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ChrisMayLA6, to money
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Forced cashless society.

Our nearby small market town used to have 3 banks; they're all closed (taking their cash machines with them), and this week one of the two remaining cash machines was removed from the supermarket where it was located.

So, we're down to a single cash machine in an area with a radius (I'm guessing) of around 20 miles.

The cashless society doesn't represent consumer choice, its pace is being forced by financial institutions keen to charge fees on transactions!

tokyo_0,

@ChrisMayLA6 Did you ever read about the town of Totnes that created its own currency to foster localisation? (I'm not suggesting that would solve the problem as it's definitely not a trivial solution and the problem is systemic and much bigger than one town, and the experiment did end after about a decade, but I thought it was an interesting idea and your post reminded me.)

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green avatar

Israel-Gaza war live: IDF orders evacuation of central Rafah as it prepares to expand its offensive

Clearly not at all a “limited operation”. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/11/israel-gaza-war-rafah-offensive-idf-latest-news?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

tokyo_0,

@pvonhellermannn It paused one and made a lot of noise about it.

Theblueone, to random
@Theblueone@mastodon.social avatar

Interesting how Jack Dorsey calls the people who did not want to use Twitter under Musk and who were looking for alternatives like Bluesky or Mastodon “common” …. What a dickhead. These tech lord billionaires are fascist through and through…Amazing that having a moral compass and values that don’t align with bitcoin shilling tech bros is “common”

tokyo_0,

@Theblueone Very odd comments. What's common about needing moderation tools? Superior people accept abuse?

tokyo_0, to meta

A lot of people have insisted isn't getting involved with the to embrace, extend and extinguish it...

... but even before fully implementing Fediverse interoperability in they're already talking openly about changing its protocols to add features like monetization. 🤔

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/

Text in a screenshot reads as follows: McCue riffed on the idea that fediverse users could become creators where some of their content became available to subscribers only, similar to how Patreon works. For instance, fediverse advocate and co-editor of ActivityPub Evan Prodromou created a paid Mastodon account (@evanplus) that users could subscribe to for $5 per month to gain access. If he’s on board with paid content, surely others would follow. Cottle agreed that the model could work with the fediverse, too. He additionally suggested there are ways the fediverse could monetize beyond donations, which is what often powers various efforts today, like Mastodon. Cottle said someone might even make a fediverse experience that consumers would pay for, the way some fediverse client apps are paid today.

tokyo_0,

And aware, no doubt, that quote posts are a divisive, hot-button issue, they're already building into not only quote post functionality but more refined controls for it than I know of anywhere in the — a feature bound to attract attention and make people consider choosing Threads in preference to other Fediverse software that doesn't offer the same functionality.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/threads-launches-a-mute-feature-for-words-teases-controls-for-quote-posts/

This is all absolutely classic embrace, extend and extinguish.

tokyo_0, to random

Reading the ActivityPub spec at 2am.

(Why am I like this?)

tokyo_0,

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#audienceTargeting

Trying to work out the best way to distribute an update to a group of ActivityPub users directly (so, like it's being sent to their inbox — like they're followers) but separate from a follower relationship. Then those updates could be displayed for those users in a separate timeline from the main home timeline.

tokyo_0,

Can you have multiple inboxes? The spec says something about allowing extensions — could you augment it to add your own extra inbox that anyone using your extended protocol would be able to access?

Best way I can think of right now is to deliver the updates to the recipients' inboxes, then have the recipients determine whether to show in the regular timeline or the extra one based on whether the sender is followed. But that would clutter the default timeline for other clients.

FediPact, to FediPact
@FediPact@cyberpunk.lol avatar

Why Meta is looking to the fediverse as the future for social media

“You could imagine an extension to the protocol eventually — of saying like, ‘I want to support micropayments,’ or … like, ‘hey, feel free to show me ads, if that supports you.’ Kind of like a way for you to self-label or self-opt-in. That would be great,” Cottle noted, speaking casually. Whether or not Meta would find a way to get a cut of those micropayments, of course, remains to be seen.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/

tokyo_0,

@FediPact We're not even a year into their involvement and they're already making statements like this out in the open. smh

tokyo_0, to random

"Even in recent days, the Biden administration has taken steps to contain the fallout from the assassination plot. White House officials warned the Modi government this month that The Post was close to publishing an investigation that would reveal new details about the case. It did so without notifying The Post."

