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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 18:08:20 EDT 
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@neil @gemlog It's disappointing, but as a long time resident of Brexitland not at all surprising.
To tune in to the zeitgeist of the BBC you have to imagine what an upper middle class Oxbridge graduate living in a leafy suburb in the South East of England would be interested in and would consider to be "news", and what kind of class prejudices they would have. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 18:02:50 EDT
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@gemlog @neil I always say that the BBC is state media and so you should expect corresponding biases. Anything outside of the Westminster circus is likely to be ignored. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 17:55:25 EDT
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@gemlog @neil There is this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-47959207
But nothing about the bridge specifically. Traditionally the BBC only covers protests minimally, if at all, and when it does its always the usual slimy "on the one hand and on the other" style of reporting or with a Ukipper gratuitously inserted. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 17:20:07 EDT
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The beauty of a simple web https://share.tube/videos/watch/a3675199-03e1-4110-a092-5a14b4f52428 -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 17:05:50 EDT
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 15:53:42 EDT
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@mew It's not really a question of elitism. The centralized nature of Twitter makes it difficult to avoid some of the worst aspects even with very careful timeline curation to the maximum extent possible.
For me there's absolutely no doubt that Mastodon and the fediverse generally are better than Twitter. The last three years have been...a journey...mostly consisting of me unfollowing people and no longer posting much there. As a way of reading the news it's maybe ok. As a way of interacting with other people online it's toxic. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 14:48:14 EDT
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@felix At a minimum there should be the capability to disable the Keybase integration. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 12:15:14 EDT
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@amydentata The far right often like to talk about this kind of thing, but they don't really know anything about genetics. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 11:59:41 EDT
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@VeintePesos @phessler I am just imagining the meetings of the UX design team for Keybase.
"And then we prompt the user for their private key..." -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 11:43:15 EDT
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@phessler Also with all this keybase stuff, if people uploaded their private keys and just use passwords instead then they've got a database of easy to crack, not forward secret correspondence under sufficiently lax terms of use that they could sell that to anyone.
In before "but they're making encryption easy for the masses!". -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 11:09:30 EDT
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@MissionControl What's hard to understand is that most people have no real experience of anything like democracy. Instead they're accustomed to having no input into any decision of importance and instead being told what to do by a boss or CEO. The right wing rhetoric for this is "learned helplessness". i.e. that some Man of Genius (it's always a man) must make all the decisions and the huddled masses must follow. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 10:16:17 EDT
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@xj9
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 07:46:48 EDT
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@gcupc Buongiorno! -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 07:43:58 EDT
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@boneidol Is this number of traffic jams? -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 06:08:23 EDT
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Reading Marxβs "Capital" Volume 1 part 10: The macroeconomic view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_p0B6BFtSE -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 06:05:23 EDT
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@carbontwelve @lynnesbian At present it just looks like bad UX and indeed the protocol should handle this kind of thing. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2019 04:19:47 EDT
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People arguing about XR on Twitter. The liberals who only care about optics and are unconcerned with who gets arrested because they assume they'll all be treated like rich kids. The communists and veteran environmentalists who know this is about power and if you are naive about your alliances then whatever movement you are creating will soon be coopted and neutralized. The British state has literally centuries of experience in putting down rebellions. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 15:50:25 EDT
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Is the burning of Notre Dame peak goth?
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 12:16:26 EDT
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@pinkprius Especially in the US the military budget is a huge boondoggle. A lot of research doesn't get funded unless it has some military purpose. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 10:21:03 EDT
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@erosdiscordia g'day
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