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The #left is missing out on #AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-is-missing-out-on-ai-sanders-doctorow-bender-bores

2026-02-17 02:23:50 UTC

Another day, another rugged individualist on mastodon boasting of their own individual solutions to systemic issues.
You say “the price of food is rising” they answer “I plant my own produce”. ITS NOT ABOUT YOU, YOU DOLT!

2026-01-03 19:01:01 UTC

Hopefully other nations speed up digital communication sovereignty.
Brazil *runs* on whatsapp, that belongs to mark zuckerberg, a north-american oligarch.
Disengage, disengage.

2025-10-31 02:27:26 UTC

#Librarians and #ActivityPub
https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/27/how-you-librarians-and-those-working-in-publishing-law-and-government-should-use-activitypub-and-why/

2025-09-29 23:30:43 UTC

Technocrata alucinado (que acha que tá tudo ok)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPMSyqCjeQw/?igsh=MTNyb3Uwa2RmNXlndg==

2025-09-12 20:33:08 UTC

As ligações entre Brasil e Israel.
sim, exportação de petróleo, importação de inteligência, rifles, vans, e Itaú como *unico* banco latino americano auxiliando Israel. E PT.
E é isso.
https://pca.st/episode/2eb552ca-cdc6-41f3-9e2b-2935a3c8d07f

2025-07-31 12:54:18 UTC

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Moralists can’t hold the nuance we need to discuss our issues. In fact they abhor nuance, because they depend on maniqueism to feel morally justified.
Be them puritan (we must not touch cursed objects) or neoliberals worshipping efficiency, they cheapen the discourse and I don’t want them in my circles.
And I’ll always call them out. And they leave, huffing and puffing.

2025-07-31 12:46:32 UTC

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We’re not talking about AI. We’re talking about strangers moralizing complex issues.
We have one problem, yes, and now we have two.
A disservice.

2025-07-31 12:46:09 UTC

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Look, dude went all moralistic about people using technology (and not technology per se, or who pushes for it, individualizing systemic issues) and blocked me the minute I called him out.
There’s no discussion to be had, just moral posturing.
What’s next? “I refuse to date people with microplastics in their bodies”? As if we have any say in it.
It’s just posturing, literally silencing the discourse.

2025-07-30 20:19:48 UTC

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Feel free. they’re exhausting.
It’s same pattern, they spout nonsense because unchecked, posts reach out of their bubble, are fact-checked by strangers and huff and puff demanding submission.
Then followers go *ad hominem attacks* for a couple of days, calling you dumb and stupid for not knowing who the person is. Guess what, we don’t. And we won’t.
It’s everywhere on mastodon.

2025-07-30 19:08:05 UTC

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Mastodon is chockful of micro-celebrities huffing and puffing beyond their reach.

2025-07-30 19:07:00 UTC

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Oh yeah. Thanks for pointing it out.
Dude goes all puritan (don’t talk to me if you use this devious contraption), I call him out gently, and he blocks me.
It’s all posturing, all the time. Another neoliberal turning systemic issues (that need to be discussed) into individual shame (silencing the discourse).
Not on my feed, no-no. Glad you said it too.

2025-07-30 03:30:09 UTC

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You know open source, selfhosted LLMs exist, right?
And by claiming they don’t exist (or matter) you’re mistaking oligarchs with the tools they use, right?
Yours is a puritan take that only makes you feel good, moral. It’s posturing.
https://cdn.masto.host/socialpraxisnyc/media_attachments/files/114/940/063/782/522/576/original/06bbd5908ac7d276.mp4

2025-06-05 17:33:13 UTC

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That’s mine too. And libertarians overall. Reclaiming my time.

2025-06-04 20:39:31 UTC

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Yeah. She got fooled by a bot so she knows how fucked we are if this grows without regulation.

2025-04-11 19:56:32 UTC

But Trump isn't an "honest politician" (in the Heinlein sense of "he stays bought").
Cory Doctorrow on antitrust delay wars, peeps.
I say “you don’t buy influence with trump, you *rent* it”.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/11/it-is-better-to-buy/
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2025-02-21 07:11:48 UTC

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Wait how do groups work? I assume a moderator, right, but can anyone post on it? Or just if they join?
Can I post same picture in 2 groups?

2025-02-14 18:36:43 UTC

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So after all the “you dont need that trust me” they do it? Sheeeez.
It’s like Steve Jobs saying no to apps, or pencils. Then doing it.

