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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

(Rare work post, you know what I do)

Yes I'm a fan of the creative team that produces Pluribus. Yes, it's an Apple TV show. Because yes, Android users can get the Apple TV App on Google Play, subscribe to it, and watch the show.

Yes I still ask the interview question "Do you like creative people?"

The X-Files producers had a problem: Season 1 was a big hit, but where would they get ideas for another 24 episodes for season 2?

A sci-fi nerd / Twilight zone fan from Virginia went to film school, saw season 1 of the X-Files, and thought it was the coolest show ever. He wrote a fan script for it.

The X-Files producers saw his fan script, and said "This is really good!" So they hired him to be a writer for X-Files season two.

He worked on the X-Files for 7 years.

Then he had a weird idea for a disturbed show about a high school chemistry teacher that becomes a meth dealing drug kingpin.

Great Movies and TV, are made by great Movie and TV makers. Creative people, working together, to produce something new.

Human beings love stories. Some of us go so far as to say that human beings need stories.

Sometimes I think that people forget that our role is to support creative people.

I've never met Vince Gilligan. I don't know him personally. I don't know if he's a nice person.

I only know his work.

Or more accurately, the output of his work. The tiny bit that makes it through all the rough drafts and bad takes, and didn't get cut in editing, and that studios released.

And I know that he didn't produce his shows by himself. He was part of a team, that is in turn part of an entire ecosystem of people and companies and organizations that support the production of creative work that we all enjoy.

I like creative people, and the ecosystem that supports them.

No Twilight Zone? No X-Files.

No X-Files? No Breaking Bad.

No Breaking Bad? No Pluribus.

It's easy to see how the world would be missing something if those never happened.

What's harder to see, is that there are other stories that didn't happen because we didn't support Black producers in 1959.

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

Talk enough about white supremacy on the internet and you get good at spotting masked contempt. This is especially dangerous from people who cosplay social justice therefore believing they have a mandate to bully you off a platform. I smell it in the air. Calling it now.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/politics/sec-crypto-firms-trump-investigation.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Why do schools have dances? Why do many high schools host parties, sometimes inter-school parties at the school?

A school isn't just a machine that puts knowledge into people's brains, it's an organization of people. And those people will want to celebrate together from time to time. This WILL happen. "official" events can be more inclusive.

But also for young people it's a part of social education, providing some baseline for how you interact with other people.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
randomized@masto.bike wrote:

Woke up in a sea of humid grey mist. Went up to get the Sun.

Not in top shape actually. Happy with this 18k, 800mEG on the other side of the hill.

#trailrunning
#runnersofmastodon
#runnning

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:

Starting a Multi-Park Day Right: Lake James State Park (US-2739) with VA3EKR

https://qrper.com/2025/12/starting-a-multi-park-day-right-lake-james-state-park-us-2739-with-va3ekr/?swcfpc=1

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

I'm tired, y'all. For now,✌️
https://substack.com/@fromjasonxyz

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

“History reminds us that each of us will be judged... and ultimately judge ourselves, to the extent we contribute, as Bobby Kennedy said, to the life of our cities, our state, our nation, and the world we are trying to build.”

- Gov. Gavin Newsom

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

The Dictator-Wannabe-in-Chief is a moron

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/us/politics/trump-tina-peters.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

"Chris Minns, the premier of the state of New South Wales, praised the actions of a bystander who was shown in social media footage tackling one of the gunmen from behind and wresting control of his firearm. He said the man likely saved the lives of many people.

Commissioner Lanyon said the shooter who was killed had been previously known to the police.

… targeted an event hosted by the Chabad organization at the beach to observe the Hanukkah holiday."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/14/world/sydney-bondi-beach-shooting?smid=nytcore-ios-share

💧

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

The gaslighting...lmao. Is this a thinktank response? Now when brown people call out the lack of diversity, the goal is to just gas light them into thinking that the Fediverse is diverse? Jesus Henry Christ.

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

This is why it's important to have diversity. It's the retaliation to calling out white supremacy. It's the subtle threats, the even subtler racially charged language.

Racism isn't just a guy in a white robe. It's the person with a gun who doesn't even know it's in their hand.

