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Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
MichaelEMann@fediscience.org ("Michael E. Mann :verified:") wrote:

"Scientists speak out against Trump admin’s move to defund research" | My interview earlier today on @msnbc #KatyTurReports:

https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/scientists-speak-out-against-trump-admin-s-move-to-defund-research-240903237882

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Taking my iPad to a brewery to write because it will make it more difficult to fiddle with my Emacs init file instead of being productive.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The inclusivity of the JoCo Cruise is one reason I'm proud to be associated with it, and I want to make the point that this inclusivity was an affirmative choice - from the cruise goers and the folks running the cruise. Everyone pitched in to get us where we are, and it's a great place to be.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jococruise/post/DKfTe0qtdGo

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
artificial3d@mastodon.art ("Andy Goralczyk") wrote:

I'm directing another short film this year! Super excited!!

https://studio.blender.org/blog/announcing-singularity/

#b3d #blender3d #blender

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
blainsmith@snac.rblgk.sh ("🏳️‍🌈🤘 Blain Smith") wrote:

Our https://apply.coop job board now has its own fedi account. We'll post product updates and eventually automatically post jobs that get created by folks!

Follow, boost, all the things please! @applycoop@social.coop

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

This just in: popcorn shortage strikes the whole world

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/05/us/trump-elon-musk

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
dandean@indieweb.social ("Dan Dean") wrote:

I know this is controversial but I think sociopaths are bad.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
janelith@hol.ogra.ph ("Janet") wrote:

@xandra@tilde.zone @jimsalter@fosstodon.org That was and has been Gina's first response to critics. When i first moved servers she reported my account and silenced it. When I moved to my current server she realized she couldn't do that (it's actually a good server) so she just silenced me directly when I responded to Jim.

Jim confirmed this to me directly: https://hol.ogra.ph/notes/a8n7usquecu20gmg

I do believe they are allergic to accountability. As they claim to want feedback but only from specific people.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

@jimsalter i really don’t want to spend hours again typing about this issue again, but just wanna say, for the record, if y’all are silencing critics on instance, that is NOT a move i would ever recommend.

are y’all like, allergic to good moderation decisions or?

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

Bloggers are the epitome of the pen is mightier than the sword. Piss off a blogger and they are going to write 1000 words on it every time.

I love bloggers.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

@adam @phipunk if I didn’t know any better, I would say they were competing to try to be a parody of an inclusive space because I just have no more words. Sigh. If anything, they’re serving as a wonderful tool as to why nobody online should ever hang around a centerist online.

Boosted by jwz:
somebody@tech.lgbt ("Dataline") wrote:

@danirabbit she followed me after I made a post that said "fosstodon could make everything blow over by simply finding a new toenail clipping sommelier" not even realizing that it was a windmill dunk on the FOSS community at large for worshipping a repulsive raging misogynist who refuses to acknowledge the women that worked for him in the early days and harboring cryptofash. she unfollowed me immediately after I made a joke that indicated that I am in fact not down with that. I feel like these people have no self awareness.

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

here's Gina from Fosstodon explaining that their perennial Nazi admin problem is a problem with *you* for noticing it

https://ginablogs.com/views-on-the-fediverse-zghd

guys i think we've found why Fosstodon has a Nazi problem

Boosted by jwz:
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Thud. Tesla's stock is tanking because of the #Musk/#Trump lovers spat. #TeslaTakedown

Via Max Kennerly:

Amusing to see the Efficient Market™ reveal TSLA stock had a corruption premium of >$100 billion, additional value untethered to the company's performance or even policy/legislation, but rather solely to a belief Musk had the President's favor, which he no longer does.

P.S. Now down 10.5%

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
DoctorDeathray@retro.social ("Doctor Deathray") wrote:

The Pre-Order for my new album, "Nowhere," is live now!

The pre-order features "Back Away," and a new track, "Invisibella," which you can stream now!

https://witchdance.bandcamp.com/album/nowhere

This is a dark album, focusing heavily on my mental health while writing it. The full album launches on Sunday, July 13th, and all digital pre-orders will receive $10 off the vinyl release once it becomes available!

Please listen, enjoy, and share with your friends.

#music #rock #blues #indie #bandcamp

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

I realize the design of this vehicle is questionable to say the least, but I admire the gumption of the people who dreamed it up and followed it all the way through to actually making some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei00RFhIL4Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel%5FP50

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

If you don’t believe that your ChatGPT conversations have already been read (and laughed at) by OpenAI employees, as well as saved to the personal laptops of unknown vendors and contractors, you haven’t been paying attention to any aspect of how data is (mis)handled by large tech companies.

