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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Employers and romantic partners can be especially put off if they can’t find any trace of you online. And if they really care, they’ll dig harder to find that time where you declared bankruptcy, or you got arrested for public intoxication, or where someone deep in your past said something negative about you, and that’s all that will stick in your mind when they think of you.

    For me personally, having a simple, but relatively barren social media presence is worth it to avoid the persistent diggers, who will find something about you if they don’t see anything public.

    And besides, everything about most of us is already stored in Apple or Google’s datacenters. There’s no hiding from the deeply intrusive data collection those companies do. So having some simple information out in the open is likely better for privacy in some ways.

    If you disagree with my take, that’s fine, I just wanted to give another perspective.









  • Even in relatively corruption-free countries, there are often shadow mechanisms the governments uses to decide who they charge with a crime.

    Prosecutors can just say they don’t have a case, or they can fumble the case purposefully in the initial stages to give credence to the “no case” idea.

    We don’t have to look any further than how police charge themselves to see how the laws don’t fairly apply to everyone. And a simple google search will reveal that Sweden is not immune to police corruption, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.

    “Disobeying police orders”, which is what Thunberg was charged with, is one of those catch-all laws that are purposefully vague in a way that allows police total discretion over how to enforce it.

    I guarantee in this case that calls were made all the way up the top of the Swedish government before police decided what to do here.

    Basically, my point is that there are so many strings to pull, even in developed countries, that it’s often possible to suss out the motivations of the administration just by examining how charges proceed.

    What this says about Thunberg getting charged for her actions? Probably nothing significant. Sweden cannot allow activists to freely disrupt their economic infrastructure, especially those involving energy. So they charge her as “normal” regardless of her celebrity status. Though they will be very careful to do everything by the book with so many eyes on the case.



  • I believe the only instances that should be defederated are corporate, self-harm, profanely illegal, and political extremist instances.

    Anything further than that and the whole network is going to devolve into a series of micro echo chambers.

    Or maybe it won’t, maybe the vast and free instances will flourish while the restrictive instances die out.

    Either way, trying to control a community based on wishy washy ideology is not a good look.

    I think in these early days we’ll see a lot of power drunk admins who are too eager to push the button, just because they can.