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

Mark Cuban on decentralization:

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• Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social This is a decentralized platform. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but by definition you own your own account and can take it with you anywhere there is a compatible platform Guy Botham @botham.bsky.social • 10h What are your thoughts on X claiming ownership of Infowars accounts? Should bluesky allow brands to own their accounts?

bendingoutward wrote:

KAKURAT!

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

Does following a Treads account from Mastodon count as "accessing" Meta's products?

From: @tomjennings
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tomjennings/113556193793911384

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tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org ("tom jennings") wrote:

Hahahahaha fuck you.

Instagram just "updated their terms" -- I don't have an Instagram account --

"... This includes things like clarifying that people or businesses may still be subject to our Terms when they are logged out or if they access our products without an account."

So even non instagrammers must comply with changeable rules.

Uhuh fuck you.

jwz wrote:

Oh, Twitter, why can't I quit you? https://jwz.org/b/ykdg

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cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

🔗 For Love of God, Make Your Own Website via Aftermath #Tech #Blogging #Socialmedia

Browsing the internet used to be a hobby of mine. Ever since my dad got us a modem when I was around ten, I spent hours at a time just looking at different websites. The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now, despite how many more people use the internet, I usually end up at the same three or four websites, and I end up a...

https://aftermath.site/website-musk-twitter-facebook-internet

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yogthos@social.marxist.network ("Yogthos") wrote:

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• hide the pain Harold meme: so much dark humor in my feed oh, it's news (remote)

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catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

🎶 All covered in sleaze

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• ON TOP OF MT. MONEY / [a mountain top] / [Cat and Girl reach the top of the mountain] / Cat: I made it! / Cat: The suffering - the sacrifice - it was ALL worth it! / Cat: Everyone looks so small and insignificant down there. / [mountains rise taller all around them] / Girl: We're capable of higher aims Cat: I can have those destroyed. / [they stand] / BONK! [a boot hits Cat's head] / Cat: I SEE you, Mt. Empathy! You're FIRST! (remote)

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joeycastillo ("joey castillo") wrote:

we considered ourselves to be a powerful culture

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• Screenshot, Verge headline: “The influencer lawsuit that could change the Industry”. Subhead: “Can the legal system protect the vibe of a creator? And what if that vibe is basic?”

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

why i got into sysadmin

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• Are you looking for a way out of wage slavery? Do you want to work in a fast-paced and fun environment? Welcome to the new and exciting world of SHITPOSTING * Make $0 dollars annually. * No benefits. * Receive death threats regularly * Spread communist propaganda * Alienate old friends. * Upset your mom. (remote)

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Npars01@mstdn.social ("Nicole Parsons") wrote:

@spaf

Mike Johnson is paid by billionaires, foreign and domestic, to be creepy to people in public washrooms.

Credit: Michael de Adder

https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-johnson/industries?cid=N00039106&cycle=CAREER

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• Mike Johnson is paid by billionaires, foreign and domestic, to be creepy to people in public washrooms. (remote)

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gbryant@subscribeto.me ("Gardiner Bryant") wrote:

I spent the last year working on the Fediverse. Here's what I've learned.

https://subscribeto.me/videos/watch/d3686f67-3c04-4277-bdf1-c76835b8f36f

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

This is astonishing. People are literally reading what they want to see. Lots of comments believe that it is against Bluesky's terms of service to train AI on our data. It isn't.

Most don't even realize that all their data is publicly available via a relay.

When people figure all this out I don't think they'll be happy.

From: @fromjason
https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/113553275300513021

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mightybigcar@montereybay.social ("MightyBigCar") wrote:

@pzmyers Peter Nyikos....

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• 5f9fcdbfb9252e5c.mp4 (remote)

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chenoehart wrote:

My speculative investigations into using server racks to create home furniture are now viewable online, at their own new website.
https://futurerack.info

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• Image of a server rack with added wooden doors and shelves and cabinets, containing combinations of personal objects on the shelves (plants, photo frames, books, shoes, vases, speakers, a clothes rack, a coffee maker, objects spilling out of open drawers) and mounted electronic audio and data storage equipment.

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emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:

this month's #BirdWhisperer is a snow bunting! look at this little lad. Reference image by Frank Ebertus.

