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

The Bliss of Good Enough

Join me as I make my morning cup of coffee and have an existential crisis.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-bliss-of-good-enough-an-ode-to-my-moka-pot/

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

We could have had a functional government BUT NOOOOOOOO

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

Bluesky, TwitterX, TikTok- all deleted. I still have my Substack up (inactive) but as soon as I port my posts to my blog I'm deleting that too.

It's
✅ Mastodon
✅ Microblog
✅ omg.lol
✅ Arca
✅ Are.na
✅ Letterboxd
✅ Signal
✅ Tumblr

(And LinkedIn UNFORTUNATELY)

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

Did I mention that I'm 100% Meta-free now? No Instagram, no Facebook, no Threads, no 501(c) that would allow Mark Zuckerberg to funnel money to me without raising suspicion...no WhatsApp.

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AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:

These people objectively do not stand for or believe in anything but money. I'm sorry, it's just true.

https://truthout.org/articles/amid-breakup-with-trump-some-democrats-say-party-should-start-courting-musk/

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

Amid “Breakup” With Trump, Some Democrats Say Party Should Start Courting Musk | Truthout:

"Musk has also not repudiated fascistic points of view. Earlier this year, Musk gave his support to Alternative for Germany (AfD), a neo-Nazi political party, in that country’s elections. The billionaire also notably raised his hand during an inauguration celebration for Trump in what appeared to be a Nazi salute."

Democrats ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/06/05/amid-breakup-with-trump-some.html

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

In the matter of Musk vs Trump

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fancysandwiches@urbanists.social ("Fancy Sandwiches") wrote:

"It's not my intention to both-side this. But if everyone’s a nazi then no one is."

No one is saying everyone is a Nazi. What folks are saying is that if you let fascists on your Mod team, and you let fascists on your server, then your server is de facto a fascist server. People keep bringing up the Nazi bar analogy, and you keep willfully misinterpreting that analogy "it's not true because not everyone here is a nazi, so we're not a nazi bar", THAT'S NOT THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ANALOGY.

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david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

I cannot overstate how much I hate the short character limits on most instances here. It does not make people post short, concise messages (as if brevity is even a thing I’d want to optimise for) it makes people post essays as sequences of 47 toots. Which then all appear in my timeline. In reverse order.

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tayfonay@beige.party ("TayFoNay🍿") wrote:

Me watching Elmo and Shitler go to blows in real time

Attachments:

• gifv: Natasha Lyonne Wow GIF by Team Coco

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niedermeyer.online@bsky.brid.gy ("e.w. niedermeyer") wrote:

this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion

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Viss wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: b25b923312ae8905.mp4

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

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LRRRonEarth@beige.party ("LRRR :bc:") wrote:

SOMEONE SAID IT BETTER:

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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

News that isn't about nazis breaking up on twitter:

-Roundup of US #PublicHealth catastrophes, measles, poultry #BirdFlu toll: 174,461,898
-New #Covid variant updates + surges in 22 countries
- #LongCovid surpasses asthma in US kids
-US changes Covid vax rules again

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-june-5-130756371

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bigzaphod ("Sean Heber") wrote:

How does one go about buying popcorn futures?

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crk5@layer8.space ("crkⓋ") wrote:

Truth Social has crashed from the traffic surge and in so doing accidentally created a hauntingly poignant image.

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

Okay, I wrote something that I don't like at all but I'm publishing it anyway. I need to stop being my own worst critic and I'm giving myself permission to publish things I think are mid 🤗

Coming soon prob

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

@fromjason @xandra Quick programming note; I removed my original post because someone politely and rightfully pointed out that amplifying it could do more harm than good, especially since that statement was not really consistent with their other posts.

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

I can see why Ars (and others) frame it this way, though: it's much more likely that browsers will act to close exposure tothe holes that Apple and Google have irresponsibly propped open, and that their respective OS and app store teams have zero interest in closing. The rest of tech is rotten, so browsers must act. But writing it up this way still under serves readers.

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

In that thread: "there are no Nazis anymore" from the politically correct guy. Whew. 🫠

@adam @xandra

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

From Kurgan to EU A Former Russian Call for Digital Sovereignty:

"That’s why I’m raising the alarm: we must stop treating our digital lives as a mere convenience and start treating them as the frontline in a battle for our very freedoms. It’s time for us to ask—why are we so bound to Silicon Valley’s giants, and how do we break free before it’s too late?" https://heartshadows.vivaldi.net/28/26/from-kurgan-oblast-russia-to-eu-a-former-russian-call-for-digital-sovereignty/

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heartshadows@vivaldi.net ("Aleksandra 🇪🇺") wrote:

My Take on Digital soverignty and the urgent need of it in EU.

