Mozilla Betrays Firefox Users
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/MozillaBetraysFirefoxUsers
(submitted by dogecoinbase)
It's worth remembering Teju Cole's incisive comments in times like these:
"The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening."
https://mobile.twitter.com/tejucole/status/177809558608150529
Sure, this FB exec isn't white, but that just illustrates the point...
Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/11/facebook-former-executive-ripping-society-apart
Have I mentioned my love of infrastructure? 😀
https://boingboing.net/2017/12/04/some-people-can-hear-this-gif.html
Wow... The scripts keep writing themselves now, it seems...
Sources in Trump's White House report meetings to assemble a network of deniable wetwork/black ops spooks to target Trump's political enemies in the US and elsewhere
Sources in Trump's White House report meetings to assemble a network of deniable wetwork/black ops spooks to target Trump's political enemies in the US and elsewhere
https://boingboing.net/2017/12/05/amyntor-ollie-north-erik-princ.html
@ben, thanks for handling everyday maintenance! You should let us all know how we can contribute, even if only for hosting fees.
Facebook logged the posts you wrote but then erased and never posted in the first place, and now they kindly published a study about it 
https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM13/paper/viewFile/6093/6350 (PDF)
While I've found Nissenbaum's work useful and interesting, I've always been bothered by the lack of politics in her arguments... This review of a recent book she co-authored cuts deep, to question her approach by taking the role of the state seriously:
http://computationalculture.net/poisoned-fruit-booby-trapped-privacy-guides-as-state-sponsored-propaganda-a-case-study-of-obfuscation/
Hey @ben, thanks for putting Mastodon up! Where are you at nowadays?
