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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that

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

Mastodon's ex-CEO recently said in an interview (I'll try to find the link) that the #Threads #Mastodon interpolation didn't work out because of Meta's lawyers. Idk man, Zuck gets caught doing evil shit like every week. This is where they drew the line?

For #Meta, I think the siphon project worked just fine. They're just biding their time. Lobbying behind the scenes for regulation that will shut down the #IndieWeb

To think of all the #SocialWeb advocates who were just 2 years ago pro-Meta

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
roknrol@beige.party ("Roknrol") wrote:

@fromjason It assumes an awful lot. Mainly that people HAVE a personal or professional website to share.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

While Pokrovsk's seemingly inevitable fall to Russia will not trigger a collapse in Ukraine's defenses, it weakens Kyiv at a sensitive juncture in U.S.-led negotiations to end the war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/11/world/ukraine-pokrovsk-analysis/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #us #donaldtrump #volodymyrzelenskyy #europe #vladimirputin

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

there's some interesting tracks on here: https://westernvinyl.bandcamp.com/album/passages-artists-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers

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

#Mastodon is now finally speaking out but it may be too little too late. We had the chance to reject #Meta's plan to take over the #SocialWeb but a few influential #Fediverse leaders decided for us that our future on the social web would include Meta.

Even now, as Mastodon Org speaks up, they refuse to call the enemy by name, referring to Meta as "another corporate social media platform"

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

#SocialWebFoundation #BridgyFed

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

I wrote a speculative piece, just about 2 years to the month, about Meta's regulatory capture strategy that involves an attack on #Mastodon, even as #Threads and #ActivityPub leaders were working together to interpolate.

Just waiting on Zuck to launch a timely protocol that makes it easy to migrate from Mastodon to Threads.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/copy-acquire-kill-how-meta-could-pull-off-the-most-extraordinary-pivot-in-tech-history/

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

I call it Operation MySpace 2.0 aka the siphon strategy.

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

You know who would love if these laws pass, btw? #Meta. Because it'll mean less competition as small communities fold under the weight of legislative compliance costs.

Remember that, and remember that two years ago, #Fediverse leaders under NDA helped Meta create a one-way siphon out of #Mastodon and into #Threads.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Latest Freebooters podcast: Getting busy with bash, FOSS sound formats, and why YouTube has outgrown us

https://freebooters.uk/media/20251206-getting-busy-with-bash.mp3

Chris shares the bash projects he's been working on, we talk about MP3 vs other FOSS audio formats, and we talk about why YouTube isn't the best place for smaller creators any more....

#Freebooters

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115698604360170391

There's now free shipping on orders of 70 EUR and over.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

A billionaire owns WaPo. Another owns LA Times. Another owns Meta. And now one of the richest men alive controls CBS AND is openly trying to buy Warner Bros. This is not normal. This is not safe.

Today I break down what’s happening and how we fight back with facts and independent journalism. Read on Ghost.

And as able, consider supporting my work through a free or paid subscription.

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/billionaires-are-taking-over-media/

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

Congress Is About to Break the Internet - by Taylor Lorenz:

"These proposed laws include The Kids Online Safety Act, The SCREEN Act and The App Store Accountability Act. The laws would censor LGBTQ and reproductive justice content off the internet, and any speech the government doesn’t like will be removed or blocked." https://www.usermag.co/p/congress-is-about-to-break-the-internet

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
hankgreen@threads.net ("Hank Green") wrote:

Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube.

Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5GUtNa9bI

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

Your reminder the GOP wants you to die poor and sick and as soon as possible, thank you very much, in fact why aren't you dead already, honestly that's very rude of you

https://wapo.st/48uEsVO

(gift article)

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

*AI bubble about to burst*

Forbes: man, there sure are a lot of women in powerful positions, huh?

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

Lmao

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/disney-says-google-ai-infringes-copyright-on-a-massive-scale/

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

Seriously, they should just call themselves OpenThreatAI

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

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora - Ars Technica:

"“Technological innovation has continually shaped the evolution of entertainment, bringing with it new ways to create and share great stories with the world,” said Disney CEO Robert A. Iger"

Translation: hey illustrators, if you unionize we’ll replace you with robots. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/disney-invests-1-billion-in-openai-licenses-200-characters-for-ai-video-app-sora/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

The proliferation of scam culture, then, is not just a product of technological change but also a rational response to late stage capitalism.

Capitalists compete, which risks profits.

In response, capitalists have chosen consolidation to mitigate the effects of competition, which has driven ever-increasing wealth inequality.

That inequality makes it harder for anyone not at the top, even less-successful capitalists, to get ahead.

And so some capitalists have turned entrepreneurially to scamming as a way of an asserting control over the income produced by workers that they could not control through the traditional process of owning firms and assets.

Because those are all already owned by the richest of the rich, or soon will be.

The AI bubble will burst eventually and cause immense suffering when it does, but just as NFTs weren’t the last major global scam, AI will just be replaced by yet another scam, and another, and another, until capitalism eventually collapses under its own weight.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192132/ocasio-cortez-everything-feels-like-scam

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
keyboards ("Keyboards") wrote:

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

🐦‍⬛ ❤️ 🥜 Gus, Marcelo, Childish Gambino, Chappell Roan, Macaroni, Lasagna, Pete Davidson, Pedro Albizu Campos, Meg, Havoc & Prodigy

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• video: Crows sitting around my back porch on the fence and trees

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

The view my cats were digging earlier

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
anaiscrosby@infosec.exchange ("Anais") wrote:

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

This is the biggest critique of liberal advocacy— there's no such thing as a lesson learned. No one is adjusting. No one is taking notes. Every lost election, every failed initiative, it's always someone else's fault.

And it's because the liberal identity lives and dies by being the smartest in the room. It's this obsession with intelligence that forbids liberals from *looking within* and adjusting on literally anything. It's been a decade. None of this is working.

#ICE

Boosted by jwz:
popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:

Watch Rep. Bennie Thompson bust Michael Glasheen on his “antifa is a terrorist organization” BS. This happened today at a U.S. House hearing.

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• video: 9c9b0339956a8f76.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
ethanschoonover ("Ethan J. A. Schoonover") wrote:

You know that Hegseth is looking at Rubio going to Times New Roman and is thinking of moving the Pentagon to a Blackletter type named something like "REICHFACE."

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

🤔

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

@robpike tabs were a mistake

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

KNBR (AM 680) Antennas, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, none of the hazards to aviation, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131419266

#photography