Kazarma is a bridge between two decentralized protocols: Matrix and ActivityPub. Kazarma allows exchange via private messages between Matrix users and users of an ActivityPub platform, such as Mastodon, PeerTube or Funkwhale. Public ActivityPub activities (eg toots threads) are also bridged into Matrix channels. The Kazarma bridge is easy to deploy, secure and easy to scale.
The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is an independent non-profit organization committed to advancing global Internet freedom. OTF supports projects focused on counteracting repressive censorship and surveillance, enabling citizens worldwide to exercise their fundamental human rights online
Value4Value is a monetization model, a content format, and a way of life. It is about freedom and openness, connection and free speech, sound money and censorship resistance. The largest success to date of applied V4V is Podcasting 2.0. Nostr's zaps are another example.
Could "programmatic" technology used in online advertising also be used to automate and personalize the distribution of cultural and editorial content?
"Neuroscientists have found that they can identify individuals based on a coarse map of which brain regions "pair up" in scans of brain activity.
The map is stable enough that the researchers could pick one person's pattern from a set of 126, by matching it to a scan taken on another day.
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"When a rogue researcher last week released 70,000 OkCupid profiles, complete with usernames and sexual preferences, people were pissed. When Facebook researchers manipulated stories appearing in Newsfeeds for a mood contagion study in 2014, people were really pissed. OkCupid filed a copyright claim to take down the dataset; the journal that published Facebook's study issued an "expression of concern." Outrage has a way of shaping ethical boundaries. We learn from mistakes."