Dear Mastodon instance admins,
Palestinians are facing genocide and famine.
If there is a Palestinian account from Gaza on your instance and it is *not* exhibiting bot-like behaviour PLEASE AT LEAST CONTACT ME before limiting/suspending it so nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqn33ctt8u08tpht7tka2qjlcs5a66mlydcwg398z7thmyqrndufgsrncltd and I can attempt to verify them by having a video chat with them on Signal and adding them to Gaza Verified:
Blocking the accounts of Palestinians in Gaza on the fediverse is like repeatedly slamming the door in the face of Anne Frank.
Please have some humanity.
Also, if your server is a safe space for Palestinians from Gaza, please respond and let me know and I’ll add you to the list at https://gaza-verified.org/guide/
#mastodon #fediverse #Gaza #Palestine #genocide #famine
🚨 My friend Nouran is in danger!
Nouran and her family are one of the almost one million people stuck in the area that Israel has said it is going to destroy imminently.
They need money to afford to move South.
Please help if you can and please share so others can.
https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family
#Gaza #Palestine #israel #genocide #fediAid https://mastodon.social/@NouranKhaledGh/115179763590317653
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqpavjmv8077v30v52keq2y002lmh542mn22gk9nsw4zhc3e7lzdusx7yr5u Hey folks, do you know if Lolo’s account (nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqxjyy77fdmgq247ygcwtp4cs6cg88n9xat8ayw5x59cj2nwn4pqrqnefsx3) has been limited in some way?
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqn33ctt8u08tpht7tka2qjlcs5a66mlydcwg398z7thmyqrndufgsrncltd cannot seem to follow her form mastodon.social. We’re trying to get in touch with her to see if we can verify her for Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org).
Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Fabio is the opposite of a Nazi and I am sick and tired of people WHO ARE OPPOSING A LITERAL GENOCIDE being perpetrated by Israel constantly having to defend themselves from accusations of antisemitism.
The dregs of humanity who are supporting, apologising for, and complicit in Israel’s genocide are the people and instances we should be blocking here not antifascists like Fabio who is spending his time trying to get aid to Palestinians on the ground in Gaza.
Ask yourselves what kind of person tries to have someone who is trying to get aid to people who are being starved blocked on the fediverse.
And then decide who should be blocked and who shouldn’t.
(And remember that history is watching.)
#fediblock https://manganiello.social/objects/4290e22d-b4ae-4adc-92c2-4e82d7fb8295
The AI equivalent of your starship exploding at the launchpad. https://tldr.nettime.org/@festal/114721637610323807
Admin of todon.nl, and rightly so, suggests the default/flagship Mastodon instance (isn’t decentralisation great?) be moved to a more neutral jurisdiction than Germany:
“Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new Mastodon server in a more neutral jurisdiction, which can then serve as a new flagship server.
The trigger for this is the regular negative moderation of people who speak out against the largest and bloodiest genocide of our time, the one in Palestine. In particular they use (or abuse, how you want to look at it) of a German law that seeks to counter so-called Holocaust reversal. With hiding behind this law, the moderators of mastodon.social (and especially its owner) are also unwittingly sitting in the chair of the (German) judge.
Apart from the fact that one local law should not affect the entire Mastodon project, the question is whether this law and the concept of Holocaust reversal are legally tenable in an international context.”
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34747
Mastodon mod closes the ticket after stating that “There is no current plan to make changes to the Mastodon instances operated by Mastodon gGmbH. People are free to choose any Mastodon server when signing up for the platform.”
And this is what that “choice” looks like (and this – along with the fact that they didn’t close registrations after hitting a certain size to create a social precedent and allow distribution to other servers – is why there is a flagship instance – an absolute contradiction of terms in a system that purports to be decentralised.)
#fediverse #mastoson #mastodonSocial #todonNL #Germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza
His crime is being Palestinian in America during the genocide of his people by Americans and Israelis.
#America #USA #Israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank https://kolektiva.social/@cthon1c/114338393259857387
Wow.
https://cyberinsider.com/swedens-tax-authority-accused-of-selling-peoples-data-to-advertisers/
#sweden #privacy #noyb #EU
*DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US!*
“‘I learned with concern that a French researcher,’ on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), ‘who was going to a conference near Houston was banned from entering American territory before being expelled,’ said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). ‘This measure was allegedly taken by the American authorities because this researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relationships in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy,’ he added.”
#USA #fascism #EU #France #science #freedomOfSpeech #privacy #travelWarning
I miss the days when I wasn’t sure how to spell fascism.
“I don’t care about Palestine.”
– Jerry Seinfeld, Asshole.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1ir5n6q/jerry_seinfeld_i_dont_care_about_palestine/
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #JerrySeinfeld #asshole
Europeans starting to realise the US is the enemy.
Meanwhile, Middle Eastern folks…
So maybe now some folks can see why having trillion-dollar people farmers as sponsors is a problem too. Maybe? I don’t know… Too soon?
#fosdem #institutionalCorruption #JackDorsey #billionaires #capitalism #openSource https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/103483437564238747
This fucking Free Our Feeds bullshit is basically trying to do for Bluesky what Mozilla does for Google.
And guess what, there’s Mozilla’s executive director and president on as custodians alongside two guys from AI companies and the executive director of Meta partner Social Web Foundation.
I’m so bloody sick and tired of bloody Silicon Valley asshats sucking all the oxygen out of the room with their bullshit and I truly hope the folks roped into legitimising it realise this and distance themselves as quickly as possible (you know who you are).
#FreeOurFeeds #SiliconValley #SanFrancisco #BlueSky #SocialWebFoundation #bullshit
If Mozilla are activists, I’m a mushroom.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/
🍄
#mozilla #AI #VC #SiliconValley #BigTech #bullshit #activismWashing #privacyWashing #honeypot #PR #mushroom
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Access After Artists Released Video-Generation Tool in Protest: ‘We Are Not Your PR Puppets’
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/openai-shuts-down-sora-artists-protest-leak-1236224878/
Famous Big Tech bottom feeders: “We don’t understand… what’s wrong with being PR puppets?”
Via nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq9anq77muy05lmg94d2k9ery84n02ptf2cgm6ups9xxrmsfmrmuqskua0qq
#AI #OpenAI #protest #backbone #artists #PR #BigTech
“[S]ometimes we need to stop hedging and just call things as they are. So here it is, plain and direct: Musk’s alignment with authoritarian ideologies makes him a fascist in both action and effect, regardless of his personal proclamations.”
— ChatGPT, as radicalised by nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq96duhkskvy45ulvckn8gtw0qx50ykjaywdfw8vyc7fpt4cd7rf5qeglkds
https://chatgpt.com/share/67448bd5-b418-8008-9e97-073574bef1af
#ElonMusk #fascist #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI
Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4
#BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI
Dear Americans,
Vote for Kamala Harris even though both candidates will continue to arm Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people because, yes, the alternative is worse and, yes, because your country – and others like it (the UK and Germany spring to mind) – is so morally bankrupt and undemocratic that your political system doesn’t even leave you the option of not supporting a genocide.
But don’t you dare stop there and pat yourselves on the back. (1/3)
New blog post: Optimal automation
https://ar.al/2024/10/16/optimal-automation/
This has been on my mind quite a bit recently so I just wrote a little something about it.
#optimalAutomation #automation #technology #economics #society #AI #LLMs #selfDrivingCars #capitalism #growth #degrowth #climateChange #BigTech #postCapitalism