Mikanniko @mikan5@fedibird.com

tl;dr Call your US Representative and ask them to support S. 1541, which just passed the Senate by Unanimous Consent. https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Currently, there are spots in the US where calls from jails cost $1/minute. 1/3 families with someone incarcerated go into debt keeping in contact.

The Senate just passed S. 1541, which will bring prison phone and video call rates back down to reasonable levels and allow the FCC to start regulating video calls as well.

When Big Telecom tries to convince you that #MunicipalBroadband is a "financial boondoggle," tell them to tell that to EPB Fiber in Chattanooga TN

The city invested $220 mil to build out a city-wide fiber network and an independent study by the Univ of Tenn found the network reaped the city a $2.7 billion ROI in first 10 years of operation
🧵

https://muninetworks.org/content/study-finds-chattanooga-fiber-network-10-year-roi-269-billion

Why do we call them “central banks” and not “apex creditors”?

Tool: We can learn your LoB apps, just let us know when an alert is generated from one.
Me: <Constantly clicks on this is LoB for the alerts they generate>
Tool: <still alerts on the LoB apps>

Fuck your machine learning and "AI" crap and just give me a simple way to exclude things FFS.
#Infosec #EDR #BlueTeam #AlertFatigue

I totally understand and accept that many folks are willing to stick it out on the other place, despite the issues, for all sorts of reasons (including the disappointing amount of support they might be finding here for their communities). But at this point, personally I’m way more interested in building better communities here, and in other spaces with similar decentralized structures, then in enduring whatever havoc a hostile CEO decides to unleash at any moment.

We have a huge opportunity to reclaim online culture after 20 years of being shepherded into pens and jolted for our data. The gate is now open, and there are other, more promising options. We shouldn’t let this moment pass.

Good morning. ICYMI, House Dems released Trump's tax returns & revealed that the IRS had failed to audit Trump his 1st 2 years in office - despite a rule requiring it to audit presidents - & only started 1 when they asked for his tax/audit data in 2019. /1 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/20/us/trump-taxes-news#trump-tax-returns-irs-audit

If you are considering running your own Mastodon server (or similar service) and it will be hosted in the United States, please read this general best practice guideline from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

#eff #electronicfrontierfoundation #law #legaladvice #bestpractices #fediverse #dmca #digitalmillenniumcopyrightact #section230 #corynnemchserry #rights #anonymity #copyrightlaw

Washington Post journalists on Mastodon:

@willoremus
@taylorlorenz
@teddyamen
@tonyromm
@Shira
@rachellerman
@pbump
@NaomiNix @nitashatiku
@jeremybowers
@JosephMenn
@Ddiamond
@databae
@cristianolima

Please let me know who I'm missing!More to come.

@atomicpoet @witchescauldron @mensrea @gisiger
@lightone

3/3

Even worse is that some instances are using (Sc)amazon or Cloudflare to serve content.

We need to find ways to resist this.

People who operate sites dedicated to listing #fediverseInstances are welcome to contact us and ask us to do an assessment of instances they list. We are happy to volunteer to do this.

Knowledge is #power, and we need to remain as vigilant as ever to ensure the power remains #distributed.

A warning: there's going to be a concerted effort to re-centralize the Fediverse.

As we've just seen with the acquisition of pawoo.net, that's already happening.

What are you going to do to thwart this trend?

Everyone needs to be aware that Mask Group trades a crypto token.

This same entity now owns pawoo.net, mstdn.jo, and mastodon.cloud.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/12/21/encrypted-messaging-protocol-mask-network-acquires-mastodon-server-pawoonet/

BIG NEWS: Pawoo.net, the world's 2nd biggest Mastodon instance, has just been acquired.

The entity acquiring them is the Mask Group, an entity that also runs mstdn.jp and mastodon.cloud. They are also active in the so-called "Web 3.0" space.

If you haven't heard of pawoo.net, it's because many instances have de-federated from it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mask-network-acquires-pawoo-net-070000858.html

Elon Musk is Still Silencing the Journalists he Banned from Twitter.

It looks like our accounts have been reinstated, but it's an illusion: We're actually locked out and can't post anything without deleting specific tweets the billionaire doesn't like.

This latest article embeds a Mastodon post and links to posts by @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa and @tony

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/

New Tails 5.8 Comes With All New Persistent Encrypted Storage + More

#News #TailsOS #Linux #anonymity #anonymous #Tor #proxy #HumanRights #encryption #crypto #cybersecurity #Infosec #Journalism #operatingsystem #privacy
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.8/index.en.html

#advent #christmas 🎄 #wintersolstice #startrek

@krisSacrebleu Nope.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/fake-quote-said-to-be-from-jacinda-ardern-goes-viral.html

@krisSacrebleu not true. Fact check https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/jacinda-ardern-rupert-murdoch-white-men-new-zealand-prime-minister/

@krisSacrebleu While there are a lot of reasons to like her, I’m afraid she didn’t say this: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-nz-pm-idUSL2N2W41Q9

@krisSacrebleu

Fabricated quote, unfortunately

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-nz-pm-idUSL2N2W41Q9