Notices by The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social), page 26

Good morning!

*Stretches, yawns*

Targeted advertisement is not compatible with a meaningfully free and democratic society and needs to be abolished by law

Ah, the ol' ball-and-chain (referring to my tea diffuser)

Books that are from Public Domain sources like Project Gutenberg don't suddenly get remotely deleted like books with DRM

Or like the entire library of Microsoft books that will just "stop working" because of some business decision

And if copyright terms were shorter, a lot more books would survive until they entered the Public Domain, got digitized and were safe

Just saying

I did it! I found them. They must have got out somehow.

The User in ReBoot (1994) is a comic villain who poses a threat to those he encounters, their community and resources. While many have read the opening credit's speculation about the nature of The User as a laudable encouragement of our common desire to find and kill god, some suggest a more literal reading of The User as a prescient warning against gamers. In this essay,

There's a scene in which Kelly just nonchalantly tells us that poverty etc went away, ushering in The Future, because of the invention of their equivalent of the replicator

And I think this tells us a lot about Seth McFarlane and a particular kind of Star Trek superfan who manages somehow to miss the entire point of Star Trek

if you are unable or unwilling to enforce even the tiniest amount of ethics on your platform, do not create platforms.

[FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, AND TWITTER]: "Listen, we can't be held--" *takes down a video for using a popular song per a major label request* "--responsible for our users' content, we're--" *takes down unauthorized use of a clip of a TV show* "--not publishers, we're a platform for communication--" *takes down a streaming movie for copyright infringement* "--we can't be expected to take action every time someone uses our service--" *works with the police to provide info on its users* "--for nefarious purposes..."

fuck trudeau

My favourite part of science programmes is when they refer to "our furry friends," meaning literal non-human animals and I intentionally interpret them to mean people on Masto

Them: “I love being a furry daddy”

Me: “Uh, wow yeah, I mean the community is lovely and accepting, and the art is really extraordinary”

Them: “...I was talking about being a dog owner...what the hell were you talking about?”

Me: “THE SAME THING”

Pre-emptively blocking people making bad faith arguments on other people's threads is my jam

Look at that subtle coloring. The tasteful thickness. Oh my God. It even has a watermark

Wish us Millennials had a better relationship with Gen Z to be able to discuss radical leftist organizing in the 90s and 00s and security culture cause Gen Z is good at it online but not so much in the everyday.

"tech is ethically neutral" is "guns don't kill people" for techbros

FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
FOSS is inherently political
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