And if you’re worried about your kinky secrets getting out there, maybe don’t type them into a box plugged into the internet with a privacy policy that includes training itself on those secrets.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Similarly, I’ve seen a bunch of “omigosh when you delete a chat from ChatGPT it doesn’t really go away” posts lately. Again, it’s all in the privacy policy, where they tell you that they’ll hold onto your data for as long as they need to (without saying how long that is).

I realize that using ChatGPT may feel like a personal, private, intimate experience when you’re using it. But the fact that anyone would believe that reveals a massive level of naivety and privacy illiteracy.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

This piece mentions some of the deeply personal and sensitive things that people share with ChatGPT, and the "panic" over a court order that none of it can be deleted because it's all evidence in a massive copyright lawsuit.

Why did it take a court order for techbros to freak out over the possibility of their friends learning that they treat ChatGPT like a waifu? Did they not read the privacy policy or consider how many entities already have access to their chats?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
endonend@social.lol ("Jason") wrote:

First Crucial Tracks merch sale today! 🎉🤘🙏

If you missed it: https://merch.crucialtracks.org

Shirts, hoodies, hats, sealed vinyl, and more available to purchase. All proceeds from this sale will go to help pay for site costs. And since it’s Pride, 25% of those proceeds will go to The Trevor Project this month. And I will match the first $50 of that…

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

:blobcatcoffee:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lmorchard@masto.hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

Hot take: Defederation is feature, not a bug. Not everyone needs to talk to everyone all the time.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

@jimsalter hi jim. i'll take the bait because i have time today.

1. it has been expressed multiple times to gina and the fosstodon community at-large what needs to happen to "fix" and "work things out." rehashing it in replies with a recently-promoted moderator is not the good look you think it is. tone down the sass if you're wanting to represent a community literally on the public relations ropes to anyone who's been called a slur.

2. the actual actionable action that needs to be enacted: moderators and admins of instances need to be aware of internet culture and online dog-whistles that allow for people with fascist, fascist-leaning, and fascist-sympathizing views to navigate through community spaces undetected by "normies" who don't care enough about marginalized groups to keep bad actors out in favor of having a higher member count.

3. in order for people to feel *safe* inside of your community, there needs to be an immediate disavowment of any/all bigotry by the mod team. this includes transphobia. there needs to be less "thanks for trusting me to be a mod!" posts by the new mod team (who have been trusted by no one but gina) and more "here's how i plan to moderate the space after watching how everything unfolded." and if the moderators haven't thought of that? they shouldn't be moderators.

4. community management is hard. there's a reason why a lot of people don't do it. it's hard because you have to not only say the things that you believe and value in your community but you also have to uphold them and action on them. that includes researching the people you promote in your community to become moderators.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe ("Sally Strange") wrote:

No, they're bison.

Happy Pride Month!

#Pride
#DadJokes

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mass_driver@typo.social ("Rutherford Craze") wrote:

Maybe you’ve heard: every font is free! Since fonts aren’t subject to copyright, you can legally ‘pirate’ them if you use a specific loophole!

...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance.

A thread 🧵

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nev@status.nevillepark.ca ("Neville Park") wrote:

From The Anatomy of Fascism (2004):

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

He further describes their "mobilizing passions" as

• a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions;
• the primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it;
• the belief that one's group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external;
• dread of the group's decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences;
• the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary;
• the need for authority by natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable of incarnating the group's historical destiny;
• the superiority of the leader's instincts over abstract and universal reason;
• the beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group's success; the right of the chosen people to dominate others without restraint from any kind of human or divine law, right being decided by the sole criterion of the group's prowess within a Darwinian struggle.

These are in Chapter 8, where he discusses various ways of thinking about fascism (a purely Marxist view, the totalitarian aspect, etc.) and why he offers his own definition. (PDF of full book. 🏴‍☠️)

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Thanks to @robb, I ordered a TRMNL yesterday. Today I managed to get a simple thing for #urltown up and running with their API. Can’t wait for the device to arrive!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mos_8502@studio8502.ca ("mos_8502 :verified: 🇨🇦") wrote:

We are in the middle of a cold war between people who want to engage, want to think, want to solve problems and comprehend the solutions on one side, and those who resent having to learn or think or understand on the other.

AI, politics, business, education -- all fronts in the same war.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The last time I was this excited about a console launch must have been in 1997!

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

6th love language: designing things in a thoughtful way that makes people's lives easier.