An alle: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica und Vodafone Mobilfunknutzer: Widerspruch bei der Online-Werbeplattform Utiq einlegen - für ein Jahr gültig. 👇
I've not watched it and don't intend to ... but value the personal experience of its writer.
⭐ That said: it's possible to address traumatizing topics without creating #trauma in the process.
❤️ Our free game ADRIFT is an example of that. Although the game is about #consent it is appropriate for all ages. It was even re-created for a museum.
Today in Labor History Today in Labor History April 15, 1943: Albert Hoffman, inventor of LSD, tested his first dose and went for a bike ride. This day is now celebrated as Bicycle Day. “... Little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ...” And from that date forward, working class people could finally afford to go on a trip.
Sandoz originally marketed the drug as Delysid and sold it in 100 microgram doses. From the late 1940s, through the early 1960s, the drug was legal and numerous psychologists and researchers began experimenting with it as a form of therapy. Many were willing participants in the CIA’s UKUltra mind control experiments, in which LSD was given to people without their consent or knowledge. Cary Grant was a frequent and enthusiastic user. As early as the late 1940s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson became enthusiastic about its potential to unleash a new era of peace and expanded consciousness. The founder of Alcoholic Anonymous was also an early user and said that it was far more effective at treating alcoholism than any other treatment he knew of. Research John Lily, along with Gregory Bateson, began dosing dolphins in the early 1960s, in experiments connected with the U.S. military, in an attempt to learn to communicate with the animals and deploy them as weapons in the cold war.
Hoffman later went on to isolate psilicyben, the active hallucinogenic ingredient in mushrooms, which he also enjoyed experimenting with.
A new bill from #SanFrancisco Assembly Member #MattHaney would clearly outline when companies can communicate w/their #employees during off hrs, following other countries that have passed “right to disconnect” #laws.
…“We’re simply saying there should be #consent around when (people) are working & not,” Haney said. “Not an expectation of 24/7 availability in a contract that they have not agreed to, & that gives people no time where they can expect to be not working.”
Countries including France, Australia, Argentina, Italy & others have passed #laws to safeguard #employees’ personal #time.
I don't mean to stir the pot. I don't care what others do as long as they are informed. The reason I will continue to block #Threads is spelled out in Meta's privacy policy:
"If you interact with Threads through a Third Party Service (such as by following Threads users, interacting with Threads content, or by allowing Threads users to follow you or interact with your content), we collect information about your third-party account and profile... your content... and your interactions."
@BeAware did you inform your users on the impact so that they can make their informed decision? Unless you are running a single user instance it is not up to you to silently decide for them. #Consent matters. And no, threads is not just another instance joining the verse... @null
@newsmast The only way I can "block the instance" is for my instance admin to block it, because as I've already explained a user-level "block" on #Mastodon is actually a "mute". So what you've "done to help" so far is actually nothing. Your project to aggregate the toots of everyone on the #Fediverse who uses hashtags should be #optIn and should respect #consent.
@newsmast That's great, thanks for letting me know. It would be better if you used an #optIn system, though, that respects #consent, because the way you're doing things at the moment requires everyone who isn't aware of how you're using their data to contact you individually to request that you don't share it in ways they weren't expecting. All the best.
Another argument I'm seeing in favor of the #BlueSkyBridge is that if your Mastodon posts are public, people and scrapers can already access them, so why object to having to #OptOut of #BlueSky?
I'd like to respond to that with an analogy: In my neighborhood, there's a certain restaurant. It's open to the public and as such is a public space, but I don't go there because its owner vocally supports political views that hurt LGBTQ people, so it attracts certain patrons I'd rather avoid. Now, sometimes I have to walk outside this restaurant to run errands and such, and people inside the restaurant can look through the windows and see me on the sidewalk. I can't avoid that, but I can avoid going in, and we would generally say that anyone who would try to force me to go in is being unreasonable.
Just because I'm existing in public doesn't mean I have given #consent to be harassed or be put in situations where it's more likely for me to be harassed
#FediBlock snarfed.org and brid.gy for bridging fediverse folks to Bluesky against their will (and in likely contravention of GDPR in the EU) with typical Silicon Valley techbro sense of entitlement:
“[O]pt in results in far fewer users, and users are critical for a bridge to be useful.”¹
PS. I just suspended (domain blocked) both snarfed.org and brid.gy from my personal fediverse instance and saw that there was already one account from one and eleven accounts on the other so my account was apparently already being bridged without my consent.
Those links are now severed and they never should have existed without my knowledge or approval to begin with.
Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Bluesky from here in the fediverse, and vice versa.
Bluesky is a broad network with lots of worthwhile people and conversations! I hope you’ll give it a chance. Only fully public content is bridged, not followers-only or otherwise private posts or profiles. Still, if you want to opt out, I understand. Feel free to DM me at @snarfed (different account than this one), email me, file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.
(Admins, if you decide beforehand that you don’t want your instance to federate with Bluesky over the bridge, the domain to block is bsky.brid.gy.)
@tejan And the more it goes, the more hateful some are.
The brigading against the guy who posted the bridge to #BlueSky is despicable.
And if at least they had a point, but their "#consent" argument doesn't make any sense. The whole #Fediverse is based on tacit consent.