Brian Pagán (he/they) @brianpagan@social.privacytools.io

I wrote this at the start of last year. It couldn’t be more relevant today.

“In 2020 and beyond, the battle to save personhood and democracy requires a radical overhaul of mainstream technology”

https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/

#technology #humanRights #personhood #privacy

Let me state it as clearly as possible so no one is confused:

## Doesn’t violate your privacy:

- Algorithms running on your own device, under your control and in your interests, and informing only you of the results

## Violates your privacy:

- Algorithms running on your own device, not under your control and against your interests, and informing third parties of the results

Do Apple’s plans for client-side scanning violate your privacy?

Yes.

https://ar.al/2021/08/08/apple-is-trying-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-violate-your-privacy-we-must-not-let-it/

#apple #privacy

I love the concept that @aral talks about - about having your own "place" on the web and adding pieces of required functionality to it.

As opposed to separate services and domains per function - i.e. a mastodon; a peertube; a pixelfed. (even though those things are still awesome)

I'm going to try and develop a similar concept in....don't laugh....PHP.

Mainly because I want to start building things for people and right now that is my only competent language. 💚

Targeted ads aren’t just annoying, they can be harmful. Here’s how to fight back https://www.fastcompany.com/90656170/targeted-ads-arent-just-annoying-they-can-be-harmful-heres-how-to-fight-back

Leaving Apple & Google...

In our latest newsletter:
- pre-order your /e/-T2e 📱
- dark mode is coming 🕶️
- /e/ is hiring!

Read below in 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇩🇪

#degoogled #smarpthones #privacy #opensource

https://e.foundation/leaving-apple-google-pre-order-your-e-t2e-dark-mode-is-coming-and-e-is-hiring/

Directions to Nowhere in Particular - a game of chance that alters the ways you sense, make, and navigate public space https://www.directionstonowhere.com/

something I sometimes struggle to explain to some of the elder millenials in my life is that the cost of entry into everything gone up AND everything's been hollowed out. Education is more difficult to obtain AND the quality of it has gone down. Renting is more expensive and difficult to get approved for AND the houses are more neglected.
Benefits are more complicated to apply for AND they're worth less.

"Nature is our biggest ally and our greatest inspiration."
"In this world, a species can only thrive when everything else around it, thrives too."

"When we take care of nature, nature will take care of us."

💯

Some quotes by Sir David Attenborough in "A Life on Our Planet"

Mother Nature will survive. Whether we will be part of that remains to be seen. We can choose to do that. Or let nature decide for us.

#biodiversity #ClimateChange