surveillance pricing Seattle looks to ban surveillance pricing with the "Fair and Transparent Pricing Ordinance" - and the disinfo has already started As my Mom said when I described surveillance pricing to her, “How can they get away with doing that? That shouldn’t be legal!” Indeed.
kosa Activism makes a difference: the SCREEN Act unexpectedly fails in committee! But KOSA advances, so keep up the pressure "Even if the committee votes to advance one or more of the bills (which they probably will), there will be other chances to block them. Still, that'll only happen if we keep the pressure up. The more noise we make around this battle, the more likely it
"The S is for surveillance": fighting KOSA and bad internet bills in the ATmosphere and the fediverses Part 2 of The Time Is Right: shifting from theory to practice.
organizing The time is right: Organizing against the surveillance-industrial complex in the ATmosphere and the fediverses If we organize, we can have a big impact in the fight against the surveillance-industrial complex.
flock A bad week for Flock (but a good week for privacy and local organizing) in Washington state! Good news from Issaquah, Redmond, Issaquah, and Auburn!
Flock is on the agenda this week at the Renton, Issaquah, Auburn, and Redmond city councils! "This past year has exposed just how dangerous automated license plate readers are as Flock Safety’s products have reportedly been used in immigration enforcement, abortion monitoring, repeated incidents of stalking, and experienced major cybersecurity breaches. But Flock is not alone. Motorola Solutions has long partnered with federal immigration
kosa KOSA, the KIDS Act, AI, Bad Internet Bills, and a potential giveaway to big tech (UPDATED) Just say no to bills that age restrict, censor, and surveil the internet!
FediForum "Growing the Open Social Web" Un-Workshop position statement Note: feel free to skip the narrative, and go straight to the position statement! ""Open Social Web" is a term surveillance capitalism companies and their friends have been using since at least 2008. The framing puts focus on the "openness," so erases the trans/queer/
#waleg 2026 at the midpoint: surveillance, privacy, AI, and age verification legislation overview Things are moving fast in a short session.
Reasons for optimism at the turn of the year: reflections on the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next There really is a lot of exciting stuff happening!
fediverse #GivingTuesday 2025 Don't limit your #GivingTuesday gifts to the non-profit industrial complex!
accessibiity N recommendations to improve accessibility in the fediverse and ATmosphere (DRAFT) DRAFT! Work in progress! Feedback welcome! Here are some work-in-progress recommendations based on initial feedback to Improving accessibility in the fediverse and the ATmosphere. these! For everybody * Learn to avoid common accessibility mistakes * Take the time to compose good alt text for your images if you're able to
Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? Media Revolution's Media Liberation Day on November 5 is encouraging people to liberate themselves from malignant corporate media to explore decentralized social networks. It's a great opportunity to bring people to fedi ... but as we all know, it's not always easy for people to
This is what solidarity looks like Part 2 of "Decentralization" and Erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere
accessibiity Improving accessibility in the fediverse and the ATmosphere One wonderful feature of many of the communities in the fediverse is that so many many people take the time to put alt-text on their images – so low-vision and blind people can participate much more fully than on other social networks. Just as importantly, some fedi software works quite well
ATmosphere Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? Nobody's changing their minds at this point, so let's stop wasting our time.
age verification Mississippi, Bluesky, Blacksky, the ATmosphere, Mastodon, and the Fediverse Now's a good time to start thinking seriously about some hard questions
Notes on genocide prevention and other kinds of organizing, mutual aid, and activism on social networks Part 4 of If not now, when? Do you have thoughts on the general topic or specific feedback on this post? Please join the discussions on Mastodon, Bluesky, or Lemmy – or use the CryptPad form here if you prefer (don't be surprised if it takes a few seconds
More notes on Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Activism on decentralized social networks Part 3 of a series. See If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next and Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere for previous installments and a reading list. "Mutual aid. Organizing. Sharing, contextualizing, and making
organizing Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere Some potential paths forward -- but the landscape is complicated.
If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next Part 1 of a series
Washington state privacy legislation SB 5708/HB 1834 (Age Verification) testimony Testimony to the Washington state Senate Ways & Means committee
