For real this time, I need to de-Spotify.Not gonna paste the link, but they did the whole oligarch kiss-ass thing and then some.Where should I go? (Also open to ‍️/paying for music regularly, but it's been a long, long time since I last did that.)#streaming

@mayintoronto employers are 100% overcome with fascination with AI….

@mayintoronto yayy

@mayintoronto You've convinced me!

Safety reminders for these times:- Direct messages on Fedi are not encrypted.- If your instance is hosted in the US, the admin has to comply with US law. - Discord text chat is not encrypted. Video is.- Encrypted group chats are only as secure as the people with access and their security practices.If you're interested in protecting the contents of your conversations or work, follow the #privacy tag. People posts some really interesting things on there.Your privacy protects your friends too. Do it for all of us.An excellent step-by-step executable guide to implementing better privacy. https://www.optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cleanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/Recommended privacy people:- @Em0nM4stodon- @techlore - @privacyguides - @thenewoil More advice from smarter people:- Passwords & General Privacy hygiene: https://infosec.exchange/@avoidthehack/113867140078775299- VPNs: https://mas.to/@joeturner/113867181288155342Recommended privacy communities:- https://discuss.techlore.tech- https://discuss.privacyguides.netThe rest of this thread describes options that I'm considering and my personal privacy journey.(Thanks to @joeturner and everyone else in the community for your recommendations.)

@mayintoronto 'Growing the economy' means making poor people work harder for longer while rich people earn more for doing less.

I find it amusing how the clips to come out of the whole Red Note thing have the same vibes as Gorbachev going to a grocery store in the US.#tiktokban

@mayintoronto this seems like a very reasonable plan. I wonder if it will work, or if landlords, tax whiners, bigots and nimbys will find some way to scupper it.

@mayintoronto aaahhh!

@mastodonmigrationThis has been a nourishing discussion. Do they have those on blsky too? On this topic I find their account and one feed and it's mostly just loudspeaker-bluuts (or however these are called).@mayintoronto @shellsharks

@mayintoronto @JesseF8693 @AlsoPaisleyCat Message me on @FediFollows and I'll try to see about adding them!And also, let me know at that account if there are accounts listed which you think shouldn't be! (I do try to vet them but bad accounts can slip through.)