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ActivityPub is extensible, though. As part of our E2EE program, Mallory, Tom and I adapted the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) standard as an extension of ActivityPub to make the MLS over ActivityPub specification. The protocol fits the great MLS E2EE system onto the ActivityPub API and federation protocol.

But a protocol specification is not enough; it must be implemented. That’s why we’re so happy to announce that the Sovereign Tech Fund has commissioned work with the Social Web Foundation to coordinate two new interoperable implementations of MLS over ActivityPub. This investment by the Sovereign Tech Fund will help move the Fediverse towards more privacy for social web users, no matter what server they use.

This mission is personal to me. Before creating Shark Robotics, I served as a French Army soldier in a special reconnaissance unit. I was deployed to Afghanistan, Africa, and other conflict zones. Each mission was intense, violent, and exhausting, but they all taught me the same lesson: on the ground, technology can save your life.

For a long time, this was not true for firefighters and rescuers. They faced life-threatening environments with limited tools. That is why I founded Shark Robotics: to bring technologies to those who run toward danger.

Our robots first gained global attention in 2019 when a Colossus helped extinguish the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in Paris. Now they serve in Ukraine. And its impact is measurable: SESU reported on Nov. 25 during the delivery ceremony in Kyiv that operational casualties have been divided by three since the robot entered service.

Firefighting robots!

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is usually around $20 and seems worth it at that price and it is at $10 which seems like a genuinely great deal for a city builder/transit game.

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Riftbreaker at $11 is tempting too

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The fascists in power will not be happy with only attacking military targets, for evidence of that see literally every step that has been taken until now by them.

Surely every U.S. Navy admiral and ship captains would know that if they got an order to attack Venezuelan Navy vessels.

Now is the time we are going to see if US military personnel are too cowardly to refuse illegal orders or not. I suspect there is a good chance the answer will be disappointing but resistance is still possible.

More likely I think the US military is going to lose a major asset like a ship from topdown orders to do utterly braindead shit during a strike and conforming to them even though the orders are horribly stupid and ill-advised tactically. This is nearly an inveitable eventuality if this escalation continues as people like Pete Hegseth are literally incapable of looking at a fancy military map with ships on it and not needing to pointlessly order them around to feel powerful when surrounded by actual military brass who know how to do their job, even if it will obviously kill US military personnel for no good reason, the brain of Pete Hegseth has been conditioned and rotted out from playing the part of a powerful fascist and is physically incapable of listening in that type of situation.

Think about it, imagine a situation where Navy brass are telling Pete Hegseth his idea is an extremely stupid thing to do with a guided missile destroyer and will get it blown up resulting in the deaths of all the crew members and replay it 1000 times with the Navy brass bringing up the point in a 1000 different ways and find one where you can credibly argue Pete Hegseth would listen. You can’t, it is a futile exercise, this is categorically an impossible eventuality in the real world.

Unfortunately I think if the Trump administration has truly decided on war with Venezuela the only thing that can stop it is a tidal wave of shear embarrassment and humiliation that shatters the resolve of US bigots by underlining how their fascism makes them completely unfit to lead a military rationally, which is really the only place Centrists will actually break with Conservatives on military foreign policy despite the superficial claims Centrists make about caring about what is right and wrong.

Exhibit A see the Palestinian Genocide and complete lack of giving a shit by the leadership of the political center of the US and how it nearly perfectly aligns with the brutal cruelty of Conservative world views.

I gave two conference talks this year. In fursuit.

If that isn’t a flex I don’t know what is

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Putin has to in order to distract from how desperately weak he is becoming, he has to know the instability coming in internal politics in Russia is impossible to predict like a crack spreading across glass and the only thing that can be said with confidence is that he will be at the heart of the shattering when it happens.

hell yeah, thank you!

I agree but I don’t think Trump’s body will hold out that long before collapsing from being treated like the dumpster it is.

Yes but today it is Palestinians, tomorrow it is us.

There is no correct amount to think about or talk about a genocide while it is unfolding, it is relevant to every single one of us in every single moment.

Forums are a type of social media.

This is social media! Do you mean corporate social media or social media focused on using real names?

