gr0k @gr0k@gr0k.net

Sorry, the sabotage of Twitter is not a “disaster for democracy”—it’s the logical and inevitable endpoint of surveillance capitalist control of our communications infrastructure.

Those who control a message’s delivery system control the message.

Twitter was always owned by surveillance capitalists—it NEVER served democracy.

#comics make me happy

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.; - Amelia Earhart

The purpose of Substack is

1. to make investors money and

2. keep journalists siloed, fragmented and controllable

@bookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon

Credit ― Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. - Anaïs Nin

Waiting by Pixel Jeff #pixelart

"When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive" - James Gleick

This was a great read. https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-for-everyone/

I've often scratched my head at Signal's decision-making. Stickers? Stories? I'd rarely use them, if ever. But Signal describes how they are specifically making features for users outside U.S. culture and infrastructural contexts.

#signal #design #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource

#rest #motivational #keeptrying