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Much easier than regulating to break up Facebook, just regulate to force them to make an API for us to get data in and out. We can break them up ourselves once we have that.
They used to have one, and IndieWeb was doing pretty well with that until FB decided to turn it off. Now *that’s* monopolistic behaviour and anti-trust.
I think this is a really smart aim of Zap:
“We’ve tried very hard to ensure that this software will run on commodity hosting platforms – such as those used to host WordPress blogs and Drupal websites.”
https://framagit.org/zot/zap/blob/master/install/INSTALL.txt
Ooo – a website built with Haunt (Guile Scheme static site generator) that is making use of some IndieWeb building blocks.
https://git.sr.ht/~jakob/blog/tree/master/haunt/jakob/builder/outbox.scm
Very relevant to my interests!
@jakob@mastodon.sdf.org
I just watched The Great Hack (documentary about Cambridge Analytica and the misuse of Facebook data).
It’s OK. If you already know the story, there’s nothing much new. I guess it’s good to keep the story alive, and maybe introduce it to people who missed it when it happened. I found it a bit heavy handed, and the focus on Brittany Kaiser as an individual a bit distracting. I guess it gives the story a hook though.
Moral of the story: don’t do data, kids.
If you’re looking for things to watch…
cinema politica
https://www.cinemapolitica.org/on-demand
“committed to supporting alternative, independent, and radical political film and video, and the artists who dare to devote time, passion and resources to telling stories from the margins.”
thought maybe (hat tip to panda!)
https://thoughtmaybe.com/
“A library of films to inspire critical thinking and direct action”
Grant Richmond (grant.codes)Over the last few months I have been completely rebuilding my social reader Together. So I felt I should write a post about it to highlight what’s changed and show off what Together has to offer.
Wowsers – currently 90% off all ebooks at Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4395-ebook-flash-sale-90-off
Looking forward to reading this – “Future Histories” by Lizzie O’Shea
“What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources—like the Internet—in common? Can debates over digital access be guided by Tom Paine’s theories of democratic economic redistribution? And how is Elon Musk not a visionary but a throwback to Victorian-era utopians?”
Listened to a thing about the fourth industrial revolution, so called. Driven by things like machine learning, AI, nano materials, biotech, additive manufacturing, sensors and IoT, autonomous vehicles.
I dunno. I fail to be excited by any of it any more, unless it comes with an explicit intent to improve social wellbeing, not just vague promises of productivity and efficiency, shit going faster for the sake of it.