It is proven! I am jlv on Keybase: https://keybase.io/jlv/sigchain#afd7e31a3d5cbbaa15b255fded5a68341a6ff7952358919d79278be3ec4a2b670f
Mastodon quick start guide https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/08/mastodon-quick-start-guide/ by @nico
Every vote in the U.S. should have a paper trail, and that paper trail needs to be audited. https://www.eff.org/if-it-doesnt-have-paper-backups-and-automatic-audits-its-not-election-security
In a landmark decision, the Seventh Circuit court has ruled that government access of smart meter data constitutes a “search”—and residents have a reasonable expectation of privacy in it.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/win-landmark-seventh-circuit-decision-says-fourth-amendment-applies-smart-meter
Presented without comment. https://youtu.be/K3b6SGoN6dA
INTRO TO FEDERATION 2:
1. Servers (instances) mostly communicate 2 ways: sending posts to each other & sending profiles to each other
2. When person A's profile is first sent over, it only has their name, avatar & bio*
3. When someone on your server Y follows A, their server will send Y their toots & these are A's only toots that Y knows about*
4. # of toots/followers/follows on A's profile on Y all refer to the # of t/f/f which are actually on Y directly or indirectly
*simplified 4 brevity
The more I think about, the more I kind of like having multiple platforms for the same social media identity. It allows me to keep twitter for... well, exactly what it's good for:
Terse commentary and easy snark. Current affairs and outrage boosting.
Sustaining a loose affiliation with people in my line of work, and developments in that field.
Whereas here, of course, I can develop a parallel and expanded persona while not dissociating one from the other.
The medium is me.
On that topic, Dorothy Roberts and I wrote a short essay on Trump's "Law and Order" platform: https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/6615-editorial-dorothy-roberts-and-jeffrey-vagle-on
For those interested in police reform (especially given AG Sessions' fixation on removing what few reforms that are in place), this piece gives an interesting overview of the roots of policing: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-myth-of-liberal-policing/
Check this Wired article about #mastodon http://www.wired.co.uk/article/mastodon-social-network-what-how-create-account
In other news, Mastodon-the-band keep talking about my project and I don't know how to process this, it's just too amazing https://twitter.com/mastodonmusic/status/849424628401541121 Damn, if they decided to start an instance... What would they even be called. So many instances are already called mastodon XD
give @Gargron money
give @Gargron money
GIVE @Gargron MONEY
he's not selling your data, he's been basically doing development singlehandedly at this point, he deserves a couple bucks or euros or whatever currency you use:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=619786
Bitcoin: 17j2g7vpgHhLuXhN4bueZFCvdxxieyRVWd
Surveillance, privacy, crypto policy, and ethics of technology. Penn Law / Stanford CIS.