Dear @Gargron,
A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:
“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”
Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?
Thank you.
PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
#mastodonSocial #fediblock #threads #meta #mastodon #transphobia
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@counterinduration There are three reasons I still federate. If any one of them stops being a thing, I'll defederate (I've considered it).
- A lot of interesting people land there because they haven't yet had a chance to find a better instance.
- They don't seem to be intentionally doing bad things.
- They haven't posed enough of a moderation problem on my end yet (I've been able to just block the odd idiot).
Meta fails at point number two, and because of that, I haven't given them the chance to fail point number three.
Edit: typo
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The problem is that if we want to have a commons then it needs to be protected from extraction. A commons that let itself become extracted is not a commons at all, it's just a preparation for extraction.
It's better with a small well protected commons than a bigger one that will allow parts of it to become extracted.
So, I'm eating a Wagonwheel for the first time since childhood. I'm not sure if they've gotten significantly smaller, or if I'm just remembering them as being larger than they were.
Probably both.
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This is quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. Also, I don't own the copyright to this, I just wanted to share it with the people on yo...YouTube
one of the more sobering lessons was just how little it takes for people to convince themselves they are talking to a person. and how this hallucination builds over time, the more they interact, until it becomes a certainty, something they refuse to let go of.
people consulted my bot for life decisions, kept trying have sex with it in the direct messages. one woman was going to leave her husband for my bot. I kept having to block strangers who got extremely weird about it, in different ways.
exactly. heck, I talk to machines and trees and animals and inanimate objects all the time. nothing wrong with that.
I think "human-like" bots can effect a kind short circuit, a vertigo of the personhood instinct, but also nothing wrong with that per se.
the sinister bit is where that human tendency to relate and find personhood gets maximised and exploited by the ruthlessly amoral, ultracapitalist snake-oil merchants of the bilionaire destroyer class.
https://defcon.social/@SomaFMrusty/112161316200529463
Rusty Hodge [SomaFM] (@SomaFMrusty@defcon.social)
Attached: 1 image Longer, sped-up version of the YT live feed of the ship before it impacted the bridge.DEF CON Social
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Broken Search
!Friendica Support So I upgraded my Friendica node today, and the search seems to be broken.
Anything I type into the search box just yields a blank page in the result.
Edit (mentioned in comments but I'll put it here too):
Searching tags works (/search?tag=).
The follow button is giving the same blank page issue.
The resulting blank page is pretty much immediate. Virtually no lag which would usually indicate the database lookup is hanging.
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I remember seeing a post where a women earned her MD and folks asked why the degree had her maiden name and her response: “my husband didn’t do 8 years of med school.”
Most of my 20s was spent writing under a pseudonym because my full deadname is frankly boring as fuck and super common. I considered legally changing it that as I started using professionally, not just socially. So I’m on my third name right now and I’ve identified some names I like better than Jade but 🤷🏻♀️
@renegadejade Jade is a cool name. Too bad humans because it could just be a variable to swap out wherever.
Lindsey was supposed to be the pen name (we never technically married), but I didn’t know he was an abuser and that someday his name would make my skin crawl. It’s like he’s got his label stamped on my work. He might have funded it, but he didn’t DO it. So I’ll have to be content with confusing everyone.
@renegadejade See, society just needs a system like that. A formula encoded into culture. Plus people who are less hung up on names being normal or permanent like your uncle.
My mom was cool with my name change in 3rd grade (just started using the nickname of my middle name), but she never has quite made the jump to Luna yet, and I started using that in ‘04. Still living as a woman with a deadname! We’ve had several conversations about it, and she starts to understand a little more each time. She’s clinging to certain pat religious answers, which… well anyway! She hasn’t deadnamed me in a couple of weeks at least. I’m plural, too, so, there’s names stuff going on there. I have just never felt too attached to my label. Most of my labels actually. I’m fairly fluid all around. Go wherever it goes.
