When it comes to anything a corporation says or does – as with politicians – it’s PR unless proven otherwise.

Greta Thunberg pulls out of event due to its links with the fossil fuel industry.¹

Meanwhile, tech folks who see nothing wrong with surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, etc., sponsoring privacy events:

“We’re absolutely perplexed… what does any of this mean?”

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

#greenWashing #privacyWashing #institutionalCorruption #climate #surveillanceCapitalism #BigOil #BigTech

¹ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66407059?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

In response to the popular “checking you’re not a robot” pop-up, I implemented a “checking you’re not a douchebag corporation” pop-up and now I can’t log in to anything.

Well it looks like my account is not silenced anymore on Fosstodon?

e.g., Access https://fosstodon.org/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/110688917334196615 while signed out and you should be able to see it.

Hiccup?

Policy reversal?

🤷‍♂️

Any idea what happened here, nostr:npub1zunpjegls6ltcj6tafl0snlg7rzwed4dhmakkydlpn4lm69gqs2shc4zjg?

FOSS is political or it is bullshit.

(With apologies to Flavia Dzodan.)

#foss #freeSoftware #freedom #activism #politics #technology

It feels timely today to repost something I wrote almost a decade ago:

How Web 2.0 killed the Internet

https://ar.al/notes/how-web-2-0-killed-the-internet/

#web2 #PeopleFarming #SurveillanceCapitalism #open #apis #openWashing #developers #web #dev #google #facebook #twitter #SiliconValley #BigTech

Hello, new folks from Twitter,

- Welcome to the fediverse!

- If you’ve joined mastodon.social because it was the default option on the app, please look to move to a smaller instance so mastodon.social doesn’t grow to become Twitter 2.0. (You can use https://instances.social to find a new instance or ask folks on here for suggestions.)

- Please add alternate text to your images so people who use screen readers can join in too. (https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images)

#TwitterMigration #mastodon #fediverse

They were never your tweets.

No, you don’t understand, I’m only in the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party so I can change it from the inside.

Me: await nagivator.clipboard.writeText(text)

Browser: nagivator is not defined

Me: What? Of course navigator IS defined! What‘s wrong with you?

Browser: nagivator is not defined

Me: Oh.

🤦‍♂️

#web #dev #javascript #js

When wolves say to sheep “Can’t we all just get along?”, it’s not because they want to be friends but because they prefer obedient prey.

I swear some of you would sign an NDA with Satan if he asked nicely.

Proudly proclaiming that you won’t associate with people who take a principled stance against surveillance capitalism and toxic Silicon Valley people farmers like Facebook says so much more about you than it does about them.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #Meta #Facebook #BigTech #fediverse #mastodon

If you run a large Mastodon/fediverse instance and you have not signed an NDA with Meta/Facebook/Instagram/or whatever the fuck they’re calling themselves this week, and if you have taken a principled stance to never take money from these surveillance capitalist types, this is the time to come forward and make a public statement.

Go on, have a backbone.

I can guarantee you, it feels good. And you’ll be on the right side of history to boot.

Do the right thing and don’t sell out the fediverse.

What’s schadenfreaude in Russian?

So who’s gonna tell libertarians BioShock is a warning, not an instruction manual?

“Some of your posts have been reported by a user and I resolved it so far.

In the future. Please make sure not to insult others and be rude.”

Here’s my suggestion to the moderators of mstdn.social: Stop tone policing people on other instances. I’m not on your instance and I’ll speak my mind as I like on my own one. If anyone has a problem with that, they can block me. It’s not your job to tone police the fediverse even if you are a mega instance.

#fediverse #mastodon #moderation #tonePolicing

nostr:npub16glurv9dkwcetpzgm6dcsx356ywqvvsye4gps0nufeuq4laa5jtqjssyzj As I’m quite aware ;)

💕

Some fediverse instance admins: “How cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.”

Yes, they did.

Because you’re what’s for dinner.

#fediverse #mastodon #meta #Project92 #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism

Thank goodness at least gaslighting doesn’t have a carbon footprint.

#corporations #climateCrisis #gaslighting