This seems like a random comment, so let me offer the context.

I watch Steve Shives, an explicitly progressive Star Trek Youtuber. He did an obituary for Walter Koenig, the actor who played Chekov on Star Trek.

Walter Koenig was Jewish, and was open about his Jewishness, even going so far as to talk about it in conspicious ways to measure his safety, as he explained once in an interview.

But Steve didn't mention his Jewishness, even though he goes to great lengths to mention gender, sexual and gender diversity.

Similarly, several years ago Jose, another progressive Youtuber made a video about comic books and mentioned the struggles of women and POC, but didn't mention that the people who made most of the original comic book heroes was Jewish.

Then about two years ago he made a video about Larry David's Jewishness and in doing so, explicitly and directly mentioned his Palestinian episode of Curbed, but not much else. It was "odd" and when I confronted him on it, he became defensive.

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Nous avons été interviewés par @stupmedia dans cet article concernant la fermeture de l'hébergeur militant Autistici/Inventati.

https://stup.media/on-assiste-a-une-chasse-ideologique-de-la-gauche-militante-apres-la-repression-de-lhebergeur-associatif-a-i-les-luttes-en-ligne-repensent-leur-securite/

True story.

#Billionaires #EpsteinIsland

This is absolutely me with satellite landfalls. "Don't worry about getting hit by a satellite piece or the airplane you're riding on getting hit by a satellite piece. You should be WAY more worried about Kessler Syndrome ending our ability to use satellites for centuries, and about aluminum in the upper atmosphere causing ozone depletion!"

https://mastodon.com.br/@xkcd/117599582203247109

Please post the article in the comments if you truly care about people reading them.

A very late #whiskerswednesday #catsofmastodon

Looks like we’re keeping him up. How dare we!

🤔 ... A true wonderland at COP31 today.

“We have a solemn responsibility to this and future generations to act" says the PM of Australia, a country strongly invested in its fossil fuels.

"Let me state this plainly - we have no other sky, no other Earth,” says president Erdogan of Türkiye, a country not known for being a green leader.

“We must double down, and Europe will play its part" says the EU's von der Leyen, a continent currently rolling back a lot of its green ambitions.

Mit #Hackback und #Staatstrojaner für Polizeien des Bundes und BSI: Bundestag stimmt Donnerstag ab 15.15 Uhr über Gesetzentwurf zur Schwächung der Cybersicherheit ab https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2026/kw46-de-cybersicherheit-1231534

protip: if you want to feel like an absolute genius here, all you have to do is read the actual articles before going to the comments.

My wife's cookbook is in Waterstones :)

https://ironchefshellie.com/the-winter-cabin-cookbook/

#WinterCabinCookbook

#merephone news: I've solved my breadboard wiring issues!

I was about to give up after adjusting my header pins & replacing a too-short wire, but as I went to investigate whether my code even works I noticed that I had the wires between my breadboard & the screen back to front!

I still have software issues to debug, but I'll do that tomorrow!

The biggest cut to veterans benefits in US history delivered by Republicans on Veteran's Day

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

@omgubuntu hate where we're at. It's better to guess personally than mental load myself on the verbose statements which eventually turn out to be incorrect anyway..

doing risk assessments before giving people large amounts of money or power

(independent of security clearance etc: this is health and safety)

On the bookshelf on the office floor above mine, there's a book that says "Sans Taboo" on the back cover. Ooh, what is this titillating literature?

The front cover: "Mac OSX Leopard"

Sex is like pizza: you were having a completely normal group conversation, then someone brings it up on the flimsiest of pretexts, and then everyone but you is arguing about whether it should include pineapple on it or not.

#AceLife

@grishka Oh cool, yeah it is plastic and not nearly as durable as a mbp lol

I’m new to the Fediverse, and so far I’m loving it

Don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll all fix that soon enough!