I’m chatty. I haven’t actually talked much about this stuff in a coherent narrative because I’ve been isolated for many years. Thanks for listening.
You’re welcome. And Thank you. Another plural! I am actively working through plural stuff currently. https://hachyderm.io/@renegadejade/112146051513736797
I’m autistic about names, labels, and identities. If I pursue a PhD, I want to research how queer/trans people form identities through their media consumption. Realizing all my video game characters and TTRPG characters were power fantasy the whole time. I was trying to express Jade through them. Super interested in this.
@renegadejade As a writer, we do that there, too. All of my fictional characters have a piece of me in them. Many of them turn out to be metaphorically autobiographical. I’ll see common unplanned themes or symbols rising up in stories I write around the same time frame. LARPing stuff, too. I haven’t really thought through what archetypes I used to play. 🤔
That’s bringing up so many threads. I tried to write one out but my word-centers are shutting down from tiredness and the weed kicking in lol I’ll go check out the plural thread.
@renegadejade Ok I just irl made the 😮 face because guess which two vampire clans I played the most? Malkavian and Ravnos, both of which have powers of illusion and disguise. And I liked Changeling much better than V:TM, so ran a tabletop campaign for three years, AND worldbuilt my first novel inspired by that game. Basically everybody’s a shapeshifter in there!
See, I hear all these trans women all chatting about seeing this or that media and super relating to it and it’s all clicking for them with an “it all makes sense now,“ vibe, and I’ve never connected with that idea until *just now.*
@renegadejade Wow! Yeah the crazy vibe was also part of the Malks and Changeling. Another archetype is anything that can hide in shadows, disarm traps, and use poison 😂
Congrats on feeling at home in yourself!
Holy shit.. #Apple, can I get a refund?
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance.Ars Technica
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That indeed is an interesting question, that I would like to have a legal answer to, you know, from a product liability and consumer rights perspective.
If something is broken, you have a right to get it fixed (at least in a limited way where I live). If it can't be fixed, you have a right for reverse transaction.
I wonder if this applies here. In my opinion it does, but #IANAL
I just had a realization.
It was (and is) always so confusing when The Bad Straights claimed “gay people getting married will ruin the institution for everyone.”
But I think they always meant that if two men or two women can get married, then marriage must not be defined by a man obtaining a woman as servant/property & securing exclusive rights to her labor, identity, & body.
And without that, they can’t even imagine what purpose marriage could ever serve.
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@rmd1023 It’s the same terminal thought though.
If marriage isn’t about owning a woman & rights to her, then it must be meaningless, because to them, that servitude & captivity is totally bound up with the very concept of romantic love.
And if marriage is meaningless then it makes just as much sense to marry your dog etc.
They just can’t imagine a meaning outside man leads/woman serves/woman can’t get away
1. Getting & keeping cheap labor
2. Preserving unfair & unsustainable social hierarchies
3. Maintaining white supremacy
4. Making the already rich, even richer
5. Imposing religious dogma on non-evangelicals
6. Bolstering the fossil fuel industry that's frying a planet & undermining democracies
7. Tax evasion
8. Converting government into a grift where taxpayers pay, without taxpayers benefiting or having a say in policy
9. Donor maintenance
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Don't forget dropping safeguards and laws protecting workers and public welfare...ie water pollution.
@GatekeepKen
The OSHA violations during the height of the covid pandemic in meatpacking plants alone should be a class action lawsuit. Moreover it seeded a super spreader event that infected millions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/trump-to-order-meat-plants-to-stay-open-215555
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/12/meatpacking-industry-trump-downplay-covid-threat
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/14/trump-usda-meatpacking-proposal-098352
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/us/politics/meatpackers-trump-covid.html
As did the Sturgis motorcycle rally and Florida spring break open-door policy
Trump officials and meat industry blocked life-saving Covid controls, investigation finds
Congressional investigation reveals the lengths meat industry went to downplay risks to workers and lobby receptive Trump officialsNina Lakhani (The Guardian)
@GatekeepKen
Garland hired Jack Smith, an expert in mobs, despots, and their finances.
