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

How's Bad Bunny doing? #SuperBowl

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

The Social Web Foundation @swf takes money from Mark Zuckerberg, and is building the new social web with Meta employees.

How is that any better than Bluesky taking crypto money? Is there anyone in or around the SWF willing to speak up?

Zuckerberg, Musk pictured at Epstein's wild' dinner with other billionaire CEOs after conviction: https://nypost.com/2026/02/08/us-news/zuckerberg-musk-pictured-at-epsteins-wild-dinner-after-conviction/

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dallo@pouet.chapril.org wrote:

Zuckerberg, Musk pictured at Epstein’s ‘wild’ dinner with other billionaire CEOs after conviction

https://nypost.com/2026/02/08/us-news/zuckerberg-musk-pictured-at-epsteins-wild-dinner-after-conviction/

> A photo has emerged of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg attending a “wild” California dinner party with infamous pedophile Jeffery Epstein years after he was convicted as a child sex offender.

#fascism #Zuckerberg #musk #Epstein #uspol #USA #elonMusk #gafam

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

I keep hearing that No Kings is the networking part of the strategy. It's been a decade. Is that what we really believe?

I honestly think we've made intelligence such an important part of our identity, that we've made it impossible to look at our mistakes objectively.

I had a dude here create an ethos for No Kings out of thin air because he couldn't admit that maybe we need to revisit the strategy. That maybe we made a *gasp* mistake.

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

Aren't we just the least bit curious as to why a decade has passed us, and the liberal resist movement hasn't evolved an inch? Why, after each defeat we don't have a "lessons learned" and changes to the strategy?

Why the lesson always seeks to be "we're smart and [insert scapegoat] is dumb?"

It doesn't strike you as odd that we've lost *so much* yet I can't think of a liberal who has ever suggested a change in strategy. Meanwhile, republicans have adjusted quite a bit.

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afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place ("afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷") wrote:

@kimlockhartga The problem is that, if you have never been thaught what dignity is, and what self respect is, it is very difficult to recognize that you need those things to become a fully-realized human being. And it is harder still to want those things if they are unknown to you.

Something similar happens to us as a colony.

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afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place ("afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷") wrote:

Periodic reminder that granting statehood to Puerto Rico is NOT the progressive policy that you have been led to believe it is.

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

I had already read the essay,
but watching it was as fantastic.

This Cory Doctorow talk is so awesome. One of the most punk proposal I have heard lately.

I really hope Canada does it!
Thanks @pluralistic 🤘💚

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=iZxbaCNIwg8

#Canada #CanPoli #ElbowsUp

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
patatas@social.patatas.ca wrote:

@dansup @webintents

hmm that’s odd, not sure why my reply got detached from the post you quoted here. anyway it’s fine, i can ask my question again here - sorry for the double post! here’s what my other reply said:

Curious to hear a somewhat-technical explanation of how this works.

What exactly is transmitted to the fedidb server? I ask because my concern is that in the wrong hands (e.g. Meta/Facebook, who have a relationship with the SWF), this seems like it could be used as a social-graph and browsing-behaviour tracking mechanism.

But maybe I’m wrong. If so, I will gladly be corrected!

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

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116037055979822936

As Discord prepares its IPO (with a $15B valuation), there’s never been a better time to re-evaluate where your friends and communities connect with one another. Discord’s values are antithetical to the independent / small web that so many of us love, and there’s no reason for “internet chat” to be enshittified to the tune of billions of dollars.

For less than the cost of a Discord server boost, you can run your own fully independent IRC server.

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forse@kolektiva.social ("Forse (he/him)") wrote:

@MackenzieD @fromjason There are plenty of people doing other stuff.
You just don't see them on TV.

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

The guide to setting up an IRC server is ready! This will take you from zero to a fully operational IRC server (including the Gamja web client, hosted on the same server).

https://www.neatnik.net/setting-up-an-irc-server/

I’ve gone out of my way to keep this super simple, even avoiding the need to open an editor and change any files. I hope you find it useful!