2025-02-12 21:08:08 UTC

i-D magazine started as a zine!
http://www.paperposts.me/posts/2016/4/24/vintage-i-d-magazines-1981-1983-1984-1985

2025-02-07 21:37:11 UTC

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Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud.
Everyone. Pretty much making apple their spy bitch.
Technocrats are gobble-gobble.

2025-02-07 21:34:19 UTC

Meanwhile…
British officials have ordered Apple to create a backdoor that would allow them to access encrypted content from any Apple user worldwide.
Not just British citizens. Everyone.
International pushback in 3… 2…
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/uk-orders-apple-to-break-encryption-worldwide-while-world-is-distracted/

2025-01-15 13:29:15 UTC

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It’s cute!
TikTok is sleazy, rednote is not.

2025-01-09 23:12:27 UTC

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Wait he’s harassing to to become a customer???
What a shit show.
I had terrible experiences with dedicated servers. I guess many of them treat it as passive income and just sleep on the wheel.

2025-01-06 14:02:32 UTC

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Hmmmm. I myself have an instance and I’m afraid to make changes ha.
Hopefully the changes happen retroactively. One day I’ll fix it.

2025-01-06 06:31:47 UTC

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Oh I’ll try.

2025-01-06 06:16:49 UTC

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I am a UX designer and I can spend DAAAYS criticizing mastodon approach…
An identifier that is read @username@domain that is NOT an email? A follow that you need to jump hoops? A search that can’t search even your own posts? Yeah.
But it’s still no ads, no algo, no nazis. And that counts for something.

2025-01-06 06:13:59 UTC

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I mean. Mastodon onboarding sucks, but it’s a one in a lifetime event.

2025-01-06 06:13:27 UTC

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Pass them on to me? I can guide them. I wouldn’t mind, if we plan.
https://zcal.co/nonlinear/commons

2025-01-06 05:43:47 UTC

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If handhold them till entire process is complete. Once they’re in, they’re in.
Ask them to help others in return.
Mastodon onboarding is shitty but hey, you only do it once.

2025-01-02 21:45:50 UTC

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who gave us AirPods? Because they’re a major success. AirPods alone beat many tech companies.
But I guess you’re saying social innovations not business ones.

2024-12-10 04:41:46 UTC

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Ooooh keep us posted on your project. Do you have any manual of article on that?
When you bridge which one will be ttd main place to post? I assume mastodon because you control your instance correct? Or is it irrelevant?

2024-11-29 07:17:08 UTC

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Wait can you guys *block-quote*?
https://cdn.masto.host/socialpraxisnyc/media_attachments/files/113/565/015/945/757/515/original/af728d8f1c05f04f.png

2024-11-10 18:10:58 UTC

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day
https://cdn.masto.host/socialpraxisnyc/media_attachments/files/113/460/156/408/713/841/original/c84d126f82c3114f.webp

2024-10-24 07:09:10 UTC

Blackstone is now the largest corporate landlord on Earth with over 300,000 homes in the U.S.
Billionaires and corporations have bought millions of homes and either raised rents or left them as empty investments.
There are 16 million vacant houses—28 for every homeless person.
https://cdn.masto.host/socialpraxisnyc/media_attachments/files/113/361/141/581/111/825/original/efac711cd41d2aa8.jpeg

2024-09-18 22:58:38 UTC

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Finally, selfish reasons to boycott Israel.
You do it for your own security, not just Palestinians, Lebaneses, or anyone else Israel is currently targeting.

2024-09-04 17:53:14 UTC

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More on bamboo issue
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_eSV8by_1P/?igsh=MTd6M2xrZDZjeTl3Ng==
It’s crazy that citizen journalism thru reels is is on a way better state than corporate one.
And it’s sad it’s mediated by either US of Chinese algorithms. We can’t have nice things.

2024-09-04 02:41:54 UTC

Most bamboo fabric is just rayon
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-75dc1ML7a/?igsh=cWRkOHl4aHpsenpo

2024-08-11 19:43:49 UTC

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Yeah. We’re just experiencing early settler colonialism real time.
Ask the levels of disinformation to any colonised indigenous group.
Heck, US has a holiday they celebrate friendship with the group they decimated.
Once early stage is done they’ll flip as righteous and move on with their colonization project.
Sorry, you asked. Ask any indigenous group. Colonizers lie as they breathe. They break all treaties.

