Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

You know, apart from blocking threads instances, there are other options on how to deal with Meta above instance level. The different fedi platforms could decide... Well, to poison the well.

You could program your server to transform outgoing post going towards Threads' servers in whatever you like. From... Making every post to have the infamous white-Zuckenberg surfing picture attached, to transforming every post they receive from your server in a quote from Das Kapital making your instance a honeypot of Marxist theory, to... Nastier things.

So instead of gatekeeping them, we would be gaslighting them. Hmm.

Voor wie wil: je kunt nog tot en met 22 december een herhaalprik halen bij diverse priklocaties, ook zonder afspraak of uitnodiging. Dus ook als je niet of niet helemaal tot de doelgroep behoort. Ze stellen geen vragen en invulformulieren (over gezondheid/allergie) liggen bij de entree. https://mijnvraagovercorona.nl/nl/vaccineren/prikken-zonder-afspraak

I don't know that there's much point in continuing to patiently explain why people should defederate from Facebook's Threads, to be honest.

This has been explained so many times, the instances who are insisting on federating will almost certainly have had the opportunity to learn of the reasons and act accordingly, even if they claim they "don't see the problem". Many of them have even ignored or misrepresented the explanations addressed directly to them.

I think that by this point, it's much more reasonable to assume that the holdouts understand very well what the problems are with Facebook - they just either don't care, or they believe that whatever (they think) they will personally get out of the deal is more important than those issues.

The demographic distribution among those against vs. in favour of federation is probably like that for a reason...

​ "Fediverse"
--sounds like it was coined by a techbro
--reminiscent of "Metaverse" which has been inextricably linked to Facebook/Meta

​ "Fedisphere"
+Reference to the "blogosphere"-- a collection of independently hosted blogs and websites that formed the early internet, similar to Fedi as social media
+Spheres are cool

periodic reminder that "no, I'm in the control group" is a wonderfully versatile response that works in many situations

"did you catch the Seahawks game last night?" / "no, I'm in the control group"

"do you have any plans for Christmas?" / "no, I'm in the control group"

"do you know how fast you were going back there?" / "no, I'm in the control group"

"can I get you something to drink?" / "no, I'm in the control group"

Data,

I have found your animal. It is in Jefferies tube 25. It will not come out.

Worf

#GTFF3544, grad worker #union at the university of Oregon, is about to #strike with 90% of members voting 97% in favor of a strike. This is my fighting former union, with some of my former labmates leading the charge. give em hell yall.

Details and links to strike fund at: https://gtff3544.net/bargaining/

if i haven't already boosted this, it's an amazing article: https://redeem-tomorrow.com/solace-from-the-machine

we can take back what we lost

(serious congrats to @marthawells who has written an interesting book series and I really hope that the adaption lives up to everyone's hopes)

This seems ominous: "Apple producing Murderbot"

Edson Olf:

"De benoeming van #Bosma, #PVV, #VVD, #BBB, #NSC… in een tijd waarin (extreem)rechts aan de knoppen draait, benadrukt des te meer het belang van buitenparlementaire bewegingen. De stem van de samenleving reikt namelijk verder dan de parlementaire muren."

#BreekDeKetens #BekenKleur #KomBIJ1

if you wanna be friends with your folks on threads, leave here and be there. don’t take away one of the few places that feels safe for trans people to be themselves because it’s slightly more convenient for you.

or give half a shit about your complicity in wilfully endangering us

the absolute apathy of so many cis folks on here about threads harboring and encouraging transphobic terrorists is apalling.

don’t yell at me for not CWing this. yell at them for making me feel unsafe and unwelcome around them.

A writeup of US/UK/JP office culture like it's an uncontacted tribe

> The participants in the ritual begin by taking stimulants extracted by an elaborate process from the seeds of the Coffea arabica or Coffea canephora bush. Thus excited, they sit down in large isolated over-lit rooms and, in this paradoxically benign environment, spend most of the rest of the day focusing on papers and computers. In this way, their society decides who gets seen by doctors, who can travel, and who gets wealth.

I was told by a neighbour this morning that I am "the right kind of immigrant".

When asked to explain he said that I work and pay taxes. He didn't also say that I'm ok because I'm white but I wonder how the conversation would have gone if I had a different skin colour.

Am I reassured that because i am "the right kind of immigrant" everything will now be fine in the Netherlands after a quarter of the people who live around me just voted for a fascist, when the new speaker in our parliament is a conspiracy theorist as well as a fascist, and when most of the rest of the country appears to think that this is just fine ? No I am not.

I have more in common with asylum seekers and any other immigrants than I do with fascists or with unthinking voters for fascists.
#pvvisfascism
#RefugeesAreWelcomeHere

Never underestimate how many AI startups could be replaced wholesale with a single W3C proposal.