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]
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] https://youtu.be/EpLphN5OBnc
These lectures -- explaining Zizek on Hegel —> Lacan -- continue to hit home even more powerfully than I could have anticipated https://youtu.be/86lxg4TQaGc
I've made an MP3 archive of the Audible Anarchist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaO1QA8QL99_eb0XhJI2Fyw
Google doc https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZDKFblOCI-JjH70ECOBlpMM6LndCUIHP
Mediafire http://www.mediafire.com/folder/dbz87ckd42ib2/Audible_Anarchist_Archive
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.
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
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... https://mitchw.micro.blog/2022/12/21/cory-doctorow-pluralisticmamotfr.html
User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer
Sigh. Defederation is a really big hammer, folks, and you don't always have to go for the biggest hammer in the toolbox. If an instance of 1K+ users has some guy on it who's a shithead, ~cutting off the communication of the other 999+ is overreacting~. You can suspend the user from your instance! You can establish a backchannel with the mods and explain why they need to boot the guy! You know, actually fucking MODERATE the instance you're a MODERATOR of?
https://emojos.in shows all the custmoji each mastodon server hosts. This is a safari that i never want to end. I'll periodically post collections as I come across them
h/t @charakterziffer
Scrappy queer