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

"In fact, we should acknowledge that most people are forced to live inside someone else’s imagination and one of the things we have to come to grips with is how the nightmares that many people are forced to endure are the underside of elite fantasies about efficiency, profit, and social control. Racism, among other axes of domination, helps produce this fragmented imagination, misery for some, monopoly for others."

-- Dr. Ruha Benjamin

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/video-ruha-benjamin-new-jim-code-race-carceral-technoscience-and-liberatory-imagination

Via

https://just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/challenging-techs-imagined-future/

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

"Imagination is a contested field of action, not an ephemeral afterthought that we have the luxury to dismiss or romanticize, but a resource, a battleground, an input and output of technology and social order."

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

an early version of “Green to Gold”

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• gravestone of Henry M Heinold, 1st Sgt Company K 26th New Jersey Volunteers, 1st Lieutenant Company L 9th N J Volunteers, 1st Lieutenant Company E N J Volunteers, US Civil War

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bob@epicyon.libreserver.org ("Bob Mottram :debian:") wrote:

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The real enemy hiding behind AI, the villain that will destroy us all, is capitalism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/01/how-ai-will-destroy-us/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro130m-f_yk

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

Imagining an April Fool's prank so egregious we end up modifying the calendar to adopt a 29th day of February, with the 30th occurring on leap years, and start April on the 2nd. :thonking:

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

My arm was asleep while I was asleep. I think my brain just invented a nightmare to wake me up. Wild.

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zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:

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moshboy wrote:

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• phobos, screenshot, fm towns (1995) graphics: a skeleton with a bullet hole in its head, blood trickling out, wearing an army helmet, a skeletal hand reaching out.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Slay the Spire is a roguelike deckbuilder in which the goal is to slay absolute penis

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

To my trans friends & to those I haven't yet met, thank you for existing & allowing yourself to be seen. The world is better with you in it. 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransDayOfVisbility

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shannoncurtis ("Shannon Curtis") wrote:

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• An album cover that is a depiction of an 80s-era Las Vegas strip being blown up by a nuclear blast. The title is written across the image: “Shannon Curtis, Drive”

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Bad Guy is 100% a folk song composed for an accordion:

https://youtu.be/fK0X7PqeNdo?t=48

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Apple is pushing back with *furious* intensity against even the mildest reforms around iOS browsers. Not content to astro-turf their way across several continents, they're using petty legal maneuvers to prevent the possibility of needing to allow engine choice. It's rank.

The next time a Frutian tries to tell you Apple cares about the web, here's the link to send:

https://mastodon.social/@owa/110120581945462519

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

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techytacos@mstdn.social ("Elliott") wrote:

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travisfw@fosstodon.org ("Travis F W") wrote:

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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Upgrading to the new Ubuntu beta (23.04) went unremarkable. The only drastic change I see is font rendering got even thinner :-). May be a bit too much.

Oh, and icons in the doc now show unread counts from apps but can't reset it.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"The Algorithm". I'm sorry, but this is just embarrassing.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala#L225-L246

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braindouche@qoto.org ("Meredith Matthews") wrote:

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Ahuka@octodon.social wrote:

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I'm officially stopping boosting people's toots that use lowercase letters at the beginning of sentences. On the same grounds as many here don't boost images without an alt text: it makes it noticeably harder to access content.

And in case of alt text I can at least understand why some skip it (it's an anxiety inducing barrier for posting). In case of lowercase sentences I can't discern any reason beyond style.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhhh… Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin https://pandora.app.link/Zp7s8tszCyb

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vyr@demon.social ("Vyr 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron https://pandora.app.link/QwdWnaCyCyb

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I’m listening to Delta Man (Where I'm Comin' From) by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson on Pandora https://pandora.app.link/55obEnJxCyb

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Now finding little juvenile spiders around the house, like Parasteatoda and Salticus scenicus. Don't tell them about the blizzard predicted to arrive today.

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