The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

There also needs to be more discussion of how making it easy to fragment your identity helps abusers and criminals, too.

I like the idea from a privacy point of view, but seems like a lot of cognitive overhead for a normal user. I think the easiest default model with portable graphs would be that you have a group of friends/contacts, wherever you go, and choosing to fragment your identity is the exception.

A significant percentage of my country's fellow citizens will apparently tolerate the profligate murder impulses of a mad king in order to protect their opportunity to impose xenophobic fascism on the rest of us.

A beige brick wall with a central section of mismatched bricks forming a patch-like rectangle, casting light shadows; conveys a sense of oddity.

Definitely coming back here when I unlock bombs.

birdsrightsactivist has painted human babies and hidden them in the shrubbery.

Debanking Is a Confusing Nightmare. It’s at Risk of Getting Worse Trump’s regulators are reshaping rules, potentially making it harder for banks to eject clients over suspicious behavior.

Getting kicked out of your bank can be as kafkaesque as losing your social media account.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I think our path is to separate the problem of healthy, sustainable communities from the aspiration to create the mass-market public square. Local restaurants can thrive without needing to become Chipotle.

Democracy!

This hearkens back to the days of yore. In 1983 TSR had officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons needlepoint kits by Greenfield Needlewomen.

It’s been so much fun beta testing Surf for the last year or so. @mmccue.bsky.social and @marcimccue.bsky.social have been amazing partners and the team at @flipboard.com did their thing with the @surf.social app, and now web.

Be sure to check out allnet.surf.social and let me know what you think!

If you're an open source lover and infrastructure person (aka were roaming the halls of #KubeCon or will find all the storage and data pipeline talks at #ATmosphereConf), @roost.tools is looking for you!

We've got fully remote, Infrastructure Engineering roles now open: roost.tools/infrastructu...

From the perspective of an Asian economy:

1) The Strait was open. Everyone could buy gas and fertilizer. Yay!

2) US violence for no good reason, caused it to close. 🤦🏻‍♂️

3) Our country's leaders used diplomacy to open it for us again. Yay!

4) Escalating US violence threatens to close it again. 🤦🏻‍♂️

How is your Instagram account like a hotel room? Data in our online accounts should be protected from unreasonable search and seizure just like luggage in a hotel room, according to a new US Supreme Court amicus brief from Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic ...

More, and links to all the details, in this week's Platformocracy. Consider subscribing - free, weekly, often snarky. 8/8

If you think it works like that today, look closer. YouTube's terms of service require you to let them keep copies of your videos even if you "delete" them. Maybe even use your content to train AI. 7/8

If you create something new while staying in a hotel room, it belongs to you, even if you used the hotel's pen and paper (or even if you scrawled it on an expensive towel). You should have the same right to everything you make online, including your social graph. 6/8

If the Supreme Court enshrines accounts as something with constitutional meaning and protections, it will advance the fight toward ownership and portability of our online lives. 5/8

They argue accounts should be protected just like hotel rooms. The government can't search every room in a hotel without probable cause. The same should apply to our online data. 4/8

Harvard's @cyberlawclinic.bsky.social, led by @cbavitz.bsky.social, worked with @richardsalgado.bsky.social, @mayer.bsky.social, & amici including @stamos.org to argue that a user’s granular location data should be considered part of their account, not just data on the provider's server. 3/8

Supreme Court agrees to hear a Fourth Amendment case regarding geofence warrants | Brookings John Villasenor discusses an upcoming case regarding the constitutionality of geofence warrants and the implications for user privacy.

Chatrie v. United States asks whether geofence warrants are over-broad violations of privacy. A geofence warrant is a legal fishing expedition where providers must turn over blanket location data to help the government identify potential suspects. 2/8

How is your Instagram account like a hotel room? Data in our online accounts should be protected from unreasonable search and seizure just like luggage in a hotel room, according to a new US Supreme Court amicus brief from Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic ...

PLATFORMOCRACY: This spring, a major US Supreme Court privacy case could help establish the principle that we, not platforms, own our social media accounts, and an amicus brief from a group of legal and technical heavy hitters could be the key. @cyberlawclinic.bsky.social 1/8

Just getting the chance to check this out.

Moderation software that puts human moderators' wellbeing and relationships at its center.

Moderation work is community-building work, and no one's building community like the Blacksky team. Congratulations y'all, this looks incredible 🌰

cred.blue Generate a Bluesky score. Understand your AT Proto data footprint. Vibe check strangers and new accounts.

I just verified @bellack.com using Bluesky's new verification system. Try verifying someone yourself using @cred.blue's verifier tool: cred.blue/verifier

New data shows platforms use terms of service to subvert the rule of law My rants about online due process are not purely theoretical. Data from the ASML Transparency Hub, compiled by students at Boston University, show that platforms are quietly cutting you off from your ...

Read more in this week's Platformocracy, and please consider subscribing. Free, weekly, 25% chance of ranting. 10/10

Transparency Hub An educational resource for learning about how apps and tech companies' legal and privacy policies change over time.

Anyway, the ASML Transparency Hub is really awesome and you should check it out. 9/10

"No one is forcing you to use our platform" doesn't fly, either. The company didn’t build our communities in a factory, they’re just hosting them. Restrictive terms of service hold our communities hostage until we submit to an alternative justice system. 8/10

Arbitration has its place in dispute resolution, but not as a corporate defense tool in social media disputes over the welfare of a community (policy enforcement, malicious ads, addictive patterns, harms to children, etc). These debates need to be public and inclusive. 7/10

Class action bans are a blatantly pro-company policy. If a country tried to prevent activist groups from using the courts, we’d condemn it as undemocratic at best, repressive at worst. 6/10

YouTube gets top marks for not including any mandatory arbitration or class action ban. [Note that other parts of Google, such as devices, do.] 5/10

These clauses vary by region - TikTok and WhatsApp specifically say their clauses apply only to US or Canadian users, and Pinterest added an EEA/UK carve-out in 2023. 4/10