Michel Salim @michel_slm@mastodon.social

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

Boeing use potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals similarly to people. The project is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution- or SPUDS.

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)

Oh. Um. Ok. Well it's been fun guys!
#Mastodon #Spam #wtf

Percy is a petrolhead (✯◡✯)

#catsoffediverse
#catsofpixelfed
#formula1

♻ RT @ExtinctionR@twitter.com:

We thank @GretaThunberg & @the1975 for making the #The1975 track & donating the proceeds to our rebellion: https://the1975.lnk.to/WakeUp

https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/

@Fridays4future

https://www.musicdeclares.net/

@musicdeclares

https://rebellion.earth/

#RebelForLife
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/25/why-greta-thunberg-joined-the-1975?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Percyfox

#catsofpixelfed
#catsoffediverse

I did my first star trek commission/instance art for @guinan !
@tenforward.social is also where I set up my first mastodon profile, so feels extra special
#mastoart #commission #startrek

#Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community #surveillance systems - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/amazons-collaborations-with-local-police-turn-its-ring-doorbell-cameras-into-blanket-unsupervised-community-surveillance-systems/ this is an appalling development #privacy

I'm calling a social media strike for July 4-5: https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/social-media-strike/

I know many here have already abandoned the likes of Facebook and Twitter. But if you're still there...announce that you're on strike (repeatedly?) on those days, in protest of these companies' abusive policies, and if you like, share this Declaration of Digital Independence: https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/declaration-of-digital-independence/

Me on Tucker Carlson talking about the #SocialMediaStrike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK6BHGu9SD4

News stories: https://twitter.com/lsanger/status/1146140428338716674

Oh! They just released the first issue of #ROMchip, a brand new academic journal of game history

give it a read, it's free!
http://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal

A highway interchange in the Takao Mountain, near Tokyo, Japan