Michel Salim @michel_slm@mastodon.social

Go game master quits saying machines 'cannot be defeated' - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/27/go-game-master-quits-saying-machines-cannot-be-defeated sad but inevitable

The outrage over #Gitlab proposed policy of keeping employees from China and Russia away from customer data is harmful to the very people Ciresi claims are discriminated against.

When #Indymedia Belarus decided to use Samizdat web engine, I refused to keep admin access to the site and asked allies from countries with civil rights protections to run it, because I knew that otherwise I would one day find myself in a KGB basement. Don't put people living in oppressive regimes in that position.

Two years ago, the impact of Facebook fake news on the 2016 election has already become evident. The world needs a better network that would not use its ranking algorithms to amplify hate and lies. No pressure, Fediverse. #uspol
https://video.gq.com/watch/the-closer-with-keith-olbermann-the-trump-voters-who-ve-had-enough

Whether you're looking for a way out of the Gulag or just a plan B for the next time you land in Facebook jail, moving from one centralized social network to another won't do you much good. Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, MeWe—they all have the same fundamental flaw. A for-profit corporation sustained by ads will always put growth and engagement above all else, from privacy and mental health of individual users to social cohesion and political stability of entire countries.

Breitbart in Facebook News is not an accident. The domination of trolls and fake news over authentic content isn't, either. Nor hiring Daily Caller as fact checker. Nor giving Trump a pass from fact checks and community standards.

Brown founded The 74 with money from Betsy DeVos, served on the board of DeVos' AFC, supported the likes of Scott Walker, ran articles by Daily Caller. Now she's head of news partnerships at Facebook, and The 74 is viciously attacking Warren.

https://popular.info/p/facebooks-top-news-executive-has

Freedom House: Thanks to social media, internet freedom is down for the the ninth straight year
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/05/bad-to-worse.html

T-Mobile: because we have a (stupid) trademark on one magenta shade, no one can use pink in their logos
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/05/risible-visible.html

Oh $FB ...

I work there (not on any product) and ... obviously I can't comment much, but ... 🤦

#facebook
#monetization
#uspol
#politics
#rightwing

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-right-wing-social-network/

Some days I can't shake the fact that HN is a hive of capitalist degeneracy run by a company that represents much of what I hate in the industry

Thread on recommendations for p2p communications for Hong Kong protestors.

Nice to see @manyver_se@twitter.com show up. Might be the only one meeting all requirements too!

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/cpfpqf/what_p2pmeshmultihop_messaging_apps_are_available/

This review of a book about Victorian-era London restaurants is blowing my fucking mind

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n16/bee-wilson/mmmm-chicken-nuggets

(soft paywalled, use the google cache or turn off JS to read the whole thing)