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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Starting my Best of 2024 lists 🎉🎉
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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Menace") wrote:
What the fedi taught me is that when people are given the choice and can control their networks, they really don't want to hear from Elon Musk supporters, tradwife fetishists, and fascist TERFs nearly as much as their algorithms seem to suggest.
In fact, the "nice" thing about this place is that you don't have to listen to that shit. This place is like an antidote to that.
Though as a tech-focused space, it has its own culture and its own issues, and I'm not trying to elide those.
I'm really just trying to point out that Bluesky will not save us, in the end. In the end, they'll do what every other startup does:
They'll monetize, and they'll not want to alienate customers by telling them that their speech is unwanted.
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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Menace") wrote:
As people are learning about Bluesky, too, it's all the same people.
You can't go to another platform to escape "those people" because "those people" can join platforms, too.
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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Menace") wrote:
Now, the reason we escape Donald Trump supporters and TERFs here is largely because those folks are insta-ban.
They aren't insta-ban anywhere else.
Like literally nowhere else.
Everywhere else they are just "asking questions" and "contributing to the discourse" and so on.
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Question of the day:
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Maybe don’t sign your name to a list of names asking the government to remove the terrorist charge from Luigi Mangione.
Don’t engage with accounts encouraging you to “organize in public”
Just… it’s not that kind of party.
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Teryl_Pacieco ("Teryl's Tales of Whim~") wrote:
"Begone. This temple is not yours!"
The creature slowly turned its head towards the adventurers, hissing in the smallest voice, "Shhh."
"We will use force if diplomacy is ignored!"
"Can I move later?" it pleaded, "Because my master prevents me from acting."
"Then we shall slay your master!"
"You almost woke her," the beast rasped, revealing the tiny black kitten asleep upon its paw.
The adventurers found them both a new home, later.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Re: How the media lost the left
An excellent analysis of what we’ve seen over the past two weeks.
Luigi didn’t just kill a CEO, the coverage around him marks the end of liberal media’s influence and control over identity politics. Many neoliberal identity writers are trying to argue around the truth: Americans are tired of living in a system where your insurance company can bankrupt & kill you.[image or embed]— Ana Valens ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/re-how-the-media-lost.html
Mastodon FeedWell, Kraven is absolutely as good as Morbius! In fact I think one of these movies might be wearing the other one as a skin suit. I couldn't tell you which, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQOYgKePQK0
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Fred Willard: “The True Story of Christmas.”
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Bluesky’s growing pains:
"Last week, the platform faced its most significant controversy yet: user backlash against journalist and media personality Jesse Singal joining the platform. Singal, who has reported on people who reversed their gender transitions among other topics pertaining to trans people, hosts a podcast that critiques perceived left-wing biases in media."
An incredibly generous account of who Jesse ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/blueskys-growing-pains-last-week.html
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I know this is insignificant in the greater context, but Artisan, the company with the “Stop Hiring Humans” ads doesn’t have RSS set up for their company blog.
It’s just one of those things you come across, and it’s like oh, right, these people don’t actually care about what came before it. They’re just compute middle men, AI drop shippers, hoping to lure enough idiot CFOs with a hard-on for layoffs.
So this was a ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/i-know-this-is-insignificant.html
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Everything Wrong with Tesla’s $500 ‘Mezcal’ ~ L.A. TACO:
"Tesla just released a 43% ABV mezcal from Oaxaca made from espadín and bicuishe agave, and is selling it for $500. Secondary retailers are already selling it for more than $1,099"
I feel like I don’t need to tell this crowd not to buy Elon’s shitty tequila. But it’s wild that anyone is buying it at all. https://lataco.com/tesla-mezcal-tequila
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Feature chum is a shady business goal presented to consumers as a useful feature to a company’s product line or feature set.
For example, Facebook's like button for websites.
https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/feature-chum-you.html
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alienmelon ("Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)") wrote:
i just learned about “riot dogs” (stray dogs that for no knowable reason join in when people protest, and protect protesters from police), reinforcing my view that all dogs are good boys https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_dog
(i am not a dog person so this is an unbiased nonpartisan dog assessment)
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good lord, these ppl sound so much like the Marxists of old who *also* insisted "that current liberal democracy contains the seeds of its own destruction" and "when the inevitable collapse comes you build back the country in a way that’s actually better." the anti-democratic far Left & far Right have never really been all that far apart, IMHO
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ROFL
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"The Internet is being ruined by fake quotes and misinformation." - Benjamin Franklin, 1792
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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:
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- merry twigsmas @notpixietit im employed at starbucks and we live in hell. the word Xmas is BANNED, we are only allowed to say happy holidays my coworker asked a child what santa would bring her & a manager overheard they took him out & shot him in the head. they fucking shot him in the head (remote)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
inclusion matters:
'The U.S. Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s 200th federal judge... the most diverse federal judges of any president in history.
“These judges are exceptionally well-qualified. They come from every walk of life, and collectively, they form the most diverse group of judicial appointees ever put forward by a President – 64% are women and 62% are people of color”' https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/senate-confirms-bidens-200th-judge-in-historic-feat-for-court-diversity/
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thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:
AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
'Musk, who has been named by Donald Trump to co-lead a commission aimed at reducing the size of the US federal government, wrote on his social media platform X: “Only the AfD can save Germany.”'
(they are the neo-Nazis, child... grow TF up)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/20/elon-musk-claims-only-afd-can-save-germany
Mastodon FeedThe new 3d-rendered MGM lion looks as melty and sad as Jar Jar. Did they find this animation sitting on a dusty shelf from 1999?
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AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:
Very aptly put, David Frum.
👍
https://bsky.app/profile/davidfrum.bsky.social/post/3ldtps2hxps2m
#Politics #Bitcoin
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bluebabbler ("Bluebabbler") wrote:
"What's stopping you from coding like this?" - the Game
https://blog.keul.it/whats-stopping-you-from-coding-like-this/
Mastodon FeedTonight I used "Have they been Mirandaized?" as shorthand for "Has the person with the SLR been issued a photo pass and been informed of the rights and responsibilities conferred therein?"
Mastodon Feed@jef All of these third-party efforts to adversarially interoperate with corporate closed platforms are inevitably doomed to fail. In the meantime all you are doing is carrying water for their propaganda that they "will federate some day for sure, we pinky swear".
"Oh, it's in Blewsky or Threads or Twitter? I guess I'll never see it then." Works for me!
Mastodon FeedThe Bridgy "service" is basically acting as a volunteer advertising arm of a billionaire-backed commercial social network whose business model requires destroying Mastodon. Also this bot will spam you with DMs exhorting you to support their favorite billionaire social network repeatedly if you accidentally say the wrong words or reply to the wrong thing. Their replies are unmonitored. I strongly recommend preemptively blocking @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
Mastodon Feedhappydisciple@mendeddrum.org ("Jos Dingjan") wrote:
@NanoRaptor Performance cores, efficiency cores, and demon cores.
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dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🇵🇸 🌎🌏🌍") wrote:
Our politicians are mostly lazy, greedy and incompetent. They find it easier and more profitable to criminalize a problem than to do something about it.
