Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 34
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2018 03:33:28 EST 
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@wolcen Welcome to the fediverse -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 13:43:24 EST
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@kyzen wb -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 13:41:10 EST
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@gitgud That's exactly what they're doing. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 13:31:27 EST
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@laceynwilliams When I left college in the 1990s and was looking for a job I joined a job club (not sure if those even still exist) and met a few people who were in a sort of zombified psychological condition where they had been following some civil service or bigcorp career and had invested their whole identity in that but then had suddenly and unexpectedly been made redundant. It was sad to see, so I learned that lesson of not making work your whole identity vicariously and early on.
I think you're doing the right thing with hobbies and so on. Whenever I've been employed I've always had the constant expectation that redundancies are going to be announced next week, because it has been a constant feature of my working life. Technology companies are inherently ephemeral. Not many last longer than a few years.
Also internalized oppression and fear of unemployment is a form of social control in the workplace. Try to recognize it for what it is, rather than blaming yourself for falling short of whatever the boss happens to be currently demanding. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 12:51:26 EST
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@mark It's a dumpster fire. Stand back and watch it burn itself out. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 12:42:59 EST
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The Young Karl Marx https://indypendent.org/2018/02/review-when-karl-marx-was-young-and-dashing -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 12:32:00 EST
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Hortense Ellis β People make the world go round https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afGEJXFamRo -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 12:15:17 EST
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@Lexialex Welcome to the fediverse. We hope you enjoy your stay. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 11:25:41 EST
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From the beginning of the #Freedombone project I've occasionally added what I thought were inspirational quotes in the documentation.
At times it can seem as if the situation is hopeless and that the future of the internet has already been decided by some corporate bureaucrat in a grey office building somewhere, and there's nothing that you or anyone can do about it.
But the power of the internet companies is much more fragile than it may appear and it might not take very much for the trends to move against them. -
Rain π± (grainloom@cybre.space)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 08:47:37 EST 
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"Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.
Pretending that one needs a team of professionals to put simple articles online will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Overcomplicating the web means lifting up the ladder that used to make it possible for people to teach themselves and surprise everyone with unexpected new ideas."
idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2018 13:35:54 EST
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For anyone really paying attention to these kinds of things, troll farms are not new. It's very likely that your friendly local administration has some, and they're part of the overall attempt to control and influence opinion for the purposes of propping up powerful institutions or companies.
Microsoft fought a long and dirty troll war against Linux, which ultimately they lost. China has its famous 50 cent party. The US struggled to scale up its troll army and had to resort to "persona management systems". But all these are just the tip of the iceberg and propaganda wars go back a long way to the beginning of the printed word. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2018 13:20:15 EST
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"When the linear timeline was removed in favor of their own algorithmic sort, they removed our control over the conversation entirely. Instead of you and your friends in discourse with each other, youβre talking around the sources of content youβre being told to see, read, and like. You are in direct competition with a corporate notion of your personal history, identity, and relationships."
https://medium.com/tootsuite/this-isnt-about-social-media-this-is-about-control-112dea8a21fd -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2018 07:20:27 EST
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2018 12:25:22 EST
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The Fall - Kurious Oranj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A3cHzFQsqI -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2018 11:29:13 EST
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This some class A BS. Not only are they disrespecting the user but they're also using their computing resources to mine bitcoins.
https://www.salon.com/about/faq-what-happens-when-i-choose-to-suppress-ads-on-salon -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2018 13:13:35 EST
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They didn't get the biometric identity system they wanted a decade ago, but they keep trying anyway. The fact that they've been building an "immigration database" with fingerprints is something I wasn't aware of.
https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news/blog/why-its-not-okay-police-quietly-roll-out-spot-fingerprint-scanning
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