The beautiful thing about neoliberals is they believe everyone should be able to take part in colonialism regardless of race, skin colour, sexual orientation, etc.

@flugennock Not exactly, no. We can’t go backwards but we can go forwards in a better direction.

This is what I mean by Small Web: https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

Also see: https://web0.small-web.org ;)

By the way, the image in that blog post? I cobbled it together using a free and open web-based alternative to Sketch called Penpot.

Check it out at https://penpot.app/

#penpot

Mark: let me threaten the EU with shutting down Facebook and Instagram, that’ll teach ‘em!…

Folks in the EU: https://mobile.twitter.com/aral/status/1490268690532737026/retweets/with_comments

#FuckOffMark

New blog post: Everyone Hates Facebook (but this is more than just about Facebook)

https://ar.al/2022/02/07/everyone-hates-facebook-but-this-is-more-than-just-about-facebook/

Dear EU,

When I spoke at the parliament a few years ago, I told you how we could chart a different course forward to put ownership and control of our digital selves into our own hands and unshackle us from Silicon Valley.

Are you ready to listen now?

https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

By the way, this is Facebook’s actual threat – “we will take away these jobs”:

https://m.independent.ie/business/technology/facebook-to-create-10000-jobs-as-it-starts-to-build-a-metaverse-40958500.html

Time for Ireland and the EU to decide whether they want to live as Facebook’s bitch or not.

Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans’ data on US servers

https://www.cityam.com/mark-zuckerberg-and-team-consider-shutting-down-facebook-and-instagram-in-europe-if-meta-can-not-process-europeans-data-on-us-servers/

2022 is really starting to look up!

@savohead @clacke Perhaps what you’re missing is that Travellers are discriminated against and persecuted in the UK, Ireland, and elsewhere to this day. The “joke” doesn’t punch up, it punches down.

Oh, this? It’s just Jimmy Carr casually joking that the genocide of a people was part of “the positives” of the Holocaust on Netflix.

https://twitter.com/TravLawyer/status/1489600048044331014

@arh This is what we’re recommending: https://better.fyi/support/#alternative

(And they’ve been lovely and are making donations to Small Technology Foundation to help support our work.)

@clacke @mathew fml :)

@mathew Excuse me, I’d like to put in a transfer request to a different planet.

I’d say NFTs have reached peak stupid but something tells me that’d age about as well as Gates’s 640KB quip.

https://twitter.com/curator1of1/status/1487364584516239369

Meanwhile, the NFT shitshow continues. On today’s episode…

https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1486728737143939088?s=20&t=kImMfyu7RptjWTe1xRAh7A

Me: *looking at Tidal as “artist-owned” alternative to Apple Music that’s not tied to a single platform…*

Me: *seeing it’s now owned by Jack Dorsey*

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

@kiudecan Well, depends on how you see Twitter, I guess ;)

How dumb are the web3 folks? About this dumb.

https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1482817817502224384

#web3 #crypto #nft #dao #blockchain

@poputchik Wanna buy me a new phone? (Kidding, please don’t. No, I’m not going to throw away my phone overnight but I am looking for alternatives.)

@Gargron How are these people not behind bars?