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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

There’s some interesting parallels between the Technocracy movement of the 1930s and 40s, and a contemporary movement known as #EffectiveAltruism.

Both ideologies promise a techno-utopia, if only we’d give the world to its believers.

And both share some lineage— Joshua Norman Haldeman, 1940s director of Technocracy Inc, is the grandfather of Effective Altruism’s most powerful evangelist, Elon Musk.

What a gnarly little coincidence.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Every comment under this #threads post is "have you tried training your algo?"

I thought the whole excuse for algorithms was that people didn't like curating their feeds?

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• Screenshot of a social media post expressing dissatisfaction with the default 'For You' experience, mentioning it's full of clickbait and requests to stop pushing it on users, with a reference to a user named @mosseri.

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cyberboy@fedi.catboy.agency ("𝓒𝔂𝓫𝓮𝓻𝓑𝓸𝔂 :v_pan: :v_cat:") wrote:

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Hot take: it's time to make a new #HitchhikersGuide to the Galaxy franchise and James Gunn needs to write and direct it.

I will not be taking questions at this time.

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goodenoughllc@mastodon.world ("Good Enough") wrote:

@fromjason Thank you for listing Pika (https://pika.page)! We're quite early in our journey, but I will say that our blogging platform will probably _not_ be on the overly techie side of things.

Great list!

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Toastie@journa.host wrote:

Internet service providers are landlords. They don't provide anything, just control access.

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nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

Quick tip for Safari: drag a tab to the left to pin it. 💡

(a friend of mine was genuinely surprised today that you could do this, so I thought it was worth sharing 😁)

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• Screen recording: dragging a couple of tabs to the left of the window to pin them. Dragging them to the right unpins them. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Regarding: Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs

I find it odd, borderline infuriating even, how many left-of-center folks are suddenly very concerned with drug use stigma.

When it’s a brown kid dying in jail for a weed charge, it’s “nuanced”.

When it’s about a billionaire who believes in the great replacement theory, all of a sudden it’s #ACAB and legalize it.

Bro. Please be so for real. https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1

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

DeliaChristina@sfba.social ("Delia Christina") wrote:

I'm really curious how many white folks in the fediverse have *any* close BIPOC friends.

Like, work pals don't count.

These are folks who have let you see the inside of their homes, you know whether or not you have been invited to their cookout, and you know how to reach a member of their family in an emergency.

(All my Besties know how to reach my sister or dad and/or have met them.)

Like, are you a Mark or a...Karen?

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

yup

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• Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social - conservatives seem to have replaced “CRT” with “DEI" as a catch- all vessel for their complaints about the feeling they get when someone makes them think about racism b-boy bouiebaisse ®jbouie.bsky.social - they have already started referring to individual people as "DEI hires” and the like so it s also pretty evident that “DEI" is becoming another stand in for a certain slur they won't say in public (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Damn I need to check my #webmentions more often 😅 or burn it with fire

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

2023 turned us "crypto" and "web3" sceptics into "crypto" and "web3" never-forgetters.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

#Instagram CEO: We're fixing the low quality suggestions. But also, we just fixed it. Better content is on the way. Wait, it's here. Do you see it? No? This is our number 1 priority. We'll get to it soon. Honestly, it was never really broken.

Anyone notice my cool chain? Anyway, here's a post about the great replacement theory.

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

When two spiders have sex, there's a bewildering array of limbs all over the place.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/07/a-sexy-tangle-of-limbs/

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• Two Steatoda borealis in the middle of mating (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Racketeering taking an early lead. Nice.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

#iCloud+ is lowkey an incredible service. iCloud Drive, Mail, Keychain, Multi-device sync for all my data, web interface, plus some extra features I use often:

- Custom domain email addresses
- Private relay
- Hide my email with ability to make unlimited(?) forward addresses.
- Advanced Data Protection with end-to-end encryption for storage and backups.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

What's your favorite crime?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

My #BlueSky handle is officially my domain name. I removed x-posting from #microblog and am considering posting there directly more often.

Mastodon is still my main squeeze though. 🖤

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• A social network profile page with a profile picture of a smiling person on the left. The profile displays the user's name as "J", handle "@fromjason.xyz", with counts of "5 followers" and "8 following", alongside a bio

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

more history I did not know: there were RAF strikes in 1946, over the slow pace of demobilization, and sympathy with the independence movement in "India".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force_strikes_of_1946

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MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labor History January 7, 1920: Jewish anarchist Albert Meltzer was born in London. He became an anarchist at age fifteen through the boxing lessons he took with Billy Campbell, a seaman, boxer and anarchist. During the Spanish Civil War, Meltzer smuggled arms from Hamburg to the CNT in Spain. Meltzer was a co-founder of the anarchist newspaper Black Flag and wrote several books, including “Anarchism, Arguments For and Against,” “The Floodgates of Anarchy, and his autobiography, “I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels, published by AK Press.” He was also was involved in the founding of the Anarchist Black Cross prisoner support movement. In the early 1980s, he joined the anarcho-syndicalist Direct Action Movement.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #AlbertMeltzer #london #CivilWar #spain #BlackFlag #prison #cnt #DirectAction

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• Portrait of Albert Meltzer, in suit and tie, with thick, round black glasses. By Unknown author - http://freedompress.org.uk/news/2014/05/24/a-tribute-to-albert-meltzer/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33672332 (remote)

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

back from a slog of a walk in the cemetery in the new snow, fiddling on 10-40m #AmateurRadio bands with low-power (8-10w) JS8 "heartbeat" pulses to check out propagation 📡

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• pskReporter map of reception reports (I am in #ROC Rochester NY) extends from the west coast of the US and Canada to the eastern Federal Republic of Germany (remote)

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

@clevercode I love ProtonMail, hope it is a good "place" to toil ;^}

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

Best. Idea. Ever.

https://hachyderm.io/@clevercode/111115805584910682

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

You can be right about evolution, and as dumb as a cow pond about everything else. Case in point: Jerry Coyne.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/07/jerry-coyne-as-dumb-as-a-creationist/

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• Orac points out how petty and wrong Jerry Coyne can be (remote)

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

La mia intervista a Portici di Carta (Torino, ottobre 2023) dove parlo brevente delle tematiche che affronto nel romanzo #SciFi "Il Grande Collasso"

https://youtu.be/5GYUlmASzxc?si=Deb6t9KuetFxNjHt

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CriticalCupcake@tech.lgbt ("Critical Cupcake") wrote:

Absolutely love these, feels like breaking all sorts of boundaries. 💖

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

makkhorn@c.im ("Mary Ann Horn") wrote:

WaPo
Get rid of "em

#voteblue2024protectdemocracy

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

ArloDotBoston@metrobus.masto.host ("Arlo.Boston") wrote:

Sometimes I’m amazed at what Meta devs are able to pull off.

Other times - like now - I’m amazed at how they can screw up the most basic of features. Trying to work in their headset with their remote screen software - this menu is immovable. Unless you put your keyboard exactly where Meta engineers do, this software becomes unusable

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

randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

It has been 74 days, and speaker Mike Johnson is still holding back the weapons to Ukraine, while Kim Jong Un is sending shipment after shipment to Russia.

The dark side certainly has bizarre alliances.

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xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:

You enter a blood-stained, black room. There is a CLAY POT on the floor. You see a BURRITO here, near the window. There is a SHEPHERD here, summoning Cthulhu.

Exits: SOUTHWEST NORTHWEST
#bot