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@jamesvasile
To freedom! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems. Open Tech Strategies | EFF | Brave New Software | Horizons he/him @[email protected]
NYC Katılım Ocak 2010
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“How do you include a voice for all the people affected by the technology you build?” EFF board member @jamesvasile asks in @TechReview. “These are big questions. ... No one was working on this 20 years ago, because that just wasn’t part of the scene.”
technologyreview.com/2023/08/17/107…
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@elizaorlins @HenryRosoff @danielsgoldman @yuhline @PIX11News @thehill @EmersonPolling Chinese folks in nyc are segregated by language. I know lots of folks who speak canto but not Mandarin. I'm sure others know lots of Mandarin but not canto speakers. If they got Mandarin but not canto speakers, they missed a big chunk of nyc.
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@HenryRosoff @danielsgoldman @yuhline @PIX11News @thehill @EmersonPolling A poll that doesn’t include Spanish speakers? Come on. And 5 of 500 opted for Mandarin? Give me a break.
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EXCLUSIVE POLL:
Dan Goldman (@danielsgoldman) leads the highly competitive race for #NY10.
Yuh-Line Niou (@yuhline) is a close second.
Goldman: 22%
Niou: 17%
Rivera: 13%
Jones: 13%
Simon: 6%
Holtzman: 4%
Poll by @PIX11News/@thehill/@EmersonPolling
MORE: pix11.com/news/politics/…
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@JasonLeopold Now FOIA the redacted version. I'm curious what they wanted to hide.
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NEW: ICE turned over docs to me in response to my #FOIA about protests in Portland, forgot to redact them & then wrote back to me & demanded I destroy the docs & "refrain from using or disclosing the contents"
Here they are.
documentcloud.org/documents/2121…
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@drewwww We also had these conversations around the early web. What does foot traffic look like? How do we make a town square that preserves incidental contact? What's the equivalent of protesting in front of cityhall? We were so naive, but today's architechs don't have to be.
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I am once again begging anyone talking about the metaverse to read up on Second Life. All these dynamics played out. SL started with transit hubs, and switched to teleportation.
It had gated communities, HOA-like entities, land speculation, harassment, IP theft...
Chris Paik@cpaik
Real estate in the metaverse will not be a thing. Real estate is valuable because there is a non-zero cost to move from point A to point B in the real world. There is no such cost in a digital world, negating all value of the analogous concept.
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I always tell people there is value in being open source from day one. What are your favorite projects that started as open from the initial design phase and a bare repo?
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@jamesvasile Lutèce: comprehensive city services developed by the City of Paris! lutece.paris.fr
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What are your favorite examples of gov open source software and creative commons materials? Bonus points if they originate or get uptake in the global south!
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@nearyd No bonus points, but yes that is a cool project!
Side note: open source projects that aren't in English increase accessible surface area, and I'm always happy to see them.
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@jamesvasile Vitam from France is one - not from the Global South though.
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@abditum @isislovecruft If they keep the design long enough, it will come back into fashion. Some day, there will be a 10mb JS framework that promises to make this aesthetic as easy as React.
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@isislovecruft My understanding is that they intentionally keep the same basic website design. Probably saves them a mint on hosting fees.
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Companies torture themselves and their devs to avoid accidentally licensing away vital patent rights via open source contribution. I'm seeking case studies of this happening. How does it play out in practice? Who has seen this in the wild?
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A new paper belies this early research into online civility. It turns out that for a lot of users, anonymity isn't required. They're proud of their uncivil behavior, not ashamed. It would be a mistake to design moderation systems without understanding that.
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30 years in, it is hard to identify a more tenacious fighter for our online rights than EFF. Add your voice! Support EFF at whatever level makes sense for you at supporters.eff.org/donate/30for30…
Karl Fogel (@[email protected])@kfogel
I can't attend the @EFF 30th Anniversary "Fireside Chat: Founders Edition" livestream tonight at 5pm Pacific. But I *can* donate $300 in honor of EFF's 30 years. Ten bucks for each year from founding until now? Sure, that's a bargain! Want to join me? livestream.eff.org
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@SarahJamieLewis That's so wonderfully targeted at a narrow swathe of people who know what to do with an iso and yet have no hygiene skills. It's so "fuck these people in particular". I kinda love it. If they get anybody with this one, they have so totally earned it.
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I admire the optimism of the person who sent me a phishing email with an iso attached. The world needs more of that energy.
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We'll open-source it later.
Morning Brew ☕️@MorningBrew
Write a horror story for your industry using just four words
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@deKeichane @GwynneFitz He's a cop. They don't follow traffic rules.
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Just two Brooklyn boys who might run the city next year naming a street together.
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@norootcause @pleia2 Hired: no matter who did what, you don't publicly blame your interns when things go wrong. Errors are a team stat.
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Tired: Don’t feel bad, everyone screws up.
Wired: Incidents are the product of a system, not individuals making mistakes.
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I finally finished @jilliancyork's Silicon Values. It captures the history and the complexity of doing content moderation at scale in a world full of bad actors and vulnerable users. I highly recommend it to anybody trying to get on top of platform censorship issues.
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If you frame open source effort as pooling labor expenses and writing proprietary code as capital investment, you're really misunderstanding how FOSS actually operates in the world.
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