The EU **#ChatControl** proposal is back! 🤬 We must keep demanding the human right to privacy extend to digital communication.
I wrote speculative fiction to explain the proposal and its societal harm.
Journalists and activists translated it to DE, ES, IT, PL, and SV. Message me if you can translate it to another EU language.
https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/after-chat-control/?ref=activitypub
#privacy #activism #SvPol #EUPol
Giving language to describe the many subtleties and intersections of gender, sexual, and romantic identities helps people better understand themselves and others.
To relegate that progress behind a + feels wrong to me, but the expanding alphabet soup challenges practical linguistic efficiency needs.
GSRD captures our current and future understanding of what’s beyond cisgender heterosexuality.
#Pride #PrideMonth #GSRD #GSRM #LGBTQ
The Baby Lasagna vs Käärijä battle/mashup will be the dance track of the summer! I hope this gets released onto Spotify. Well done, producers.
#Eurovision
Shqipëria’s entry was a weak song to end the show on.
#Eurovision
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Box.com is like Dropbox/Google Drive/iCloud. It’s for file sharing, not tracking.
The fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 also viewable at https://openfontlicense.org/
Several people are complaining to me about the Braille Institute requiring an email address to download.
An email address seems to me like a reasonable exchange of value for something good, useful, and otherwise free.
I have spent thousands of dollars licensing fonts for myself and clients.
A great typeface takes an immense amount of effort and expertise to create.
If you wouldn’t demand a musician give you their MP3 for free, don’t demand type designers give you their work for free.
/cont SEB has added friction to making a SEPA payment.
Instead of a single screen form, I first had to register the recipient. Successfully doing so led to a dead end. I then had to use the hamburger menu to go back to the payment screen and then navigate to the SEPA screen. I selected the recipient, put in the amount and note, added it to outgoing payment list, and then signed with BankID.
This experience is why Visa and Mastercard get to take 2–3% of countries’ GDP.
My bank, SEB, suspended my ability to send SEPA payments because I had not sent any in the last 2 months. The app told me to call customer support. The representative said this is SEB’s new policy due to scams.
I had to answer questions about who and why I was sending a payment to get it re-enabled, ironic when my reason was to donate to a privacy human rights non-profit.
SEB’s policy mandated a 24 hour delay in regaining access after approved.
/cont
Meta changed its content policy to allow anti-LGBTQ hate speech. Boycott all Meta products for 1 week every month until it stops profiting from hate.
Not using Instagram = less ad views = less revenue for Meta
#StopHateForProtfit
Mark Andreessen deserves your vote as The Worst. He is far more powerful and worse than JD Vance.
nostr:npub1ryfc4qst6y3m8r3ku2l2vvekw06gqjrmj4mqr704vk2mwtqnx0qqptevtf If it happens, we will once again have the EU to thank.
I will be proposing the session “Acceptable monetization models in the fediverse” during the #[0] unconference agenda curation in a few hours.
I believe there will need to be a variety of acceptable monetization models in order for the fediverse to be accessible and preferable to the billions of people using walled-garden social media networks today.
If this is a subject of interest to you, I would love for you to join the conversation.