Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 10

@Njord Because I want to help build the kind of world I want to live in myself. It’s not altruism; if anything, it’s enlightened self interest.

@Nigel_Purchase 💰

Centrists: too much bad is bad but too much good is bad too. Thank you for coming to my TED talk, please buy my book.

@NataliaArmyOf1 Something tells me they won’t have to ask as they’ll be too busy striving to survive the hellscape it left them.

@JoePajak @Nigel_Purchase Thank goodness it’s only money.

Hiding your face isn’t having privacy. Living in a society where you don’t have to hide your face is having privacy.

@catarinac Of course :)

Here’s a more recent one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4

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@mxbck Congrats 🐣💕

Moderation that goes against the nature of a thing is only ever a temporary illusion. The very notion that moderate is the optimum exposes a system as unequal and unjust. For if the basis of your system were equality and justice, you would not call for such restraints. You’d want it to embrace its nature fully. It’s only when the inverse is true that you end up with fascism when all you wanted was the large house and fancy car enabled by the conveniently-ignored suffering of the less fortunate.

@AbandonedAmerica Not to mention, if people in the US have to worry about x, y, and z, you can be damn sure you’ll have to worry about x, y, and z soon enough. When the US coughs, the world gets ill. Just one of the many joys of global empire.

Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.

https://vimeo.com/96727211

#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039210087

It's disturbing seeing some medical and public health professionals trying to normalize RFK Jr by saying "we have to meet him halfway."

NOPE.

RFK is a charlatan who has deliberately spread disinformation that has killed people.

Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

@Orca @blogdiva Recently?

This can’t be true… I mean Meta are our friends, right?

https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/

Meta are our partners, no?

https://socialwebfoundation.org

If Meta were this horrible, this irredeemably terrible, what would it say about Mastodon, gGmbH being friends and partners with them?

🤔

#Meta #Mastodon #fediverse https://infosec.exchange/@queserasera/113479436620842028

@Geri @HarriettMB You had me at Church.

@elhackernet @RaleighStraight Only it’s fire. Abd you’re on fire. And everything’s on fire.

Neoliberalism fire sale… EVERYTHING MUST GO! https://mas.to/@therightarticle/113488930958861897

@TechCrunch Yet.

@Sobieck Because it’s always a zero-sum game for Silicon Valley. That’s why we have trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires.

@knittingknots2 Why do they look AI generated? I mean… it would explain a lot…