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

Side note: It is fascinating to read about the solidarity between Black Panthers and the Young Lords (a largely Puerto Rican civil rights “gang.”)

It's clear why this type of solidarity often ends with its leaders becoming martyrs.

https://digitalchicagohistory.org/exhibits/show/young-lords/young-lords-and-black-panthers

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

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) denounces state-sponsored segregation, but its themes of injustice, and our tendency to favor decorum over justice, fits well within our challenges today.

It's bitter-sweet to have had someone so capable of articulating what injustice looks like and how to fight it. Sweet because it's still relevant today. Bitter because it's still relevant today.
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles%5FGen/Letter%5FBirmingham.html

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

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was all the things the center-left despises.

Yet, centrists love to co-opt dead radicals and transform them into God-like pacifists. I honestly don't know how they circle that square when King's messaging is so well documented.

All I know is Dr. King would be ostracized and vilified by Democrats if he were alive today.

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Wow this is going to be useful to debug past AI sessions 🔍

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

The Other America:

> [A] riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.

Dr King was an agitator.

https://www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/

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

The Three Evils:

> Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.

Dr. King was anti-capitalist.

Edit, added link to speech: https://www.blackagendareport.com/speech-three-evils-society-martin-luther-king-jr-1967

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

Icelandic ravens stay in the countryside during the summer, but are urban in the winter. The cemetery in Gufunes, for example, usually has a bunch of them hanging around midwinter. Here in the south they tend to alternate between towns and in recent years usually arrive in Hveragerði in or around January.

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

Dr. King was "violent."

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Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Ethically, I don't feel there's much difference between having an account on Truth Social and having an account on X at this point.

If you wouldn't create an account on Truth Social, perhaps it's time to finally delete your account on X.

#DeleteTwitter #DeleteX #USpol #Democracy

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

Letter from a Birmingham Jail:

> I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice

Dr King was a radical.

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles%5FGen/Letter%5FBirmingham.html

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jrdepriest@infosec.exchange ("J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:") wrote:

@fromjason @morrick

I disagree with the Elements of Style on this and I always have. The punctuation should go inside the quotes only if it was part of the original phrase being quoted.

My name is Michael but everybody calls me "Mike".

That makes logical sense. The nickname is in double quotes.

My name is Michael but everybody calls me "Mike."

The nickname is "Mike-period"? Would you write

"Mike." is my nickname?

That period does not belong inside the double-quotes.

As for emphasis, what exactly does an italicized "." sound like? If you want it to be emphasized, make it an exclamation point or interrobang.

The only time I include the punctuation as emphasis is in headers which, in Markdown, are thankfully line based.

I'm sorry if this sounds confrontational. I have very strong opinions about punctuation and quotation marks. I didn't mean for it to sound so angry, just passionate.

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

Fox News delivers a "scientific" take on the location of heaven. It is predictably inane.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/19/old-man-babbles-about-the-bible-as-science/

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

NeatStats:

"NeatStats makes it easy to learn about the visits that your site receives (from both humans and robots alike). We respect everyone’s privacy by only recording the most basic information that every web server already recieves with each visit to your site: IP address, User Agent, and HTTP Referrer."

The folks at omg.lol are looking at building an analytics tool. Exciting! https://neatstats.net/

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

@adam @cory hell yeah!

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

The Computational Web and the Old AI Switcharoo explores how each iteration of the web starts with a promise and ends with a power grab.

Shoe horning AI into all of our apps sets a precedent that our devices must be tethered to the cloud to work.

Web 3.0's power grab may be an attack on local compute. Because that's what would make big tech the most money.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web-and-the-old-ai-switcharoo/

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

I wrote about it here! The Computational Web and the Old AI Switcharoo explores how each iteration of the web starts with a promise and ends with a power grab.

Web 3.0's power grab may be an attack on local compute. Because that's what would make big tech the most money.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web-and-the-old-ai-switcharoo/

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

While writing in markdown, you italicize a word at the end of the *sentence.*

Do you include the period or does the period live outside the italic marks?

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ieure@retro.social ("PunnO)))") wrote:

Single Board Computers Near You

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

interesting to read what James is doing with RSS here
https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/19/announcing-artemis-roll-up

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rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Covfefe is that you?

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

“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

her ghostly presence

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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

It's the "Clever Hans" effect: folks genuinely don't seem to realise how often *they* actually wrote/edited the code to get things working.

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

US doomerism has truly cooked a lot of people’s brains, it seems. Trying to make things less bad is always worthwhile. Drawing a line and sticking to your principles always matters. Sometimes the strong turn out to be weaker than they seem.

And sometimes you get lucky.

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

Is British media seriously pretending that the EU deployment to Greenland was to safeguard the arctic against Russia and not a message to Trump?

‘Cause that’s the impression I’m getting from them this morning

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

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vasilis@social.vasilis.nl ("Vasilis") wrote:

Since I am a bit too busy the coming weeks to curate an event, I have extended the deadline for the The Web You Want conference.

We are looking for talks, workshops, interventions about the web you want. What should the web be like? Also, if for some reason you are disappointed with the web, let us know what was the web you wanted.

☞ https://the-web-you-want.org/

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jmaris@eupolicy.social ("Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO") wrote:

I'm sorry, Charles de Gaulle, you were right all along.

#USpol

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

This would not be the first time we’d be occupied by the US (only neutral country to get invaded in WW2) and I’m guessing that Trump’s military and FDR’s are two different beasts.

But I do remember from my grandmother’s stories that it made the housing issue worse

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

It’s a stressful morning here in the subarctic, though I expect the mood of our nearest arctic neighbours to be even worse

Starting to wonder what happens to mortgages in the event of a US occupation.