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Aral Balkan<p>Google, a brief history</p><p>2004: Don’t be evil<br>2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people<br>2025: Fuck it, kill people</p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/business/goo</span><span class="invisible">gle-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
Eric G.<p>OK, really, I guess a conventional <a href="https://beige.party/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> post is in order.</p><p>I just moved from the soon-to-be defunct sanjuans.life to the groovy and happening beige.party!</p><p>Hi, I'm Eric! I'm one of "those" people that spent most of his life in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> and escaped in later life to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PacificNorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PacificNorthwest</span></a>. I spent some halcyon times that then turned tumultuous in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Portland</span></a> before landing, through all sorts of weird life changes, in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OrcasIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OrcasIsland</span></a>, Washington.</p><p>Still an active, if somewhat grizzled, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/techie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techie</span></a>, I got to do a bunch of stuff (mostly involving <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ReleaseEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseEngineering</span></a>) in places like Sierra Online, The Santa Cruz Operation, Frame Technology, Xerox PARC, DreamWorks Animation, Yahoo!, and Puppet.</p><p>I've been an erratic participant at <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BurningMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BurningMan</span></a>. Originally, hanging (but not officially) with Spock Mountain Research Labs and Lamplighters, taking long breaks then coming back and doing stuff with <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BLD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BLD</span></a> </p><p>I have been an avid traveler. I love scuba diving, amusement parks, especially <a href="https://beige.party/tags/rollercoasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rollercoasters</span></a>. Back in the day, I was co-contributor of The World of Coasters and had some fun contributions to NPR, CNN, American Heritage.</p><p>After Covid set in things changed. I don't get out much and managed to stay free of it. I plan on keeping it that way. If one is to be stuck at home, San Juan County is a damn fine place to do it.</p>
Aral Balkan<p>Co-founder of Twitter joins new Mastodon board of directors. Right, so federating with Threads wasn’t a mistake. This is just the direction Mastodon is going. Oh, well. Another Mozilla emerges.</p><p><a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/</span><span class="invisible">mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BizStone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BizStone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Threads</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>“Meta is now automatically muting all posts that mention PixelFed, so its users can’t read about any alternatives to its services.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@queue@todon.eu/112130436367389679" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.ar.al/@queue@todon.eu</span><span class="invisible">/112130436367389679</span></a></p><p>But I’m confused… Mastodon gGmbH and Meta Platforms, Inc. are besties according to Mastodon gGmbH CEO.¹</p><p>There must be some mistake.</p><p>¹ <a href="https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">platformer.news/mastodon-inter</span><span class="invisible">view-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pixelfed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peopleFarmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peopleFarmers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monopolies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a></p>
Laure<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@georgelakoff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>georgelakoff</span></a></span> 1) I’ve known how networked players work since I stumbled on the Russian <a href="https://federate.social/tags/troll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>troll</span></a> farm in 2014. I was following events in <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> (<a href="https://federate.social/tags/Maidan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maidan</span></a>, the fleeing of the Pres, the new <a href="https://federate.social/tags/democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democratic</span></a> elections). I used a list of relevant keywords, plugged them into <a href="https://federate.social/tags/tweetdeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tweetdeck</span></a>. After my day was done in <a href="https://federate.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a>, I’d browse. When workers arrived to the office in St Petersburg, I saw 100s of the same tweet come from 100s of <a href="https://federate.social/tags/sockpuppet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sockpuppet</span></a> accounts simultaneously, flooding <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a>.</p>
Aral Balkan<p>Some fediverse instance admins: “How cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.”</p><p>Yes, they did.</p><p>Because you’re what’s for dinner.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Project92" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project92</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a></p>
Cory DoctorowLong thread/2
Cory Doctorow<p>There's only three days left in the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Kickstarter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kickstarter</span></a> campaign for for the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/audiobook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>audiobook</span></a> of my next novel, a post-<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberpunk</span></a> anti-finance finance thriller about <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> scams called *Red Team Blues*. <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a>'s <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Audible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audible</span></a> refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DRM</span></a> free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:</p><p><a href="http://redteamblues.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">redteamblues.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>2/</p>
Cory DoctorowLong thread/2
Aral Balkan<p>A billionaire promising you decentralisation is like a king promising you democracy.</p><p>(Unless it involves them abdicating the crown, you know it’s bullshit.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/decentralisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralisation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/JackDorsey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JackDorsey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/bullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bullshit</span></a></p>
Jennifer Wojcik<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> </p><p>Industries worked in / adjacent to continued:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Staffing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Staffing</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Headhunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Headhunting</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanResources</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hardware</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semiconductor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semiconductor</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LowPowerEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LowPowerEngineering</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Web2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Web2</span></a>.0<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InternetMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetMarketing</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TraditionalMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalMarketing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMediaMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMediaMarketing</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmailMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmailMarketing</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Startups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Startups</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VC</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Entrepreneur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Entrepreneur</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticalCandidate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalCandidate</span></a></p>
Ben Miller<p>Why some prominent US tech journalists have such a hard time recognising <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> &amp; the concept it is based on as the next step in advancement seems to stem from something deeply rooted in US culture, something <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> is built on: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> Hero Worship. They need someone to idolise, a captain at the helm, a saviour. They need &amp; want a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteveJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SteveJobs</span></a>, a Page, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a>, and follow &amp; enable the next best: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElizabethHolmes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethHolmes</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SBF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SBF</span></a>, the list is endless.</p><p>You can't interview a Github repo.</p>
Cecilia Mjausson Huster<p>I design greeting cards for my company Valley Oak Paper. You can see my designs on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/valleyoakpaper/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">instagram.com/valleyoakpaper/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. Cardmaking tutorials on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ValleyOakPaper" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/@ValleyOakPaper</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>I'm a recovering <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/UXdesigner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UXdesigner</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> and I <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> about my entrepreneurial journey at <a href="https://www.valleyoakpaper.com/post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">valleyoakpaper.com/post</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Amazon wishlist: <a href="https://a.co/2W69mIu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">a.co/2W69mIu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Buy me a coffee: <a href="https://ko-fi.com/valleyoakpaper" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ko-fi.com/valleyoakpaper</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>New friends welcome! 🤗 </p><p>Please include <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/altText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>altText</span></a> for all images, so I can boost them in good conscience. <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a11y</span></a></p>
The Privacy Foundation<p>If you haven't watched Aral Balkan's <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aral</span></a></span> plea to the EU in regards to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralization</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/federation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federation</span></a> and the impact of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a> on our lives, consider watching it now. This is not just an EU issue.</p><p><a href="https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/70f2128c-8c06-4cc4-8a5a-bf77e765c8fd" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/70f</span><span class="invisible">2128c-8c06-4cc4-8a5a-bf77e765c8fd</span></a></p><p>It is well worth 17 minutes of your time, and right in line with this conversation. If we work together, we can help create a better internet.</p>