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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
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Startups named for increasingly obscure Tolkien words until I've got to fire up an app called GROND to pay for parking and remember how to spell Cuiviénen to submit an expense report
Yuuko is late for school.
Hakase tries wearing a ponytail. It makes her look more mature. (Actual maturity not included.)
Yuuko contemplates her future. (Mostly to avoid doing her homework.)
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You know the entertainment makers are on vacation, because everything is reruns.
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It's easy to justify that _your_ work is a tiny net positive, or not a big deal in the grand scheme of things anyway, when you build corporate garbage software for a living.
Cold War 2: This time it's lame.
Like: Thank you for making this post.
RT: My followers should suffer, as I have.
QT: This reminds me of something that is tangentially related.
This is a structural claim.
The payments from the newer entrants are paid to the people who have been members longer.
Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.
Paleolithic hunter-gatherers arguing about the Agricultural Alignment problem.
When I ask "why do you believe that," I'm not asking <what is an article you can find with a quick Google that expresses an argument you think would be convincing?>
That article is almost certainly not why you believe that. The argument it contains is probably not either.
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FACTS ABOUT MASTODON
If you are curious about leaving the cooked turkey site and going to the elephant site, here are some important tips:
1. It sucks. But then, so does every site.
2. You can still shitpost. Take great glee.
3. Picking your server instance is super important.
Ideally you should start at a large instance, and leave because it's full of white suburban NIMBY reactionaries who joined in November because they were promised 0 uncomfortable experiences in their lives and lash out whenever this turns out not to be the case.
Then you move to a smaller server where suddenly you can't talk to your friends because the admin of your instance is feuding with the admin of their instance. Then you wait a month before you can move again.
In this regard, the feudal structure of Mastodon instances is very like early 2000s message boards, whenever the admin got drunk and deleted the site.
4. You can work around the feudalism by running Mastodon yourself. It's the size of a mastodon and costs a fortune.
You can run Pleroma, which is smaller, and is also favoured by Nazis by unfortunate historical accident. Pleroma is perfectly good software that fulfils a need for something smaller than Mastodon, but also the devs are definitely not Nazis but are the other ten guys at the table.
There was a hilarious moment where the guy behind Spinster was so obnoxious he got kicked out of Pleroma and started his own fork called Soapbox/Rebased. He is now known as Soapbox Terf.
The nice people went to Pleroma fork Akkoma, which Soapbox Terf calls the "tr***y server", a review I understand they were delighted by. Try that.
There's also Misskey, which is a bit weird and Japanese, and supports cat ears right there in the protocol.
5. Any bozo who complains about your posts with assertions about the Fediverse that assume it all runs on the rules of mastodon.social is one of the suburban NIMBYs and invariably joined in November. Block and don't look back.
6. If anyone annoys you about your posting, you can improve their feed for them by blocking them from ever seeing your posts. The blocking tools are marvellous.
7. There are NO QUOTE TWEETS on Mastodon and anyone who wants QUOTE TWEETS is an invader, pollutant and corrupting influence despoiling the suburban vistas of Mastodon who only wants quote tweets so they can wreak EVIL.
So quote-tweeting is well supported in Akkoma and Misskey (and forks thereof), is in the Treehouse fork of Mastodon, and will be coming to more Fediverse software soon.
8. In Mastodon, Eugen Rochko has achieved the creation of something greater than himself. And he will *never forgive it*.
9. The Fediverse interprets Website Boy as damage and routes around him.
10. Mastodon is yet another demonstration that worse is better. So come onto Mastodon, and *be* that worse.
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EDIT: this post is attracting some very dumb reply guys. Consider *not* posting debate club fatuity.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
If you don't, just have a nice day.
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Sometimes, I take comfort in the fact that there is a group of individuals who study Bigfoot and chupacabra, who are VERY upset about everyone else's use of "crypto".
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The best way to get into mastodon is just start posting stuff nonstop without thinking about it.
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Studio Apartment Available:
- Pet-friendly
- Located next to bridge
- No strings attached
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Actually cannot believe this. After 13 years, Sony/BMG have decided to take down Rick Astley's "Never gunna give you up" due to a dispute with Youtube over ad royalties.
It's completely blocked globally. Actual end of an era.
