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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

Seriously, I don't think most Americans have put together that natalism, "naturalism," anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-vax, pedophilia, misogyny, queerphobia, eugenics, racism, anti-immigrant xenophobia, anti-woke, anti-DEI, and disempowering labor through automation and "AI" are all interlocking parts of modern fascist ideology.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”

- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines

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

Huge thanks to the generous sponsors who help to make this possible, including several recent contributors! https://home.omg.lol/sponsors

Boosted by jwz:
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@simonzerafa @davidgerard @jwz TESCREAL as a whole is *definitely* a religion—a very familiar looking one to those of us who weren't raised in any variety of Christianity but in another religion, and therefore get to observe Christian behaviour from outside. And I'm telling you the singularitarian/AI bros are just speedrunning the emergence of pre-Nicean Xtianity as a syncretistic evangelical faith (this time without Jesus/God but with the usual salvationist/AI uploading heaven bullshit).

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@jwz memetic prion disease

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

I thought my home-cooked RSS reader had a bug, but no, @zachleat published in the future
https://www.zachleat.com/web/state-of-the-browser/

you can't just publish in the future, Zach

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
noboilerplate@namtao.com (":youtube_logo: No Boilerplate") wrote:

It also stops claude from making issues or PRs on any of your repos.

I consider this a bonus.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
noboilerplate@namtao.com (":youtube_logo: No Boilerplate") wrote:

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked%5Fusers

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason 4 things in one day? I'd be back in bed too.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
darwinwoodka ("Darwin Woodka") wrote:

@fromjason

Working Families was big in the Mamdani campaign and are getting some payback now

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/mamdani-rewards-working-families-party-leader-with-international-affairs-appointment/ar-AA1Ww9y8

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Side note: I wrote the above blog post in Nov of 2024. Today, I'm a little less inclined to give the Bluesky team the same level of grace. They're turning out to be everything a venture capital-funded platform becomes, unfortunately.

It was wild, though. To see every big liberal political influencer declare Bluesky to be a liberal safehaven for no other reason than it wasn't X.

We on the left love a good vs evil dichotomy.

Anyway, how did this turn into a Bluesky thread? Lmao

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Exploring blockchain RPCs from the terminal 🔥

🌌 **stellar-tui** — Discover & execute Stellar RPC methods.

💯 Structured forms, response pagination, regex search & endpoint management.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/padparadscho/stellar-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #stellar #soroban #blockchain #cli #devtools

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Have you enclosed your horse today?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The Good vs Evil dichotomy at play:

Liberals left TwitterX for Bluesky. Musk was the "bad guy" so, new users assumed that BS were the "good guys." People literally referred to the respective platforms as the "good place" and "bad place."

Is BS better than X? Sure. But that wasn't the narrative.

New users projected liberalism onto BS when, in fact, BS was built on a libertarian manifesto. It's only now, 40m users in, that we're seeing what that means in practice.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/bluesky-may-have-the-juice-but-we-don-t-have-to-drink-the-kool-aid/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Caddy: a great alternative for Nginx

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gupkDA1SRLdCcY9PKcg1KX

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jonathanhogg ("Jonathan Hogg") wrote:

You know what? HyperCard was a glorious moment in time that I dearly miss: an army of non-experts were bashing together and sharing weird and wonderful stacks that were part 'zine, part adventure game and part database. Instead of laughing at vibe-coders, maybe we should ask ourselves why the current state-of-the-art in beginner-friendly programming tools is a planet-boiling roulette wheel.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

In conclusion...lol. Here's my overarching point:

We need more people on the left unified in progressive ideals *and* who understand that just because republicans are the bad guys, it doesn't make democrats the good guys.

We Americans are constantly conditioned to view the world in terms of Good vs. Evil. It's in our media, our art, our politics. If Group A is Evil, then Group B *must* be Good.

That line of thinking fucks us every time, because the world isn't Avengers Endgame.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
akamran@indieweb.social ("Annelies Kamran, Ph.D.") wrote:

RE: https://toot.community/@newsyc750/116086184834829227

What I really love about this is that he used cheap, commonly available materials in his living room and designed a really elegant experiment. Lots of these "science fair/competition" winners have access to actual labs and working scientists as mentors, which is really discouraging for kids who don't.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Politics, Governments, and Elections | TikTok Advertising Policies:

"we do not allow paid political advertising because the nature of political ads is not something we believe fits the TikTok experience."

Does this change in time for the midterms, or do they wait for the presidential election? https://ads.tiktok.com/help/article/tiktok-ads-policy-politics-government-and-elections

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:

Return to the Stars
8x6in
Friday on EveryDayOriginal.com

Most of your atoms were created in the super novae of ancient dying stars. In the time since then, your atoms have been part of many things: oceans and oaks, dinosaurs and dandelions, foxes and fireflies. For a brief moment, these disparate, voyaging elements have come together to be you. One day they will move on, scattered and woven into many more incarnations before eventually returning to space in nebulous clouds to birth new stars.

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

I’m long overdue to share a reminder about omg.lol’s sponsorship program: https://home.omg.lol/info/sponsorships

We’ve had this setup in place for just over a year now, and it’s allowed us to welcome some really awesome people into our community. And we are all so much better off because of that diversity. ❤️

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

This is not me saying we shouldn't leverage influencers to evangelize progressive ideals. We absolutely should. But that's not what the DNC are doing. They're using political influencers for their ends, which does not align with our ends.

I wish more than anything that there was a force organizing political influencers outside the control of the Democratic Party. Because if we are to get an actual progressive administration, we need to organize independent of the DNC.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

This is old, before the election and before the US took over TikTok. But the DNC has an army of political influencers and they're not using them for progressive policies like healthcare or police reform. And they're def not disclosing what is or isn't an ad.

They're using this army to justify Palestinian genocide and divide progressive factions.

https://wiki.fromjason.xyz/Collections/Biden's+Influencer+Army

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

If AOC runs for office, democrats will do everything in their power to convince upper middle class white liberals that she's dangerous to their home equity.

Mark my words.

They'll run Mayor Pete, and subtly suggest to the white queer community that Black and brown folks don't support him out of homophobia.

The DNC will "Hunger Games" AOC and try to convince progressives that she's actually one of them.

A divided electorate favors incumbent power. The DNC has an army of influencers...

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
aburtch@shakedown.social wrote:

@fromjason I completely agree. Even just some VERY simple statements and policy proposals would change everything overnight. As simple as "no corporate money," “Universal healthcare," and “Invigorate Congress to be a check on the executive brand as it should" would do wonders for their chances.

Oh, and replace their entire leadership.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Wow, the first obvious spam account I’ve gotten on Mastodon followed me…from micro.blog. 🙃 (“PublixSurveyStatus”, for the record.)

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Caddy: a great alternative for Nginx

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gupkDA1SRLdCcY9PKcg1KX

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "“Trim Silence”: Threat or menace?" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/trim-silence/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
aburtch@shakedown.social wrote:

@fromjason I’ve been preaching this one here ad nauseam. Until Democrats completely swear off corporate donors, the party will not change one bit. Corporate donors don't want change. They are fine with how things are going.

Dems won't move forward until they excise party leadership and start over with zero corporate or billionaire donors.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

We still don't understand what makes for a winning campaign. We still buy into the Dems' narrative that racism and misogyny are the *main* driving forces for them losing.

Obama voters voted for Trump
Bernie voters voted Trump
Some Biden voters voted Trump

The driving force is *change;* it's working class politics. Who gives a flying fuck if Trump doesn't actually care about the working classes they got duped? The point is, populist messaging works. Following through on it gets you reelected.