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Bobby Brown

LB: On the other hand, it's important to maintain that opportunists have repeatedly used these waves of valid criticism to incessantly harass and forever stain a person regardless of their response to an issue, and that our society has to accept that people who make mistakes [everyone] are sometimes willing and capable to make it right

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Raph

Within a few hours, I came across this post by @mekkaokereke and a friend sent me this screenshot from the re-release of the classic PC game 'Oregon Trail' (where the player takes on the role of a settler).

It was a beautiful reminder that it is possible to receive feedback positively, to take accountability, and to do the work to better ourselves. The outrage around "cancel culture" is largely just a way to shield all of those who are unwilling to do that work.

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Just wanted to state that Treehouse .social has my full support in implementing quote posts in their own Mastodon fork, and I will also support broad adoption. Designing your network toward healthy behavior is valid praxis, but this decision isn't effective against deliberate abuse and it prevents a great deal of valid use. It only blunts a lamentable, but surmountable, ill tendency in all of us cultivated by prior forms like Twitter, with a comprehensive environment of toxic contributors.

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Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@adrienne @peterhil @tsetiady @creatrixtiara @futurebird @dalias

i’m all for allowing people to specify the types of interactions that they consent to. it has been a theme regarding my work in this space for the past 5 years.

with that said, the discussion of consent in the context of that mastodon issue is really focused around applying stoppage to any serious work in this space. it is not a serious discussion so much as it is a discussion intended to be a time sink for those who want QTs, so they continue to jump through hoops until they eventually give up.

the people talking about that, they fully understand that Eugen has no real interest in implementing a framework that allows users to specify their own consent preferences.

i am therefore not in favor of blocking work on a feature that is (a) already implemented in the wild by many other fediverse implementations, and (b) a marginal improvement from a trust and safety perspective verses the status quo (screenshot dunking), simply because some people think it should block on an intentionally underspecified consent framework.

if people want to talk about building a consent framework for real, they know where to find me. we can even enforce the consent framework at protocol level with the correct constructions. i have written about this extensively, on my blog, and also in various technical documentation about the fediverse.

but unless Eugen will do it, the conversation is pointless if you’re unwilling to drop compatibility with implementations which don’t buy in.

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Bobby Brown

@ariadne @foone i mean 20, your parhelion card was among the last

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@ariadne @foone After a brief stint specializing in dual/quad-display cards when they were scarce, they have now for the last 25 years produced the best broadcast / commercial / developer video cards available; they did come out on top, ultimately, by shirking the gaming market

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Bobby Brown

it seems sensible to make a policy to defederate with known, clear, effective defederation opportunists, association-politics cancel-gangers like weirder .earth et. al. who defederate instances that refuse to implement the same moderation policies [especially toward specific instances, like the mendacious campaign undertaken against kolektiva .social]

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Bobby Brown

@foone Matrox produced a Voodoo Rush board? They came out with the Mystique the same year Voodoo Graphics released… what a bizarre move, maybe "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em"

Can we get a photo of the card? :)

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Bobby Brown

Tony was in such a unique position as an athlete, the soundtrack was his to assemble, and he decided to open his video game series in 1999 with an anarchist punk song throwing middle fingers at the cops. and he still calls it his favorite song [choice] youtu.be/EpLphN5OBnc

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These lectures -- explaining Zizek on Hegel —> Lacan -- continue to hit home even more powerfully than I could have anticipated youtu.be/86lxg4TQaGc

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Reddebrek

I've made an MP3 archive of the Audible Anarchist youtube.com/channel/UCaO1QA8QL

Google doc drive.google.com/open?id=1ZDKF

Mediafire mediafire.com/folder/dbz87ckd4

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Bobby Brown

I do not enjoy waking up to <55°F indoors, nope, not one bit

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Amelia

For anyone who is just now getting worried about facial recognition AI and its threat, please keep in mind that this tech was largely developed at first in order to interfere with refugees.

This is a much bigger pattern than just AI tech.

Listen to the most-oppressed. The warning signs have been there for longer than you may realize.

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Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!

Tbh getting real tired of hearing "QTs were only ever used for dunks" as someone who was part of a community that used them to tell our followers why they should be interested in tweets, ranging from supporting cool creative works to mutual aid

Were they also used for dunks? Absolutely. One would think better moderation on mastodon would take care of most of that by not putting bad dunkable takes in our faces 24/7

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Bobby Brown

@ariadne @jerry Thanks for the heads up, I'd be happy to help

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Bobby Brown

LB: I swear I was just thinking about and resisted posting just the other day about buyouts. Individuals are easy to buy. SMALL INSTANCES, friends. It's the only way.

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I'm so mad, I just realized I returned the wrong hoodie to Costco yesterday -- my favorite hoodie -- and Uniqlo hasn't made them again in years!

For fuck's sake!

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Rat Goddess of Vengeance

"If you back your memories up in a computer and download them to a new body, are you the same person?" bro you're not even the same person you were when you started reading this message

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Mitch Wagner

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store.
Apple will be required to open the iPhone to competing app stores, according to reliable reports, which is a huge deal and runs completely counter to Apple’s iPhone strategy sin... mitchw.micro.blog/2022/12/21/c

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Freelance Freedom

How to politely say "sorry, i'm not doing that for free"
#freelance #clientComms

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