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So, I've been recently having a conversation with several folk about Slack vs Discord and which platform may be more advantagous for organizing events and building community. I and others were surprised to learn of how wide the gulf is on various people's ranges of experiences on each service, in terms of community, harassment, security tools, and users feeling welcomed.
I recognize that my experience as a femme-presenting person who uses my real identity is different from that of an anonymous person with a profile photo showing a bearded guy in a Patagonia vest holding up an IPA. This tracks with the discussions I've had today: tech bros generally seem to lean toward one platform while all of my other business-owning women friends opt to steer away from that service almost entirely.
If you're femme and use your real identity online, do you have a preference for Slack or Discord? Have you ever opted out of using either Slack or Discord? In addition to discussion of general vibes and security tools, we also can all recognize that there are some surveillance/privacy tradeoffs in play, as well. (Just as, if you're an organizer, maybe you have thoughts about which service offers tools or features or pricing that steers you one way or another, as well?)
What are your stories on this topic?

Zelensky dismisses SBU cybersecurity chief following media investigation: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/01/zelensky-dismisses-sbu.html

"At least two dozen countries worldwide have already made the sensible transition to some form of automatic tax filing, not necessarily just for low-income citizens, but in many cases for everyone. The UK, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Chile, and Portugal have implemented some version of an automated, digital tax system, and none of them have turned back."
How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach – Canadian Dimension

How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach
In the unfair fight for automatic tax filing, Canadians need to get behind the underdog. While many of us might welcome and benefit from this service, it’s our vulnerable friends and neighbours who need it the most. We must come together to join the chorus calling for this crucial tax reform—and be louder than those motivated by nothing more than greed.

Paytm shares fell 20% on February 2, after falling 20% on February 1, as the company reels from the RBI clampdown; Paytm lost $2.1B in market cap in two days (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/indian-central-ba…

Indian central bank's clampdown wipes $2.1 billion off Paytm | TechCrunch
Shares of Paytm fell another 20% Friday before hitting the lower circuit that temporarily halts trading as the Indian financial services firm reels from

Amazon strikes a deal to offer Lionsgate and Starz content to MGM customers in the UK, following similar deals for other European countries and Latin America (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Amazon Strikes Deal for Lionsgate, Starz Content, Including ‘Outlander,’ for MGM+ in U.K.
The service will offer series and movies from Lionsgate and Starz in the U.K., including 'Outlander,' giving customers access to more hit series and movies.

During our morning walk I saw this Melolontha (Maikäfer) on the street.
I took him up and brought it to the next patch of grass.
It's the second one I see this year. It's causes a bit mixed feelings. I'm happy that I find them and watch them closely.
But it also makes me sad because when I was a child, I saw them ways more often.
#maikäfer

Peter Gabriel's complete catalogue, since 1977, is up on #Bandcamp - includes some German releases...
https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/music

Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel is best known as a musician. He started his solo work in 1975 after leaving his old school group: Genesis. He has released eleven solo albums and written soundtracks for three films. Peter is now writing and recording, and working on a plan to create a streaming service for digital medicine and an Interspecies Internet.

“A sign of the scale of #’Twitter’s bot problem is the thriving #botindustry. Bot makers from around the world advertise their services on freelancer websites.
A computer scientist in Pakistan, sells "ChatGPT Twitter bots" for $30 to $500, depending on complexity.
In an interview with the ABC …he said could make a "fully fledged" bot that could "like comments o…

Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying an agreement from OpenAI's founding to develop AI toward the "benefit of humanity" over profits (Candace Cheung/Courthouse News Service)
https://www.courthousenews.com/elon-musk-sue…

Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat
OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.

Update: All miners trapped after Kryvyi Rih drone attack rescued: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/02/update-all-miners.html