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Dan Phiffer @dphiffer@social.coop

Internet enthusiast. Cat fancier. Works at ACLU. He/him.
https://phiffer.org

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**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 12, 2018, 16:42

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 12, 2018, 16:42

🌐 Greetings from the Queens Museum. Here is this week’s Smol Data newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/smoldata/letters/smol-data-at-oe2018-office-hours-today-at-2-3pm

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 11, 2018, 20:38

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 11, 2018, 20:38

Anyone else gonna be at Open Engagement this weekend?
http://openengagement.info/

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 05, 2018, 20:25

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 05, 2018, 20:25

Something I did today:
1. reactivated my Facebook
2. downloaded a data archive
3. diff'd my friend list against an archive from 6 months ago
4. emailed a handful of people who’d also deactivated

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 05, 2018, 18:07

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 05, 2018, 18:07

I finally have a proper Bandcamp profile set up. https://bandcamp.com/dphiffer

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 05, 2018, 18:06

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 05, 2018, 18:06

Unreasonably offended by justify-aligned text.

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 05, 2018, 17:25

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 05, 2018, 17:25

On behalf of CALIFORNIA GOLDEN CHANTERELLE (Cantharellus californicus), we demand that the US EPA offers environmental protection and climate justice for ALL LIFE.
https://onbehalfof.life/weedy-affairs/#species120444

https://social.coop/media/D-ZWqy2mUmsgDhhVziM

**Dan Phiffer** · May 05, 2018, 14:50

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**Julien Deswaef** @xuv@mastodon.social · May 05, 2018, 14:50

https://peer-to-peer-web.com/

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 05, 2018, 13:58

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 05, 2018, 13:58

Hello friends, Smol Data is having weekly office hours this afternoon at 3pm. Here’s our weekly newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/smoldata/letters/today-saturday-at-3pm-new-smol-data-office-hours

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 02, 2018, 15:00

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 02, 2018, 15:00

... as a platform coop. Very interesting.

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 02, 2018, 14:59

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 02, 2018, 14:59

MaaS: Mastodon as a Service
https://www.loomio.org/d/jgGJ8ucA/proposal-to-take-over-a-mastodon-hosting-service-hosting-external-instances-but-also-to-enable-the-creation-of-thematic-sister-coop-instances?utm_campaign=new_discussion&utm_medium=email&utm_source=thread_mailer

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 02, 2018, 00:33

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · May 02, 2018, 00:33

Eubanks, Virginia. “Popular Technology: Exploring Inequality in the Information Economy.” Science and Public Policy, vol. 34, no. 2, Jan. 2007, pp. 127–138., doi:10.3152/030234207x193592.
https://phiffer.org/etc/eubanks_popular_technology.pdf

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · Apr 29, 2018, 18:23

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · Apr 29, 2018, 18:23

Happy Sunday! The Smol Data newsletter is back: https://tinyletter.com/smoldata/letters/smol-data-office-hours-today-at-2-3pm-talkin-bylaws

**Dan Phiffer** · Apr 22, 2018, 19:03

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**Matt Cropp 🌲🌲** @mattcropp · Apr 22, 2018, 19:03

Free #Earthday Tix at the #NYC Natural History Museum, so figured I should send y'all a #Mastodon... 🐘

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · Apr 22, 2018, 17:05

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · Apr 22, 2018, 17:05

Hello friends, here is a weekly newsletter I wrote for Smol Data, a platform coop I’m in the process of forming. We have weekly office hours in about an hour, in case you want to chat. https://tinyletter.com/smoldata/letters/smol-data-office-hours-2-3pm-today

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · Apr 21, 2018, 19:16

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · Apr 21, 2018, 19:16

You should read this article about when Tropical Storm Irene hit my neighborhood in 2011. https://www.thenation.com/article/low-water-mark/

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · Apr 21, 2018, 15:52

**Dan Phiffer** @dphiffer · Apr 21, 2018, 15:52

tfw you hear the Zeppelin song that was sampled in Paul’s Boutique, and intellectually you know it is the original, but the original will always be the sample riff.

**Dan Phiffer** · Apr 11, 2018, 22:00

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**Electronic Frontier Foundation** @eff@mastodon.social · Apr 11, 2018, 22:00

Without Section 230, @twitter would have to approve every tweet before you could post it. @wikipedia might not exist at all.

Today, SESTA/FOSTA blew a hole in those protections. EFF's @elliotharmon talked with @onthemedia about the result. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/why-anti-sex-trafficking-bill-isnt-no-brainer

**Dan Phiffer** · Apr 11, 2018, 01:11

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**r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖** @cypnk@mastodon.social · Apr 11, 2018, 01:11

Waves under grating

**Dan Phiffer** · Apr 10, 2018, 13:37

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**صفر** @charlyblack@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2018, 13:37

"Resisting digital colonialism"
https://internethealthreport.org/2018/resisting-digital-colonialism/

"Digital Colonialism & the Internet as a tool of Cultural Hegemony"
http://www.knowledgecommons.in/brasil/en/whats-wrong-with-current-internet-governance/digital-colonialism-the-internet-as-a-tool-of-cultural-hegemony/

**Dan Phiffer** · Apr 10, 2018, 04:31

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**Allison Parrish** @aparrish@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2018, 04:31

open source licenses, as texts that advocate for their own propagation ("The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software"), is a kind of chain letter and maybe by extension could be considered a kind of himmelsbrief, a "letter from heaven," granting protection to those who possess them (and, per the upthread link, "divine punishment for disbelief of their claims")