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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
byroncclark ("Byron C Clark") wrote:

Cartoon illustration of a girl with arms crossed, wearing a black T-shirt with an anti-fascist symbol. She says in a speech bubble: “The government won’t tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.” The artwork is signed "Sophie Labelle" in the bottom left.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
adhd_coffee ("Coffeedate with ADHD") wrote:

A diagram titled "Venn Diagram of my life." Two overlapping circles are labeled "Things I like to do" and "Things I'm good at." A third circle, which does not intersect with these, is labeled "Things that make money." A fourth contorted shape, overlapping none of these, is labeled "Things I do."

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Mastodon wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115187078125939270

This is available to people on mastodon.online and mastodon.social now! 🎉 coming soon to other servers, when version 4.5 becomes available.

You can also find details of how to control your posts, via the animations in the blog and documentation.

Note: we've got an additional channel to send us feedback listed at the end of the blog post, if you'd like to share thoughts on this feature.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Good morning! If you’re on mastodon.social (or another server running nightly builds) you can begin quoting posts in your posts (quooting?) starting today. Remember, you control whether you can be quoted, and can always retract your post from a specific quote. And you can quote me on that!

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Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nAHLpcIEjyw&feature=shared

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hejsna@ruby.social ("Johan Halse") wrote:

@slightlyoff I make all my teams read this

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st century. Capital is replaced with a badly pasted "package.json"

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Boosted by jwz:
KraftTea ("Mark Kraft") wrote:

So, how many times is it now that Windsor has enabled a paedophile?
Is anyone still counting...??!

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

A two-panel comic meme showing a text conversation. In the top panel, a woman texts, "IDK, CHARLIE HAD A FEW GOOD POINTS". In the bottom panel, the man receiving the text is shown, and his response bubble simply says, "BLOCKED".

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Boosted by jwz:
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

Don’t know what to do?

1. Cancel any Disney or Hulu subscriptions and let them know (look for corporate PR contacts, be polite but very firm and specific.)
2. Don’t buy anything else from them.
3. Stop talking about their franchises (like Star Wars).

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Boosted by jwz:
VeryBadLlama@mas.to ("Janel Comeau") wrote:

when I have to pretend I’m not sheltering John Oliver in my basement but the authorities can hear him yelling about rat erotica through the floorboards

Screenshots of the “you are sheltering enemies of the state” scene from Inglorious Basterds

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Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@mathowie "Then they came for the milquetoasts"

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continuation@mas.to ("Mx Arjuna") wrote:

Turns out democracy died in daylight.

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Boosted by jwz:
Kadin2048@mefi.social wrote:

@inthehands @heluecht ABC didn't pull the trigger on Kimmel. Station owners Sinclair and Nexstar did. They own enough ABC affiliates that their refusal to air the show going forward did the job.

Both Sinclair and Nexstar stand to benefit from the FCC under Trump relaxing ownership rules on broadcast TV stations, allowing them to become a nationwide duopoly. Nexstar is literally in the midst of a merger that requires the FCC to change the rules in their favor so it can proceed.

This is all about a bunch of corporate lackeys trying to curry favor with Herr Trump and his sidekick Ajit—Kimmel is just a pawn on the chessboard they've decided to sacrifice.

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Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

It is essential for everyone to recognize that ABC didn't just fire Kimmel for daring to speak things that the Trump regime and its cult don't want spoken out loud.

It was DISNEY that fired Kimmel. Disney owns ABC.

The principal cowardice in this butchery of free speech belongs to Bob Iger, CEO.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Used to be when a dictator wanted to takeover the airwaves, he sent the army to the TV station. These days he has one of his flunkies go on a right-wing podcast and issue vague Mafia-style threats. The result is the same though.

quote from FCC chair Brendan Carr on right-wing shithead Benny Johnson's youtube show saying "we can do this the easy way or the hard way"

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drewharwell.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Drew Harwell") wrote:

Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr

Should the government censor speech it doesn’t like? Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the “public interest.”
Who, in your view, should have the power to draw the line between a “lie” and “free speech”? Government officials that want to stay in political power or the people that can hold them accountable ?
President Biden is right. Political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people in to the discussion. That’s why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship.
Free speech is the counterweight—it is democracy’s check on government control. That’s why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream. After all, there’s a straight line from the soap box to the ballot box. You retain freedom at both or neither.

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Boosted by jwz:
medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

This year was like was like... Tacuinum sanitatis, Rhineland 15th century. BnF, Latin 9333, fol. 96v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

This year was like was like... Tacuinum sanitatis, Rhineland 15th century. BnF, Latin 9333, fol. 96v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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

TFW you have exactly the set of Mastodon followers you deserve.

three polls in response to my post pointing out that all polls on Mastodon are presumptively unreliable. Slow clap city.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/women-jobs-and-charlie-kirk

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Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪡"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

Generative AI output has passed the point of being distinguishable, and I’m saying that as someone fairly in the know. I can no longer discern AI content generated by cutting-edge models from other media.

Here are some thoughts regarding that.

https://vale.rocks/posts/detecting-ai

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLMs

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

This is real and I need to have a lie down

An AliExpress listing for "C13 Adapter plug C13 plug to anderson C13 To 5.5x2.5 XLR GX16 3pin 5.5x2.1"

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

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the only statistically defensible use for Mastodon polls is jokes. Everything else is presumptively an exercise in confirmation biases.

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

The irony of Jimmy Kimmel being censored by the same sort of people who loved him on The Man Show

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

It is, of course, utterly fitting that the mascot of ABC's parent company is a mouse, the rodent that symbolizes cowardice and timidity.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Gilligan's Island - hardly the first thing that comes to mind when talking about edgy social commentary - named the shipwrecked boat the "Minnow" as a direct dig at then-FCC chair Newton Minow. Minow had famously referred to TV programming as a "vast wasteland", and this was their way of thumbing their nose at him.

Someone needs to name something similarly small and feckless after (current FCC chair and comedy critic) Brendan Carr.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative.

Comedy can be a sharp weapon, but this was, frankly, hardly the stuff of Lenny Bruce.

We are living in very dangerous times.

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

“She hadn’t forgotten all her military training; one point she certainly recalled being taught was that anything that looked like an outrageous coincidence was probably enemy action.”

— The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture Book 9) by Iain M. Banks
https://a.co/8oHp8yC

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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

With a few exceptions (mostly towers atop downtown switching offices in populated areas), no one was trying to make any of this utilitarian communications infrastructure *beautiful*. It was form strictly following function, built to be reliable and rugged.

But there was, I think, quite a bit of beauty to find in it. I wonder if we'll look at our current neighborhood cellular towers, now often regarded as a visual blight, the same way decades after they're (inevitably) also gone.

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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The San Jose Oak Hill Tower is unique in a number of ways. This particular concrete brutalist design appears not to have been exactly replicated elsewhere; it was site-specific. It sits atop an underground switching center (that was partly used for a military contract), which explains the relatively hardened design.

Today the underground switch is still there, owned by AT&T, but the tower space is leased to land mobile and cellular providers. The old horn antennas at top are disconnected

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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

For much of the 20th century, the backbone of the AT&T "Long Lines" long distance telephone network consisted primarily of terrestrial microwave links (rather than copper or fiber cables). Towers with distinctive KS-15676 "horn" antennas could be seen on hilltops and atop switching center buildings across the US; they were simply part of the American landscape.

Most of the relay towers were simple steel structures. This brutalist concrete platform in San Jose was, I believe, of a unique design.