I have a good friend, for real, that is slowly going #blind. Is there a good plugin for #thunderbird
to read emails without involving a #bigCorp ?
I'm thinking of
1) Open email in window,
2) click button that says "read aloud"
She is not blind yet, this would be like training wheels to get her use to using a screen reader while she can still see a little.
@petergleick
thanks, I glad to see a media outlet actually print what he says verbatim.
The #bigCorp media needs to stop rewriting what he says.
#democracy is more than voting!
@maeve
This is the kind of lesson we should be learning, #bigCorp is not doing us any favors by concentrating the egg manufacturing to only a few mega operations.
We need #diversity
in all things, including our food productions.
#decentralize production in every field not just computers.
#democracy is more than voting.
@Tutanota
This toot was clearly from Tuta and is an info-mercal but it does contain a significant amount of useful information for general use.
TL;DR
most bigCorp email contain an image that is very small, 1x1 pixel.
When you open the email your email manager will request the image and at that point the #bigCorp knows where you are and you are giving them information to identify you in the future.
@bess@toot.catA few months ago there was a firefox update that introduced AI something something and there were a bunch of people posting about what to turn off and how. (
)
I have since had another firefox update and an android update, and y'all I am so fucking tired of this world. I want to escape this shit so badly but I don't have the mental energy to keep up with this shitshow. 
What's the plan? We're all gonna turn off those features with every update? Are there add-ons for this already? Do I need a monthly scheduled anti-ai checklist?
@bess@toot.catPeople who are still tech optimists in 2025 - why how where?
@hart
I think that over 100 years is enough time to allow #bigCorp to see the problem and to let #freeMarket forces produce a solution.
Its time to some good old fashion #democracy to take over, We need to put some regulation on how the #bigCorps function.
It is clear that the freemarket #billionaires needs some guidance and guardrails.
#democracy is more than how we vote!
@shanesemler Unfortunately, as long as bigots and hate mongers exist, those sentiments will find their way to the #internet.
The key is not to nuke the entire #web but rather take control away from #bigtech #politicians and #bigcorp and curate your own #online experience. Engage with what you want and block anything you don't. Keep your private #data private.
As of now, the best way to do that is through #fediverse #rss and #opensource.
@servelan
I have seen this first hand.
want to reform the H1B and keep good engineer, remove the restriction that they are tied to one corp.
Mobility of labor is a right,
That right is taken away from H1B and that then allows exploitation.
right now the law enables exploitation and gives the billionaires cheap labor.
It is the restriction that they can only work for one specific #bigCorp at whatever terms the bigCorp specifies that is the problem.
@Wuzzy
with drones, cars, modems, tiktoc or whatever; the issue is privacy and who owns your data and who can see the code that is in the products we use.
The people that we hire to operate our government are trying to say one #bigCorp can collect the data but others can not collect it.
That will not work.
We must regulate and control all corps that are collecting data independent of what country they are in.
#FLOSS goes long way in giving us the tools
#democracy is more than voting!
@AkaSci
The important question is, why is she still in office? and how is she evaluating the important complex issues like health care or AI or is she just voting for what she is told to vote for; a puppet of #bigCorp
Another example of #elder #Abuse.
The #GOP is filling our government with folks that are easy to manipulate.
#democracy is more than voting.
@impermanen_
It is being done to maximize profit and concentrate the wealth.
Until we, as individuals in a world society, understand that and start to work to gather for stronger democracies we will continue to be "farmed" for the #bigCorp pleasure and profit.
#democracy is more than how we vote!
@bess@toot.catStop using google yada yada but where else can I search "pizzeria" and filter for "open on monday". Organic maps doesn't do this, even trip advisor and yelp don't have this functionality.
It sucks so hard to see so much of internet being less than mediocre, when conventient stuff like this could actually be provided, but no, of course not.
how about the #moralhazard of a corporation/bank to not make loans that can not be repaid or bigCorps to take excess profits or pay low wages because of monopoly control of a market.
Being spared from their own responsibilities, #bigCorp might continue to take #excessive profits from future folks that are just trying to live.
#democracy is more than voting!
@heidilifeldman
we could compromise; gravity is real but you fall at a constant rate that way you wont be going as fast when you hit and that would reduce the projected injury when you hit; then we could make cheaper guard rails saving the corps millions.
always think of #science in terms of value to #bigCorp.
we are in for a long and dangerous 4 years and most likely far longer.
#democracy is more than how we vote!
@wdlindsy yes and hence the challenge. I face it too.
It would be better is the #bigCorp #media and the rest of us tried to follow a strategy of saying twice or three times as much about VP Harris as about the former president in each report. ie bookend all reporting of the lies.
I hope #Walz simple says "folks that's a lie, I have staff that will explain it, let me tell you about facts"; make it a mantra or a drinking game, take a drink every time he has to say it:-)
@wdlindsy
The #bigcorp media is either really dumb or is in on the scam.
Just the air time alone spent talking about all the dumb stuff he is saying is taking away from time that they could be using to report on the honest good stuff that the VP is saying.
That is the goal, suck up the airtime so her words dont get out.
Just reporting on what he is saying is the goal of what he is doing.
We need a free press with old fashion journalistic integrity.
#election2024 #harriswalz #democracy
