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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Some of y'all don't understand the gift that is not having to learn about some weird racist conditioning you have in public.

Because everyday, Black liberators are on these apps giving you the advice of a lifetime.

And instead of self reflecting next to a cozy fire and a recommended book, you decided to learn about your racism on the internet for all to see, under a Black woman's comment section.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, take the fucking advice and spare yourself the embarrassment.

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ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Please stop asking Black women who have spent their lives fighting racism what we’re doing to fight racism. That’s actual delusion.

Instead, ask your very White self what have YOU have done to dismantle racism in your own life. What are you actively doing to protect people of color from this type of behavior? That is the only question you get to ask or focus on.

Less on me. I wake up actualizing anti-blackness. What did you do today?

From: @lucasgonze
https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877498836103949

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Firefishy@en.osm.town ("Grant Slater") wrote:

Dear AI Companies, instead of sneakily scraping OpenStreetMap.org, how about a tiny $10,000 donation? We'll even throw in a shiny new download link to our entire planet's geo data! Who knew it was that easy? Start here: https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate/ #win #ai #bots #OpenStreetMap 🌍 🤖 🤑

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The day we stop approaching racism, particularly anti-Black racism, as an external problem we need to fix, and approach it as internal conditioning we need to undo, is the day we make actual progress.

The people who believe they don't need to do that are the ones who need to do it the MOST.

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CaribenxMarciaX@scholar.social ("PVs- DR. Artist Marcia X") wrote:

"the insidious nature of whiteness has informed the building of the code and that is reflected in the way users interact with one another. To see the quote ‘For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change”-Lorde is an oxymoron on the fediverse."

This was written in what.. 2020

ITS 4 YEARS OLD

https://www.artistmarciax.com/post/archived-post-op-ed-decoloniality-and-fediverse

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

@cy

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• The Fediverse is designed so relatively small time players without a whole lot of knowhow can thrive here, making it inherently antiracist. Minorities don't make as much money, or get as much education, and despite that, this place enables them to have a voice. Pointing at its lack of diversity is ignoring that it's the most diverse social network in existence, with people from all races and creeds, and walks of life. Yes it's not perfect, and complaining about the Fediverse's centralized and inaccessible aspects is completely valid. It would be great to make this place more representative of humanity as a whole. But it's already closer than anything else. It does no one any good to claim that it's not, other than the racists trying to trap us on Twitter.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I love when white people tell us we should be grateful for what they enable us to have.

Just in case there was any question about which type of racism is the problem here:

"Minorities don't make as much money, or get as much education, and despite that, this place enables them to have a voice."

This is why moderation won't solve racism. Because who is going to suspend this diet-coke racist?

From: @cy
https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1722371073.362572

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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

great signal out here

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• Three small yellow mushrooms in a straight line, with the smallest on the left, medium in the middle, and tallest on the right. Reminiscent of cell phone service bars icon. The mushrooms are (I think) Entoloma murrayi, also known as the yellow unicorn entoloma, for the well defined pointy bit at the center/top of the cap. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

We can't code away the racism problem in the Fediverse.

Racist trolls are a symptom to a much bigger issue. Mastodon's demographics mirror Big tech. Every last power structure in the Fediverse is controlled by white people who have sprinkled in a couple of tokens towards the bottom.

No one has done any anti-racist work because we all have either decided that we were born enlightened or that our oppressed identities omit us from white supremacy.

The call. Inside the house. So on.

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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

This song scratched my brain meats in a good spot:

https://alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/hit-em-dreamgrl

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

Biles is friggin’ amazing, as a person and as an athlete

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/30/world/olympics-gymnastics-simone-biles?unlocked_article_code=1._E0.VXjP.sEKxfC2Ih4BL&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

Newsflash. 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

White LGBTQ+ people can be racist. Is that something we need to say?

So many responses here being like, as a trans person, I got such better community on Mastodon from the beginning.

Change that to "As a WHITE trans person."

Take a look at what Black, Arab and other nonwhite trans people have been saying on here, and how you've been treating them.

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jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:

You can't migrate your followers to a server that's been defederated (or that's defederated your server).

In other situations ... well, theoretically yes, but in practice it's not always smooth. Erin Kissane's Notes from a Mastodon Migration is a great read.

And of course you can't migrate your posts to another Mastodon server at all, whcih is what people really want. When people not familiar with the fediverse ask me why that is, I point out that the Mastodon code base is controlled by the same people who control the largest server, which is generally regarded as having bad moderation, so it's not in their interest to make it easy for people to move -- hmm, I wonder if that accounts for the lack of investment in this?@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org @blogdiva@mastodon.social @KraftTea@mastodon.social @midgephoto@photog.social

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

I'd like to see more "lets reflect on what the culture of the community that has been curated on the fediverse is, and how the tooling has enabled that culture," and less "its just about switching instances" or "do this one thing and the racism bug will be fixed."

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

@TomSwirly
As I wrote many times, I want to see more reflection on the culture here & less "maybe its the instance I"m in that is better that's why I don't see racism."

We received a lot of abuse from trans white people.

