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

Threads is Mark Zuckerberg's magnum opus of toxic social media platforms.
The spectacular fashion in which everyone fell for it again; the way the popular kids of the tech community sold us out—all the apologist think pieces, the gaslighting, the doublespeak—it's truly remarkable.

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

Given a certain social network owner's role in recent events, I'm particularly interested in the Fediverse - the network of social networks connected via the ActivityPub standard. In this edition of @Vivaldi's "For A Better Web" podcast, I interviewed @evan, a co-author of the ActivityPub w3c spec, and research director of the newly launched @swf https://vivaldi.com/blog/better-web/evan-prodromou-social-web-foundation-for-a-better-web/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Trying to capture the spirit of Autumn.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

Attachments:

• A beautiful woman with black hair, wearing black lipstick, a black dress and an olive wool coat as well as a necklace in the shape of a moth, standing in front of a green and yellow landscape with lots of yellow leaves on the grass.

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

this was not ‘just another election’… I fear this was a realignment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/texas-border-latinos-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU4.PIpY.XnNCqUkjRV42&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

98% of the humor of this line for me is just trying to imagine the actual highly specific situation where it would be useful.

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

Hey, girl, are you a blog run by a designer who doesn't compress their images?

Because your thumbnails are big and beautiful!

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

I think it is important to bring your politics into everything. If you get a stage, make a statement. It really matters. We need to take back spaces. And claiming them to be "apolitical" or whatnot is just handing them over to people who believe Joe Rogan is smart.
https://mastodon.social/@bastianallgeier/113447246357304569

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

https://blog.gitbutler.com/why-github-actually-won/

"""
The much simpler, much more fundamentally interesting thing that I think showed in everything that we did was that we built for ourselves. We had taste. We cared about the experience.

We were developers and we built what we wanted in order to enable how we wanted to ideally work. We were the only tool in the space built by developers for developers without PMs or accountants or CEOs trying to optimize for revenue rather than for developer experience.
"""

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kmartino@mastodon.online wrote:

An interesting read! Scott Chacon, one of GitHub's cofounders, looks back on what led Git to win over its competition:

https://blog.gitbutler.com/why-github-actually-won/

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

ryan@tvwatch.party ("スランプモード") wrote:

the real payoff is this tho. has anyone clipped this before because it's fuckin incredible

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• same woman from before putting on a hard hat & toolbelt and holding up a handle and saying "roll the tape" before busting into a fucking stunning rendition of a "workaholic" song (remote)

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thisismissem@hachyderm.io ("Emelia 👸🏻") wrote:

This is a nice site for discovering EU based alternatives to US based tools: https://european-alternatives.eu

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zzclaybourne@wandering.shop ("Zig Claybourne") wrote:

Hesitant to post this today because the review's goddam beautiful and it's about my book and I know how to read a damn room but the day ingrained rectal leavings in human form keep me from cool shit is the day I lose my faith in love.

And that ain't happening.

https://www.blackgate.com/2024/11/06/a-land-two-stars-to-the-left-of-middle-earth-breath-warmth-dream-by-zig-zag-claybourne/

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

a powerful episode, helping place this moment in history. I do not look forward to what looks to be an approaching period of darkness. 1876-1965 was bad enough without modern media & propaganda tools. should the Hungarian model of media control work here, this Republic is in deep shit.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-show-with-jon-stewart/id1583132133?i=1000676185735

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JanMatson@mastodon.art ("Jan Matson Art") wrote:

Over the hills and far away. 🍃🌸🍃
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/over-the-hills-and-far-away-7-jan-matson.html

Palette knife oil painting of a country landscape in calming tones of green and gold.

#landscape #LandscapePainting #JanMatson #artist #painting #art #MastoArt #prints #oilpainting #ArtistsOfMastodon #fedigiftshop #impressionism #HomeDecor #FediGiftShop #Australia #AustralianLandscape #CountryScene #green #autumn #PeacefulLandscape

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• Palette knife oil painting of a country landscape in calming tones of green and gold. There are rolling blue hills, farm shed, grazing sheep, a dam and gum trees. (remote)

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

this is unlikely to be the last such incident:

“Israel to collect soccer fans from Amsterdam after apparent antisemitic attacks”

https://www.reuters.com/world/israels-pm-aware-very-violent-incident-against-israelis-amsterdam-his-office-2024-11-08/

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

they say I’m out of touch with reality. I say reality’s out of touch with me. I mean, look at it—completely unhinged and running on fumes while im doing great