2024-08-11 02:37:32 UTC

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You’re thinking like an engineer.
If by unenforceable you mean to everyone all the time flawlessly? Then Yeah.
Some things are features, they are binaries, on off, and some things are policies, we never reach them and we constantly steer towards it because it’s the values we uphold.
Also, conflict is not abuse. If anything, we endure the conflict because there’s trust between us. Trust we foster for long time in our communities. And will be lost with growth.

2024-08-11 02:22:46 UTC

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It’s hard to consider your analogies when you dismissed the very litmus test of “how do I defend myself from abusers in this community” as unimportant. When it’s the very decision people make to decide if they want to engage or not with the platform.
Why on earth id be in a platform to be ridiculed, dehumanized, and have my rights questioned by strangers? Why on earth would I stay? Or invite my peers?

2024-08-11 02:20:14 UTC

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If anything fediblocks could be the algorithm substitute we need. You create a body that deliberates who should or shouldn’t be on block list, negotiate with instances the conditions to be or not on this list, and instances engage or disengage with said algorithm if too lax/strict.
if you’re a bad node, people should be able to flag you as such, to others. And collectively defend themselves.
Did I say algorithm? I meant attention filters. Non corporate attention filters.

2024-08-11 02:13:12 UTC

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Meta has networks of scale and the (very proprietary very corporate) algorithm stimulates filter bubbles that protects groups from group-haters.
It’s the algorithm. The very algorithm we dont want.
Growth is not a solution for that. Frankly without an algorithm substitute (a computational way to separate people in groups, instead of us consciously having to choose and curate) growth will make it exponentially worse!

2024-08-11 01:44:25 UTC

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This fixation of scaling communities is myth of progress. No one enjoys a party and thinks “it would be double the fun if we had double of people”.
Curating a space is an art, trust is hard to grow and easy to squander.

2024-08-11 01:41:31 UTC

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I won’t engage or subject my queer community to low life types questioning our humanity and ridiculing us. And meta is chockfull of these types.
Safer spaces, isolated and protected, are not to be treated as less than, as refusal to participate.
Your lofty idea of what a community *should* be may as well alienate *actual* communities that are simply telling you: we won’t engage with abusers, and if you remove the tools we use to defend ourselves, we’ll leave.

2024-08-11 01:38:52 UTC

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if you think of your position, deep down you believe we’re creating one platform to rule them all and that’s not the case and will never be.
People talk with different people in different circles under different conditions of attendance in different platforms, already. Small circles with enough overlap is what at least I’m aiming for: deep connections but no filter bubble.

2024-08-11 01:35:29 UTC

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Nobody said the world is built this way. But abuse is where you draw the line on when you should disengage, so it should be front and center in discussions of community connection. It’s our litmus test.
I have way less patience than you give me credit for. I have the privilege to engage/disengage because I understand the tools.
Communities are not meant to scale. In fact, the larger the community, the less deep are the connections. There’s a Goldilocks we should aim for.

2024-08-11 00:47:36 UTC

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Unless mastodon blocks (or force-opens) via code, instances can decide on their own.
Decentralization also means decentralization of decisions.
This “electronic village” “all in the same room” reeks of “marketplace of ideas” and coerces abused to share room with abusers for the sake of… what?
Let people disengage. So what. I wouldn’t invite you all to my house and I shouldn’t expect to be invited to all parties, and that’s ok.

2024-08-11 00:47:36 UTC

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2024-08-11 00:37:43 UTC

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I don’t see why we need to decide to engage or not, collectively.
Certain instances will, certain instances won’t.
Did you guys forget how people meet in the analog world? There’s no master plan… people engage of not as they wish with who they wish.
Only the shittiest groups demand you to be in the company of others, thru coercion.

2024-08-11 00:37:43 UTC

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I don’t see why we need to decide to engage or not, collectively.
Certain instances will, certain instances won’t.
Did you guys forget how people meet in the analog world? There’s no master plan… people engage or not as they wish with who they wish.
Only the shittiest groups demand you to be in the company of others, thru coercion.

2024-08-03 00:48:40 UTC

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts.
But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people—and this is true whether or not they are well-educated—is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations—in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.
https://cdn.masto.host/socialpraxisnyc/media_attachments/files/112/895/335/575/956/504/original/d8db6859c6fd75e0.png