To the new people coming from #Bluesky, welcome to Fedi. Our policies are to ban transphobes and Nazis before they can start saying the word "concerned".
That book on the table? It's the Communist Manifesto. We can talk about that later. For now, I will make a small thread 🧵
Bernie the Wordsmith
Bernie the Wordsmith
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Periodista y documentalista. En mi cuarentena. Stop the genocide in Gaza. Trans rights are human rights. Tuiteo sobre #cibercultura, #rol, #medios, #literaturafantástica y #cienciaficción. #journalist #archivist #librarian. Posts are deleted after 2 months with some exceptions. Las publicaciones se borran a los dos meses para evitar el rastreo por parte de brokers de datos con políticas dudosas de retención y uso de los mismos.
Podcast: https://cronologicoinverso.com
Blog: https://escritura.social/berniethewordsmith
Pronouns: He/Him
The leftist/anarchist reading pipeline: https://bookwyrm.social/list/3367/s/the-leftistanarchist-pipeline
If you hear about #Omarchy, be warned. The creator of that distro has... Opinions about race 🤢


DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
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Ed Zitron keeps choosing violence for breakfast: "Every CEO talking about AI replacing workers is an example of the real problem: that most companies are run by people who don’t understand or experience the problems they’re solving, don’t do any real work, don’t face any real problems, and thus can never be trusted to solve them."The Case Against Generative AI. A thread full of bangers 👇 🧵


Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've...
What's happening at #Bluesky right now is very interesting. The corpos and the moderation team are sending Nazi bar signals (again), so established alternatives like #Blacksky are opening their doors to a possible mass migration. Blacksky even has a "comrade" option for people who aren't black. I still prefer ActivityPub so far, but the amount of work that Blacksky is putting in this is nothing short of amazing
Recordatorio de que el 12 de septiembre la Comisión Europea votará la iniciativa de #chatcontrol para darle el hachazo definitivo a la #privacidad de todas las personas salvo políticos y fuerzas del orden. Por favor, aseguraos de que escribís y llamáis a vuestros representantes. Si podéis llamar, mejor que enviar correo. Las llamadas no son tan fáciles de filtrar. Pásalo
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
#monsterdon This week's ACAB moment is brought to you by the Florist Union
Ok folks, will need your help with this thingie. The #ChatControl legislation corpse has been reanimated im the EU. I am reading through it and is crazy as fuck, but I need your takes as well. Please read the text that can be found here and share with others. Paging @Cory Doctorow ahshitherewegoagain.gif #privacy #infosec
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