cass.forest @cityboundforest@computerfairi.es

Privacy and visibility should be about self-determination and agency. Everyone deserves to be able to choose when, and with whom, they share personal information.

We'll use today's Transgender Day of Visibility to celebrate the resilience of trans people in the face of an increasing anti-trans political landscape and raise awareness of the fact that not everybody can or wants to be visible.

Overheard: “I’d love to be a fly on the wall at Mar-a-Lago, but I might be drowned in ketchup by now.”

#FediTip: A lot of new folks have joined recently from Twitter, especially creators. Just to note, include links in your posts if you're promoting your stuff. You are not punished by any algorithm for external links on #Mastodon or the larger #Fediverse. Today, I saw someone talking about a cool looking #Kickstarter, but there was no link to the project!

We are not a walled garden!

Lots of new #TTRPG faces immigrating from Elon's Folly now that the bluebird is going down in flames.

First of all, welcome!

Secondly, the most important #Feditip I can give you is that Mastodon has no algorithm. YOU make your own by curating what accounts and hashtags you follow, mute or block. Make sure you find the things and people you are interested in and follow those!

Corollary, the key to post visibility here are hashtags. Use them!
#DnD #TTRPGCommunity #GameDesign

Are Apple devices really privacy-respecting? The truth is that user privacy is *impossible* without free software. Read more at https://u.fsf.org/3fy #freesoftware #privacy

The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess https://szmer.info/post/301607

Here we go again: Mastodon is not just for FOSS and Fediverse purists. If i want to post highlighting that I am also on other platforms, some you may not like or want to use - just scroll to the next post. Be accepting that people are in other places. Lecturing people and hassling people about being in places you don’t like is unhelpful notification noise and I will block people who keep doing it.

RIP E3

Get your mail-in ballots in today, Wisconsin!

Signed.

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

#AI #Tech #Future #Internet #Collapse #Doom #Jobs #Peanuts

People of the United States, lots of news and local media for you to follow here:

US News:
@ProPublica
@damemagazine
@thenation
@TheConversationUS

Jewish Americans:
@momentmag

Alaska:
@anchoragedailynews

Arizona:
@TucsonSentinel

Colorado:
@TheAuroraSentinel

Maryland:
@wbaltv11
@rvaweather

Massachusetts:
@gbhnews
@universalhub
@leominsterchamp

MIssissippi:
@msfreepress

New Jersey:
@BlowUpRadio

New York:
@THECITY

Oklahoma:
@blogoklahoma

Texas:
@Chron
@TexasObserver

After the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs decision overruling Roe v Wade last year, each state was left to make and enforce its own abortion laws. Many red states had already put abortion “trigger” laws in place that would leap into effect the moment Roe was overturned, while many blue states rushed to pass additional protections to guarantee the right to abortion access.

Then there was Wisconsin, where a law essentially banning all elective abortion procedures has Democrats in the state fired up and ready to fight back. They get a big chance to do so next Tuesday. http://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/reproductive-freedom-democracy-wisconsin-court

I'm not sure who needs to hear this but you don't owe anyone on the internet your real name or a profile image that's a real photo of you.