RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117593068171654579

Oh how I wish for sodium lamps to make a comeback 😔

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@heidilifeldman Fighting fascists is a never ending battle.

This dress came out of the ground as a pile of beads. The linen holding it together had rotted, leaving roughly seven thousand loose faience beads scattered on and around a woman buried at Giza in the reign of Khufu.
It exists today because one archaeologist on the 1927 dig drew exactly where every bead was lying before anyone touched them.
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It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

Most of us have become desensitized to the risks of global warming and ecological collapse. Even those of us who are aware of the problems rarely think about their full scope, but the reality is civilizational-scale threats within this century. It’s virtually impossible to overreact to the urgency.

@RnDanger

And if you’re doing technology, you are •always• doing it with people, whether you realize it or not

@inthehands
Technology is the application of science to obtain a result
Politics are attempts to achieve a result that involve or affect more than one person

If you're doing technology with people, you are doing politics

@carnage4life
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/09Nan-uARF4

Wrote an article on power gravitating towards supporters and away from the people delivering the value over time, inspired by @RuthMalan's Technical Leadership Masterclass.

https://functional.computer/blog/power-gravitates-left

"We Have to Be Brave": Palestinian Journalist Abed Abu Shehadeh Speaks Out After Israeli Detention
http://www.democracynow.org/2026/11/10/abed_abu_shehadeh_israeli_detention

@MelissaBearTrix

treated myself to a little sleep-in today, got up at 4.30

@hypolite Je viens de la signer ! :)

…and technical capabilities are •always• formed by such power struggles among humans. Technology is not something that arrives from an alien spaceship or that congeals spontaneously from the alternate dimension of pure abstract ideas. Technology is made by humans for humans.

By •which• humans? For •which• humans?

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Lol i am neither centrist nor conservative. I am a Socialist, and even i am tired of the bullshit the LeftAuth is spilling all over Lemmy. Stop pretending otherwise.

I think it sounds good only until put in practice.

If 99% is useful but 1% goes against the instance's philosophy, they have to accept this 1%. But if someone involved in picking what is put in this overarching moderation starts pushing this 1% to 2%, 4%, ever more through the Overton Window, it would deteriorate more and more the instances that had to accept the original 1%.

And even without the possibility of intentional sabotage, one rule being applied for every individual instance would still mean instances would need to adapt for the lowest common denominator, meaning a slow end of individuality. And if a small instance is no different than a big one, those bigger ones start canibalizing the userbase of the smaller ones.

What I expect to happen, and that already does to some extent, is to clusters of instances with similar interests to form, and by extension being prone to accept aligning moderation and philosophies with their direct allies.

But that's still mostly a bilateral move, not an one rule to govern them all, so dependence or independence is still tied to individual interests.

@glynmoody yes well her last name seems to be like it is for a reason

Reading the Constitution is helpful, actually.

“Politics” refers to the processes and activities that groups of people use to make shared decisions about the distribution of power and resources.

When a company prioritizes a specific political party, that’s politics. When a company chooses to harm or to protect a specific subgroup of society, that’s politics. When a company decides to fund or eschew a specific technology, that’s politics.

And when an multibillion dollar AI vendor decides to give their technology free reign to plagiarize people’s work en masse and scramble entire job markets, but then decides to crack down on that technology when it infringes on •company’s• work and scrambles •product• markets…that too is politics.

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