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

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

“We're also not currently at the stage where resistance fighters are most necessary.”

presumably the person who wrote this are white.

we Black and Indigenous people have been at this point forever, but especially, since the Patriot Act. we just don't have the numbers.

lynchings by police sky rocketed after the Patriot Act was passed and what did white folks do?

ask for more cops.

white people's REFUSAL to see themselves in the faces of BIPOC lynched by police is gonna get us all killed.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

katiefenn@front-end.social ("Katie Fenn") wrote:

Another good excuse to drag this video out.

https://youtu.be/EEXyx0JCEvQ

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Woah woah woah! Too fast

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• Illusion of a box within a box made of a bunch of boxes, except someone is holding the middle box. "holy shit stop scrolling so fast" (remote)

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

The only thing scarier than the looming Trump presidency, is watching half of liberals turn into the people they've been fighting for a decade, with the other half sort of just ignoring it's happening.

Election conspiracies, paranoia, vitriol, minority scapegoating, calls for collective punishment, revenge politics, black-and-white thinking, politician worship, apathy, news outlets calling for the Dems to move further right...

We are lost.

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

masayuki60@vivaldi.net ("Masayuki60 🦮🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🐕🇺🇲📷") wrote:

A very foggy morning. Kengo is at his groomer, and I enjoyed the view of my yard. A spider with its intricately woven web. I hope its grand effort will pay off.

#fog #autumn #leaves #spider #colors #nature #photography #Fujifilm

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• A spider in its intricately woven web in front of a house (remote)
• A foggy morning in my yard with trees with various colors of leaves: green, yellow, orange... (remote)
• A foggy morning view of woody yard with male leaves in focus (remote)
• A foggy morning view of woods: yellow leaves on the left, a tree on the right, a bush on the bottom left (remote)

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

as I have been saying for a while now: although computing brought us new general-purpose *tools*, AI brings us new forms of *agency*. we confuse the two at our peril.

“AI can process information by itself, and thereby replace humans in decision making. AI isn’t a tool—it’s an agent.”

— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/6PULswa

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

I am as guilty as anyone else in this. I let my very real past experiences of the good of individuals become a delusion of inevitability.

the moral arc of the Universe does not bend on its own.

“We should not assume that delusional networks are doomed to failure. If we want to prevent their triumph, we will have to do the hard work ourselves.”

— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/c904k6y

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

“While each individual human is typically interested in knowing the truth about themselves and the world, large networks bind members and create order by relying on fictions and fantasies.”

— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/hDeTClk

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

“Our tendency to summon powers we cannot control stems not from individual psychology... The main argument of this book is that humankind gains enormous power by building large networks of cooperation, but the way these networks are built predisposes us to use that power unwisely. Our problem, then, is a network problem.”

— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/fpyjfpE

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

More from the shoot.

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

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

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• A beautiful woman with black hair, wearing pearl earrings, black lipstick, and a black off-shoulder dress, in front of a green and yellow autumnal landscape.

Reblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):

freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

You can read about the Debian contributions made by Freexian Collaborators in October, now available at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-10-2024/

Thanks to the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/) who made this possible.

#debian #freexian

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

dadbod@pdx.social wrote:

This guy gets it, one of the better explanations of what many people are feeling right now.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFwyyfEv/

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• fce92516da039173.mp4 (remote)

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

I might be getting too real here, but:

Saying things like "this is all part of God's plan" and "God is in control" during a fascist uprising is just writing their propaganda for them.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

jwz wrote:

Some wingnut I've never spoken to before (or again (foreshadowing!)) accused me of living in an "echo chamber" because I block people.

Fuck the "echo chamber" discourse. I reject it entirely.I am not here to wear an ascetic's hair shirt because you think that surrounding myself with dickheads builds character.

Block early and block often. I expanded on this in some detail in my "On Blocking" post from a few years back, but it bears repeating. Especially now.

https://jwz.org/b/ykcn

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Wrote a tiny, thumbor-eque remote-image resizer service in #rustlang.

Pay as-needed, and as little as possible were goals, so it runs on ARM64 Lambda, with lots of caching.

