Posts by KimSJ@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Aoc8OYbi6g0B6ip3aK by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2024-12-01T17:38:32Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 @h4890@liberdon.com @nicholas Sometimes I think we spend too much effort trying to distribute benefits ‘fairly’. Which is fairer, a 45/55 split, or to spend 20 ensuring the split of the remainder is exactly 40/40?
(DIR) Post #AohGjZlalJ3sCxmGw4 by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2024-12-04T07:20:38Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 @h4890@liberdon.com @nicholas It seems to me that a weakness of the American system is the time it takes for legal processes to complete, which Trump has gamed perfectly to evade justice. I think the ‘convention’ that presidents cannot be prosecuted has been too widely applied. It is reasonable not to allow new cases to be brought (which would provide a way to distract him or her from their duties), but the convention should not apply to ongoing cases.
(DIR) Post #ApLlfFfMi6delYxgtU by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2024-12-23T21:42:53Z
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@interfluidity I would like to think so, but who knows. The death penalty is inhuman.
(DIR) Post #Aq1Kf824pKF14Ww1po by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-01-12T22:58:09Z
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@futurebird We had a booth like that at EMF Camp this year. It was vey popular, and a lot of donated ‘junk’ got snapped up by people who thought they could use it.#EMFCamp
(DIR) Post #Aq2yaPhHufwHjcTfLk by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-01-13T14:54:31Z
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@openrightsgroup Why is promoting the BlueSky protocol suite better than investing in the Fediverse? This seems to me to be a land-grab by BlueSky.#ChangeMyMind
(DIR) Post #AqymIxmpTUFKME7A5w by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-02-10T15:15:44Z
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@interfluidity What I struggle to understand is why nobody is arresting Musk. America’s law enforcement seems powerless!
(DIR) Post #Ar1SKbflFXQgk5C7HM by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T22:16:13Z
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@interfluidity @Chronotope Isn’t that addressing the wrong problem? The fundamental issue is regarding these social media platforms as sources of profit, rather than as a service to the community. So ‘driving traffic’ is acceptable, and algorithms to do that are OK. In reality, if a platform pushes content from people you have not followed into your timeline, it is not Social Media, it is a publisher, and should be treated as such, with all the obligations that that carries with it.
(DIR) Post #Ar1n3VLhbaL5FEUy9I by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-02-12T02:08:28Z
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@interfluidity @Chronotope Fair point, but the reality is that we have the big SM platforms, and we need to find a way to mitigate the damage they are causing. Wishing they weren’t there is a wonderful theory, but difficult in practice.
(DIR) Post #Ar2PyedtWOVQpegam0 by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-02-12T09:24:36Z
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@interfluidity @Chronotope Interesting. Comment #9 (Tom Wittmann) shares my position… if a carrier’s algorithm shares posts that should be treated as ‘publishing’, and lose section 230 protection (or its equivalent in other jurisdictions). That ‘small’ change would solve many problems with social media, and dramatically curtail its ability to foment angst for profit.
(DIR) Post #Ar8zVTz8pQwGgBly4W by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-02-15T11:48:23Z
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Now with alt text…
(DIR) Post #ArcWiVWSnj8AmGbBZ2 by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-03-01T19:29:39Z
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@interfluidity 🍿
(DIR) Post #AsuSNGIyEdMPyL6kE4 by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-04-09T08:57:22Z
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@m0xee @joelvanderwerf @selzero Apparently Trump (and family members too) sold a lot of stocks the day before he announced the tariffs. So not as big a loss as the rest of us.
(DIR) Post #AtVxErTpvmfeZX1qT2 by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-04-22T13:12:01Z
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What Labour _should_ be saying is “we are grateful to the Supreme Court for highlighting the ambiguity of the current law, and we will be bringing forward emergency legislation to resolve the issue as soon as is practicable. It has always been this Government’s position that trans women are women and trans men are men”.Instead we get this weasel nonsense…https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y42zzwylvo#UKpolitics #TransRights
(DIR) Post #AueoMng3Yo4ajd3MC8 by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-05-31T12:06:50Z
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Here’s thought…We know the dark web exists, in parallel with the rest of the Internet, and we know the mainstream Internet is becoming increasingly enshittified by tech bros’ greed and AI. Would it be possible to create a ‘light web’ that excludes the bad stuff? What would it look like?#future #Internet
(DIR) Post #Aueub44tylQhNcrLjk by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-05-12T09:31:58Z
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Pissed off at the prospect of Trump’s Royal Visit to UK? Me too! We can’t explicitly petition for the invitation to be cancelled, but we can give MPs an opportunity to bring this up in debate. Please sign and share this petition.Thanks to all those who have boosted this.#UKPolitics #Trumphttps://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/724217
(DIR) Post #Auf1d71ogFgYmwL7pI by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-05-31T18:01:49Z
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@tomjennings Pop-ups may die a natural death, as more and more people install blockers. But sadly, the enshittifiers will find other ways, no doubt. And yes, I hate unnecessary log-ins. I have so many because of my interest in music production that it’s completely unmanageable (and everyone has their own proprietary licence management app, too). The fact that I pay for some of this stuff doesn’t help either. Everyone wants to “own my screen”.
(DIR) Post #AvQ9uyh0moZAPVT3T6 by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-06-23T11:46:01Z
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@Nonilex Just like the negative assessment presented to the UN by Hans Blick (iirc) on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq. US has previous on ignoring intel it doesn’t like.
(DIR) Post #B0EiPCdvVr5WopI8rg by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-11-14T12:35:49Z
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@aral So UK gets ‘finance’. Because our flourishing economy makes us the obvious choice. 🤦♂️/s
(DIR) Post #B0NyFD38rjffQdeyI4 by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2025-11-18T23:46:23Z
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@interfluidity I think the one innovation that could change everything would be to make it illegal to “deliberately or recklessly mislead the public”. There are too many half-truths and outright lies in both politics and the media. Democracy cannot survive that onslaught; if the electorate is fed misinformation their votes are meaningless, and democracy is dead. We have to start being honest with everyone!
(DIR) Post #B2iFw7zp9KC3WpcB8a by KimSJ@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T14:22:15Z
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@aralAll in place in plenty of time to screw up the FIFA World Cup in June. FIFA may be regretting awarding that ‘Peace Prize’!