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Uber driver to me: “So, were you born this way?” Me: “By this way I’m assuming you mean fabulous? It’s ok, you can say the word, I won’t be offended!” Driver: “There isn’t like … a surgery they can do to fix you?” Me: “Why would you fix fabulousity? I mean if I could have the ability to fly, then I’d consider it but honestly, why mess with perfection?”

—@Pawpower

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Holy crap! SocialBu scheduler now gives you the ability to add alt text to images it posts to Mastodon.

THANK YOU.

That means I can now use this to schedule my posts and @writingtheother posts and drop @buffer like a hot potato!

And for my peeps who care about #accessibility, SocialBu is one of the only schedulers that can send posts to Mastdon AND has alt text.

#disability #DisabilityActivists

—@tempest

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Brosephine Wires (@JoParkerBear@universeodon.com) (Universeodon Social Media)
I can’t believe *any* country would consider adopting Starlink at this point, especially a democracy, when the CEO has shown an eagerness to interfere with Starlink’s service if it becomes politically interested in a global conflict, or if it thinks there could be lulz and dank memes. https://www.reuters.com/technology/japans-military-considers-adopting-musks-starlink-satellite-service-media-2023-06-25/
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As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In Canada by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

Two weeks ago, Canada’s Heritage Minister, Pablo Rodriguez, who has been the main Canadian government official pushing for C-18, the bullshit link tax bill, that is just a corrupt wealth transfer from one disliked industry to a favored industry, insisted that it was “unacceptable” that Meta might stop allowing links to news if the bill […]

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I just realized that there is so much noise about #Meta and very little about creating template legal policies that instances can adopt that prohibit commercial use of user data.

Whatever you think of defederation there are easy ways to do that. Legal policies on the other hand are complex and require expertise and often money.

Maybe #LawFedi can help crowdsource templates of strict noncommercial legal policies for the #Fediverse so instance admins do not have to figure it out themselves?

—@franktaber

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AnarchoNinaWrites (@AnarchoNinaWrites@oliphant.social) (Oliphant Social)
Dear media folks covering the fascist tech sector: I need you re-read the sentence "She has a good reputation, and seems like a reliable business person even if she's working for an Afrikaner nazi supervillian to fix his rapidly breaking fascist discourse/trans pogrom machine company" again over and over and over and over until you understand what's wrong with it and why nobody likes you.
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Imagine the alternate universe where free software advocates trippled down on #accessibility as *the* way to solve inequality.
Their legacy becomes talking boot menus and commandlines you can actually read, a GUI you can use just as easily with a keyboard as a mouse or a head tracking device. You have the peace of mind that anything with the FOSS label on it will “just work,” regardless of your physical or mental capabilities. The brand becomes associated with longevity, and stability.

Oh well!

—@objectinspace