oh my gosh I nearly forgot. The roleplayers would be wearing that stupid desert-themed digital camouflage too
I’m selling my Astrohaus Freewrite smart typewriter, which markets itself as a distraction free writing tool. It’s a really satisfying mechanical keyboard hooked up to a word processor that can sync to various clouds. $450 plus shipping and includes the felt and leather sleeve and a charging usb to use c cord (not the original cord, I lost it. But any usb c charger will do.) Basically a great device that really helped me get out of my head and up the amount I write, until I had a baby and it didn’t fit the few minutes I could get away anymore. Lemme know if you’re interested! Happy to subsidize if not cover shipping for Mutuals!
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wah! wah! I don't like it! Talk bad about my silicon valley hero boys! 😭
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AArguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions#I_don%27t_like_it
lol
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Gaming subculture normalizing Nazi terminology
The popularization and more widespread adoption of "degenerate" (variously "degen" or "degeneracy") among Gamers is becoming a serious fucking problem. Imageboard nazis imported it to their Discord servers and other social timelines over time, no doubt. Is this impacting the mental health of anybody else? I already feel like it has reached a level of acceptability in many circles that protesting the verbage used by Nazi Propagandists in their "race science" will get you socially ostracized. There have been plenty of things to ostracize me from these spaces before that point, but I am curious about the observations of people who have higher tolerance for bullshit in order to still feel included despite all the red flags. Have you observed this too? How have they reacted if you voiced distaste for using Nazi propganda terms to describe play-styles in fighting games and such?
Do I by definition play like a "dirty Jew" by fucking projectile camping too much in a fighter these days? How do people stand this crap?
re: tankie scouting report, general moderation observations
This is why Reddit and everything like it should not just die, but fucking stay dead. By the way.
tankie scouting report, general moderation observations, so shitty stuff is mentioned
These days on the federated timeline the only major annoyances I ever see are aloof US Democrats. We have a really good instance blocklist, and shitty edgelord authcoms like to stick together once they find a rock someone will (bafflingly) allow them to live under. Since more twitter users and ex-tumblr users diffuse across instances the un-cw'd US electoral politics is much more of a persistent issue on federated microblogging.
However it hasn't escaped my notice, and I'm sure the notice of many others, that federated Reddit alternatives and other AP software harbors way more of those bunkerchan and 4chan /leftypol/ shitheads, along with a lot of the less online "true believers" who probably run struggle sessions for Red Guard chapters. The seamless transition of Reddit and image board culture to the fediverse has been a complete and unmitigated disaster all around, but where Fediblock doesn't exist it is far worse. And where the medium remains stylistically similar these shitheads feel automatically welcomed to resume all the worst behaviors from their old websites. Clean out the douchebags early or your site becomes an open sewer that will end up cut off from everyone else. Take reports of that shit seriously, because they are testing how much you will put up with and will continually dial-up the edgelord shithead behavior otherwise. They attract their douchebag friends by doing this.
Disappointing how these days the only times I see antisemitism being brought up, are to harass Black people on here for wording a thought about Gaza slightly wrong according to American suburbanites. Much worse shit in the past was given a free pass and is continually ignored because it has the right revolutionary aesthetic painted over it.
This is amazing work by @alshafei and team. You can search by company, country and funding entity, and learn things like:
"safeXai is the entity that has quietly resumed the operations of Banjo, a digital surveillance company whose founder, Damien Patton, was a former Ku Klux Klan member who’d participated in a 1990 drive-by shooting of a synagogue near Nashville, Tennessee."
thinking out loud about how authoritarians stylize themselves
Economic Liberals (capital L) are the kind of authoritarians who are always rebranding, changing their name, etc. Whereas authoritarian communists will be reusing the same old symbols for the same old historical roleplay until the end of time. If you have to keep carrying around the same big man heads on portraits everywhere you have to keep the iconography consistent to keep their... uh... appeal? Or.. is Lenin a brand? Is he like the Orville Redenbacher of Communism?
removing the headphone jack (and therefore the inexpensive options for private listening) is the worst thing phone makers ever did for the public space
like, please put it back and remove the speaker instead, I'm going insane listening to three different people scroll tiktok and one person doing spanish duolingo out loud around me on this train
Hey white people, if you can stop being racist pieces of shit for two mins and send me money so I can get my teeth fixed next week that would be so cool :)
Or is my Blackness too scary to give. At least waste your time on something fucking productive :)
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#yesbot #nobot #noarchive I'm in my 20s, as a Computer Science researcher (Not in "AI" 🙄).
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Programmer and IT girl. Pseudo-vegan for the environment (-avocados +oysters). Very uncomfortable with astrology. Please don't call me "dude", "bro", "man", etc. Radical egalitarian anarchist, hierarchies and hate are incompatible with a free and equal life . For real though, I'm not gonna tell you to vote or post about political spectacle that is outside our control and in-actionable. Aiming to have a similar amount of internal contradictions as my environment like Ashby's Law of Requisite variety. I am probably stoned on some variety and dosage of cannabinoids if I am awake if you hate stoners just dni. I am also a trans woman so I *checks notes* meme about femininity and feminization sometimes. After dark account at: @thufieplus but read my bio there before sending a follow request even if we are already mutuals here. Oh and just to be clear because I think I see other white people on here trying to fake not being white under a bunch of other text, I'm just a disoriented white girl trying her best.
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"Freedom" 0 is bullshit! Copyleft for subversion! Fuck RMS!
So try...
A list of licenses which respect OUR freedom:
https://write.pixie.town/licenses-for-freedom/list-of-licenses-for-freedom
programming languages? C++ C MIPS x86 a few others :P