"Batteries included" (devenv, ITs), to make it easy to start hacking on. Includes example TF modules, to show deployment w/ CDN caching in layers etc. PRs welcome.

https://github.com/lloydmeta/miniaturs

#rustlang

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

Spent most of my day on Threads pushing back against disinfo and election fraud conspiracies. 🙃

The conspiracies have spread to X and TikTok now. Bigger, more trustworthy accounts are just spreading baseless claims.

It’s like half of the libs are blue pilled and the other half are just sort of ignoring that it’s happening. I’m at a loss.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I'm either blind or this is a really tough one.

[No guessing mode, evil]

#minesweeper

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• 2814d2214d57ce22.png

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

prehensile@assemblag.es ("Henry Cooke") wrote:

in addition to the ‘train wifi test’ (whereby anyone building a complex webapp with a heavy download upfront and a lot of data requests should be forced to use it on train wifi), I propose the ‘spirited children test’, whereby anyone building a kiosk system for public use should be forced to use it while managing two children under 10 with excitingly divergent needs and agendas.

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

Think of it like this— The right understands that Trump wants to burn it to the ground. That's the whole point. They hate the left so much that Trump is their revenge.

The fatal flaw in their logic is that they think they can control the direction of Trump's destruction.

If we know this, how can we then also believe that our revenge politics would be any different?

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

Interesting how we've reserved zero vitriol for the moderate conservative who never showed up, but have no problem telling Latinos to have fun when they're deported.

And because there aren't many progressive Latine voices on the web, we'll just ignore it. Because we don't do anything about racism until we're embarrassed by it.

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

We must strongly reject the American predilection for revenge politics, collective punishment, and conditional allyship.

This is from a Democratic strategist. It's almost gleeful.

This is not okay. We are losing ourselves to righteous indignation and justifying our darkest propensities with a false sense of justice.

I don't want to be associated with this type of rhetoric. Revenge is not a gun with a scope. It's a bomb loaded with shrapnel.

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• johnnypalmadessa: I mean this sincerely: If you protest voted, then don't come crying to any of us about Palestine. We're about to have a lot bigger problems right here in America - and you had the chance to avoid all of this by voting for Kamala Harris. Save the tears. You'll need them when Donald Trump annihilates Gaza. Be best.
• johnnypalmadessa: Dear protest voters who refused to cast their ballots for Kamala Harris because 'Free Palestine, Do you think Jared Kushner's condos in Gaza will have a river view or sea view? After all, that's what you voted for by protest voting.

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

This tech newsletter is very entry level tech stuff so maybe Mastodon is not the target audience per se.

But if you wanted to sign up to offer feedback, suggestions, or to even write a guest post, I would honestly love that.

My goal is to help non-techie folks navigate the internet, and understand the politics of it all, under the current circumstances. I believe, like many of you, a more tech-literate community is valuable.

http://wetdreamtomato.com

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

The United States is anti-Latino. There is no avoiding that fact, and yet, avoiding us is what makes this flavor of American racism so distinct.

This is something I've known for years, but this election cycle has really bubbled the issue to the top. I don't think it stops there.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Magnets are witchcraft and I won't accept another explanation.

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

I will accept no "why this happened" take that fails to acknowledge voters were misled into voting for the exact opposite of what they actually want.

It's utterly pointless to bikeshed policy and messaging when half the population clearly has zero ability to discern truth in the first place.

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

CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/pentagon-officials-discussing-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-CNN

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

BeauBoboBonobo ("francefrance7@gmail.com :masto") wrote:

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• 88023d69b29f65e1.webp

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

eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

The road ahead will not be easy, and some of it is not yet mapped out, but our work isn't a sprint—it's a marathon. EFF is not merely fighting against individual companies or elected officials or even specific administrations. We are fighting for you. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/2024-us-election-over-eff-ready-whats-next

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

Unfortunately, our current situation is going to need a lot of heroes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/08/witness-them/

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• Keeping an eye on deportation flights (remote)

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

dangrsmind@sfba.social wrote:

I worked at this company that had a shitty product. I'm sitting in a meeting with the leadership team and the Director of Engineering is going off on how customers are too stupid to understand the product.

So I interrupted him and gave a demo of our product which could have been titled why this product sucks. It was devastating. Even our own engineers couldn't correctly operate the product.

So you know what they did?

They fired me.

PS this a post about the Democratic party.