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docpop ("Doctor Popular") wrote:
Or maybe this text is better?
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Mastodon FeedMLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:
Election 2024: Which S.F. voter guides got what they wanted?
Despite a narrative that San Francisco is moving into a more conservative era, organized labor and progressive voter guides aligned best with the choices made by San Francisco voters in the November races. That was a shift from the pattern in the March primary, when more conservative political groups like GrowSF, TogetherSF and the San Francisco Republican Party were the most successful endorsers.
https://missionlocal.org/2024/11/sf-election-endorsement-success/
Mastodon Feedstreetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:
Real Talk 'Advertisement'
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- An activist-designed faux advertisement on a subway car window critiques NYPD actions, stating 'SKIP THE FARE? EXPECT THE DEATH PENALTY' and alleges that on September 15th, the NYPD shot four people over a $2.90 fare, challenging viewers with the stark juxtaposition of a typical payment system advertisement and a grave accusation of police violence. (remote)
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davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:
Thanks again to everyone who came to my Krita workshop at the Capitole du Libre yesterday. Here's a drawing for you 😉
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Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
On Today's Oxide and Friends,
@ahl and I are going to be joined by Piotr Sarna and @cynthiadunlop to talk about technical blogging -- and their forthcoming book, Writing for Developers. Join us, at a Europe-friendly (ish?) time: noon Pacific. (Which is to say: in a little over two hours!)
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Do I know anyone who uses an electric dumset?
I'm a former drummer. Had a set as a kid but never since leaving for college. Now I have a kid who wants to learn and we have ZERO space for a real set. I'm sad. I hate it in SoCal.
But, if you have any recommendations on what to look for and/or avoid in this space, I would greatly appreciate it.
Boosts OK!
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mathiasx@mastodon.xyz ("Matt Gauger") wrote:
Ok, it’s time to look for a smaller instance to migrate to, from mastodon.xyz
No one is complaining about spam from here right now (compared to mastodon.social), but there are a lot of users. And I think I’d like a local timeline with relevant-to-me conversations.Anyone taking applications for some place to talk about programming, solarpunk, books, or sustainability/resiliency?
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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:
This. All of this. Times several million.
https://medium.com/@GregPogorzelski/the-thing-about-the-kobayashi-maru-4d5e1e49993e
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I think this opinion piece (audio) provides much food for thought
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
America is ruled by caprice and money, apparently. Who would have guessed?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/18/sale-of-infowars-halted/
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pave_the_earth@girlcock.club ("Sierra R, "Botfly Mother"") wrote:
a mime, a clown and a jester walk into a bar. everybody claps because they are respected members of their local community and everyone at the bar have all at different times found solace in the unique joy each of the 3 brings to their little town
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Thirst for Coca Cola fading…fading…fading…gone.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/18/have-an-uncanny-christmas/
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
In case you missed it, Apple has been using age limits to unfairly discriminate against third party browsers:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The next target: the NIH.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/18/goodbye-nih/
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FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Just a little bit frustrating to read people saying "the Fediverse should have starter packs" when I've spent the last four+ years hand-curating recommended accounts to follow on @FediFollows and https://fedi.directory
I'm not the only person doing this kind of initiative, the Trunk directory (https://communitywiki.org/trunk) was the first, and the Fediverse.info directory by @dansup (https://fediverse.info/explore/people) is an automated way for people to add themselves to suggested lists.
We already have these things on the Fedi, people just need to ask around and discover them, and let their friends know about them.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Picked up an Instax camera this weekend and I gotta say it was insanely fun playing around with it. Prosocial since you can take photos of family and friends and just give them the film to keep. This was also a hybrid model, so you could keep digital copies/apply digital effects. Highly recommended! Hoping to fill out this album over the coming months with friends, outings and more
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Mastodon Feedkeul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:
Still impressed how and old technology like brotli compression is still so difficult to be obtained.
- On NGINX: reserved to PLUS people
- On Express: still in progress, but you can use deprecated add-ons which requires absurd OS dependencies
Mastodon Feedblogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
"Only 8 monkeys remain free after more than a week outside a South Carolina compound"
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loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:
I have posted (and probably will continue to post for years to come) a lot here about #othernetworks - a cluster of projects that document networks before and/or outside of the internet along with artist experiments on these networks. The main project I recently finished is a catalog of about 85 of these other networks that will be published by Anthology Editions as a beautifully designed art book in spring 2025.
#othernetworks is an archival project and it's also an educational project that comes out of my belief that we are all capable both of understanding networks from the past and of building alternative networks for the future.
I also like to post about anything related to media archaeology, alternative histories of technology, alternative networks, and alternative network protocols. #introductions
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I feel like too many conversations on here right now are being driven by this kind of energy.
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EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:
Ok so since my Smilodon sculpt has been getting some love I thought I’d throw together a little thread on my paper mache process! 🧵
Disclaimer: These photos are all from my messy student apartment in 2016 I promise I don’t live like this anymore
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I am A Bad Person… this made me smile
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/ai-grandma-ties-up-scammers-yJzEm1_dT5CgYGkbzCGJUg
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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
I don't know exactly how the next four years will go, or exactly what I'll be doing, but one promise I'm making to myself today is, no matter what, to tell the truth as I see it, everything else be damned.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good Q
https://music.apple.com/us/album/wholl-pay-reparations-on-my-soul/1621357715?i=1621359057
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GuyDudeman@beige.party ("Lord Hurkle-Durkle :bc:") wrote:
An excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45", an interview with a German after WWII on why they didn't rise up against the regime due to incrementalism.
“Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone” is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or “You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”
And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.
But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all of the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jewish swine,” collapses it all at once, and you see that everything has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early morning meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yessssss
https://music.apple.com/us/album/small-talk-at-125th-lenox/1621357715?i=1621358406
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
his poetry is far too applicable again
https://music.apple.com/us/album/comment-1/1621357715?i=1621358269
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Blogging through the decades https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/11/16/blogging-through-the-decades/
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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
I've never felt so close to my grandparents as when I'm about to get the viruses they all but eliminated.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I am slowly groping my way to some better analysis of why rigid Christianity can so easily become linked to rigid ‘Constitutional Originalism’