Tales Tomaz @talestomaz@scholar.social

#TILvids video of the day - How #television works 📺

(follow @opentechvids for more great tech history content!)

https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/f7c0c164-c052-496d-8ffe-9e2d40e93dae

#PeerTube

Along with a colleague, @dzulli , I'm conducting a survey of Mastodon developers, admins, and users. If you would, please take our survey:

https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0jk9Fq7Reb12tN3

We're focusing on "freedom of expression."

For more info on the survey, see

https://fossacademic.tech/2021/02/09/MastodonSurvey.html

or

https://www.socialmediaalternatives.org/?p=181

an important report has just been published by my friend emmi: The Decentralized Web of Hate

"Fascists (and other bad actors) are [...] hosting manifestos resiliently, raising money anonymously, communicating securely to organize attacks, sharing weapons plans, and networking to build out their numbers."

"We cannot abandon p2p technology but we also can't ignore the risks. The only way out is through."

thread
https://twitter.com/emmibevensee/status/1323350970496032769
site
https://rebelliousdata.com/p2p
pdf
https://rebelliousdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/P2P-Hate-Report.pdf

This blog post by @pluralistic about how money works and how in China they actually regulate it and how in America they don't, leading to one country having a productive economy and the other having Uber and unprecedented levels of worker exploitation is well worth reading:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/gotta-be-a-pony-under-there/#jack-ma

To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201029/04034145611/to-prevent-free-frictionless-access-to-human-knowledge-publishers-want-librarians-to-be-afraid-very-afraid.shtml the latest campaign against @Sci_Hub #openaccess

To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201029/04034145611/to-prevent-free-frictionless-access-to-human-knowledge-publishers-want-librarians-to-be-afraid-very-afraid.shtml #openaccess @Sci_Hub

Looking forward to reading this.

A #Green Recovery: The Case for #Climate-Forward Stimulus Policies in America’s #COVID-19 Recession Response

By Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Kristina Karlsson, Kitty Richards, Bracken Hendricks, David Arkush

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/green-recovery-case-for-climate-forward-stimulus-policies-americas-covid-19-recession-response/​

Ich finde es wird viel zu wenig über #Microsoft geredet, wenn es um die Big Evil in der Tech-Branche geht. Viel zu häufig geht es meist um #Google, #Facebook und #Amazon, während es MS stets schafft sich der größten Kritik zu entziehen. Dabei ist es insbesondere MS, die nicht nur in den USA, sondern auch in anderen Teilen der Welt, den Polizeistaat erst so richtig ausbauen, mit Massenüberwachung, Gesichtserkennung, Polizeiroboter, Drohnen und anderen Dingen, die es der Polizei erlauben werden, praktisch in jedem Bereich der Stadt zu patrouillieren, ohne auch nur einen Fuß in diese zu setzen.

Intercept hatte dazu in diesem Sommer einen ausführlichen Artikel geschrieben. Ende Juli habe ich mitgeholfen diesen ins Deutsche zu übersetzen:

https://schwarzerpfeil.de/2020/07/27/der-microsoft-polizeistaat-massenueberwachung-gesichtserkennung-und-die-azure-cloud/

Maybe we should stop calling them users and start saying: monetization tagrets.

#SaaS is really different from general purpose computing. While it is convenient it doesn't empower people, it takes away their autonomy.

The #onlineharms Bill heading to Parliament aims to undermine #encryption and risks overreaching into everyday communications in private messaging apps, says Heather Burns, ORG’s new policy manager. #privacy
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-harms-encryption-under-attack/

In light of the recent killing of Walter Wallace Jr by the Philadelphia police, I took the liberty of making a $100 donation to the Philly Bail Fund on behalf of scholar.social

http://phillybailfund.org/

Others with the means to do so are also encouraged to help out however they can, proportionate to their ability

Switching to Chrome because you think Mozilla isn't strict enough about FLOSS or privacy is like a protest vote for Trump.

Hello, #academicFederation

My new university job really, really values giving talks and lectures.

So, I'm going to offer my services as a speaker or lecturer.

I've given talks at universities like Oregon, Texas, Calgary, and Alberta.

I'd be happy to talk about my research about the #darkweb, #socialengineering, or #alternativeSocialMedia (including Mastodon), among other topics.

Obviously, I'm happy to do these via videoconference. DM me or email (robertwgehl at protonmail)