Notices by Danny O'B (mala@mastodon.social)

More jobs — this one is remote, anywhere in the world. Software engineer building anti-harassment tools at Wikipedia: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/2261089

Joint Statement on the GNU Project: http://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/

I am going to vacationarily livestream RIGHT NOW! The usual blunderings in #lisp, #guix, #guile, and digital rights gossip, this time from my back garden in San Francisco. Watch at https://codetherapy.space/

Do you help run a federated or decentralised service in Europe -- or know someone who does? Please pass this link on. It's the application to meet politicians to discuss how the EU's copyright filters (Article 13/17) will be implemented. I worry about a backroom deal struck between Facebook/Google that excludes the next generation of open Net services: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/organisation-stakeholder-dialogue-application-article-17-directive-copyright-digital-single .. Please speak up!

@cathal @patterfloof @cwebber Founder Effect, online radicalization, THE IRRESISTIBLE BAKED GOODS SMELL OF FREEDOM

Me: Today I'm gong to take some time to really set up my linux machine properly

[HOURS LATER]

Me, crying: WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO SET ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES IN .ZSHRC

Best bit of #prelingerwiki event was me finding this hanky-code for hexadecimal in a 1968 copy of Datamation, and Liz insta-popularising it:
https://twitter.com/lizhenry/status/1165819980568350720

What Mastodon and tools like it offer is some ability to differentiate between what we keep between ourselves, and what we show to the world. That's a power that is often removed from us in social media platforms, who need to trick us to share information with them, and need us to expose ourselves to increase "engagement" and attract new "consumers". 10/?

So I'm not sure I get all of the proposed anti-Nazi features planned for Mastodon, but I want to point out some thinking that I've heard from a few researchers now. One of the drivers of radicalization is when certain "facts" or points of view are readily available, while more established truths and arguments are either unsaid or hidden behind paywalls or otherwise partitioned away. 1/?

I was at Oxford in the late 80s https://unv.is/ft.com/content/85fc694c-9222-11e9-b7ea-60e35ef678d2 and (to the extent it taught me to be sceptical of all easy narratives) i think this narrative has a lot of truth to it.

A bunch of Swedish MEPs pressed the wrong button in the Copyright Directive vote, defeating the chance to vote to delete #article13 and #article11.

Well, that’s quite the mandate to fuck with millions of Internet users.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/26/jfc-fml-jfc.html

I think a lot of people think that free speech was a historic US value; in fact it was incredibly contested, and it took the civil rights movement in the 60s to really establish it as a vital part of US law (just as it took WW2 to push it to the forefront of universal human rights law). https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/inextricable-link-between-modern-free-speech-law-and-civil-rights-movement

Best wikipedia page ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias (h/t lena)

For more details on this stage of #article13, I wrote a piece for EFF here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/fake-compromises-real-threats-next-weeks-eu-copyright-vote

Hello Assembled People of European Mastodon! I work at @eff on international copyright. You might have heard of #article13, the EU proposal to require © filters on sharing sites.

We're really worried that this could affect services like ActivePub/Mastodon instances, opening them up to lawsuits or requiring expensive filters.

The key vote is on Wednesday -- please call or write your MEP and ask them to vote against #article13 to protect the future of the internet! https://saveyourinternet.eu/

Carl Malamud continue to be a hero to me: https://thewire.in/education/who-may-swim-in-the-ocean-of-knowledge

@paulfree14 hello❤️

One of the things that I noticed in listening to the European Parliament debate on #Article13 and #Article11 was the live interpreters briefly mentioning their own strike action before translating the rest of the debate. The were requisitioned to translate it: https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/meps-show-support-for-parliament-interpreters/

This was a pretty intense experience, plotting out the opportunities and risk scenarios for the next 10 years for EFF, Internet Archive, Wikimedia and Mozilla guided by @LHWilkinson . The raw materials don't really capture all the conclusions we came away with, but if you have any questions, I can try and answer them here: http://blog.archive.org/2018/05/08/the-future-of-civil-discourse-four-scenarios-imagined/

@douginamug EDRi General Assembly! It's exciting! https://edri.org/