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#PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)

blog.elenarossini.com/peertube…

mentioning @Framasoft @peertube @fedihost@mstdn.social @fedihost@video.fedihost.co @paige @veronicaexplains @ewen @docpop @hikingdude

P.S.: this is the 20th article for The Future is Federated 🤗

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #ActivityPub #video

PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)

A walk-through of PeerTube, an open-source, federated alternative to YouTube

^{Elena Rossini}

My hobby? Blackout #poetry

#tech #technology

behave accordingly.

#tech #union #UnionStrong

I have some GOOD NEWS, which is in short supply today, so I'm gonna SHOUT!

SUPER proud of my friend @CoralineAda , whose book WE JUST BUILD HAMMERS: Stories from the Past, Present, & Future of Responsible Tech is published as of today! WOOO!

If you want to better understand how technology and society interface through a lens of science fiction stories and questions for a better future, check it out. I'm psyched to dig into my copy!

thehammerbook.com/
#bookstodon #books #scifi #tech

We Just Build Hammers: A New Book by Coraline Ada Ehmke

Stories of visionaries from the past, present, & future of responsible tech, and the science fiction that inspired them. Available now from Apress.

^{thehammerbook.com}

The Camera Panopticon

How did we end up in technofascism? Watch this talk I gave over a decade ago warning of the dangers of Silicon Valley and Big Tech and urging us to embrace alternatives.

small-tech.org/videos/the-came…

(Transcript available in English, Español, and Nederlands, thanks to the community.)

#technofascism #BigTech #SiliconValley #startups #InternetOfThings #ventureCapital #web #decentralisation #ethicalDesign #design #diversity #inclusion #accessibility #FOSS #Zuckerberg #tech #society #USA #fascism #EU #theCameraPanopticon

The Camera Panopticon

Aral at The Big Brother Awards in Amsterdam, Netherlands. November 2014.

^{Small Technology Foundation}

This latest of pet issues advanced by the #crypto crew has somehow won priority status on Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s biennial honey-do list. Governor Greg Abbott even suggested interest. texasobserver.org/texas-bitcoi…

#Texas #GregAbbott #politics #USpol #tech #economy #news #TXlege

From Bullion to Bitcoin: Crypto Reserve Is Latest Fiscal Folly in Texas

Why?

^{Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)}