Notices by ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊ (dajbelshaw@mastodon.social)

Facebook Messenger still scans all messages, even with end-to-end encryption. Scanning is done locally on the device before text messages are sent and after received messages are decrypted.

Facebook privacy lol

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/07/26/the-encryption-debate-is-over-dead-at-the-hands-of-facebook/#3e1668c45362

There are very simple reasons why our system is careening towards disaster:

One is that our system all about getting ahead, standing out, winning, out-competing.
The best way to do that, like any self help book will tell you, is to focus on that goal, your success, above all else.

And so cooperation, compassion, empathy become hindrances.

The higher you climb in a hierarchy the more effectively this pressure will reward those who only care about their success and weed out those who have any other priorities.

So of course the people at the top do not care about the common good or the health of our planet.

Quite some Chinese propaganda but interesting nonetheless: "How is China able to provide enough food to feed its population of over 1 billion people?"

https://www.quora.com/How-is-China-able-to-provide-enough-food-to-feed-its-population-of-over-1-billion-people-Do-they-import-food-or-are-they-self-sustainable

The Online Abuse Playbook

"There’s a well-defined pattern to how marginalized people are attacked online. If we can understand it, we can help stop each other from participating."

https://medium.com/humane-tech/the-online-abuse-playbook-575648c9f798

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Every single admin or persons with a high-volume account needs to read this.

I read this article when it came out, and saw it get played out on Twitter, practically to the letter.

#MoodleNet overview slide deck (July 2019)

https://blog.moodle.net/2019/moodlenet-overview-july/

An update on sunsetting the existing moodle.net to make way for MoodleNet

https://blog.moodle.net/2019/update-sunsetting-moodle-dot-net/