How often have you heard it?
“This space isn’t political.”
“We’re just here to help people.”
“Let’s keep it neutral.”

Here’s the truth:
There is no such thing as a neutral space under white supremacy.

When people say “neutral,” what they usually mean is:
✅ Comfortable for white people
✅ Familiar to dominant culture
✅ Avoids discomfort, accountability, or truth-telling

Instagram now requires users to have at least 1,000 followers to go live
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/instagram-now-requires-users-to-have-at-least-1000-followers-to-go-live/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All About Apps @all-about-apps-Techcrunch

Instagram now requires users to have at least 1,000 followers to go live | TechCrunch

Until now, Instagram allowed anyone to go live, regardless of their follower count or whether their account was public or private.

^{Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)}

Canada PM Carney responds to Trump's tariff increase (Miriam Waldvogel/The Hill)

thehill.com/homenews/administr…
memeorandum.com/250801/p40#a25…

Canada PM Carney responds to Trump's tariff increase

By Miriam Waldvogel / The Hill. View the full context on memeorandum.

^memeorandum

Scotland Trolls Trump With Massive New Wind Farm on His Doorstep (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

thedailybeast.com/scotland-tro…
memeorandum.com/250801/p41#a25…

Scotland Trolls Trump With Massive New Wind Farm on His Doorstep

“Stop the windmills! You are ruining your countries,” Trump ranted days earlier while on a visit to the country.

^{Leigh Kimmins (The Daily Beast)}

Timelapse of my painting, "Capybara and the Village," painted in Procreate!

Super fun painting this from imagination and picturing a benevolent gigantic capybara watching over a village.

#art #capybara #sciart #painting

A Mangrove Horseshoe Crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda) spotted at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore on 9 Feb 2025. Briefly spotted swimming in the murky water near the walking path.

There are four species of horseshoe crabs: the Atlantic horseshoe crab is probably the most well known.

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/2… ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #HorseshoeCrabs #Limulidae

#apostle : the missionary who first plants the christian faith in any part of the world

- French: apôtre

- German: der Apostel

- Italian: apostolo

- Portuguese: apóstolo

- Spanish: apóstol

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Okay, Ai did alright.

I've been thinking about when to use #Ai, and how to use it as a tool to improve my work while not de-skilling me, or outputting crap.

I have a #Golang web app, which has handler, sql, api logic, for some types. Ai works really well using the existing architecture setup as a template/model for adding similar functionality for a new type.

"Add meta tag handlers to display a page of blog posts that have the specified tag"

The actual prompt was more comprehensive.

With the A.I. powered glasses that GAFAM companies (Meta & Google) or startups (Cluely) are currently betting big on, our image, identity & personal data are more and more susceptible of being preyed upon, without any consent or even our awareness that we're being recorded.

This sign could become useful in the café or shop we run / we're a client of. Feel free to share, copy & print.

#privacy #surveillance #AI #AIglasses #Cluely #InternetofBodies #IoB #cypherpunk #cyberpunk #skynet #theylive

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#Patreon #SecondLife #Blogging #Music #Writing #Support

"If you write to please everyone, you plant nothing. If you write from truth, you seed a forest." L.Nault

#writing #authenticity #truth #creativity #courage

Okej, pga UK:s nya lag som inkluderar krav på ålderverifiering så har Matrix signalerat (pga UK-företag) att de kommer införa åldersverifiering på flagginstansen på matrix.org där jag hänger.

Jag vill inte ladda upp bilder på mitt körkort eller pass om jag inte behöver.

Så frågan är vad man gör nu. Sätter upp en egen matrix-server? Börjar använda DeltaChat? Sätta upp en Mattermost-server eller Rocket.Chat-server?

Hur tänker ni?

chaos.social/@onepict/11493812…

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict@chaos.social)

Attached: 1 image Getting awfully crowded in my sky. I know Matrix.org is protecting itself in the UK as that's where it's based. Age gating a chat server isn't right. I really hate all this because of the online harms act.

^chaos.social

🇪🇺 What happens in Europe, stays in Europe, right?

Carniaux from Microsoft France admits that despite data being stored on EU-based servers, U.S. law may still apply.

What does this mean for EU data? Your thoughts?

👉 Find out more thanks to @TechRadar : techradar.com/pro/microsoft-ad…

#Microsoft

Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded

Microsoft says it can't promise data sovereignty for EU firms

^{Craig Hale (TechRadar)}