That's pretty astute.
Until the money behind Trump's fascist movement is investigated, prosecuted, and finally legislated, American democracy isn't safe from the billionaires frying the planet & democracy.
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Garland is incompetent. Period
He was well aware of the time factor. Every expert I've heard agrees, he dropped the ball while claiming time wasn't his guide, but getting all the facts. We don't need all the facts. Smith has overwhelming evidence, in triplets.
@GatekeepKen
Garland began the denazification of the DOJ with the prosecution of Charles McGonigal & Jeffrey Clark.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/16/fbi-charles-mcgonigal-sentenced/
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/23/law-enforcement-trump-official-coup-00041767
He hasn't been able to oust Chris Wray to do the same with the FBI.
Reminder: GOP still had control of the DOJ's budget when he was appointed & Garland's requests for funding was thwarted by Republican controlled congress & government shutdowns
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/04/politics/house-republicans-doj-fbi-funding-divisions/index.html
https://time.com/6336404/government-shutdown-republicans-january-6-cases/
While Dodging a Shutdown, Congress May Have Just Given Some Jan. 6 Rioters a Break
Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters remain uncharged, but the Justice Dept. may have to pull back on cases as the spending bill shifts its budgetPhilip Elliott (Time)
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Nicole, pardon the language ,but he's a pussy. He's so afraid of Looking political , when the other side does it and could give af.
@Npars01 add in replacing political discourse with violence and a lust to expand and you've got textbook fascism.*
Good thing the GOP isn't about violence in place of political debate and hasn't talked about invading Mexico and Canada.
Oh wait.
*If there was such a thing as a textbook definition of fascism. Most scholars agree there isn't. It's too amorphous.
There's this little Chinese restaurant that Katy and I like to order from occasionally. Because this is Canada, the fortune cookies tend to have English and French on them (one language on each side of the paper). They're manufactured in such a way that when I crack them open, I usually see the French side first, which usually isn't a problem.
I'll admit that my French is not as good as my English, but I'm more or less bilingual. This time though, I swear the French side of the fortune was generated by a Markov chain or something. I was actually forced to read the English side to figure out what they were trying to say.
The French side:
Vos yeux délicieux, voire dynamiques, ont fait naître un admirateur mystérieux.
The English side:
Your dynamic eyes have attracted a secret admirer.
Am I just forgetting how to speak French, or is this a really clumsily constructed sentence?
@ECityHuman apparently.
Who am I to question the wisdom of the fortune cookie?
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2004: Wake up sheeple!
2024: Woke as a pejorative.
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"You can love the Army all you want, it ain't necessarily gonna love you back," applies to a WHOLE lot of organizations.
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The biggest struggle of my artist life is explaining to people that I draw slime girls that are entirely sfw. I think they are underrated in non-porn settings 😁
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How do you stay focused on one thing? (Question in a panel)
No. I embrace my ADHD mind and some of the best ideas and flashes of inspiration come from me doing something else and then thinking "hey, what if I....."
Instead of forcing neurodivergent people to focus on one thing, why don't you build an environment that allows us to play to our strengths. I guarantee you it'll cause less stress and heartache.
#neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic
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Anyways, I'd love to learn about your tools!
One of the things I don't hear talked about enough in the ND community are the two D's Dopamine & Dissonance. If we're doing things that create disonance in our minds, it isn't going to work out, and if we're doing things that don't bring the blessed dopamine, same thing = no go.
I mini detailed my system in another post. My website is down for restructuring, but this is exactly what I want to talk about over at Chicken Yogi & Unscramblet. @morothar
I kinda feel like this whole Threads federating discourse is like a referendum in the #Fediverse.
It's not really, because though who want to federate with Threads will, and those who won't won't - or chose an instance appropriate to their desires. It's the quintessential win-win of the Fediverse.
