Robert Nozick, a #libertarian#philosopher, wanted you to imagine that you are offered a sophisticated machine which can perfectly simulate all the things you deem most pleasurable.
He asks you now: would you prefer this to real life?
Nozick assumes you don't & uses that as a justification against (#ethical) hedonists.
I'm planning my escape from iCloud. Any recommendations for storage that dont mine data or use it for machine learning? Affordable is also great! #iCloud#ethical#cloudstorage#privacy#blockstorage? Please boost to give me more response as I think there are more mastodonians with the same question.
“To me, the #flag issue is much simpler. The fact is that, regardless of its legality, displaying the flag in that way, at that time, shouldn’t have happened. To put it bluntly, any #judge w/reasonable #ethical instincts would have realized immediately that flying the flag then & in that way was improper. And dumb.”
What with the no-doubt immanent enshittification of #bandcamp I'd like to direct people's attention to projects like #Faircamp by @freebliss and #Funkwhale@funkwhale. While not a drop-in replacements for BC as of yet, I think these are an excellent starting points for an #ethical, #decentralised & healthy #music community.
In the evolving digital landscape, "Identity on the Web" is crucial for online interaction, #privacy and #security.
At the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, Heather Flanagan, co-chair of the newly created W3C Federated Identity #WorkingGroup discussed challenges in establishing a common understanding of #identity and explored this topic's technological, social, and #ethical dimensions in relation to the W3C’s mission.
I see a lot of people believe there is no way to have #privacy online. Corporations have pushed so hard that many are persuaded and disillusioned.
Privacy-compliant alternative software exists and it's up to you to choose and promote it.
Tracking tools are not required but wanted technologies: it is not something inevitable inside a software.
When you see it that way, your approach to software change and you will also learn to love #ethical software as you know how to appreciate organic food.
Did you know that "eat the #rich" was first a #philosophy concept?
Limitarianism is fundamentally the study of when it might be #ethical to put limitations on citizens in a governed society. It's a case-based theory, not a political system.
It asks questions like: is #wealth ever individual? What is the wealth limit?
& questions it isn't positing, like: If no one is ultra-rich, should no one be #poor? Is limitarianism virtue #ethics or justifiable without perfectionist views?
My talk from Open Source Summit on Wide Review (of standards / specifications) is now live! https://youtu.be/jmRrj48CRE0 This talk goes into some detail on why #WideReview is important, how it works in W3C (and in @tag), and how it contributes to a better future, particularly when including #Ethical and #HumanrRights considerations. #OSSummit#OpenSourceSummit
Ted, Ralph (both two years old) & Bob (14) eat #Yarrah#Organic & #Vegan dog food (sometimes supplemented by my home cooked food - also organic & vegan) as have all the other dogs in my life, all of whom lived long and happy lives.
From the article:
In terms of nutrients, the UK’s Pet Food Manufacturers Association endorses nutritionally complete vegan diets for dogs, and says that “nutrients that were previously only available from animal-based ingredients can now be made synthetically or be sourced from novel ingredients”.
There are a variety of ways to fulfil nutritional requirements from different sources, and the nutritional guidelines for dog food nutrition from FEDIAF (the European Pet Food Industry) are seen as a gold standard.
...The 4. pillar of our success: building an #ethical business.
When we first published Tutanota in 2014 shortly after the Snowden leaks and under the impression that end-to-end encryption is mostly needed to defend citizens from eavesdropping of state actors
This is still the case
Nevertheless, since the Snowden revelations another sector has become much more powerful that we also need to defend ourselves from: AdTech https://tuta.com/blog/road-to-success
It has been a hectic but transformative few weeks, but I'm very excited to share that I finally got around to updating my shops with hand-dipped spell candles!
You can choose from pure white or sigilized candles, and can even send me an image of a sigil YOU designed to be carved into the candle.
I've also added birthday candles to the shop, something I'm very excited about even though it's out of the norm a bit. As I was dipping the taper candles, and letting my kiddo run around with her very own "mini candle", I remembered her first birthday when family members arrived with those awful paraffin wax candles from the grocery store. I would have loved to have celebrated with candles that I could trust (rather than having to delicately explain to my stepmother why I didn't want those candles dripping into my kids first ever cupcake). So, it's a little "off brand" (but fuck it, I'm not a brand), but there they are! Ethical & safe birthday or celebration candles for your next wish :)
My university (@ULBruxelles) joins the ranks of responsible institutions suspending their activities on X/Twitter. Let's hope they'll soon start using their new, shiny Mastodon account! #TwitterMigration#ethical