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me: the constitution says I have the right to assemble
Ikea clerk: you have to buy it first
@timbray @MattHodges @jpanzer @ben
That thread will teach the next guy not to ask for feedback.
On the holy mountain hear in witness
and our vow remember, Manwë and Varda!"
whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh,
finding keepeth or afar casteth
a Silmaril. This swear we all:
death we will deal him ere Day's ending,
woe unto world's end! Our word hear thou,
Eru Allfather! To the everlasting
Darkness doom us if our deed faileth.
"Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean,
brood of Morgoth or bright Vala,
Elda or Maia or Aftercomer,
Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth,
neither law, nor love, nor league of swords,
dread nor danger, not Doom itself,
shall defend him from Fëanor, and Fëanor's kin,
Comiket is on and my feed is full of artists shilling their art books and doujins (in Japanese, which I can't really read.)
It's a notable improvement over the usual, TBH.
I think the fundamental problem with Twitter moderation is that it acts against what's popular (RTs, trending, etc) when the tastemakers don't like it.
<How dare the common folk enjoy something gauche?>
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Useful test: don't join a Mastodon instance that doesn't let you follow https://raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_Pi - defederated by many instances because they hired a policeman who had used a Pi to do police work in the past, and were then unapologetic about it.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/12/raspberry-pi-shows-how-not-to-mastodon/
@dpiepgrass moa.party is the answer.
(Uh, that's the site. .party is apparently a proper TLD.)
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Tonight I decided to add candy eyes to our chocolate-dipped strawberries, only to learn that when it comes to desserts there is a very, very fine line between “whimsical” and “cursed”
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Welcome to Mastodon! It's a laid back place. But here's a few simple rules you must follow:
1. Make an account on every fediverse server and create a unique introduction post for each one.
2. Put a content warning on any post that is tangentially related to the Irish Potato Famine.
3. Always use the hashtag #icomeinpeace. Otherwise, we will assume you are hostile.
4. When browsing Mastodon, remove your socks. It is customary.
5. Tell five of your friends to join. Yes, it's a pyramid scheme.
@Hyolobrika F-grade celebrities beefing and getting arrested.
People who are excited about this are more likely to be putting stuff in my feed that's not worth it.
The latest drama is really good at highlighting who to unfollow.
Yuuko gets over a cold... just in time for finals. Maybe she can catch it again? (No.)
Hakase plays with glue.
Yuuko is not ready for her finals.
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#Freenet build 1495 released with faster new user entrance, enhanced user experience, and better performance:
https://freenetproject.org/freenet-build-1495-new-user-experience-and-performance.html
#privacy vs. #censorship
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this one actually has some interesting data in it
> The European Information Society Institute concluded that IP blocking led to “collateral website blocking on a massive scale” and noted that as of June 28, 2017, “6,522,629 Internet resources had been blocked in Russia, of which 6,335,850 – or 97% – had been blocked collaterally, that is to say, without legal justification.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20221216183427/https://blog.cloudflare.com/consequences-of-ip-blocking/
but it's worth remembering: cloudflare / the #greatcloudwall is one of the leading providers of DNS on the internet, and if they are saying all this what they might be implicitly meaning is 'we can do whatever censorship you want at the DNS level, without you impacting 90:1 or more people who you don't want to impact, and are willing to do this if you just leave our other customers alone'
> The European Information Society Institute concluded that IP blocking led to “collateral website blocking on a massive scale” and noted that as of June 28, 2017, “6,522,629 Internet resources had been blocked in Russia, of which 6,335,850 – or 97% – had been blocked collaterally, that is to say, without legal justification.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20221216183427/https://blog.cloudflare.com/consequences-of-ip-blocking/
but it's worth remembering: cloudflare / the #greatcloudwall is one of the leading providers of DNS on the internet, and if they are saying all this what they might be implicitly meaning is 'we can do whatever censorship you want at the DNS level, without you impacting 90:1 or more people who you don't want to impact, and are willing to do this if you just leave our other customers alone'
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Over many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.
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Co-founder of “Food Not Bombs” Global, Arrested today
"Keith McHenry, the co-founder of the global movement “Food Not Bombs” was arrested and jailed by the Santa Cruz Police Department today for the crime of serving food to the unhoused community members. Approximately 10 officers of the Santa Cruz Police Department arrested Keith at approximately 10:00 am today, December 27, 2022, in River Street Parking Garage #10, 24 River Street, as he was setting up tables to serve a meal out of the intense rain.
This egregious treatment of this community hero comes just two days after Food Not Bombs served a free Christmas feast to over 500 unhoused persons in downtown Santa Cruz. Keith is being held at Santa Cruz County Jail facing two misdemeanor charges of blocking a parking space and loitering in a parking garage. The police also confiscated some equipment belonging to Food Not Bombs including tables, cups for coffee and sugar."
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/12/27/18853618.php
#FoodNotBombs #Repression #antireport #mutualaid #FreeThemAll
@panchromaticity I only read fan fiction famous enough to have its own Wikipedia page.