My first blog post be respectful thanks

https://heartshadows.vivaldi.net/28/26/from-kurgan-oblast-russia-to-eu-a-former-russian-call-for-digital-sovereignty/

#Apple #Dependency #Europe #Facebook #FOSS #GAFAM #Google #Meta #Microsoft #Privacy #Russia #Security #Software #Soverignty #Technology #USA

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:") wrote:

After some extended discussion with the rest of the Treehouse moderation team, as well as extended discussion with Gina, the new owner of fosstodon, we are planning to take incremental steps that will result in full defederation of fosstodon from Treehouse.

Fosstodon has been a consistent moderation headache for our team for years, initially because of the same problems we have seen from many of the tech instances: drive-by snippy and unhelpful comments like "oh YOU wouldn't be having that problem if you just used GNU/Linux instead!"

In the past year or so, however, things have changed in the nature of the moderation issues we have seen from Fosstodon. While the "reply guy" behaviour is still present, the overall temperature has shifted in the direction of the alt-right, both in terms of moderation incidents and, as recently seen, staffing incidents.

Gina has outlined her philosophy regarding the management of Fosstodon and its role in the greater fediverse, however this blog does not address any of the specific problems we, and our users, have observed from their community.

We are increasingly unconvinced that the situation will improve in any meaningful way, so we conclude that defederation is the only option. These conclusions are always disappointing, but as a community of queer hackers, these decisions are necessary to protect the psychological safety of our local Treehouse community.

As we begin to bring our federated relationship with Fosstodon to a close, we encourage our local community to be thoughtful and kind in regard to their frustrations with the Fosstodon community.

To help with continuity, instead of immediate defederation, Fosstodon will be upgraded to a full limit with report suppression in a few hours following this announcement. This will allow local users to continue to interact with Fosstodon users that they explicitly consent to interacting with while they make the transition to a new instance, and allows for reversal if Fosstodon commits to acceptable management practices which we have already outlined in our discussions with Gina.

In the event that nothing meaningfully changes, Fosstodon will then be fully defederated on July 1.

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

AngryBlackBitch: Oops…didn’t know we couldn’t talk about race…(2005)

"Now, some may say America has moved on. Many would say that wee little black girls growing up in St. Louis no longer face a world where they are encouraged to play the tolerance game…that young people who are overweight are not stigmatized…that gay and lesbian youth are embraced with love and understanding. And those people would be ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/06/05/angryblackbitch-oopsdidnt-know-we-couldnt.html

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

Why is this an actual category

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/tom-cruise-guinness-world-record-burning-parachute-jumps-mission-impossible-8-1236420534/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I've seen this fight between Musk and Trump on TV before.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/05/slap-fight/

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

The framing in this Ars post is disappointingly wrong; the flaw isn't (only) in browsers, it's in untrustworthy and unsafe native platforms that pervasively allow bad actors to set up insecure services on any device they can sucker users to installing apps into. This is a *native apps* bug, first and foremost:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/

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xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

@Gina hey gina -- you're talking to the choir. i've been managing communities in my free time for the past few years while working full-time and managing personal projects. i'm speaking to you as a fellow community administrator.

the difference here is that you do not have the luxury of floating solutions from your mods in the middle of a crisis situation and, regardless if you choose to admit it or not, you are vastly under-equipped to handle this at this scale.

at this stage, i would recommend bringing in a community management expert (NOT one of your friends) who can set up structures that you and your mods can follow, because you have made every wrong choice at every fork in the road.

your 3 weeks of admin experience has clearly not given you the means or skills to adequately staff a community, and i think adding 21 moderators at this stage was a deep mistake. the process should've been slower, more involved with the community, and more time should've been taken to look into each moderator and how they approach content moderation. instead, you've been flirting with dog-whistles that you apparently have no idea about because of the aforementioned lack of ability.

your constant bringing up about how you have other things to do, how real-life comes first, etc., is not the casual nicety you think it is. if you don't have time to administrate a community, then don't do it.

this behavior from you is dismissive to the people who are *actually* suffering at the hands of people who believe they are subhuman who can't just turn off their computer and go for a hike in the mountains. it looks like you do not prioritize this, and you should. if anything, you should at least be *appearing* to prioritize this.

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elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, famigerada sapata travesti") wrote:

@pzmyers I am from a Catholic country. every one of us has partaken of the Body of Christ, willingly or not