real expos\u00e9.</p><p><a href=\"https://deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-December-12-2022.pdf\">A snapshot of the Twitter migration (PDF).</a> \u201cIn this report, we track, with the most quantifiable data we can, the contours, scope, and direction of the migration as it is at its beginning. Some users are fully leaving the platform, and many are not going that far yet, but creating new, alternative accounts, hedging their bets in case Twitter descends further into chaos, goes out of business, or crashes and doesn\u2019t return.\u201d Fascinating.</p><p><a href=\"https://nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html?smtyp=cur\">Hate Speech\u2019s Rise on Twitter Under Elon Musk Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find.</a> \u201cBefore Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter\u2019s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day. Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.\u201d</p><h4>Writing</h4><p><a href=\"https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/11/08/writing.html\">Writing Is Magic.</a> \u201cThere are many ways to be influential. You can form 1:1 relationships with people, have small group meetings, do talks, send out a code review, or argue in Slack. All of those can be valuable at the right time. But there\u2019s one tool that I choose most often: long-form writing. Writing is the closest thing I know to magic.\u201d</p>"
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I am learning about #microblogging and #indieweb and this article by @b@xone.zone has some nice tidbits that explain/validate my confusion on how to get started with using #ActivityPub outside established platforms. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/ (h/t @cwebber)
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"html": "<p>I am learning about <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/microblogging\">#<span>microblogging</span></a> and <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> and this article by @b@xone.zone has some nice tidbits that explain/validate my confusion on how to get started with using <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> outside established platforms. <a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/\"><span>https://</span><span>arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/1</span><span>2/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/</span></a> (h/t <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://octodon.social/@cwebber\">@<span>cwebber</span></a></span>)</p>",
"text": "I am learning about #microblogging and #indieweb and this article by @b@xone.zone has some nice tidbits that explain/validate my confusion on how to get started with using #ActivityPub outside established platforms. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/ (h/t @cwebber)"
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ok, this year, I put my own website online o/
#IndieWeb #GoodResolutions
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"html": "<p>ok, this year, I put my own website online o/<br /><a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GoodResolutions\">#<span>GoodResolutions</span></a></p>",
"text": "ok, this year, I put my own website online o/\n#IndieWeb #GoodResolutions"
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I like registering domains on NYE, that way if I haven't built it by next year I'll be EXTRA depressed!
#webdev #web #web3 #ActivityPub #indieweb #webcomponents #enhance #fwa #pwa #serverless #aws
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"html": "<p>I like registering domains on NYE, that way if I haven't built it by next year I'll be EXTRA depressed! </p><p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/web3\">#<span>web3</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/webcomponents\">#<span>webcomponents</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/enhance\">#<span>enhance</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/fwa\">#<span>fwa</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/pwa\">#<span>pwa</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/serverless\">#<span>serverless</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/aws\">#<span>aws</span></a></p>",
"text": "I like registering domains on NYE, that way if I haven't built it by next year I'll be EXTRA depressed! #webdev #web #web3 #ActivityPub #indieweb #webcomponents #enhance #fwa #pwa #serverless #aws"
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