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

An interesting short film. It's from over a year ago, but I hadn't seen it before. "The God Man":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY9CTDM3l4M

The score is available:

https://jasonstam.bandcamp.com/album/the-god-man-original-motion-picture-score

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pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

RE: https://tiny.tilde.website/@colocataires/116036259984515720

if you host a virtual machine with AWS, OVH, RackNerd, Digital Ocean, or other places i highly recommend a read through colocataires' (new) website

they also just launched a new $60CAD/yr tiny vm package

that is three and a half american bucks per month yall. that's 3/4 of a tall (small) iced caffè latte! it's competitive with the barrel-bottom junk i used to rent elsewhere

AND you get good feels from hosting with eco-conscious real people

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florianschlund ("Florian Schlund") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116036624769120117

Lesenswert:
Worth reading:

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falcennial ("millennial fulcrum") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116036553386903299

antichrist Peter Thiel bursts out of skinsuit to warn of "antichrist-like behaviour" of climate activists.

I propose we all make use of Jason's actionable point about effective and persistent protest.

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

If you need an example of this type of non-violence, look at Minnesota. They are stifling ICE's efforts to kidnap humans, while resisting any acts of violence when ICE inevitably retaliates.

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

#NoKings uses "non-violence" to mean non-disruptive. But that's not how Dr. King used the term.

"Non-violence" in the Civil Rights era dictates we not retaliate violently after we disrupt the status quo. It's sitting in a "whites only" diner, disciplined not to react when coffee is thrown in our face.

No Kings has no equivalent to sitting in a whites only diner. Instead, it dictates that we stand outside with a sign demanding the things we aren't willing to take.

https://www.njstatelib.org/research%5Flibrary/new%5Fjersey%5Fresources/highlights/african%5Famerican%5Fhistory%5Fcurriculum/unit%5F14%5Fblack%5Fpower%5Fera/nonviolent%5Fresistance%5Fmlk/

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

Anyone care to join me for spring break on Venus?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/08/maybe-venus-wouldnt-be-as-awful-as-earth/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N2PhuRQYM0

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jonesmurphy ("Jones Murphy") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-7imHgn0ARgip-D-zwPxH5g%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

Tim Cook is full of white supremacist bull. He will absolutely throw those employees under Trump's bus for racism. Tim Cook is a gay man who keeps pandering to rampant homophobes out of shared white supremacism.

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

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

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

"By the time they’re 14 or 15, they’re like grown women were 60 years ago, so I don’t see these acts as so heinous." Robert Trivers, excusing his pedophile friend.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/08/another-evolutionary-biologist-exposed-as-a-jerk/

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dave@podcastindex.social ("Dave") wrote:

If you make a podcast app, please support podcast:liveItem for live streams. I’m listening to @adam speaking live at a church in their morning service right now in Podverse (working in the other 2.0-first apps as well). That tag is so powerful. Please support it.

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hootalex ("Alex Tomlinson 🦉") wrote:

Mastodon really punches above its weight for me as an artist with an online shop. Plus people mention following me on Mastodon in real life more than any other place! :D

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jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

Warming temperatures are shrinking snowpack in key Canadian watersheds, study suggests | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/winter-snow-climate-water-9.7078119

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

Happy bad bunny day to those who celebrate

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

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@ruemaleficent/116036056495281776

Listening to this dude speak for 20 seconds and it's clear the only tax relief he needs is the relief of the taxing narratives he creates in his
head.

Men will lick boots before going to therapy.

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha 🇪🇺 :mastodon:") wrote:

"Take life one step at a time."

The steps:

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ukscone@cupoftea.social ("Russell Davis") wrote:

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aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

I've been trying to teach my kids that they should stop wearing and listening to the same things everyone else does at school. It's OK to get wild haircuts, piece their noses, go thrash around at electro-punk shows.

After all...

Children should be scene and not herd.