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Nov 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If I launched a Mastodon server that espouses my values regarding tech, media, data and democracy would you join? #TwitterMigration
If you tapped the fourth option in the poll above, well here you go. #TwitterMigration theguardian.com/media/2022/nov…
OK I’ve seen enough from this poll. Let’s experiment with the #Fediverse together. Applications to join my new mastodon instance are now open. federate.social
So I took the $8/month that Elon wants to charge for the checkbox rental and I launched my own social network instead to help cultivate new gardens. Here are my server’s rules and its mission. I hope members will help me develop them. federate.social/about/more

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Nov 1
My best advice for dipping your toes in masto as elon’s husk takes shape…
Already have small core of familiars posting comparable content #OnThere at a steady clip along with all new voices I’ve never met before. I’ve been playing around for a weekend and already my notifications for masto have overtaken my twitter notifs. You have to work at it tho.
I know it’s sad to let go and endure sudden change. So many of us have invested so much of our life #OnHere. The problem for us is that it was always for sale. Even if it’s messy, masto is not for sale. Right now, and for what it’s worth, that’s a feature. Not a bug.
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Oct 4
funny how things settle once the executive depositions are scheduled
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indeed
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Sep 27
Bekah Mercer suing Alexander Nix for £16M for causing downfall of her precious Cambridge Analytica. Nix insists to High Court that his comments captured undercover by C4 are not to be taken literally, blaming others for stonewalling the ICO investigation
🔐law360.com/articles/15243…
“Nix, who was chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, also denies that the company was "engulfed in scandal" following a series that aired on Channel 4.”

Weird then how CA/SCL claimed it needed to go out of business because being engulfed in scandal chased away all their clients
I doubt it came up in Dynamo Recoveries Ltd. v. Nix, case number CL-2022-000321, in the High Court of Justice of England and Wales but Bekah had an OCEAN score for *all* US registered voters; forensic proof was Trump 2016 db leaked to Channel4 who then showed voters their files.
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Sep 22
It’s all very 1980s. Mortgages are expensive. Iron Maiden and Judas Priest t-shirts are a hot commodity but so are satanic panics. A dark cloud of nuclear war looms large. Indy music sounds like The Cure. Conservatives have a weird way of promoting censorship. A virus politicized
England’s PM is a woman and Charles III is in the spotlight… just free associations how the 2020s are like the 1980s … everything old is new again
A US president who was an entertainer before politics and did some very bad things in office spawning investigations but retained full party support nevertheless
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Sep 16
Remarkable to see FTC draw out the mindset of A/B split testing as a catalyst for breeding deceptive design patterns in UI toward a harmful UX. #DarkPatterns ftc.gov/reports/bringi…
no one worried that covert, unethical, profit-driven automated psychological experiments on non-consenting subjects would yield harm but who cares because chart go up
That famous startup guidebook taught tech bros to intentionally deceive people with A/B as a business model discovery strategy and now it infuses the ux of everything.
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Sep 16
California’s latest data privacy law aims to switch privacy default settings from off to on for everyone by protecting minors. I prefer granting all people equal protections but the USA only has the political will to protect children from mass data abuse. nytimes.com/2022/09/15/bus…
California is also convinced of its own exceptionalism, that its rules drive the whole market, such as in auto emissions. But the CCPA/CPRA has not had the same effect in my view, as a person seeking expanded #DataRights without residing in California or the EU.
The exception to my critique of exceptionalism is that there is CCPA loophole that can be exploited for non-residents. Here is an app in beta (myfriday.io) that has so far pushed 10 obscure data brokers to respond to CCPA requests on my behalf.
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