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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

It's this festering insecurity that makes communities vulnerable to infiltration of the more caricaturized form of racism. 

Explicit expressions of white supremacy are often forced to live in the margins of polite society. So, it must hide in coded language and micro-aggressions.

But that's not where WS wants to be. It wants to live in the sunlight, out in the open for all to see. So, WS is constantly scanning for cracks in societal norms.

#Fediverse #IndieWeb #SocialWeb

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

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

OMFG this is hilarious, and it appears to be a real thing. (the site takes forever to load… suffering from success, methinks). https://www.trumpytrout.com/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

There’s a specific flavor of aggression that comes from non-conservative, predominately white digital spaces. I think it draws from insecurity, almost like a projection.

#Twitter had it, to an extent, in the 2010s. As liberal-leaning as the hell-site was, there was always an unsettling presence of anti-Blackness. It was never overt, at least in the more liberal corners.

It was more like the persistent humming of an air conditioner— easy to tune out, but if you listened you could hear it.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A Fedi-Coming-to-Jesus:

More than even the threat of #Meta, if the #Fediverse does not address its anti-Blackness in the general populace, it will rot the community from the inside out.

You can hate me for mentioning it if you want, but you know it's true. Deep down, you can feel it, too. Sometimes, we’re afraid to admit a problem we don't immediately know how to fix.

And that's fine—it's human. But history is clear about what happens if we don't figure this out.

#socialweb #indieweb 1/

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

In mid August I finished up my second sketchbook[1], and I needed to start another. I ended up taking an unintentional break from drawing when I got hung up trying to figure out a different approach to my drawing practice. I didn't want to start with a fresh sketchbook until I figured it out. I finally got over it the other day. My first drawing was depicting what I imagine Pac-Man looks like once you get enough resolution.

[1] in this stage of my life.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• A drawing in blue pencil of Pac-Man as imagined if you could zoom in real close with a high resolution camera. He's mostly a head who looks possibly hangry. His gigantic open mouth is ingesting glowing dots floating in front of him. He has arms and legs, but, defying common anatomy, they jut out from the sides and bottom of his head. There's a small bandaid on his cheek. Possibly from eating uncooperative ghosts. He has small tufts of hair around his head, and mildly bushy eyebrows. If you saw him coming down the street, you would probably cross to the other side. (remote)

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scott@typetura.social ("Scott Kellum :typetura:") wrote:

Men will literally block hundreds of thousands of people from critical software updates instead of going to therapy

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beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

the product doesn’t return reliable results, it’s an ethicist’s nightmare, to keep it running they have to punch barn-sized holes in the environment, but at least it’s wildly profitable [touches earpiece] hang on https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/openai-sees-5-billion-loss-this-year-on-3point7-billion-in-revenue.html

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

All this could have been hidden away if only we shuttered NOAA and the National Hurricane Center, and someone could have made money off the disaster.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/28/i-hope-your-house-doesnt-look-like-this-floridians/

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• House destroyed by hurricane in Florida (remote)

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

I'm trying to extend some grace to artists with an already established track record of being great while they figure out their approach or stance on generative "AI".

(Still not buying any "AI" slop/spam they curate while they do so.)

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

I love John Oliver

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000671076413

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

What kind of college town doesn't have an accessible coffee shop?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/28/the-biggest-disappointment-of-living-in-morris/

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

"no, really, it's good," they say, "it's so very promising for the future of the fediverse that this very serious organization has been founded to help steer the direction of the social web along with the big corporate players in the social space" and then pwoom! I launch the sundogistani trebuchet and send them back into the void from whence they came.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

@molly0xfff https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

For a second, I forgot what @molly0xfff's site was called, read the overline and said to myself "well that's a fucking rude editorialization" lol I need to go to sleep

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• Screenshot of a post summary in the trending section of the ice cubes app. The post title reads "POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world" and the overline reads "citation needed"

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aoife@eepy.life ("Aoife 🦫 🏴") wrote:

Everyone did you weird dweeb.

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• Newsweek headline saying "I ran against Eric Adams. I saw this coming" by Andrew Yang (remote)

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

Rust

#darktable

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• Rusty iron detail of a bridge construction show from above against the background of a rocky riverbank..

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

If your JavaScript framework doesn’t support web components, it doesn’t support the web platform.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I wish I could find it, but there's this video of a creator replying to an incredulous commenter about them never wanting to visit Italy.

They said something to the effect of, "Before I go anywhere I ask— are there Black people there, do they like Black people, are Black people safe? And if the answer is no, I don't go there."

#Fediverse

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computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:

Approximate Frame #856 from The Computer Chronicles - Cyber Politics 1996-[YMebP4LKx28]

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• Approximate Frame #856 from The Computer Chronicles - Cyber Politics 1996-[YMebP4LKx28] (remote)

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shebang@chaos.social ("Shebang is a type of Aya") wrote:

do

. do you think BGP routers are lesbians and sharing routes is like a k-kiss,,

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Oh and I'll bet my socks #Meta wants the term social web instead of #Fediverse, aka Federated Universe, as it implies a lurking Federal power.

Not a good look for a comically evil corp biding its time before all the small Activity Pub fiefdoms are forced onto its infrastructure by way of regulatory capture.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Digital communities need to be smaller and decentralized from the fucking pipes to the platform.

Sovereign by default, federated case by case under individual community governance.

Without a federal authority, appointed or de facto.

The term "eco-chamber" has been weaponized.

The marketplace of ideas is a lie perpetuated by market landlords and their vassals. We never had a say in anything.

That about sums it up for my hot takes.

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

“Regulations are stifling us,” "The Government can't innovate," whine the billionaires tweeting on the internet ARPA invented

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Sorry but saying "most technological problems are actually human problems" and then never in any way attempting to understand or put rigor to the human problems is lazy and not cutting it in 2024

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css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:

@kizu It's actually my new favorite "coding style" 😅

https://css-tip.com/css-variables-range-slider/

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• overview of the CSS from the linked article (remote)

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tobeB@climatejustice.social ("TobeB") wrote:

Records obtained by the Guardian show that lobbyists working for major North American oil and gas companies were key architects of anti-protest laws that increase penalties and could lead to non-violent environmental and climate activists being imprisoned up to 10 years.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby

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

I don't understand how UIs this misleading are legal.

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching#samsung

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Before today, I'd been in a blogging slump since early summer, so thanks, Matt Mullenweg, for giving me something I was passionate enough to write about once again.

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rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

@Starfia @slightlyoff I (and many devs who know they could do more) are held back by what is possible on iOS. We can't afford to only build a web app for Android. It needs to work on iOS as well.

So iOS gets to set the ceiling of what the web can do