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#Banksy celebrates 50 years of the 1968 uprising, stencil art and the situationist internationale
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/street-art/50-years-after-the-1968-protests-in-france-banksy-honors-the-history-of-stencil-activism-in-paris/
I love it!
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
Very good write-up on the local/global "Fuck of #Google" movement
http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/reportage-2/berlin-neighbourhood-fighting-google-giant/
This is actually still my neighborhood despite ongoing #gentrification
Co-ops, democratically run and emphasizing long-term sustainability over short-term profits, are a key part of the #SolidarityEconomy.
Earlier this month, Wired UK published a brief but interesting profile of "CoTech, a growing network of tech co-operatives in the UK. There are currently 30 tech businesses united under the CoTech banner, which range from filmmakers to programmers; they collectively employ more than 250 staff and have revenues of over £10.2 million."
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/cotech-tech-cooperatives-blake-house-outlandish
The headline here is awkward, but the rest of the article is worth reading
"Two-thirds of Americans expect Canada or Mexico to welcome them as refugees"
How to Optimize Your #Website for More User #Privacy
http://seo2.onreact.com/how-to-make-your-website-less-scary-and-intrusive-to-gain-more-business
This is a post I wrote for a larger audience about making your site less creepy.
Gmail's upcoming self-destructing emails will require the recipients to click on a link and log in with their #Google accounts to see the content, if they are accessing via IMAP/SMTP.
Don't be fooled: Google's purpose is not to give us more confidentiality. They want all of their users to access their mailboxes via the Gmail app or their web interface, so they are creating a burden to the recipients and calling it “security” to convince people to adopt it.
a neat optical illusion where you can flip the direction of the train in your head
"Google is implementing Project Maven, a customized AI surveillance engine" for the US military to be used in drone wars
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/04/google-ceo-drones-ai-war-surveillance
No joke! Even Googlers rebel finally!
Secure mail boxes that do not track you:
Protonmail.com (Swiss)
Soverin.net. (Dutch)
Tutanota.com. (German)
Posteo.de. (German)
This is cool. #Vegan alternative to leather made from... Mushrooms!
I wonder how it will perform long-term. That's still the one thing that leather has over it's alternatives.
Anti-Google campus demonstration with heavy police protection just passing my window. You rock people!
I'm still not sure what the actual use case of Mastodon is. Reading all the bad news like on Twitter?
Exchanging personal opinions that don't matter anyway?
Talking to strangers who happen to listen?
Please tell me.
Comic: Is the Internet making us touchy?
Trying not to follow people who only post here with links from their Twitter feed.
I can't upload images to Mastodon anymore :-(
Top Climate Scientist: Humans Will Go Extinct if We Don’t Fix Climate Change by 2023
https://gritpost.com/humans-extinct-climate-change/
