@jaz There was the recent blow up (https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148) where a Mastodon board member was saying how terrible it was that Dare Obasanjo of all people wasn't getting the engagement on Mastodon he was getting on other platforms, and many people in the replies pointing that Dare posts the kind of low-effort engagement bait that is rewarded on other platforms but Fediverse users tend to shun.

@rygorous @Doomed_Daniel thanks, super informative! 👍 (and I dig the fact that it's called a "chicken bit" 🐔)

@idzie

I love the angry tennisball 🤗

Report: The judge in the Filton 6 trial "secretly ruled that, despite not being charged with terrorism, there was a terrorist connection with the six, due to the activists attempting to influence the Israeli government."

The so-called “terror connection" is highly likely to lead to punitive jail terms at sentencing on 12 June.

It was illegal for the British press to report the fact.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/palestine-action-prisoners-may-be-sentenced-terrorists

#USPol #EUPol #Filton6 #UKPol #UKRepression #News #palestine #palestineAction .

@jaz Right, but I'm still not sure that holds. The blog post you reference draws from a Stanford study. That study only investigated Reddit and Facebook, both of which reward toxic/engagement-bait behaviour by surfacing it in other people's feeds.

The closest we probably have on Mastodon is people posting what I'll term "boost-bait", but my anecdotal experience is that that's just as likely to be viewed as annoying and less rewarded.

a funny thing: lots of people seem to think evil leftwing professors indoctrinate students to oppose their tuition dollars supporting the military-industrial part of the military-industrial-academic complex

we actually... don't? they figure it out on their own and get super righteously mad, on their own

(I do pass down, via my own advisor's training of me, the correct nomenclature, which is MIAC, not just MIC. such brainwashing!) (he was an electrical engineer who didn't want to build weapons)

In case you had any doubts about how far this administration is willing to go to interfere with state elections...From Reuters:

"WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s election-security czar last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states by asking whether the Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter."

"White House adviser Kurt Olsen, a lawyer Trump has tasked with proving widely debunked election-rigging conspiracy theories, pushed the plan to target Dominion Voting Systems machines. The idea emerged, the sources said, as Olsen and other officials brainstormed about how the federal government could take control over elections from U.S. states, an idea publicly aired by Trump."

"Olsen wanted a national system of hand-counted paper ballots, the sources said, a frequent Trump demand some election-security experts say would be less accurate and potentially riskier than the current system of machines with auditable paper trails that almost all cities and states use."

"The plan to exclude the machines, reported here first, got far enough that in September, Commerce Department officials began exploring what grounds could be invoked to execute it, three additional sources said. It eventually collapsed, however, because Olsen and other administration staffers working with him failed to provide evidence to justify such a move, two of the sources said."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/exclusive-trump-officials-tried-to-ban-half-of-us-voting-machines-citing-conspiracy-theories/ar-AA23Oxyg

Lagging behind 9 years (and it feels too much), but my #fridayreads is @pluralistic 's #Walkaway, a book I bought as soon as it was out and now I wish I hadn't postponed its reading for so long...

#bookstodon

@idzie Nice photo! I saw a few last week at Magee Marsh near Toledo - so cute! (I also saw a black-throated blue, a female. the males are just stunning so I was a little sad not to spot one of them too)

Imagine being sentenced as a “terrorist” by a judge who:

- Bans you from explaining to the jury why you took action

- Bans you from mentioning genocide, weapons, Elbit systems, murdered children

- Bans you from mentioning to jurors that they can acquit you as a matter of conscience

- Issues a retrial after a jury found you not guilty on the most serious charges

- Attempts to prosecute your barrister for telling jurors their legal rights

- Lies directly to the jury about their right to find you not guilty (jury equity)
- Calls for the arrest of multiple people outside your trial for holding paper signs

- Bans the press from reporting on the facts of the trial and sentencing

- Doesn’t take any action against ministers and politicians that prejudice your trial

- Doesn’t oppose media outlets who broadcast selective outrage during your trial

- Hides from the jury the fact that you will be sentenced as a terrorist if found guilty

- Sentences you as a terrorist without being charged with, or found guilty of, terrorism

- Receives a promotion immediately after the trial concludes.

Imagine that because that is precisely what Judge Justice Johnston did to the #Filton6

#PalestineAction

If this makes you mad, you may wish to attend their sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court Jun 12th

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

@floe @Doomed_Daniel If you look at the wording in errata docs, it never actually says "this is a bug in the uCode that can be patched", the wording is always something along the lines of "this issue is possible to work around with a BIOS/uCode update".

That doesn't necessarily mean they change the uCode to fix the actual instruction flow (although sometimes they do), often it just means that they flip a chicken bit.

@catsalad The thing about goblin tech is that, since most of them would be considered ADHD by human standards, they usually have extra buttons somewhere--buttons that can be pressed with no effect, and no consequence, other than the satisfying "click" noise. There are also clicky wheels and dials. They call these additional fidgety controls "candy". Woe to the PM that tries to get them to remove *any* tactile interface devices, even the ones that actually do stuff.

@xpub in a nutshell

@neauoire https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/116619214471751906

No.

#Internet

@Steve @everton137 @allaboutberlin I feel like in combination with repurposed phones and PCs for servers it’s like building an alternative infrastructure to the search dependent ones