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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 19:52

Closing this list out, let's come full circle. This one's age-restricted on YouTube and punk as it should be. I don't believe in violence, but that doesn't mean that one has to treat fascism with civility, either.

"Fuck these Fuckin' Fascists" by The Muslims.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-7-DDgUh_E

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 19:39

Xenophobia is resurging under Trump and around the world. All the more important to celebrate the migration of people, ideas, languages, across borders. "Immigraniada" by Gogol Bordello is a high energy celebration.

(The video includes Puerto Rico, which is US territory, but whose residents are certainly treated like immigrants on the mainland.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKpgb2WrGo0

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 19:38

Ratcheting things up a few notches, and then a few notches more, we have "Burn it Down" by Fever 333. Echoes of Linkin Park, but with a clearer through line.

Sometimes you gotta ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuNLJuSUDqo

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 19:34

Next up is Jarvis Cocker with "Running the World". As a member of Gen X, its cynicism is as familiar to me as a cozy blanket. It's not enough, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deiWnZK-duM

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-20 at 19:33

Let's see if we can create our own soundtrack to accompany US inauguration day. Let me start with a few suggestions; replies with more are appreciated!

Kicking things off with a classic: All You Fascists Bound to Lose by Woody Guthrie. 🧵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-19 at 19:22

Facts matter: Both Apple and Google censored TikTok and other Bytedance apps as a result of the ban, which was explicitly written to take effect today.

Yes, this gave Trump an opportunity to play free speech hero (even though he himself had called for a ban previously) and to then try to arrange a sale to a US oligarch.

The way to avoid this outcome would have been to not vote for the stupid ban in the first place.

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-19 at 19:19

This is what the TikTok ban (in this case CapCut, another Bytedance app that's collateral damage) looks like in app stores like Google Play. For those of you calling the temporary blackout a "stunt" by TikTok, that's not TikTok's doing - it's Google's.

A sobering reminder that app stores enable turnkey censorship for governments.

On Android you can at least install alternative app stores after ignoring some scary security warnings. On iOS in the US, you must put your faith in Apple alone.

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-19 at 05:13

Pretty surreal to not be able to access Freedom of the Press Foundation's (!) TikTok account as a result of a government order.

https://www.tiktok.com/@freedomofthepressfdn

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-18 at 18:44

Send this to an ESL speaker in your life, it'll make them feel better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg_JPYYB77k

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-18 at 17:19

Now that Biden has normalized talking about #oligarchy in the United States, will US media begin referring to figures like Musk and Bezos as oligarchs, much as they have done with Russian oligarchs for decades?

Or is it not "objective" to do so with one's own oligarchs? Perhaps we have to await another Pokemon-style evolution first?

"WHAT? BEZOS is evolving! Congratulations! Your BEZOS has evolved into OLIGARCHOS!"

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-17 at 19:11

"If we don’t like China’s practices on surveillance and censorship we should stop adopting them back home."

https://freedom.press/issues/tiktok-ban-weakens-first-amendment/

The TikTok ban does not protect personal information: a strong privacy law would do that.

It does not weaken the civilizational stranglehold of corporate attention fiefdoms: investing in open protocols & nonprofit platforms would do that.

It creates the precedent that speech is only protected if it is mediated by US-based entities (typically US corporations).

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-17 at 08:03

We'll see if it sticks, but nice to see that X links have also been removed from the @wikimediafoundation homepage and "Contact us" section. :) Bluesky now makes a first appearance in the latter.

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-17 at 07:48

Praising Trump for his antitrust pick, as @protonprivacy CEO Andy Yen did (https://archive.is/l1WYU), reveals wilful ignorance of the slide towards authoritarianism. That's disappointing for a product that journalists and human rights defenders rely on.

It's not complicated: All Trump is interested in is to implement rewards for CEOs who bend the knee (tax breaks, deregulation, etc.) and punishments (investigations, bullying, antitrust) for those that step out of line.

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-17 at 00:15

Looks like @wikimediafoundation is at least pausing its use of X "for now".

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Social_media&diff=prev&oldid=28106844

Now would be a good time for additional #Wikimedia chapters to explicitly exit X (and why not Meta, while you're at it :-) to keep the momentum going.

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 14:04

I should add, since I mentioned Myanmar, that the crisis is still very much ongoing and not just "history". There are many ways we all can help, including via UNHCR:

https://giving.unhcr.org/en/rohingya/

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 05:07

When Meta explicitly adds stuff like "We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality" to its hateful conduct policy (yep, that's in there now), they're opening a door to hate-bait loops that will get people killed.

People may read about Myanmar and think "that couldn't happen here". I think that's bullshit (there is no exceptionalism), but it's also not the only question. The question we should be asking, wherever we are, is: what could happen here, as a result of this? What will?

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 05:03

Hate is a continuum of horrible things. Once a group of people is dehumanized, perpetrators of hate will do things that range from "well, that person just doesn't belong here" to the most horrible crimes imaginable.

Platforms that foster hate-bait loops will lead to such dehumanization not only taking place, but being amplified and shared and reposted. (Musk is also organizing his own hate campaigns every day.)

That has real-world consequences, whether anyone observes them or not.

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 05:01

On one hand, I think it's incredibly important to read about what Meta did in Myanmar (please see @kissane's excellent series: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series). It's a history people should know.

On the other hand, a lot of people have heard at least the tl;dr version, yet choose to remain on platforms that enable hate-bait loops.

I think that's because it's a history many people have difficulty relating to their own comparatively mundane daily online experience. But it is deeply related.

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 03:24

Most hotels still have alarm clocks, but it always feels like a waste of space if they don't have USB ports or other functions.

The one I'm staying at right now has an alarm clock with USB-A charging ports and a surface for wireless charging. Convenient and probably quite cheap!

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 03:15

Delta's mobile app is one of the least bad transportation-related apps I've used. Notably, the notifications are actually useful, refresh works intuitively, etc.

Boarding reminder notifications are pretty standard, but not every airline app does luggage reminders. "Your luggage has been loaded onto the plane", "Your luggage can be picked up at carousel 11", etc. As someone who's gone through missing luggage situations 3-4 times over the last 20+ years, it gives me some peace of mind.

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