Exactly, centrist liberals forced us to this point by ignoring the boomerang of colonial violence headed straight for our faces AND the desperate attempts by the left to point it out.

This is going to hurt.

I think the better comparison is when Europeans brought horses to Turtle Island and got utterly schooled on how to truly use a horse in war by the indigenous people there. This is the reason the US army still names its helicopters after indigenous tribes, from a US perspective the concept of cavalry is rightfully owned by the indigenous tribes here as it took them a shockingly short amount of time to build up entirely superior cavalry tactics to European approaches after aquiring the horse.

who could have predicted this?!?

How much of a premium would you be willing to pay for a version of a game that stripped out any connection with Ubisoft?

If you answered more than zero dollars, how the hell does Ubisoft make basic sense as a business?

For me, just thinking of a couple off the top of my head I would gladly pay a $10+ premium for Steep (edit Shredders at $17 is a far better deal for this reason than Steep at $3) or Riders Republic if Ubisoft’s involvement in the games were completely removed, I am talking about right now in the year 2025 not even when these games came out originally… they are brilliant but utterly undermined by Ubisoft. I think for the recent Ghost Recon games Breakpoint and Wildlands I would happily pay a $15+ premium for versions that stripped out Ubisoft BS and added good mod support.

Ubisoft is an anti-brand more than it is a business.

Embedded in the DSA is a theory about what X actually is. It treats platforms like X as communications infrastructure where speech happens, and the platform is conceptualised as a singular place, mostly neutral, with certain obligations for moderation and transparency attached. It views platforms as companies that are capitalistic in a textbook understanding of capitalistic companies: entities with the goal profit maximalisation, that are responsive to legal and economic incentives. This place can be regulated properly via transparency and via a set of complex process requirements. The platform companies that run these places will then implement these requirements as they are incentivised to do so via legal and economic pressures. The DSA’s approach follows from this understanding: establish transparency requirements, ensure researcher access, and prohibit deceptive design practices.

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Where the EC treats X as a communications network, Musk understands intuitively that X is something more than that, although he does not spell it out explicitly. Social networking platforms are collective sense making tools. Social networking platforms, whether that’s X, Instagram or TikTok, are platforms that we use to shape our common knowledge, and to determine which political opinions are currently in-vogue. These platforms are used to create a shared reality. This goes from how TikTok and Instagram influencers can push Dubai Chocolate into a global hype, to how the conversations on X shape what’s inside the political Overton window. The algorithmic feeds actively shape which voices get amplified, which narratives spread, and which facts feel established. Henry Farrell summarises the problem as: “The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.” The fundamental power of platforms like X comes from its ownership over the tools to shape the collective understandings of the public, and allows them to be malformed in favour of fascism.

Viewing platforms like X exclusively through the lens of a communications network, without taking into account how the platform affects collective knowledge, leads to two problems, both on the individual level and on the political level. This misunderstanding operates at both the individual and regulatory level.

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In a recent blog post, Mastodon calls for “social sovereignty”, as a response to how X can retaliate against government institutions. Mastodon understands social sovereignty here as public institutions taking control of their social media presence, mainly by running their own social networking servers on software like Mastodon. They mention explicitly that the EC already has their own Mastodon server, at ec.social-network.europa.eu, and invite other organisations to follow suit. That the EC already has their social sovereign presence, but only uses it for press releases without any of the Commissioners using the platform, further accentuates the large gap between the rhetoric and behaviour. Still, the infrastructure for alternative ways for the EC to take power already exists. Initiatives like Eurosky further indicate that the tools for the EC to shift power structures away from the platforms they’re trying to regulate are available.

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“The current LLM tech landscape positions [neurodivergent people] to dominate,” according to the application. “Pattern recognition. Non-linear thinking. Hyperfocus. The cognitive traits that make the neurodivergent different are precisely what make them exceptional in an AI-driven world.”

What a load of bullshit, LLMs will be used in a million ways to sideline neurodivergent people in society whether it be BS AI “help” for a neurodivergent student replacing a human teacher or job applications using AI to illegally screen and filter out neurodivergent people, this is a bad decade for neurodivergent people and it is likely only to get worse as societies collapse into bigotry from the endless stresses and catastrophies of runaway climate change.