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A presto <3
Goodbye Nigel Farage.
British journalist Louis Wilson now has him on camera funneling illegal foreign capital into British politics.
This is a crime.
Will he get 'Sarkozy'd or Le Pen'd'?? Or is UK law too weak and parliamentary corruption too profound?
As ministers from #Austria, #Denmark, #Germany, #Greece & #Netherlands discuss offshore #ReturnHubs, they need to commit to the guardrails necessary to prevent setting up human rights black holes: risk assessments, independent monitoring, enforceable rights clauses and public scrutiny.
#Migration #humanrights
A Japanese court has ruled ballots in a 2025 election that referred to a candidate by his family's business can't be clearly connected enough to him to count, highlighting the challenges of requiring written ballots. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/04/japan/politics/manju-shop-ruling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ibaraki #votedisparity #japanesecourts
Arguably #fediverse is NOT based on an open standard.
It's based on 'guidance towards an open standard' via the incomplete #ActivityPub spec, sprinkled with what fediverse devs have added over time via post-facto interoperability in what's effectively a Big ball of mud anti-pattern. These extra's are to be discovered on-the-fly, and being app-specific, need to be maintained constantly in another anti-pattern I dubbed Whack-a-mole programming.
We can do better. We can rise above the app-centricness of the fedi, make a paradigm shift that helps increase evolution speed and rate of innovation and sees people's needs be better served..
https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web
For that to happen major social challenges need to be tackled, like coordinating and collaborating well in a good grassroots standardization process.
I posed the concept of a Grassroots open standard, where services encapsulate their design, and the standardization process is a fedi-native service itself.
For more on this, read my OpEd in The Guardian ⬇️
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/20/europe-risk-human-rights-black-hole-return-hubs-migrants
Read my exchange of letters with ministers responsible for migration policy in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands⬇️
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/austria-denmark-germany-greece-and-the-netherlands-should-put-in-place-strict-human-rights-guardrails-in-their-plans-for-return-hubs-
Mastodon is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in your timeline are either products of the poster's imagination or are used fictitiously.
@catsalad no animals were harmed in the production of Mastodon, especially not cats.
WE DID IT. WE WON. 💜✊
Wikimedia Foundation workers voted 158 YES to 14 NO: 91.9% of ballots cast, with 81% turnout.
We’re so proud of everyone who built this union, and this win belongs to our whole community. We could not have done it without the solidarity of Wikimedia volunteers.
This is just the beginning. We stand with our UK siblings in their recognition process now, and with future organizing efforts across WMF’s global workforce. 🌍
[union needed]
Addressing misconceptions different stakeholders (students, instructors, administrators, etc.) may have about AI in education:
https://edtechdev.github.io/aied/faqs/addressing-common-misconceptions-ai-education/
#AIEd #EdTech #Teaching #Education
La toile à l’heure de l’arAIgnée : quand Google détruit le web https://medium.com/@dominique.boullier/la-toile-%C3%A0-lheure-de-l-araign%C3%A9e-quand-google-d%C3%A9truit-le-web-5d589b40cf30?postPublishedType=repub
@calx unfortunately, i spent the last 23 minutes finding so much fucking bullshit you wouldn't fucking believe
@calx exactly as you described, a fingerprint of a public key should be sufficient proof, given some other assumptions--in particular, firefox didn't specify how we know to trust and verify their key material!
compare for example to yubico (https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/116336526842775057), who actually does two things exactly right here! [even though i clown on them in that thread a lot lol]
@glyph When I swear at people, that is locally crafted, artisanal anger. They should treasure it.
What shocked me at #sotm2026 is the gender imbalance in the public and presenters. I counted about 80% men, 20% women in the presenters, and I think that the public was possibly even more strongly biased towards men.
This seems to echo the results of this article from 2019, whose authors surveyed a small sample of contributors (N≈300), and found not only that men represented 87% of them, but also that men were more prolific than women in their contributions. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-019-10035-z
One anecdotal datapoint was that the only talk where I have been this weekend, which had more women than men attending, was a talk about mapping accessibility.
I obviously haven't been to all the sessions, so I don't know if this issue was discussed somewhere at some point. But I think that this is rarely a sign of a healthy community. Shouldn't such an imbalance be one of the most urgent problems that we should tackle? Is the OSM community hostile to women? At which stage: are they dissuaded to even enter it, or do they quickly leave after joining? Why?
@Armavica totally agree! And while ironically I embody that very hegemonic demographics you're rightly pointing out, my talk at #SOTM2026 ("Whose Knowledge Counts? Analysing Diversity and Exclusion in OpenStreetMap's Tagging Proposals Process") was precisely about this, but in a very specific contribution type: tagging proposals.
The first part of the session covered why maps are not neutral and why the lack of diversity is an issue.
You can see the slides here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22158699
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/666063-good-news-about-iconic-south-african-company-that-eskom-put-on-ice-for-14-years.html Stand by for another civil society lawsuit challenging unaccountable, non-consultative nuclear decisions by the comprador regime.
one of the yubico developers who signed version 5.9.0 of their linux tarball two months ago is using an expired RSA key https://developers.yubico.com/yubikey-manager/Releases/
![NLRB Citation. Recognition Timeline: Day 38 since WMF declined voluntary recognition July 27, 2026.
US Workers voted YES. 158 YES, 14 NO, 91.9% YES among counted votes, 8.1% NO among counted votes
172 ballots counted, 213 eligible voters, 81% turnout
Reference: [1] NLRB Case-20-RC-391740, tally of ballots, Region 20, San Francisco, CA
Footer: Wiki Workers United/CWA. [union needed]. Solidarity Forever. Healthy Institutions Share Power.](https://cdn.masto.host/socialwikiworkersunitedorg/media_attachments/files/117/210/197/498/248/852/original/aa435a35cdba5c01.webp)
gpg: assuming signed data in '../yubikey_manager-5.9.0.tar.gz'
gpg: Signature made Thu 22 Jan 2026 09:38:27 AM EST
gpg: using RSA key 20EE325B86A81BCBD3E56798F04367096FBA95E8
gpg: Good signature from "Dain Nilsson <dain@yubico.com>" [expired]
gpg: Note: This key has expired!
Primary key fingerprint: 20EE 325B 86A8 1BCB D3E5 6798 F043 6709 6FBA 95E8
this guy walks around with a 2048-bit rsa key for a whole decade
pub rsa2048 2014-01-10 [SC] [expired: 2025-04-29]
20EE325B86A81BCBD3E56798F04367096FBA95E8
uid [ expired] Dain Nilsson <dain@yubico.com>
this isn't a standard yubico practice. look at nigel right above him
pub rsa4096 2019-05-13 [SC] [revoked: 2020-04-15]
1DC4BA2872525B3F2FE8207F5D9C760A3FB51707
uid [ revoked] Nigel Williams <nigel.williams@yubico.com>
4096 and actively revoked after one year. i'm gonna find another email address to harass now
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