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

seachanger@alaskan.social ("wet forest moon folklorist") wrote:

re: USPol takes today

its fair to critique Kamala's campaign (always important when you lose by wide margins) but it is *the Democratic Party machine* that

1. put Biden in by orchestrating a 2020 coalition to stop Sanders

2. promised Joe would be a one term president

3. ran Biden a second time without a primary while hiding the 2024 cognitive issues we were all yelling about back in 2020

so its not just Harris's mistake (there were some), or Biden's hubris. the failures are systemic

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Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io ("Doc Impossible") wrote:

Fascism is a machine. All machines have moving parts. You don't attack the reinforced bits. And fascism, specifically, is a machine built to kill. When you take up the same arms, you're attacking them where they're strongest.

So, when you plan your resistance, unless you're a very rare sort--probably with preexisting military experience--don't plan for a violence that you can't and won't win.

(4/?)

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

scott@carfree.city ("scott f") wrote:

the New York Times Tech Guild is on strike and asking you not to play NYT games or access the NYT cooking section in the meantime

however they have made a Frogger clone about getting strikers across 8th Ave to the picket line that you can play instead

https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/index.html

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

Liberals are making up fairy tale conspiracies instead of facing the very obvious truth- Harris abandoned progressives for the right, so progressives stayed home. We can hate that fact. But it doesn't make it any less true.

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• Threads user: Wisconsin voted to reelect an openly gay Democrat woman and then turned around and voted for him, but not a Democrat woman, for President. Something is fishy.

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

Not only is #Threads not suppressing political content all of a sudden, it’s actively promoting election fraud conspiracies in the FYP.

Should we ask him to turn Fediverse sharing on?

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• It's not just Pennsylvania. Michigan and Wisconsin voters are saying their ballots are not being counted. Some of them are POLL SUBMITTED BALLOTS still pending...not counted. This was a massive technological attack.

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natematias@social.coop ("J. Nathan Matias 🦣") wrote:

Where are you finding hope today? Today, my class discussed public goods with network effects — goods that don't exclude people and that benefit everyone as more people access them. One of those things is education.

When my mother was born in the 1940s, around 70% of Americans over 25 didn't have a high school education. Now over 90% have finished high school.

That's an extraordinary expansion in human capability in a very short time period.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/time-series/demo/cps-historical-time-series.html

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• Charge: percent of population age 25 and over by educational attainment: 1940 - 2021. In 1930, 76% of Americans didn't have a high school education. By 2021, over 91% of Americans had a high school education. (remote)

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

Restored DKIM signing after upgrading my email server. Now apparently something called DMARC is in vogue, so I need to set it up as well. Why do I do it to myself?

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stfn@fosstodon.org ("stfn :raspberrypi: :python:") wrote:

If Apple was making Ethernet cables, you would need to pay extra for the cable to be compatible with ports above 79.

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ike@social.coop wrote:

what have you done to me: https://ike.io/what-have-you-done-to-me-imogen-heap/

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

Boo, power dipped just long enough to reset everything

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

aardrian@toot.cafe ("Adrian Roselli") wrote:

Friends don’t let friends use overlays.

Consultants don’t let clients use overlays either, so @accudio shares the letter he sends clients when they are about to do some stupid shit:
https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/accessibility-overlays-email/

Unless your client is also your friend, in which case see my first statement.

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Cloud68@fosstodon.org ("Cloud68.co 👩‍💻👨‍💻") wrote:

Rise Against Big Tech web page is on our website now https://cloud68.co/rabt. The goal is to have (soon-ish) a dedicated microsite for the project and add all the materials there. Feedback welcome :) #rabt ✊ .

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• Purple background with the illustration of the text Rise Against Big Tech. (remote)

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jdp23@gotosocial.thenexus.today ("Jon P") wrote:

@fromjason yeah, I wrote a bit about this when I updated https://about.iftas.org/2024/10/29/5-ways-to-fight-election-disinformation-on-bluesky-and-the-fediverse/ :

"And if you’re tempted to share exit poll information, remember that it frequently turns out to be wrong, especially when looking at non-white demographics. Both in 2016 and 2020, for example, more detailed analysis eventually revealed significant errors with initial estimates of Latino votes. The framing itself is often misleading, for example not distinguishing between Latino voters of different races and nationalities. And there are significant differences between states, so be extra wary of exit polling diagrams that don’t specify whether they’re at the state level (and if so what state) or national. "

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

WetDreamTomato—Now is the time to get serious about our digital privacy and tech literacy. Welcome to the Internet. My name is Jason. I'll be your guide.

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