But some of the arguments thrown around have a vibe of electioneering about them. So in that spirit:
- Vote federate with Threads! (35%, 58 votes)
- Vote never-federate with Threads! (64%, 104 votes)
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I don't even think of Threads unless I see someone bringing it up here. Not something I'm interested in personally. I enjoy the lack of corporate-ness here.
If I were to go in any direction on the Fediverse beyond here it would be toward Pleroma not Threads.
This is perhaps rhetorical, but:
A) They don't have to figure out how to find and sign up with a Mastodon instance. If they had an Instagram account, a Threads account was automatically created for them.
B) They don't know something better exists.
C) They don't care.
I do not agree with these points, but they're the most likely motivators. I'd known that Mastodon existed for years before the pandemic gave me the free time to actually look into it, so I kinda get it.
#ZhenHouseZhenBonkwave a #lifestyle show inside #lambdaMOO
https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
Hopefully we will be able to go live. Otherwise an extra extra special episode next week.
Otherwise / anyway enjoy @yoniden 's Transmission Received From Galaxy Nine.
https://yoniden.bandcamp.com/album/transmission-received-from-galaxy-nine-nine
Planned topic is discussing what makes a #home . My home in LambdaMOO received a LambdaPost parcel from @me with some wonderful MOO technology inside.
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Problem Adding User to Circles under Fennec
!Friendica Support I recently upgraded to the latest version of Friendica. It's fantastic, but I'm having some difficulty adding users to circles from the mobile web interface using Fennec (a Firefox port) on Android. I can navigate to a user's profile, open the sidebar and check or uncheck circles, but it doesn't actually seem to do anything.
I am not having this problem with LibreWolf on Debian.
To any Threads users who happen to stumble on this post.
Hi!
You are going to see a TON of pushback being here. That's not your fault though. You see, we've all become free of centralized services which make you a product rather then a user. So to some, allowing Meta to federate, is like drinking poison and not expecting it to kill you.
With that said, my hopes is that this will give you the opportunity to see how much better it is to be a USER and not the PRODUCT.
Leave Meta. We have cake.
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At some point (apparently last December) a new #Friendica version came out and I hadn't noticed. Finally got around to upgrading, and it seems to be running much more smoothly than the previous version.
Also, there's a "channels" feature now? Gonna have to look into what that is.
No matter what, we will reach Net Zero. Whether that’s emissions or humans remains to be seen.
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Good point!
Either way, with or without us, the planet will continue on its way, even if it's only home to extremophiles such as those surrounding undersea acid gas vents!
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as having a higher operator precedence than ||
. That led to a fun little bug.
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Today while I was out, I saw a guy at a busy intersection holding a handwritten sign. Obviously, I assumed he was panhandling, because people frequently do that there.
As I approached, I saw that his sign only had a URL on it. Out of curiosity, I visited it. Turns out it was some bitcoin mining scam.
While this was definitely a novel marketing approach, I wonder how they figured this particular tactic would instill confidence in anyone...
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Alex :autism: :neofox_flag_ace:
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Content warning: fediblock
This should be nothing new to most of us. It's already in all the major blocklists, including Seirdy's. It was spun off from
noauthority.social
, which still exists.https://gamemaking.social/@gamemakingtools/111754966704980039https://pleroma.envs.net/objects/999a4a21-06e5-400a-8bce-51b63c31f2d1
Affiliated sites include
noagendatube.com
andactivitypub.agates.io
.My Fediverse blocklists
Seirdy’s HomeJonathan Lamothe
in reply to Alex :autism: :neofox_flag_ace: • •Content warning: fediblock
@Alex :autism: :neofox_flag_ace: Good to know. I don't like to use third-party lists, because I use defederation as a last resort, and want to make those calls on a case-by-case basis as I become aware of them. Fortunately, I'm a small enough server that that's been a sustainable policy so far.
I'll check out those other two, though I'm pretty sure I already have at least
noagendatube.com
blocked already. It sounds familiar.