Seems like people don't want to believe that the fediverse is as blatantly racist as it is. You don't see it because you're not the target. Period. Not because you're on better instance, or someone else is doing something right. You're not the target in a toxic platform.

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

The report continues

"...In any case the "trans women masquerading as ..." trope is highly offensive and the amount of barely concealed transphobia that followed on from it was almost shocking. I say almost because I am almost immune to it now."

It seems that according to Mastodon, only white queer people exist!

And we have the insufferable brand of "its your moderation that's the problem."

Not its you. Its your supremely white toxic curated community on here that's the problem.

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

Let me show y'all just how toxic you are.

Someone at lgbtqia.space reported Alex, an Arab trans woman with this to say about her and our instance.

"I find this problematic in the context of wide ranging reports of racist abuse coming from BIPOC folks on Masto and dair-community dot com. It seems that this is an AI centred community with an incredibly laissez-faire attitude to moderating, with a transphobic mod who also tolerates ableist hate towards autistic people at the very least.....

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bitmaker ("Jason Martens") wrote:

If you haven’t seen any racism on the timeline recently *that is a part of the problem*. It remains invisible for people who are not targeted. Also go follow @timnitGebru or @Are0h or #TheBadSpace to hear from people who are both impacted by the racism and working to fix it.

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MisuseCase@twit.social ("Misuse Case") wrote:

How the fuck is #Mastodon a worse place for black people than #Twitter #xitter which is owned and operated by an actual fashy techbro?

This is a major collective failure and instead of doing “well actually” at black users who talk about discrimination on here we should be working harder on community moderation, which may require adding new features to Mastodon.

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blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

ah, the good ole :

THERE IS NO WAR IN BA SING SE

school of business management

#facebook #threads #meta

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• 1. from Ludmilla Lupinacci: Sometimes research projects basically write themselves up I guess?! Adam Mosseri confirming that a big component of what they hope will make Threads distinctive is mood management and calibration so as to keep the platform clean from anger, negativity, and bad vibes (and in so doing make it super brand-friendly I suppose) #AoIR #mediastudies #commodon 2. embedded is an image from Threads where a (white) woman called newyorkcity asks a (white) man called mosseri newyorkcity Talk to me, what do you want to see on here? mosseri Good vibes.

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

I keep typing the phrase "4G is a miracle, 5G is a mirage" into my network and device baseline posts[1], but this is the sort of thing that will change the situation in a few years when current devices reach EOL:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/30/qualcomm-launches-snapdragon-4s-gen-2-chip-to-bring-5g-to-the-masses/

[1]: https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality

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basus ("Shrutarshi Basu") wrote:

Is there a comprehensive resource (book, survey paper, website) covering known parsing techniques? Ideally, it would cover classical techniques like recursive descent, LALR, LL, parser generators, but also modern things like parser combinators and PEGs. If there isn't one single resource, are there a bunch I could cobble together?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Six months ago, when I suggested Meta is poised to pivot to infrastructure, the bootlickers laughed and said it was fantasy.

Now that such a pivot seems inevitable, they've suddenly decided it's a good thing, and that it will *help* users and decentralization.

This is weirdo shit. And it's the least surprising thing to ever happen.

Needless to say, #Meta taking over our infrastructure is not a good thing for anyone but Meta. Full stop.

From: @raphael
https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/112876395773839536

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

I made the unfortunate decision to read multiple things early this morning that made me sad. But the video in LB[1] was a nice balm. Philip Achille's version of "Take Five":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF3Q3J6LSJY

[1] https://haunted.computer/@Dio9sys/112876117397207414

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Dio9sys@haunted.computer wrote:

Sometimes you need to see someone absolutely WAILING on a harmonica.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF3Q3J6LSJY

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Dark mode, RSS feeds, performance optimizations and more: read all about the ongoing development of crates.io on the Rust Blog. ✨

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/07/29/crates-io-development-update.html

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I give it five more years until your browser is just a glorified wasm package manager.

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

That's a grocery bag she is lying on. I'm afraid I can never use it again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/30/every-day-same-spot/

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• Black cat curled up for a nap (remote)

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

Regarding LB[1]: That poem reminds me of my little post:

https://social.coop/@cstanhope/110248783091539248

I mean, imagine living through those unprecedented times.

[1] https://hachyderm.io/@Impossible_PhD/112829991851537725

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Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io ("Doc Ranma Saotome") wrote:

Time to get fierce.

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• A poem. It's text is, "Hope is not the thing with feathers That comes home to roost When you need it most. Hope is an ugly thing With teeth and claws and Patchy fur that’s seen some shit. It’s what thrives in the discards And survives in the ugliest parts of our world, Able to find a way to go on When nothing else can even find a way in. It’s the gritty, nasty little carrier of such diseases as optimism, persistence, Perseverance and joy, Transmissible as it drags its tail across your path and bites you in the ass. Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird, Emily. It’s a lowly little sewer rat That snorts pesticides like they were Lines of coke and still Shows up on time to work the next day Looking no worse for wear. " (remote)