Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Cancel your #Spotify today. Use those dollars to buy between 1 & 3 (or more!) albums on #BandcampFriday. Enjoy the actual, direct impact you had on someone's life. (Hell they might message you to say thanks!)

No amount of $$$ (or streams) spent on Spotify will ever change ANYTHING for the better!

I kind of want to start an online movement.

OFFLINE DAY.

Last day of every goddamn month, OFFLINE. We just go offline. Turn our fucking phones and smrt devices off, don't listen to music we don't own physical copies of. Go touch grass. Chat to neighbours. See friends. Shop for CDs. Be annoyed when our friends don't turn up to things on time and unlike now we can't find out via instant message that they're late because of public transport being broken. We might even briefly get a feeling of erroneous optimism about the future.

Basically, it's one day a month where we go full '90s.

Canada Post email?
Here's my idea for the day. Evolve part of Canada Post to create an email service. Canada doesn't have a really strong rival to gmail. Recent events have shown that using services such as US-owned email, digital storage and other related services are a security risk to every Canadian. Individual as well as Canadian business and government departments are all using these US services -- which can surrender their customers documents, etc. on request to the US government. Likely the same for many other non-Canadian owned services.
I don't know if Canada Post email would be the way to go, but with all this talk about its services needing to keep up with the times, well, it popped into my head.
Something encrypted, offers similar document and work services, etc. as gmail.). They could work with Corel, Sync and/or related Canadian companies to build it.
Or, maybe Sync or some other Canadian company or group could be supported, and encouraged to offer an email service.
Anyway, just a thought.
Interesting comments on this, btw.

Today's undefined moon is 0% of full brightness, and is currently NaN km from Earth and NaN km from the sun. It's been NaN days since the last new moon.

hot take, burning hot take, like, not to you who probably agree but to the companies who disagree: not only should it be easy and legal to jailbreak all your devices ... the "jail" shouldn't even exist, you should be able to install and uninstall any software without jailbreaking the device

this includes phones, tablets, consoles, smart appliances, and obviously computers

It is strange to read an article detailing exactly why and how Microsoft has lost its way, leading to products that really just aren't good any more, all the way through to academic critiques of Microsoft's AI push (though, I'll note, the article goes out of its way to not mention Emily Bender).... only to read in the closing lines that the author is completely unwilling to even try Linux.

https://mastodon.social/@edbott/115293371569208232