Petar @petar@social.coop
'Insiders from #Google, #Twitter, #Facebook, #Instagram, and #YouTube reveal how these platforms are reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen.' https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/
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What is the #IndieWeb?
"We should all own the content we're creating, rather than just posting to third-party content silos. Publish on your own domain, and syndicate out to silos. This is the basis of the "Indie Web" movement."
IndieWeb.org
indiewebify.me
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TikTok, Spotify, Tinder, and many other iOS apps are crashing *again* due to a Facebook issue https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/10/21319784/ios-apps-crashing-spotify-tiktok-pinterest-tinder-facebook-sdk-certification-issue
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Would be nice if Facebook SDK remained broken so people would be forced to remove it from their apps...
Silence is bliss
What has happened in 2020 so far is surreal 😐
Here's an intriguing but sad (if true) story about the creation of #twitter 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8N0xN0ihMA
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For 30 years, orgs like EFF have argued that digital rights are human rights and that the exercise of the latter requires the former. This has never been more true than it is now, during the pandemic.
So this new ebook, "EFF's Guide to Digital Rights During the Pandemic," could not be more timely:
* Surveillance
* Free Speech
* Government Transparency
* Innovation
* Living More Online
https://www.eff.org/pages/guide-digital-rights-pandemic
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I'm heavy on #chocolate lately 🤷♂️
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#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism « A former #Apple contractor who helped blow the whistle on the company’s programme to listen to users’ Siri recordings has decided to go public, in protest at the lack of action taken as a result of the disclosures. » https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/20/apple-whistleblower-goes-public-over-lack-of-action
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'Signal launches profile PINs, the first step in supporting Signal user accounts that are not tied to phone numbers.' https://www.zdnet.com/article/signal-to-move-away-from-phone-numbers-as-user-ids/
A must read for the weekend! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-value-money-ray-dalio
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JustDeleteMe
"A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services."
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Does anyone know free APIs for looking up words in dictionaries? 🤔
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'One of my goals as CEO for this period of time is to put people over profit and to do all I can to get Buffer through this as unscathed as possible.' Joel Gascoigne https://open.buffer.com/4-day-workweek/
'Compared to other causes of premature #death, air #pollution worldwide kills 19 times more people each year than #malaria, nine times more than #HIV / #AIDS, and three times more than #alcohol.' 😲 😷 https://phys.org/news/2020-04-air-pollution-thousands-die.html
