The Senate Intelligence Authorization Act contains a major change that would allow the CIA’s top lawyer to avoid the Senate confirmation process.
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The Senate Intelligence Authorization Act contains a major change that would allow the CIA’s top lawyer to avoid the Senate confirmation process. In an era of creeping authoritarianism this could hasten the Intelligence Community’s use as a tool of political espionage. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/eff-and-other-organizations-keep-key-intelligence-positions-senate-confirmed
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@kim I don't think anyone asked you to care about the details of the ActivityPub API and protocol? That seems really unusual.
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@kim I think your distinction between interoperability and decentralisation is maybe too fine for me. I think interop is a necessary condition for decentralisation.
And yes, we can set up interoperability! That is what we are doing with ActivityPub.
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@kim Social networks are important. They are how we get news, engage with family and friends, have conversations about topics that matter with our communities. Having only one model for social platform governance -- ad-supported commercial platforms -- is bad for us as individuals, as societies, and as a planet. The Fediverse movement is about establishing other modes of governance and making sure the existing platforms allow cross-network connections.
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@evan to me you're advocating for interoperability, not decentralisation there. those actors already can set up all those things - precisely because the web is decentralised. they just cant expect them to integrate with Facebook.
(maybe see my full thead for more context where im going with this)
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@kim Just engaging with the ecosystem at the presentation level -- I can use a Web browser to use all (almost all?) social network platforms -- doesn't recognise that there are data siloes that can't be connected to others.
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Social networking platforms. There are a handful that have billions or hundreds of millions of users. It's not possible for most to connect with other users across network boundaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users
Decentralisation means letting other entities, like individuals, families, enterprises, governments, universities, and civil society organisations, set up or manage their own social platforms and still stay connected to other people.
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