Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 128

I hate the "own your data" meme in the decentralized social web. A friend of mine pointed out how useless the phrase is a few years ago and I agree. "Ownership" sounds an awful lot like digital "property", which is nonsense when moving from physical to digital stuff because copying doesn't destroy the original. The path you go down there is the path to artificial constraints like DRM. Yikes!

We should be talking about user autonomy instead. That's a much better meme.

HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points, If we make it so that you have to understand programming to even start, then we take something open and enabling, and place it back in the hands of those who are already privileged. 💯 true. https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2019/01/30/html-css-and-our-vanishing-industry-entry-points/

The continuation of #Spritely Golem will be to explain how the paradox of "mutable" content can be done in such an immutable distributed system, allowing updates or even deletes (via switching the content to Tombstone objects).

Here's my reading list, in case you want to follow along:

https://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/specifications/mutable.html
https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/compare/master...ccxcz:crdt-dirs-spec

(thanks to friends on #erights on irc.freenode.net for these links)

@fredmbarros

I think that the best way would be to incorporate discussions of free software as a social movement into papers/panels/meetups at DH conferences. But as a lowly grad student I'm not sure how much clout I've got to do so. I've also seen panelists ripped to shreds in the Q&A by senior scholars who think things like cc licenses are antithetical to academic research.

Me: I don't understand why people aren't using the ActivityPub client to server part of the spec

Also me: The client to server paradigm (as opposed to p2p applications that have no client / server distinction) is at the root of the failure of the fediverse to take off and be resilient

@bob The key to all of this is making it so that you don't need to pick a server, yeah? Just run on your device, and store-and-forward works ok enough so that when you come online, you get the messages you were waiting for.

Break down that client-to-server divide!

I think I've come to the conclusion that I enjoy web development - I just fucking hate the industry. (What I've seen of it so far at least).

Business' don't have any concern with the basic rights of people (privacy specifically). Yes they stick a "Privacy Policy" in the right place, but that's only to tell you how they are violating it, in general.

We really are in a dirty place in the networked age. We need to do better. And developers need to stop worshipping at the alter if fucking #google

I walked past a protest today but I wasn't sure what the focus was... it seemed extremely wide ranging, like it was about everything I believe in at once? Pretty much every topic (outside of digital freedoms) I care about seemed to be brought up in the 5mins I was able to be a bystander. I was in a hurry, but even though I agree with all the things said, I wonder if more focused protests are more effective?

But maybe it's useful to have a very general leftie protest every now and then?

#Nationalism [19th century] "is founded on treating #knowledge not as something that should be shared, as a basis for some kind of consensus through publishing, through contributing knowledge to the common good. Knowledge starts to be treated as some kind of #commodity…

A key issue in the 17th century #ScientificRevolution…was that #research findings had to be made #open to the community. The same thing with #accounting & #statistics. They’re there for the public."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/a-political-economist-on-the-end-of-the-age-of-objectivity

"#DeepLearning has authoritarian-right bias. It feeds on vast #datasets created by natural behavior, has a tendency to inherit endemic biases, & codify them in favor of conservative authoritarians who see the incumbent balance of power as natural & just.
A platform-scale social technology is a political ideology. If you want open, pluralist platforms, you're going to have to mix #pure technologies and arrange them in a conscious balance of power."
https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/politically-opinionated-platforms

https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/politically-opinionated-platforms

"Consider when someone sends a vial of saliva to #23andme. The person may not realize it will be resold to #bigpharma firms..

This is the same sort of #bargain Facebook and Google offer. You pay with your #personaldata, which is used to target you with ads."

https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-personal-data-collection/