#birds #art #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #DigitalArt

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• a digital painting of a snow bunting. the image has been heavily abstracted, such that the shapes within are mostly polygons and lines. there is a filter effect similar to glitter over the entire image. the bird is central, rimlit so that he is outlined in white. he is squat, with brown and black markings and black feet, and a triangular orange beak. he is in profile facing to the left. around him is beach debris, like sticks, rocks, and shells. the image is mostly painted in yellows, purples, oranges, and blues. (remote)

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

“Vaccine skepticism has ballooned worldwide, and Mr. Kennedy and others who back him have encouraged it. Americans may be well aware that their possible future health leader holds dangerous beliefs about vaccines. The consequences of his views — and those of his orbit — are not merely absurd but tragic.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/opinion/rfk-jr-vaccines-samoa-measles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dE4.3kib.Lpve-EoKINiz&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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owasow ("Omar Wasow") wrote:

A broad effort to grind down the basic architecture of the web: “On YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, there’s often no way to link to outside sources in your posts…Threads doesn’t explicitly suppress link posts — but its algorithm may do so implicitly, by prioritizing posts that get likes and comments over those that generate clicks.” Gift Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/27/musk-x-throttle-links-threads-bluesky/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzMyNjgzNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzM0MDY1OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MzI2ODM2MDAsImp0aSI6IjY4YmZiNmQ2LTIyNmUtNDVhMC1hN2MxLWRmNTk5NmEwMmZiNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI0LzExLzI3L211c2steC10aHJvdHRsZS1saW5rcy10aHJlYWRzLWJsdWVza3kvIn0.TUqi7l-mPdnz8A1blwU9UDyG1FQMaGYwRLGcR0W74Dk

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

Ken Ham hates Jesus, too.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/27/have-a-merrily-bigoted-xmas/

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• santa hates you (remote)

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

Bluesky does have a useful tool for social media curation.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/27/land-of-the-list-lords/

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• clearsky.app (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's glib, but not wrong, to frame this as "bullshit vs. engineering".

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The post I'm working on has crystallised something important for me. Some developers are in thrall to the prescriptions of their framework's community. I've come to think of this as "frameworksim" -- it's a distinct strain of epistemic knowledge in which only the prescriptions allowed by the priesthood of the framework are pure.

The opposite of frameworkism is a sort of realism; a willingness to confront one's product and user base as they are and build to those constraints.

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

404 Media dropped a report earlier today revealing that people use Bluesky posts to train AI.

Bluesky published a thread that didn’t directly address the report but discussed its own policy and possible future features, such as appending robots.txt to posts.

Based on the comments of this thread, it’s clear that most BS members don’t realize their posts go to an open index that anyone can access.

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lbvgvbvcf22c

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averagehousewife@beige.party ("averagehousewife :bc:") wrote:

Cadbury cream turducken.

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SusanPotter ("Susan Potter") wrote:

Another reason to like Deno. #javascript

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/cancel_oracles_javascript_trademark_deno/?td=rt-3a

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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'

https://www.404media.co/someone-made-a-dataset-of-one-million-bluesky-posts-for-machine-learning-research/

Who, who could have predicted?

Well, everybody. Bluesky's an all-public artchiteture that's optimized for surveillance capitalism. But other than "everybody" ... who, who could have predicted?

#bluesky

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TheNeedling@newsie.social ("The Needling") wrote:

SPD Officer Instinctively Turns Off Body Cam Before Approaching Dark Turkey Meat: https://theneedling.com/2024/10/02/spd-officer-instinctively-turns-off-body-cam-before-approaching-dark-turkey-meat/

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• Cop covering body cam approaching table of carved turkey and other Thanksgiving dishes (remote)

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lobau@noodle.social ("laurent") wrote:

Who knew that the Home Alone poster would be the template for every YouTube thumbnail ever.

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• The Home Alone poster, with Macaulay Culkin's face in large with a dramatic expression. (remote)

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

Also, I find I'm not as enamored as I once was with the notebook format. But it's for a quick job. In the long ago past, the notebooks finally gave me a reason to learn more about Python, but at this point I'm undecided as to whether that was good or bad.

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

I'm using Jupyter notebooks after years away, and yesterday I accidentally deleted a bunch of cells. I thought I undid the disaster, but today I discovered I was still missing a cell. One that contained an important function. Luckily the kernel was still running from yesterday, so I used the Python inspect module to retrieve the source code. Phew! 😅