Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
Effective Altruists should have spent their weirdness points on Effective Altruism, not on joining the current iteration of the Berkeley Sex Cult.
The more your patient sees himself as superior to his fellow man, the sooner he will arrive in our Father's house. Social Media is just a new venue for this classic trap.
Your affectionate uncle Screwtape
Consider consulting with our algorithm department, who can make sure that he misses valuable updates from his family and friends in exchange for more politically enraging content. While their fees are high, they can be very effective if used judiciously.
Under no circumstance should you allow him to make friends on social media, or to maintain his relationships there. That would only lead to a growth of "Love" and "Charity" in your patient's heart, which would please the Enemy to no end.
Consider a collaboration with Dripslime, who manages your patient's aunt. The woman will be easily led into re-sharing vapid political memes, which will help keep your client focused on his distain for his enemies.
Keep your patient's attention focused on the excesses of those on the other side of the political fence. A steady diet of outrage will keep him focused on hating his fellow man and instill a sense of pride in his "superior morals", all the better to bring him under our control.
My dear Wormwood,
Please don't waste my time with updates as to who owns Twitter now. Marginal changes to the ban policy will not matter to the case of your patient.
Our Father below has set our social media strategy, and you would do well to hew to it.
Corn Woman 🌽
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mastodon.art has blocked outerkosm.us for (officially, per their website):
Federates with the usual suspects
I don't know what this means, but I believe it's essentially a form of penalizing coercion tactic/justification used to leverage other instances into joining the sanctioning of whatever entities they believe deserve sanctioning. Expressed here: https://outerkosm.us/notes/9arsonzgmyWorse is that mastodon.art did not only block my instance---mastodon.art publicly slandered my instance as harboring child sexual exploitation material (CSEM), Naziism, hate speech. ---And, encouraged other instances to join them in #fediblock! Post found here: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109799802882253307
mastodon.art's claims are a complete fabrication. At the time of their decision to maliciously slander/fediblock outerkosm.us, the instance itself wasn't 36 hours old! Not only do I not tolerate any such content or behavior, but I know for a fact that no such material exists, nor has ever existed, on my instance.
I never once received any reports, complaints, or communications from mastodon.art administration, nor any other administrators or users of remote instances, regarding any controversial, objectionable, or offensive content from my instance or the users therein. In fact, at the time of writing this, I've not received any reports or complaints from anyone whatsoever about anything!
I replied to mastodon.art's post asking for clarification and expressed how upset I was that they would do something so arbitrarily cruel to a brand new, small instance such as my own: https://outerkosm.us/notes/9asjjhl7me
I messaged the administrator of mastodon.art and furthermore emailed their administrative account again asking for clarification and expressing my discontent. I never got a response.
Blocking an instance is fine, it's part of the administrative process of the fediverse; It's a fact of life. But, to publicly lie and cruelly slander an instance is another matter completely. ---Especially when doing so to abuse the Mastodon #fediblock weapon. For an instance like mastodon.art, with nearly 8,000 users, to do this... it's the fediverse equivalent of dropping a nuclear weapon on a tiny country. And, for no reason, at that! I do not understand why they would do this. My instance did nothing to them!
I can't interpret the actions of mastodon.art here as anything short of completely random cruelty: purely motivated by a desire for sabotage. A brand new instance joins the fediverse and a giant Mastodon instance immediately broadcasts fraudulent claims to over 8,000 people---to the entire fediverse---that this new instance is harboring or disseminating CSEM, Naziism, etc.. And specifically tells users "not to interact". Doesn't elaborate further. Doesn't respond to questions. Doesn't explain anything.
I just don't understand.
I'd be lying if I claimed I wasn't upset, or that this didn't bother me.
The guy next to me at the theater had too much Axe on or something. Just unpleasantly pungent.
Don't do this, please.
(Ladies, excessive perfume is just as bad. Don't do it.)
_Sword Art Online the Movie: Progressive - Scherzo of Deep Night_
The modern Cyberpunk* series continues its cinematic rebuild. This one is at least not a retread of an existing episode. The risk blowing the timeline though.
's alright.
* Yes. Think about it
People saying _Foundation_ is sexist is a tell that they're young enough to have included the (much later) extension novels and not just the original collections.
To what degree is Anarchism just a game that fans of punk rock like to play?
Corn Woman 🌽
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This is short notice (and brand new to us!) but we may be cut off as early as Feb 9th, as Twitter is switching to paid API access
We do have funds in OpenCollective, so will look at paid plans.
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RT @TwitterDev
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922
Corn Woman 🌽
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We’re running some numbers on the main instance.
8,198 registered accounts, of which ~6K have been active in the last 30 days.
387,281 tweets processed, and 50,582 toots, in the last 30 days.
People for whom cross posting really matters should be preparing to run your own instance & applying for paid Twitter API access.
We’ll work on an announcement to post at https://moaparty.com
That Infinite Seinfeld thing doesn't know anything about Seinfeld.
Whenever they accidentally roll out new terms or a draft leaks:
Someone wrote that on purpose. Even if they didn't decide to activate it today, they were working on it.
@rafal06 I expect this is pretty common actually.
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It's #WerewolfWednesday, and I have a story I really wanna share:
In 1691 an 80-something Livonian man named Old Thiess was called to court as a witness in a theft case. As he was sworn in, another witness laughed: "How can he swear a holy oath when everyone knows he is a werewolf?"
The judges immediately forgot about the thief and put Old Thiess on trial. He calmly admitted that yes, indeed he was a werewolf.
1/6
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_The Golden Khan of Ethengar_
Fantasy Mongolia. Unfortunately, the NPCs, adventures, and campaign outlined here require close integration with the highest corridors of power and there's not much else to do. This one falls pretty flat.
