Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

So, there's this concept of "implicit feudalism" in online communities. Essentially, the vast majority of online communities - from old-school forums, to facebook groups, to large platforms like Twitter and Facebook themselves, even to fediverse instances - they're all run as dictatorships by default. It's built into the software - you'll have a top admin who has full, unconstrained power, they might delegate mods who have some limited powers, and anyone else has to listen to what these dictators and lords tell them. We talk about "federating" here in the fediverse, but each individual community - as far as I'm aware of - is a little dictatorship. A federation of dictatorships is not a free society, anymore than the UN, an international body composed of "liberal democracies" and authoritarian regimes is truly democratic. We need a way to start governing online communities through actual forms of democracy.

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#ICE detainees, on hunger strike 68 days, demanding the right to pursue their #asylum claim outside of jail, are on the brink of death. Hunger strikes spreading to ICE detention facilities across the US https://www.salon.com/2020/01/11/after-68-days-hunger-strikers-in-ice-custody-are-on-the-brink-of-death_partner/

Here’s a sun bear. They have very long tongues!

I woke up and went to my computer. I was greeted by my Pacman screensaver featuring an unsolvable maze.

First page of 2020 is up!
And it's still 1995 in our comic.
https://www.drugsandwires.fail/dnwcomic/chapter-6-page-36/

maybe she’s born with it
maybe it’s nanomachines

I have been called out

1. don't
2. yeet the cisco
3. install pfsense

kinda fucked up how there are ARM chips but not LEG chips

It'd look something... like this!

JSTOR'S Bizarre Adventure

norway

so now that I'm getting more into pcb design, I *really* need similar quotes on mine.
suggestions and boosts highly welcome!!

Just masturbating at Kellogg’s grave

awww

pupy 💜