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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
On the Internet, we all live in thousands of different fractured realities.
So when someone sounds the alarm, and says "hey this bad thing is happening" it's easy to dismiss it if you aren't personally seeing it.
It's only when that bad thing spreads to its tipping point, that we see it. And by then it's too late.
So remember my series of rants about anti-Latino rhetoric coming from the left. And we'll chat about it next year.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
By the time mass deportations start, we'll have convinced ourselves that every person ICE snatches out of their bed had a Trump-supporting family member.
And that's how you get an entire country to cheer for something unspeakable.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche"):
Review of "Cloud Atlas" (4 stars): Great book if you are proficient in English
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
In an attempt to get a sense of control about things before the week starts, I'm trying to make a dent in the disaster that is my office.
I started this little fellow during a playdoh session with the kiddo. I worked on it a couple of times after the initial session, and even cobbled together an armature stand. I had plans, but it's clear they're not happening. So sorry, incomplete little guy, you've got to go. But I'll record you here for posterity.
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VeryBadLlama@mas.to ("Janel Comeau") wrote:
I actually don’t feel as fine as R.E.M. led me to believe I would
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Apparently I'm really in the mood for contemplative performances inside of empty, expansive spaces. Sting at the Panthéon:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“…Populist leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, and populist movements and conspiracy theories such as QAnon and the anti-vaxxers, have argued that all traditional institutions that gain authority by claiming to gather information and discover truth are simply lying.” [2/4]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Bureaucrats, judges, doctors, mainstream journalists, and academic experts are elite cabals that have no interest in the truth and are deliberately spreading disinformation to gain power and privileges for themselves at the expense of “the people.” The rise of politicians like Trump and movements like QAnon has a specific political context…”[3/4]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… unique to the conditions of the United States in the late 2010s. But populism as an antiestablishment worldview long predated Trump and is relevant to numerous other historical contexts now and in the future. In a nutshell, populism views information as a weapon.”[4/4]
— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/ebdIJl9
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“…since 2016. The ecological crisis has intensified, international tensions have escalated, and a populist wave has undermined the cohesion of even the most robust democracies. Populism has also mounted a radical challenge to the naive view of information.” [1/4]
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche"):
Review of "Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle" (5 stars): Among the best series I read
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
My Fediverse Advice:
* Follow more people. No, even more people than that. Basically, if you find a real person and their posts are good follow 'em
* If you get a good reply to a post boost it. If you make a good reply to a post boost it. Replies are not visible in the feed unless you do this. As long as the post is an OK start to a conversation or interesting boost it.
* Write thoughtful replies. And if you put effort into a reply boost it or probably only the people tagged will see it.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“In 2020, the Biden-Harris team had won almost 69% of the vote in Dearborn. In 2024, Harris got just 36% – with Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, taking 18%.
In Dearborn Heights, Trump defeated Harris by 44% to 38%. Stein received 15% of the vote.”
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Just have to say "you voted for Trump". Who's going to wave at my deportation?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
And this is why it's dangerous to scapegoat minorities. Once all the white liberals are sufficiently enraged, all they have to do is simply say "here's a Latino that didn't vote Harris" and the mob follows.
I voted Harris. I've been vocal that I voted Harris. Ive written think pieces on it.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Historian at the Mass Deportation Latino Memorial:
*wipes tear* no you see, they deserved it because 10% more white Cubans voted for Trump.
My grandfather waved bye as ICE pulled his neighbor's child from his bed. I think it was a paperwork error.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We don't appreciate how wicked the snares of Theridiidae spiders are.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/10/you-have-to-admire-their-cunning/
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jdp23@gotosocial.thenexus.today ("Jon P") wrote:
@fromjason yeah really. solidarity FTW.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'll never forget that at the height of Latino scapegoating it was leftist trans women who called it out for what it is, unapologetically, and without caveat.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Fortunately in this case, I'm out-of-network.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/10/so-thats-how-they-missed-me/
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alchemistsstudio@mstdn.social ("The Alchemist") wrote:
Make life 'bear'able again!
This raku pottery bear, 'Dances with Light' is a matryoshka doll of the gay. A little gay bear, made by a not so little gay bear who also happens to be a potter.
rakupottery.ca/product/danc...
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
But it's not meaningful change we seek.
Especially if it requires the least bit of personal sacrifice. We want revenge. We want to see suffering. And if collective punishment is required, then so be it.The idea that there are good states and there are bad states, and if you live in a bad state, well then, you deserve what is coming to you, is white supremacy.
Californians voted to NOT to end slavery.Where are the calls for economic sanctions for our friend in the west?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
We'd sooner see meaningful change if everyone simply swapped their search engine default on their iPhones from Google to DuckDuckGo. Or if we all deleted Facebook in solidarity.
These platforms collect rents, they do not sell a product or service. The economic harm against the working class is far less. Not to mention that Big Tech billionaires are funding so much of our destruction.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
A big reason why l've become so disenchanted with liberal ideology is because for so many, it is utterly impossible to form a collective action plan that doesn't further harm marginalized communities.
It is always revenge, not meaningful systemic change, at the heart of every call to action.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
pixel@social.pixels.pizza ("Eric Vitiello") wrote:
Like the movie? Please consider throwing a few dollars my way: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UDRS35YE4HLXN Thanks!I am the Producer & Direc...
#History #ComputerHistory #Apple #AppleLisa #RetroComputing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psAeTDYezdo
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The precursors to multicellularity are derived from natural processes.🧪
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Pro-Meta #Fediverse leaders: what's your plan to keep baseless election fraud conspiracies on Threads from flooding the Fediverse?
No criticism for sempai? Didn't Zuck promise us his disinfo days were over? Weren't we supposed to "wait and see?"
Where's the #IndieWeb social guy who works for a political faux grass roots lobbying firm? Surely he knows how to stop this?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sophiehuiberts@mathstodon.xyz ("Sophie Huiberts") wrote:
remember alphachip, a 2021 google paper that claimed that their RL-based methods outperformed the state-of-the-art methods for chip macro placement?
according to this new meta-analysis, their results dont replicate and are full of errors. there's also been allegations of fraud 👀
https://cacm.acm.org/research/reevaluating-googles-reinforcement-learning-for-ic-macro-placement
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
So that's what it feels like to be in the eye of a storm for four years.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
(I was going to post something about Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans", but stumbled on this just moments before hitting the "Post" button. So everybody wins.)
