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Boosted by jwz:
dramypsyd@ohai.social ("Dr. Amy, Psy.D.") wrote:

Hey do any historians know what it means when the FBI starts arresting judges

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
crashthearcade@mas.to ("mike") wrote:

Nobody fucking wants this. Hope that helps.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
YKantRachelRead@treehouse.systems ("Rach(el) Against The Machine") wrote:

just a reminder that carrotcypher voluntarily leaving fosstodon's mod team shouldn't make folks back down on their plans to limit/defederate the instance.

Mike publicly stated that he was "happy" with carrotcypher being on the mod team just yesterday.

the problem isn't just one person. it's an entire instance team that made the active decision to shelter a fascist.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
luxas@social.gnieh.org ("\LuXaS") wrote:

J'allais me coucher et je lis que la modération de fosstodon est vraiment merdique (genre "on est ok avec un modérateur fasciste car il est pas fasciste devant nous"). Impossible de dormir tant que je n'avais pas migré mon compte dessus (que j'utilise pour tout ce qui est en rapport avec mon activité open source). Voilà qui est fait, je vais peut-être réussir à dormir maintenant...

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jgarber@indieweb.social ("Jason Garber") wrote:

fellow white dudes not enough of y’all listened to the specials and it really shows

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

For context: one of the fosstodon mods has a pattern of espousing right wing views on other sites. The admin is defending him. Now other instances are starting to announce they'll defederate soon because of this. It's largely downstream from this thread
https://fosstodon.org/@mike/114394345053697948

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ChildlessBambinoo@mastodon.green ("ChildlessBambino :blobcateyes:") wrote:

#Fosstodon crashing out harder than Kanye. Seems they also share some similar viewpoints

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
soller@floss.social ("Jeremy Soller 🦀") wrote:

I have moved my mastodon account from fosstodon.org to floss.social. I want to make the reason I have done this crystal clear.

There is a person on the moderation team at fosstodon.org that goes by the name carrotcypher. This person appears to have posted concerning views on reddit multiple times, which you can see detailed here: https://floss.social/@lo%5F%5F@mastodon.social/114370692794472318

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
YKantRachelRead@treehouse.systems ("Rach(el) Against The Machine") wrote:

@sotolf @grueproof @oathboundfamiliar @adamsdesk @mike @lo__ "it's just one eensy little fascist whose moderation decisions are audited by Very Serious Objective People" my ass lmao

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jimsalter@fosstodon.org ("Jim Salter") wrote:

@rachaelspooky @mike @lo__ @sotolf @adamsdesk @grueproof hey, hi, Fosstodon *user* here. This is the first time I'm hearing about fash in the admin/mod ranks at this instance, please don't assume I'm okay with it.

I am frantically pawing through these links now to figure out just how bad the behavior is. It's already clear that Carrotcypher is far right enough that I want no part of associating with him directly.

But for the love of god, give the rest of us SOME grace period to bail, please?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
rachaelspooky@cyberpunk.lol ("rachael laura arbor") wrote:

@mike @lo__ @sotolf @adamsdesk @grueproof i ask this as a fellow admin- why are you okay with having a far-right mod? this is a wildly disgusting person that you welcome into your space. i know that as a trans woman i cannot trust any fosstodon user while knowing what kind of person you happily let on your staff, whether theyre acting on those beliefs or not. it's not safe for our mostly queer userbase to talk to your fascist-harboring userbase.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
annie@social.lol wrote:

Hey friends! One of my best friends (who happens to be neurodivergent and disabled) is trying to find some ways to bring in the money. She’s a super creative and talented person and she’s selling stuff on her new Etsy shop. She could really use more purchases (even small ones help!) and reviews. Take a look, buy a little gift for yourself or a friend maybe?

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CrochetDHDshop

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Jeff Atwood sat down with Aisha Nyandoro — whose work on UBI is some of the most important in the country — to talk about purpose-driven wealth, guaranteed income, and community-centered giving. Worth the read.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aishanyandoro/2025/04/25/from-code-to-cash-stack-overflow-co-founder-jeff-atwoods-unorthodox-path-to-philanthropy/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Some chill, groovy motivation for your Friday. Herbie Hancock's "Doin' It":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziBvd7k8b2U

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

technically all observable extragalactic events occurred both a long, long time ago and far, far away

we'd have big problems if there were news from another galaxy that occurred moments ago and light-minutes away

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

of course, rfk, let me show you where the autism is made. we ferment it in this wine cellar. yes, the casks of autism are just in there, behind that unfinished wall

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hober ("Theresa O’Connor") wrote:

Somebody who engages in logging is a lumberjack. But somebody who engages in blogging is just a blogger. What a missed opportunity.

Boosted by jwz:
counterpoint_politics@threads.net ("Jon Cooper") wrote:

This was satire from The Onion just 3 weeks ago

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

'... both the caller and Shriner believed the hit-and-run suspect was behind the fence and was the one who shot her. They make no mention of police officers firing weapons or making commands.

Shortly afterwards, Shriner can be heard on the 9-1-1 call, explaining to the dispatcher that she was shot by the hit-and-run suspect. “I had my gun… and he said ‘put down that gun, put down that gun’ and I said ‘put down your f**king gun.’ And then he shot me.”'

https://flipboard.com/@cnn/entertainment-kdo79uqrz/-/a-eZkqOmrERqKp3oSyjUKEjg%3Aa%3A132361178-%2F0

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

WGMC benefit tonight

Smooth notes fill the air,
Saxophones and soft piano,
Heartbeats dance with jazz.

courtesy https://arghstudios.com

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
hacktheplanet@beep.town ("HACK THE PLANET") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: okay speaks japanese

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

…or what's the weather like in #Skyrim? But really, what it's really really like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgkTj7yq0QQ

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I love AnyAustin's genre of over-analyzing the heck out of the most mundane things.

https://youtu.be/pKzPpyCWkak

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

irregular reminder that Billy Idol has more cyberpunk cred than most musicians and he’s old school nerd

Boosted by jwz:
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Buy books. But not from Amazon. Buy them from Bookshop.org, the independent site. This move by Amazon is shameful.

Here is a link to my book on Bookshop.org.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-three-ages-of-water-prehistoric-past-imperiled-present-and-a-hope-for-the-future/18943639

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

I’ve seen this movie before, and it’s awful. 2/10 on IMDB. But the main characters are masterful actors who excel at deflection, ignoring the central issue, and defending all of the wrong people for all of the wrong reasons.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Concerned Netizen: “But what about these deeply concerning issues involving a person who holds power and influence within your online community?”

Fosstodon Co-founder: “Let’s keep this about Rampart, okay?”

https://fosstodon.org/@mike/114394345053697948

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

This week saw a new kind of failure mode for open source projects: a company (Synadia) trying to claw back a project (NATS) that it had donated to a foundation (the CNCF) -- and the foundation fighting back. The belligerents themselves have their own agendas, but @ahl and I will be joined by fellow non-combatants @adamhjk and @rstephensme to talk about their perspective on the shootout -- and what it means for open source. Join us live, Monday, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1365446018149253160

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@th Phono jack electrical signaling is one of the oldest standards still in use -- basically as old as electrical transmission itself. With a physical adapter that you can still buy today for pennies, you could plug contemporary headphones into a telephone switchboard from 1870 and it would *just work*.

It is a god damned war crime that Apple took this away from us. I will die on this hill.