https://archive.md/6Z1WY

tokyo_0,

"After the plot against Pannun failed, the decision to entrust Yadav with the high-risk mission sparked recriminations within the agency, former officials said. Rather than joining RAW as a junior officer, Yadav had been brought in midcareer from India’s less prestigious Central Reserve Police Force, said one former official. As a result, the official said, Yadav lacked training and skills needed for an operation that meant going up against sophisticated U.S. counterintelligence capabilities."

tokyo_0,

"Hours after Nijjar was gunned down in his car on June 18 outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple in Surrey, Yadav sent a video clip to Gupta 'showing Nijjar’s bloody body slumped in his vehicle,' according to the indictment."

tokyo_0,

"Police forces under Goel’s command in the early 1990s were tied to more than 120 cases of alleged extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances or torture, according to a database maintained by Ensaaf, an Indian human rights group based in the United States. Goel was so closely associated with the brutal crackdown that he became an assassination target, according to associates who said he took to traveling in a bulletproof vehicle."

tokyo_0,

"In Australia, two RAW officers were expelled in 2020 after authorities broke up what Mike Burgess, head of the Australian intelligence service, described as a 'nest of spies.'
Foreign officers were caught monitoring 'their country’s diaspora community,' trying to penetrate local police departments and stealing information about sensitive security systems at Australian airports, Burgess said in a 2021 speech. ... Australian officials confirmed to The Post that it was RAW."

tokyo_0,

"The effort has seemed to gain little traction beyond a minority within the diaspora community. Even so, it has been portrayed as a resurgent menace by Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Indian officials have accused Canada and the United States of harboring Sikh separatists who they say have plotted attacks and smuggled weapons into India."

tokyo_0,

"Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi and an expert on the insurgency in Punjab, said BJP depictions of the Sikh threat are 'far in excess of what actually exists.' Officials have political incentive to exaggerate, he said, 'because it is useful to polarize and to keep a threat alive so the state can present itself as a guarantor of security to 80 percent of the country — the Hindus — who are supposedly in danger.'"

tokyo_0,

"It wasn’t until Gupta’s arrest that U.S. officials obtained evidence that an officer in India’s spy service was behind the conspiracy, officials said. Devices seized from Gupta provided a trove of new intelligence, including his extensive communications with Yadav, officials said. ...
Those assembled confronted evidence of a grave violation of U.S. sovereignty by a nation seen as increasingly indispensable in the global competition with China."

tokyo_0,

"In early August, the administration dispatched CIA Director Burns to New Delhi to confront his counterparts with intelligence on the Pannun plot and give Modi’s government a chance to resolve the matter internally. The United States would refrain from punitive responses but pushed India to hold those responsible accountable. The message was reinforced in subsequent closed-door conversations, including a private meeting in New Delhi in September between Modi and Biden, officials said."

tokyo_0,

"There would be no expulsions of RAW officers or economic sanctions against India. A deal to sell up to $4 billion in U.S. armed drones to India, briefly put on pause, was allowed to proceed when key congressional leaders signed off. Justice Department officials opted for at least the time being not to file charges against Yadav."

tokyo_0,

"A U.S. delegation that traveled to New Delhi several weeks ago for an update on the probe, however, returned with little evidence of meaningful progress. Indian officials gave no indication that their investigation would implicate senior officials in Modi’s government, ... and pressed their U.S. visitors to supply more information supporting their allegations."

(Now we know why this WaPo story happened)

tokyo_0,

"For Modi, the assassination allegations appear to have only bolstered his political standing.
Almost a year after he was feted at the White House, the Indian prime minister is poised to clinch a third term in national elections that began this month. At a recent campaign rally in Rajasthan state, Modi told thousands of cheering supporters, 'Today, even India’s enemies know: This is Modi, this is the New India.'
'This New India,' he added, 'comes into your home to kill you.' "

tokyo_0,

Here's the audio, and the original WaPo url: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/29/india-assassination-raw-sikhs-modi/

tokyo_0,

Please note this thread will be automatically deleted in a few weeks.

tokyo_0,

@adnan I'm a big fan. The way it's set up here means I end up bookmarking a load of stuff to preserve, which then gets in the way of other things I bookmark to read or reply to, but it's still a vast improvement on the birdsite. I'd be really reluctant now to move to any service that didn't offer automatic deletion. Wish you could set it to remove old favourites, too.

tokyo_0,

@adnan Yeah, I guess I meant other Fediverse software really - things like Sharkey or GoToSocial, or whatever the new fork is going to be called (if it actually happens)

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