On the final Friday of every month I curate among the observations and insights that have been shared on social media. I name these Friday’s Finds.
“If you’re staying on a company social media platform as a result of the folks you comply with are nonetheless there, think about others are additionally staying there since you are nonetheless there. Somebody wants to begin the transfer. Be that particular person.
Depart X for good.
Depart Fb without end.
Keep in mind blue skies finally flip gray.
Embrace the social media that can’t get offered to a billionaire. Embrace the Fediverse“
—@Em
“Fascism begins the second a ruling class, fearing the folks might use their political democracy to realize financial democracy, begins to destroy political democracy with the intention to retain its energy of exploitation and particular privilege.” —Tommy Douglas
“Keep in mind while you have been a child and adults used to ask you what you’d do if everybody else you knew was leaping off a cliff? Would you leap too? Now you already know.” —@JeremyMallin
Can we commit a while to discussing Slack? As in, why are all of us sending our each thought to a centralized server that may be hacked, and might can prepare AI with them? And why is Slack allowed to retailer transcripts however I can’t?
My union makes use of Slack for organizing. How loopy is it that a company within the cross hairs of a harmful and emboldened authorities would do that? With every part happening proper now, I’d like to be extra lively within the union, however should I actually hand over a lot to this opaque platform?
Is anybody else combating these issues? Have you learnt of viable Slack options? Are there any hacks that make Slack much less of a privateness invasion or make LLM coaching more durable? Are there at the very least methods for me to avoid wasting classes the best way I can with IRC? How do I resist Slack and never lose contact with teams that also use it?
—@DanGoodin [check the comments]
What Octavia Butler noticed on Feb. 1, 2025, three a long time in the past by way of @EstherSchindler
In “Parable of the Sower,” the novel’s 15-year-old protagonist, Lauren Olamina, writes a easy journal entry: Saturday, February 1, 2025: “We had a fireplace at the moment. Folks fear a lot about hearth.”
—What unfolds within the pages that comply with is a dystopian world surrounding the gated, racially combined, fictional group of Robledo, California.
—A brand new drug forces addicts to set fires to communities, who then rob and rape victims. Unhoused folks roam the streets and are compelled to steal to outlive. Hurricanes, fires and violence push Individuals to flee north to Canada.
—President Donner, like President Trump, guarantees to revive the nation to its former glory.
—Racially combined {couples}, like Olamina’s Black/Chicano household, are weak to assaults, and her dad and mom, each PhD holders, have restricted job alternatives.
Newly Authorized Tartan Design Memorializes These Persecuted Beneath Scotland’s Witchcraft Act by way of @MarkRees
