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"Mastadon" π The mental image of journalists frantically googling this mythical beast instead of the actual platform π
The worst part? We only notice when it's something we know about. Makes you wonder what else they're getting completely wrong in every other section of the news.
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But a spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W".I know, and as I said, official communications coming from W were frankly ambiguous in this.
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Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called #WSocial?
"A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W"
[...] W is a privately owned social media start-up incorporated in Sweden, backed by private investors mainly from the Nordic region."
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Yeah, it looked weird that there was no trace of news on financing except on two or three sites. I wonder who extracted value from building this tale, besides free advertising for the yet-to-be platform.
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@fosdembsd Why would you say that is strange? This is exactly what should happen, organisations that want control over their communications have their own instance, but are not in control of the network.
@ahltorp @fosdembsd it is a bit strange because of the quote "the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform". Partly because the EU runs a mastodon instance (hence "not launching" is weird), and they fund(ed) I think Mastodon, goto social and possibly others through Next Generation Internet (sub)grants.
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@ahltorp @fosdembsd it is a bit strange because of the quote "the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform". Partly because the EU runs a mastodon instance (hence "not launching" is weird), and they fund(ed) I think Mastodon, goto social and possibly others through Next Generation Internet (sub)grants.
An 'instance' isn't the same as a 'platform'.
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An 'instance' isn't the same as a 'platform'.
@gsymon how do they differ?
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Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called #WSocial?
"A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W"
[...] W is a privately owned social media start-up incorporated in Sweden, backed by private investors mainly from the Nordic region."
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Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called #WSocial?
"A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W"
[...] W is a privately owned social media start-up incorporated in Sweden, backed by private investors mainly from the Nordic region."
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@gsymon how do they differ?
The instances are all the individual / independent servers that run Mastodon, which is the platform.
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@_elena @sharan Personally happy to draw ire from Fedi enthusiasts when it comes to government-run Social Media. Remember: social media needs to be moderated, and really the last thing that citizens should want is their government moderating speech, literally. You can (hopefully) trust your gov't now (sans USA), but what about in 10 years?
More than happy with the choice of people to choose which Fediverse instance they want to join, as long as in the end it's the Fediverse.
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Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called #WSocial?
"A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W"
[...] W is a privately owned social media start-up incorporated in Sweden, backed by private investors mainly from the Nordic region."
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Sorry for the plaguedIn link, but thatβs where it was posted
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7419299008998776832/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ikuturso/116074579203879354
@_elena @luca There are some new details out on who is behind W Social, what they're doing etc. They have a fairly well connected advisory board of politicians and tech industry big wigs it seems (see quoted thread).
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@kiaun very cool
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@swetland I used to have the job title "Robot Psychologist" at a past job, but in retrospect that may have hurt my career as my next two jobs had me start at their "junior programmer" rung equivalents. I do wonder sometimes how things might have gone different if I picked "Principle Engineer" instead.
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@codinghorror We can and have taxed the wealthy before. It was highly successful. We do not do so today, but have several proposals (improved capital gains tax, for example) that address this. We also have states beginning to implement additional taxes on those with high income. (See Washington State's "Millionair Tax")
The challenge is that it's a political fight to get these established - more so since Citizens United.
Also... the programs being crap is not because they need to be complex. If it were, we would not be having a social security crisis. They are crap because we give poor people crap.
If you have ever sampled procucts across the spectrum, you might notice how anything directed at poor people is full of advertisements, scams and upselling. This is considered lucrative, even though we are selling services to individuals who cannot afford the bells and whistles.
We specifically design benches to be uncomfortable. There was even a toilet designed to be uncomfortable.
But this is about government services, not just what we find acceptable.
So to bring us back, I need to call out how much scruteny poor people are under to prove their poorness is not a moral failing instead of the fact they are paid less than enough to meet the poverty line - a line chosen to describe not "Who has enough", but instead "Who is literally starving".
And why? Because of the "Welfare Queen Myth".
So no. I do not trust us with any means testing. I will not until we fix existing means testing.
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@delegatevoid oh another thing people have been pointing out. all of these companies are burning obscene amounts of money to offer these services way way way way way below the cost of operating them. my understanding is investors generally want to eventually see a return on investment.
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Lack of stigma and universality are two good reasons supporting UBI vs GMI... *but* in my humble opinion everything else supports GMI vs UBI. Social services should strive to find everyone in need of support and request GMI for them. Payment should be in plain money, not coupons or a "poor man's card".
Does it leave room for cheating? Sure, like every policy does. Far smaller room than building a road or purchasing jet fighters, anyway.
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@aeva A coworker of mine who worked on VM stuff had "Virtual Machinist" as the title on his business cards back in the day, which I always thought was brilliant.
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FWIW - "finalistic" policies do cause clear inflation (i.e., there are examples on how giving 200β¬/month to help pay rent to everyone under a minimum income ends up raising avg housing prices by 200β¬/mo).
GMI should not have the same effect... to an extent, as in many markets, housing takes most family income and any additional income would go towards paying rent.(I am not an economist. Nor do I want to)
