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Leander Lindahl

@leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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Digital sovereignty. Inequality economics. Social democrat in Lund, Sweden. Fairphone/eOS user. Linguam latinam disco. #digitalsovereignty #eurostack 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@leanderlindahl, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

We shape the world we live in. We are not powerless, yet our elected officials feign "having to" use X even though it's abundantly obvious it's a negative force. Why do they work as content creators that drive traffic and profits to x while holding public office? Don't they work for us? […]

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Jacob Kaarsbo @jkaarsbo.bsky.social · 4d

🇫🇷 President Macron is 💯 here👇🏻

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 10h

Deloitte has been caught selling an AI generated report to the Australian government for the price of 440,000 dollars. Smart. An even cheaper way to make expensive BS consultant reports about how we can cut the public sector without any bad consequences at all.

Deloitte delivers report to government using AI which contained errors | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@stevensnedker.bsky.social 👍

Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Mixing followed users AND followed hastags, would allow you to compose nice streams of content or "flows".

Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

In a dream world you'd be able to authenticate through your Mastodon server to lower the barrier if entry to almost 0.

Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Seems the group is already federated 🙂
https://organisera.org/@community_tech
Is this the ingenious work of @[email protected] @[email protected] ?

Community Tech

This is a group about "community tech" as opposed to "big tech" (oligarch billionaire tech). To join the group: register on organisera.org first and then you can join the group.

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Ideally the groups should be discoverable through fedi, like mastodon accounts, even if the content and activity of the group won't be accessible.
https://organisera.org/@community_tech

Community Tech

This is a group about "community tech" as opposed to "big tech" (oligarch billionaire tech). To join the group: register on organisera.org first and then you can join the group.

organisera.org

Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Therading in Mastodon is sometimes weird. Posting one more time

I set up a group for us with Mobilizon -
@Chris Ciara
@CiaraNi -- and anyone else who's interested -- to try out and see what the features seem like.
https://organisera.org/@community_tech

Community Tech

This is a group about "community tech" as opposed to "big tech" (oligarch billionaire tech). To join the group: register on organisera.org first and then you can join the group.

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PepperTheVixen ΘΔ @pepperthevixen.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me
#accessibility #alttext #blind

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Mastodon feature request – to make lists even more useful as prisms of the kaleidoscope, or simpler put, "flows" that you to tap into:

Add the ability to include hastags in lists (flow)

#mastodon #feature

Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@BlumeEvolution ☕ 🌞

Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

RE: https://mastodon.social/@leanderlindahl/115317172427285929

Ceterum censeo Mastodontis insignibus ubique collocandis esse.
(Furthermore I consider that Mastodon stickers must be put up everywhere)

Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

This kind of thing

https://infosec.exchange/@BiaSciLab/115317118593814140

BiaSciLab (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Spreading cDc stickers around Boston....let me know if you spot one 👀

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Johanna Sjödin @johannasjodin.substack.com · 1d

"Tillsammans med årets omflyttning av 50 miljoner kronor har staden räknat ut att det blir en besparing på cirka 40 miljoner kronor som alltså inte behöver betalas ut till friskolorna." Kreativt. www.dn.se/sverige/flyt...

Flyttar skolmiljoner – för att stoppa friskolornas vinster

Stockholms stad har satt i system att ta bort kostnader från skolbudgeten och lägga dem i andra utgiftsposter – för att det ska bli lägre…

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"Noblesse Oblige Is Dead: Today’s Wealthy Elite Just Don’t Give a Damn"

This article by Thom Hartmann, published as "Daily take" 29/10 last year, extends well beyond that particular date. Worth rereading. #inequality

https://hartmannreport.com/p/noblesse-oblige-is-dead-todays-wealthy-c53

Noblesse Oblige Is Dead: Today’s Wealthy Elite Just Don’t Give a Damn

We need a cultural shift that views wealth not just as privilege, but as a duty to uplift society—reviving the forgotten principle of noblesse oblige...

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Originally posted by @gtronix:
Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter ‘Packs’. Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature. #mastodon
https://urlr.me/SYnRF5

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I'm beginning to get excited about #loops now ✨ 📹
(Clip created by https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti)
https://joinloops.org/

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Alexander Solzhenitsyn https://urlr.me/pMqstF

Civil courage - Wikipedia

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

"We have gotten used to regarding as valor only valor in war (or the kind that’s needed for flying in outer space), the kind which jingle-jangles with medals. We have forgotten another concept of valor—civil valor. And that’s all our society needs, just that, just that, just that!" Alexander […]

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

In case the link got mangled when bridged to Bluesky

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5tRoSQ2UNyqq2KVlUoVvhJ?si=_WumC9IjQL2C6CLOhVvmtw

And here's Gary Stevenson:
@garyseconomics
@garyseconomics.bsky.social

Who's getting rich from your mortgage?

Garys Economics · Episode

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@mariajosephson.bsky.social
You're post about bathroom renovation made me think of this.

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

A young person will have to save for years only to afford the deposit.

Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Today no middle class family will realistically ever pay off their mortgage before retirement age. They will have transferred part of their income to the lender of capital, but they will still not own their property. They will have rented the property.