Amen: “The Internet Must Be More Than Facebook…If Big Tech becomes synonymous with the internet, we could lose free choice, democracy, and even the ability to imagine a different world.” onezero.medium.com/the-inter…

The web as originally designed is fundamentally antithetical to dictatorship. " According to Freedom On The Net, “Russian internet freedom has declined for the sixth year in a row, following government efforts to block the popular messaging app Telegram and numerous legislative proposals aimed at restricting online anonymity and increasing censorship.” And there are no signs of that getting any better any time soon." www.forbes.com/sites/zak… Continue reading →

Good quote: “We froze our social graph too soon, imho. My goal is to get the kind of discourse that happens on Twitter and Facebook to happen outside the silos, so a new generation of ‘coders’ can try out a billion new ideas about how humans can ideate and organize in a global network environment.” scripting.com/2019/09/2… Continue reading →

Political Animals #Mural #muralart @miketanoory

This is, as described: “100,000 FACES GENERATED BY AI FREE FOR ANY USE.” generated.photos

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency are converting capitalism directly into climate change. Cutting out the middle man. www.cell.com/joule/ful…30255-7

Get ready to upgrade every WiFi device. WiFi 6 arrives and worth the incremental device at a time update. “The Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that oversees implementation of the Wi-Fi standard, is launching its official Wi-Fi 6 certification program…. All that said, this week’s biggest news for Wi-Fi 6 has no immediate connection to the Alliance: it’s that the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro go on sale, and both support Wi-Fi 6. Continue reading →

Rooted vines.

“Twitter’s doubling the permissible length of a tweet led to less uncivil, more polite, and more constructive discussions.” academic.oup.com/joc/artic…

After a week, this has been working flawlessly fo rme. Invisible and with no noticeable performance issues than any other VPN. Likely dumping NordVPN for this. nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/09/1…

That’s a milestone. apple.news/A8AxH58I6…

To my tech work friends: A good effort and a very good Tech Pledge. I just signed, you should think about signing too: www.techpledge.org #TechPledge

Rebel librarians are the best librarians. ✊ www.vice.com/en_us/art…

Everything old is new again. : [Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986] (https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-set-outsell-cds-first-time-since-1986-2545781)

Crazy story: “My $50,000 Twitter Username Was Stolen Thanks to PayPal and GoDaddy. I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I’ve been offered as much as $50,000 for it. People have tried to steal it. Password reset instructions are a regular sight in my email inbox. As of today, I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up.” medium.com/@N/how-i-… Continue reading →

Good to see Test Pilot live again: via the Mozilla Blog: [Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns with Firefox Private Network Beta] (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/10/firefoxs-test-pilot-program-returns-with-firefox-private-network-beta/)

Good for them. Will hinder internet service providers (ISPs), government filtering, and about any other third-party that tries to intercept and sniff a user’s traffic.

www.engadget.com/2019/09/0…

Hong Kong Protesors going “Mesh Network” to communicate & circumvent the government: “60K installations in just the past seven days, most of them from Hong Kong.” www.forbes.com/sites/joh… Continue reading →

“No Clearance.”

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