Liberal living in North West Wales, but originally from Birmingham. Dysgu Cymraeg. Metalhead.
🤘 Today's #BandcampFriday #metal purchases from my wishlist are:
- Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (Speed/Black/Heavy Metal from Aberdeen, Scotland)
- Cold Night for Alligators - With All That's Left (Alt Progressive Rock/Metal from Copenhagen, Denmark) 🤘
https://hellripper.bandcamp.com/album/warlocks-grim-withered-hags
https://coldnightforalligators.bandcamp.com/album/with-all-thats-left
did anyone want to hear a #Shakespeare speech castigating nativist cruelty against #immigration?
of course such a speech exists: bigoted malice against #immigrants is not new. the wicked have long yoked the ignorant and indecent for power
it refers to a real event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_May_Day
it is called "The Strangers' Case" speech
from the play "Sir Thomas More"
here delivered by #IanMcKellen from memory
on "The Late Show With #StephenColbert"
It is hard to see more people saying that they are being harassed, or otherwise don't feel safe, in the fediverse.
I am *not* on the receiving end of abuse here, which makes it even harder to see others having such a rubbish experience.
Especially because of what I suspect to be the reasons for such a different experience.
Adtech companies flaunt cookie rules because the UK data regulator doesn't enforce them.
So why might the ICO weaken them further?
It'd make it even easier for advertisers to target people based on mental health, addictions or other vulnerabilities.
Read more ⬇️
#adtech #dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #advertising #StopStalkerAds #ukpolitics #ukpol #ICO
"Where do you think our name comes from, Greg?"
[drawn nudity]
Review of "Enshittification" (4.5 stars): Insightful analysis and practical prescription to tackle enshittification
Are you interested in rewilding? Do you have some spare time to study?
Open University are offering a free introductory course to rewilding. As far as I can tell it's available worldwide too.
It's self-study so you can go at your own pace: https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/index.php?categoryid=1655
Boosts welcome.
@davidoclubb I'm definitely considering something like Pikapods or Yunohost for some of the things I want to 'just work' without having to worry about too much admin. Not sure I could ever bring myself to try to self-host an email or chat server!
Finally got #Wallabag working through Docker! For some reason that was completely opaque to me, it was a complete ball-ache to get working with my proxy manager, but finally it works!
I've been using #Karakeep up until now as my article bookmark/read-it-later app, which works really well, but I really wanted to make use of the #KOReader Wallabag integration to read saved articles on my eBook reader.
Was it worth it? Almost certainly not.
Anyway, next on my list to figure out - FitTrackee.
Such a relief to learn that all of my problems are in my head. The thing that I am trapped in and can never escape.
Yes, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Definitely a throwback to the "please don't print this email" days and makes a tiny statement about who I am as a person.
Plus it encourages everyday folks who want to resist so-called AI but don't know how to get started.
Thank you so much for the idea @mntmn !
honestly the best countermeasure the EU could take right now without any losses or monetary requirements, is to remove all the USA-mandated anti circumvention laws, and severely reduce the legal power USA companies have here, as @pluralistic suggested.
I wish there was a way to amplify that message towards EU leaders right now, because as he says, "it's much better than retaliatory tariffs; it's a targeted response"
@tamsin
Unsure if a rhetorical question or not... but having worked for an MP, I can say as long as it's a genuinely thought out and personalised, as many times as you wish, as long as you're not beating a dead horse if they've made their view clear. If it's a copy and paste job though, those emails just came across as lazy and meant less time being able to provide detailed responses to those personalised ones we received. The inbox was often completely swamped by template emails.
@elena @404mediaco @Em0nM4stodon Absolutely agree. I imagine there are quite a few politicians who instinctively feel they should be off X being advised by their political parties comms teams that they are losing a huge advertising opportunity, especially during elections, if they leave, and that they would be at a disadvantage to their opponents. Until the stigma of using X outweighs the electoral cost, I'm just not sure how much change we'll see.
