I do like that, in the "rpg" community on #lemmy , there is an explicit rule:
"No Zak S content."
@juergen_hubert What *is* Zak S content?
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@unboxing_tomorrow I try to keep them all one direction or rotated one direction. Like library books.
@poleguy @unboxing_tomorrow like engineering drawings - all text is either upright or rotated 90° CCW
@funbaker that’s your prerogative but I do care: it’s a piece of targeted disinformation and I care about who is making it and why and I particularly care about how it ended up in my timeline
Didn't work *for you*. Twitter worked great for the Black people that finally had an outlet for highlighting racism.
And advertiser model or no editorial board, are not what made Twitter vulnerable to a fascist takeover. What made Twitter vulnerable to a fascist takeover was the fact that one of the world's fashiest dudes was rich enough to buy Twitter on a whim. Billionaires can and have bought newspapers on a whim too.
I agree that Mastodon isn't as vulnerable to billionaire drunk purchases, as there are too many little pieces to buy. It's like squeezing jello. But again, by percentage, there are more fascists on the Fediverse than on Twitter, and it's not particularly close. And the abuse Black people experience on the Fediverse is worse than on Twitter and in other places. The Fediverse isn't magic.
I said nothing about whether it worked for *me*, or for Black people. It didn't *work*. They couldn't make it profitable enough to be protected from a fascist takeover.
I also said nothing about the moderation models of fedi. This place has a LOT of designed-in issues, which I've no been shy to talk about.
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The universe accidentally gives you dev tools access.
Which slider are you stabbing your grubby little fingers at first, just to see?
Gravity? Speed of light? Boltzmann’s constant? SNF? Entropy? Hell, maybe even the dimensionality of spacetime?
@UlrikeHahn it's bullshit and I dont care who or why.
@funbaker that’s your prerogative but I do care: it’s a piece of targeted disinformation and I care about who is making it and why and I particularly care about how it ended up in my timeline
I love that movie, Sneakers.
@DeliaChristina it's an excellently crafted movie
The English language needs a word for the rage I feel when the company that makes the pants I like discontinues them.
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RT: @StarmertheFraud Lewisham is another almost unbelievable result.
Labour has held EVERY councillor seat since 2018: 54 out of 54. In 2014, they held 53 out of 54, with a sole Green.
Today the Greens took control, winning 40 councillors.
Labour has held Lewisham for 55 YEARS.
No more.
I disagree on "scale equals centralization." The exact opposite is true in many cases.
It's easier to get scale by decentralizing than by centralizing. Map Reduce for the win. A data center is a decentralized supercomputer. Chinese restaurants are a decentralized mega franchise. There is no central governing franchise over Chinese food restaurants. They're almost all independent. And yet I can go into any one and order orange chicken and lo mein and have a pretty good idea of what I'm about to get. Norms over "guidance from corporate." The decentralized Chinese fast food chains are 7% of the US fast food market. That's bigger than Taco Bell, Wendy's, Chick-fil-A, Burger King, Dominoes, Etc.
Most of the centralized Twitter alternatives have failed already.
I did say technology plus capital. That's economies of scale, in everything from factories, to conglomerates, to political control. While a Chinese restaurant isn't technology dependent, even food is centralized everywhere where technology and access to capital matters - and you might be surprised how many "independent" restaurants are actual franchises.
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![Mre. Dartigen [renovator mode]](https://mediacdn.aus.social/accounts/avatars/108/195/770/473/016/150/original/d5b937db377b2251.gif "Mre. Dartigen [renovator mode]")
My prediction was correct. Those coveralls are also starting to smell really nasty.
Thankfully, I should only need them for another day or two, assuming the wall dries nicely overnight.
I am finally almost done with sanding and touch ups! It's not perfect - there are several spots I had to go over where I didn't control the sander very well and gouged the wall a little, and a *lot* of pinholes and bubbles on that lower quarter, but it's almost done.
Next comes brushing it down to get all the loose plaster dust off, then going over it with almost every cleaning cloth I have (lightly dampened with a spray bottle) to make sure that I did get all of the loose dust. (Primer can stick to dust, but dust won't stick to the wall.)
I'm debating if I also go over the other surfaces that need sanding like the skirting and door frame (and the many patches on the other walls) now, or clean up the mounds of loose plaster dust first. The other sanding won't generate anywhere near as much dust, nor the kind that likes to clump together the way plaster dust does.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@geoworldpolitical/116547144621089171
strange account with even stranger post: the ‘article’ linked ‘reports’ a huge rise in AI systems refusing or circumventing human instructions in safety relevant ways….
but the linked references don’t exist ….
a UK gov webpage, a Bloomberg article, an FT article, an Anthropic report …. 403 errors
what is this? who is this? and why?
@UlrikeHahn it's bullshit and I dont care who or why.
@mekkaokereke I guess the question for me is: do people become VCs because they’re genocidal maniacs, or do they become genocidal maniacs because they’re VCs? I tend to think it’s the latter: it seems like all that money somehow creates sociopathy. If that’s the case, I would say that there’s something evil about VC itself - it somehow structurally creates sociopaths. (I have no evidence here, this is just a thing I feel and might be very wrong.)
No. Absolutely not. Money doesn't turn people like this. That's cope.
You can literally read what most of these anti-democracy, anti-DEI, pro-acceleration VCs had to say before they became VCs. They haven't changed.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/110019017853932523
Name a person who think "turned weird recently," and people can show you them having the same trash opinions 20 years ago, and no one listening to Black people about it.
If I give you a billion dollars right now, you wouldn't turn into Peter Thiel. You'd more likely turn into Mackenzie Scott.
Everyone watched the TV show Breaking Bad, but missed the central premise and the title of the show. A person doesn't just Break Bad. They were always like this.
RT: @StarmertheFraud Lewisham is another almost unbelievable result.
Labour has held EVERY councillor seat since 2018: 54 out of 54. In 2014, they held 53 out of 54, with a sole Green.
Today the Greens took control, winning 40 councillors.
Labour has held Lewisham for 55 YEARS.
No more.
