This is not capitalism anymore. The goal is not accumulation of wealth. The goal is world domination.
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I’ve been asked on TV hits and interviews lately to explain why decentralized social media is better, especially re: Mastodon.
How would you explain the benefits of a platform like Mastodon and the fediverse to someone in just a few sentences? How would you make the argument that platforms like Mastodon allow for more free expression than big tech controlled apps?
Would love to hear people’s thoughts! Trying to make my arguments most effective
@taylorlorenz No ads. My IG had become an insidious place just trying to sell me things and shuffle me through content. It wasn’t “social media” any more. Since coming here my screen time is down, my notifications are down, and my pick ups are down and yet I feel more connected to news, people, and myself. Funny how that works.
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JD Vance getting loudly booed while the US athletes get cheered is the Olympics I'm here for.
“It's part of this whole rush to just throw everything into the data-driven machine-learning nexus, and then hoping something more good will come out of it, your private information be damned,” EFF’s @legind told CNET. https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/starlink-updates-privacy-policy-for-ai-training/
Now, there's another option: I can drop Pingora, and use something else.
axum-reverse-proxy sounds great on paper, is based on Axum, which I'm using already, but... the AI taint is strong in that one.
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@hipsterelectron hell im not even talking only about the 2007 tracks im talking about the absolute bangers that are osrs originals like listen to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCtJ0b24Di4
osrs music my beloved
@operand yesteryear
telling myself that i am not a terrible person for not working more on this while not getting paid and that this kind of grant is exactly the recognition of how difficult it is to produce important basic infrastructure without paying people https://digipres.club/@mickylindlar/116025884705945438
osrs music my beloved
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Glacier National Park right now (Lake McDonald). For more information https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm and #glacier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #montana Image credit National Park Service and the Glacier National Park Conservancy #mtwx #winter #lakemcdonald #clouds #trees #mountains #lake #colors #snow #reflection #wow
@impermanen_ I wrote over 1K characters and then a glitch deleted it, poof! I got frustrated. I’ll try again.
@Moss oh no! Hang in there. Because if there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s that the world needs more laundromat stories.
@pallenberg @info passen Kalender und Kontakte nicht zu Mail? Meistens wird doch immer eine Suite angeboten?
HEADLINE: “Bombshell Poll Reveals Trump’s Staggering Disapproval Rating”
ALT HEADLINE: “Bombshell Poll Reveals Trump’s Staggering Approval Rating — Like, How in the Fuck Does 39% Approve of the World-Historic Disaster This Circus Clown Is Creating?”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bombshell-poll-reveals-trumps-staggering-disapproval-rating/
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I recently saw someone leave fedi at least temporarily as a result of harassment, and one thing they highlighted was that most of us don't see the harassment they were getting because of how federation works and the fact that our instances block all the vile ones most of the harassment was coming from.
They were running their own single-user instance. 🙁
We really need better resources for single user instances to benefit from third-party moderation resources, but we also need to get the narrative out that running a single user instance is a horrible idea unless you want to be your own fulltime moderator or drowned in engagement from the worst parts of the net. Treating it as a viable option now really sours folks to the whole concept.
Iran's top diplomat said on Friday that nuclear talks with the U.S. mediated by Oman were off to a "good start” and set to continue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/07/world/politics/iran-us-oman-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #iran #irannuclearprogram #nuclearweapons #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #oman
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Du empfiehlst im #MeTacheles Podcast, bei Mediamarkt/Saturn einzukaufen.
Die Gruppe gehört zum chinesischen JD.com. Ist also auch nicht so ganz im Sinne des #diday.
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Oompf. Well. That crate has some shortcomings, it looks like.
AcmeConfig::new() requires a list of domains up front, which I do not have. I mean, I do, but they can change over time.
It also wants to hang on to the TCP receiver, which Pingora, as far as I see, doesn't allow.
Now, there's another option: I can drop Pingora, and use something else.
There are lots of satellites here in the southern skies too. But the stars behind the satellites are absolutely incredible! The Milky Way was absurdly bright! The Magellenic Clouds were so easy to see! WOOOOWWWWW
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Lovely ❤
You know what makes me happy? Publishing a piece by Andrew Egan—who I haven’t had on the site in three freaking years! He’s got a great story about the plaques that show up around NYC—and the townhouse that doesn’t have one, but probably should.
https://tedium.co/2026/02/06/new-york-plaques-historic-moments/
New @tedium