Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

> everyone fucking hates capitalism, and it pisses them off, but they dont know they hate capitalism, so they just complain about every issue individually as if its some series of unconnected phenomena with no root cause

from: @powerburial@tumblr.com
src: https://powerburial.tumblr.com/post/189012470710/everyone-fucking-hates-capitalism-and-it-pisses
#capitailism

I've seen a lot of awful and ridiculous AI hype in the past two years, but this weekend there was one that briefly took away my ability to even.

I recovered, and wrote up a newsletter post:

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/medical-science-shouldnt-platform-automating-end/

Dit is een toffe site, zeg: https://waarzitwatin.nl/

Heel veel details over welke grondstoffen en ingredienten er gebruikt worden om allerlei dingen te produceren, de veiligheid daarvan, enzovoorts.

A random thought pinging off a thread about Fediverse culture, but I wonder how much smugness & instinctive hostility to criticism is a defining function of DIY or progressive spaces. Like if you've built something, be it open source software or a community garden or a cycling campaign or a community fridge, and put a lot of effort into it, and someone comes along and says "This isn't working/isn't accessible/is actively hostile to people like me", we need to accept that criticism with humility

But yes the Fediverse has a racism problem, as does the environmental movement, the sustainable living wing in particular has a big ableism problem. And the people raising these issues are doing this not to knock the movements down but because they actively care about them and want to make them work better. And we should be grateful for the feedback which will help these things succeed in the long run, but too often we're not

The reason calling MAGA weirdos weird works is Wilhoit's law:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
If you tell them they're the out-group their entire worldview collapses and they imagine what it would be like if they were on receiving end of habitual cruelty.

for a large part, i don't think techy dweebs #OnHere really want to socialize per se, and I'm not sure if they wanna participate in community either -- in the sense of community as a network of social relations built on mutual respect, obligations, hard work, play, understanding, and joy

they seem to mostly just want to feel unthreatened in a white monoculture that coddles their sense of entitlement, watch numbers go up, and shout down anything that might disrupt that activity or cause them to feel the slightest bit bad about it

in my experience of watching racist meltdowns on the fedi for the last four years, your common or garden whitey dweeb on here is definitely not interested in shutting up and learning shit from people who are different from them, no matter how many "I'm a good person" flags they pack into their bios (landback, land acknowledgements, blm, etc etc the list goes on)

you could probably defederate from like 99% of fedi instances and you wouldn't miss them; you'd probably be happier actually cuz you could focus on hanging out with people who are actually interested in mutual growth and learning without nazis running in and pissing all over the furniture every five minutes

PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool

De Roodkapje-grappen schrijven zich vanzelf

In 2016 I was active on facebook. I participated in a lot of political discussions and groups. And I was totally taken in hook line and sinker by right wing trolls posing as the left spreading rumors about HRC.

I'm being open about how I was tricked because I think of myself as pretty sharp. I hope at least some of you don't think of me as a dummy. It can work on anyone.

It can work on you. If you think it can't? That just makes you more vulnerable.

Hackstream is een HackerSpace 'in oprichting' in #Dordrecht

We hebben een website: https://hackstream.nl

En een irc kanaal: #hackstream op liberachat.

En we kunnen afspreken bij de DEC: https://www.pi4dec.nl

🦾until we have technical fixes for this sort of malicious domain spam, I think we all need to make an extra effort to report malicious instances proactively to aid admins, who are overwhelmed keeping up.

But there definitely should be technical solutions.

Also: stop telling people dealing with these problems that they are solveable with mastodon as is. It’s not that there aren’t ways to deal with malicious instances or bad faith actors, it’s that the volume of malicious instances and bad faith actors is too high for the current solutions to handle.

🦾we need technical solutions, but we also need to change the culture of passivity here.

As many people on here are all too quick to point out, there are some existing tools to mitigate this. Blocking. Reporting them to your admin. Defederation. I’m sure yall can think of others.

The more of us doing those things, the safer the fediverse is. You do not need to be a programmer or admin to report malicious instances. It should not all be on black users to fight this alone. Or on any other marginalized group. If it is, they will pick us off one by one.

We outnumber the fascists, in the end, and every time they have to get a new domain to evade our blocks, it costs them money :)

🦾mekka is correct in his assessment that #mastodon is being turned into a nazi bar imo. You can here see the mechanism by which that happens. It doesn’t require most instances to being Nazi, it requires a small group of Nazis going around harassing the people they don’t like until those people leave while nobody stops them.

The people the Nazis like may not notice other people getting “jumped,” because *they* get treated “well” by the Nazis. But next thing you know, the bar is de facto whites only, then de facto straights only too, and then soon it’s just nazis as everyone else is gradually run out of town as they take “living space” and colonize the place.

This must be actively fought and resisted, or yes, #fediverse will become “that place the nazis own” and activity pub will fail.

How to approve and merge a pull request professionally? With two developers and their yubikey as authentication, using the briefcase of launching.