Notices by D Dino (garbados@toot.cat), page 12

poast beef

antifa stands for antifartist send toot 💨

only absent the profit motive can we imagine ethical technology. only together can we organize the labor to build it. this is part of why i’m so bully on unions and guilds: without them, without a real stake in the governance of our works and the works we use, our ‘ware will inevitably enrich our enemies and endanger our comrades.

@alexjgriffith

> it will never happen in late stage capitalism

hello from the fediverse

this is a long way of saying:
1. state-oriented regulations upon social media will further fracture the web along national lines.
2. a desire on the part of states to regulate social media reflects a genuine and unresolved concern for the responsibility of information platforms for the information they distribute.
3. the profit motive is in inherent conflict with the safety requirements of individuals and communities, as corpers try to control what you encounter in order to maximize profit at your expense.
4. due to this inherent conflict, major tech platforms will never allocate sufficient investment to moderation, and will never make the architectural changes necessary to truly devolve that power to communities themselves.

imagine facebook without ads. imagine federated moderation. the fediverse with sufficient investment and conscientious governance represents the architectural direction necessary for social media that respects the privacy and integrity of individuals and communities alike. but neither the profiteers driving fb+twitter nor the state actors concerned by their own alienation have the humility to understand the toxic impact of their power and the incentives that grant it.

the only people who could build an ethical facebook are neither profiteers nor regulators. they’re users and developers. but to whom will responsibility fall under late capitalism? profiteers and regulators, who cannot even imagine the necessary architectural and systemic changes that make ethical social media possible.

@nobody sounds about right 🤷♀️

“we’re going to trust a single multi-national corporation to construct sensitive military infrastructure which will still be owned and operated by said multi-national, so that our enemies can focus their penetration efforts on the inherent conflicts of interest created by our senseless greed and nepotism.” quintessential america, o7 🇺🇸

@bstacey now you too can smell like a war crime

starting to think industrial complexes aren’t actually any good at industrial processes, just at scamming capitalists. see: “war cloud”