No one feels safe talking about racism in a room full of white people, even if they are self described progressives.

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

It's the 5 stages of grief in these comment sections, with most people stuck at Denial, Anger, and Bargaining.

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

Pro tip: if you're going to debate me on the existence of systemic racism and how to tackle it, maybe don't throw a bunch of book quotes and sources at me.

It heavily implies that despite being well-read, you've gone out of your way *not* to read anything authored by a Black or brown person. And I can only think of one other well-read group who does that. 🙃

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

As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.

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

@sylvie we are aware of this and this will, of course, be removed/disabled. The sole reason it is till in there is because it slipped through, so to speak. It says "LibreWolf" in the message because, indeed, Firefox' name gets automatically replaced with "LibreWolf" as part of the build process, so that happened there, too.

Sorry for the confusion to y'all. But rest assured: we definitely haven't suddenly "switched sides" - we still absolutely don't want "generative AI" related stuff in LW.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Many of the replies to the above post are solid examples of why people who are seeking alternatives to traditional social media still bounce off Mastodon: you all have a tendency to behave like assholes.

Nobody wants a lecture on switching to Linux, ever, or to be told how using the services they’ve been sold makes them a fool, and wasting that lecture on somebody who is already on Linux and already uses iCloud as little as possible just makes you a dick

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
stefano@bsd.cafe ("Stefano Marinelli") wrote:

When you try to install a software on FreeBSD, using the official "install.sh" way but it tries to write binaries in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #Linux #Linuxisms #IT #SysAdmin

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

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

I feel that, during this holiday season, it is important to remind people of the true meaning of Christmas: ghosts terrorising wealthy people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees a fair wage.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

https://maxday.github.io/lambda-perf/

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

What on earth…. Apparently Rust on Lambda was experimental until ~a month ago

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-serverless-applications-with-rust-on-aws-lambda/

Didn’t know that when I wrote
https://mastodon.social/@lloydmeta/115316480682496651

I usually try to avoid that stuff these days…

Boosted by jwz:
NoahLoren13 ("Noah Loren") wrote:

Subtoot:

Godzilla about AI.

Attachments:

• gifv: GIF Godzilla smash Mecha Godzilla.

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

I've been really weighing the pros and cons of just being on the #Fediverse and not corporate social media.

I like to write about tech and social justice. But I'm discovering it's probably easier to write about the dangers of big tech to a non-techie audience on BlueSky or Substack than it is to convince a Mastodonian that systemic oppression exists. The former also just far more delightful

The absence of POCs here is just so heavy sometimes. It makes me question what am I actually supporting?

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

If someone says it's your job as a person with privilege to dismantle systems of oppression, instead of panicking and getting defensive, you can do one or both things

1. You can just say "I don't know how to do that." Seriously. I think so much of these lame ass comments are because people panic and get defensive. And instead of just being honest, they try to intellectualize their way out of the anxiety.

2. Literally go google "black activist authors" or "queer activist authors" and learn.

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

Just the other day I was thinking how much the presence of POC are missed on this platform. And then I scroll the comments of a post talking about systemic oppression and I'm reminded why #Mastodon is 99% white.

How is it that so many of you are expert coders but haven't read a single book by an activist? How is it that you haven't accidentally come across even a quote to spark curiosity?

This is especially concerning for Americans. We're facing fascism and still at "I don't see color"

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

After `apt upgrade; shutdown -r` I've never heard again from lib.rs server.
I've restored a fresh one from a backup, but it's going to be wonky for a while due to cold caches and rebuilding of search index.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

It's white people's responsibility to stop racism.

It's men's responsibility to stop sexism.

It's cis people's responsibility to stop transphobia.

It's straight people's responsibility to stop homophobia.

It's able people's responsibility to stop ableism.

It's always the responsibility of the people in a position of privilege to stop the oppression they are benefiting from.

If you are part of a privileged group, in one way or another, get to it.

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

This anti-vax, anti-science bullshit is going to kill a lot of babies before it's through

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/parents-refusing-vitamin-k-shots-newborns-study-finds-rcna247580

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

Every year I rewatch the Matrix trilogy, forgetting how truly awful the third movie is, thus disappointing myself all over again.