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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“I Know a Man” by Robert Creeley
As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking,—John, Isd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, whatcan we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,drive, he sd, for
christ’s sake, look
out where yr going.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
meirl
#memes
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
and John was right
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The one thing about white Twitter spaces that always baffled me was how often their approach to Black liberation was simply to ignore Black liberators.
I don't mean metaphorically. I mean how Academia Twitter, intellectual twitter, journalist Twitter, all, would just straight up ignore Black activists in the comments.
Tell a predominant white academic that their worldview is incomplete, and doesn't consider people of color, and its crickets 🦗. Always.
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If USB cables are ever worth money I will rule the world.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
And Twitter? Well, we all know what happened there, right? White supremacy found a crack and exploited it.
Because its never, ever, enough to simply call out cartoonish forms of racism. It’s the insidious kind that always gets us.
It thrives in environments where we falsing believe that our political ideologies exempt us from rasicm. It scans the corners of the web that willfulling ignore the absence of certain people.
The #Fediverse is not exempt. In fact, those cracks are well established.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
And when white supremacy finds a sufficiently sized crack, which is never as big as we’d think, it pushes through until that crack is a gaping chasm of rushing water.
History confirms this narrative— Punks, wellness, cottagecore, furries—all well-meaning, predominantly white spaces that didn’t deal with the hums of anti-Blackness until it was too late.
They chose to get defensive instead of introspective.
#SocialWeb #Fediverse #IndieWeb
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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.
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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
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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.)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I love John Oliver
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000671076413
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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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aoife@eepy.life ("Aoife 🦫 🏴") wrote:
Everyone did you weird dweeb.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Rust
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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.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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."
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computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:
Approximate Frame #856 from The Computer Chronicles - Cyber Politics 1996-[YMebP4LKx28]
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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,,
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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.
![Approximate Frame #856 from The Computer Chronicles - Cyber Politics 1996-[YMebP4LKx28]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/113/212/473/898/033/652/original/3cbb2ecb4fd40ca5.png){kind=link}
