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I'm just going to point out the thing, which some other people are pointing out as well.
The ADL, which has been tossing out false accusations of antisemitism against anyone and anything thing that has opposed Israel's campaign of butchery and genocide is the same organization that gave Elon Musk a pass for his nazi salute.
Just put those two things right beside each other and take a nice long look.
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I read the scoundrel instances here at the Fediverse too, and it seems that some of the same folks who like to make excuses for genocide are also having a shit fit over people pointing out the ADL's nazi smooching antics yesterday.
You can put those two things beside each other and take a nice long look too.
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Nah, don’t worry, it’ll be ok. They’ve been sponsored by Google for years. Even Facebook at one point.
It’s open source… it’s about the source being open. It’s open as in “open for business”.
The “F” in FOSDEM is silent.
It’ll be fine…
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#FOSDEM #FOSDEM25 #JackDorsey #billionaires #trillionDollarCorporations #institutionalCorruption #openSource #openForBusiness #BigTech #PR #Google #Facebook mastodon.cloud/@mfeilner/11385…
I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)
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fuck’s sake you’re gonna make me say it again
IF YOU
DEADNAME AND MISGENDER
A TRANS PERSON YOU DON’T LIKE
(even a gas station hot dog like Caitlyn Jenner)
YOU ARE SHOWING EVERY TRANS PERSON YOUR SUPPORT OF US IS CONDITIONAL ON YOUR APPROVAL OF US
fuckin’ knock it off ya dinguses
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"(even a gas station hot dog like Caitlyn Jenner)" .
I wish I could come up with snappy descriptors and retorts like this.
Hang in there Tilly...
if you just Zoom out on the Trump/TikTok timeline, all that happened is he went from an initial position of TikTok fully divesting to a U.S. company in 2020, to accepting a 50/50 split in 2025.
He just folded to a worse deal when TikTok went offline after the divestiture deadline.
The great negotiator.
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Attn you IT systems maintainers.
Do you manage datasets containing birth sex? Place of birth? Ancestral nationality? Gender? Political, sexual, religious preference? Health care history? *poof* no you don’t.
Now make it so. It’s prevention time; time to run if you can. And hide. Don’t do the gestapo’s work for them.
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> Willem Johan Cornelis Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest.
> Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexual orientation before his execution. His last words were:
"Tell people that homosexuals are not cowards."
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Elon Musk's Salute Stirs Up Reaction From Right-Wing Extremists
Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.Tim Dickinson (Rolling Stone)
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No one's coming to save us mate. Politics and media gave up decades ago.
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Every Democrat in Congress who attended the inauguration has ZERO right now to get up and complain and shake their heads.
The first act of defiance and disapproval is to refuse to voluntarily support the opposition with your presence.
Shame on all of them, especially Adam Schiff who is speaking now on MSNBC.
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Maybe I can email, wait a week for the inevitable failure to reply, and then call 😔
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It feels like a nation originally founded on the slavery of nonwhites and genocide of its indigenous peoples, where only rich white men with property had the ability to vote, is about to meet its karmic destiny.
Sorry if that is not a hopeful and optimistic outlook on the eve of an incoming President who just admitted on television that he and the richest man in the world cheated to win.
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My daughter came into the room distraught and bemused by #TikTok going dark. She knew it was coming, but still...a lot of GenZ are feeling kind of rootless, like a personal landmark was pointlessly destroyed by govt who clearly give no fucks about actual data security, or these laws would have applied to all the American data harvesting commercial social media platforms.
And I, being an old, and having seen many things come and go since the days of blue boxes and usenet, tried to sympathize...but she rightfully pointed out that none of those things were legislated out of business. This is different. This is government deliberately controlling speech and demanding the sale of private property. Using the same canards they've been using her whole life: It's national security. It's for your own good. You can't see proof, it's classified.
She's right, it's nonsense.
The vibe here is way different, I don't know if we'll see an influx of #tiktokrefugee, but welcome if you're here!
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TikTok gets a lot of condescension from people who don’t use it, but my last few days on it my entire fyp was people telling stories of how it helped them start their business, get discovered by employers, educate themselves based on content from independent experts, gain the awareness and confidence to escape abusive relationships, etc etc
Also if it was such a National security risk, then why was like 50% of Washington on it? Right…
Well, except that TikTok wasn’t blocked at all. Bytedance itself decided to stop answering US-originated requests. There’s been no order to block; and no ISP taking that action.
What we’re seeing is a dance, moving around looking for bargaining chips. Pretending this is the govt blocking things is one of the feints in that dance.
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— Wiikwogaming Tiinahtiisiiwin Project Team
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Reminder: “Many providers will send you abortion pills before you need them, to have on hand just in case. Pills are available in all 50 states and US territories.”
“You don’t need to be pregnant to get abortion pills.”
“Abortion pills last for about two years when stored in a cool dry place.”
PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state
Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state
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Them: "We are launching a new publication"
Me: 😐
Them: "We intend to do journalism differently"
Me: 😐
Them: "We will be beholden to no one in our search for truth"
Me: It's a Substack isn't it?
Them: "You will be able to subscribe using the Substack platform"
Me: (closes tab)
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A thing that has annoyed me the last couple of days is that I have friends to finally, FINALLY, decided to leave Facebook, Instagram etc (which I've been telling them for literally years) and then they say they are moving to Substack. Oh. Right.
I don't know what to say to them. I mean, it is good that they move off Meta's services, but if I start telling them what I think of Substack they might just...well...not move. I still see them not moving as worse than them moving on to Substack, but I might be confused here in my thinking that if they have started moving they might be more open to other, better, services (than Substack).
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Are you a furry? Are you a *greymuzzle* furry? Did you ever browse FurNation when FurNation was a thing decades ago?
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I remember getting this song from somewhere on FurNation but I absolutely cannot remember from which account. Does it sound familiar? Do you know what its name really is? Do you know who created it?
hachyderm.io/@Adorable_Sergal/…
A Hot Cocoa Sergal ☕ (@Adorable_Sergal@hachyderm.io)
oh my god, did i just find the song i've been looking for for like 2 decades because i thought it was a tracker file and it was actually a midi file the whole time?Hachyderm.io
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EU Probes Apple's New App Store Fees
#AppleNews #DigitalMarketsAct #TechRegulation #AppleAppStoreFees #DeveloperConcerns
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EU Probes Apple's New App Store Fees - Slashdot
European Union regulators are investigating Apple's revised app store fees amid concerns they may increase costs for developers, according to Bloomberg News.apple.slashdot.org
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Any sufficiently obsolescent masculinity is indistinguishable from present femininity; any sufficiently obsolescent heterosexuality is indistinguishable from present day...well whatever given alternative you want to talk about.
As women evened the score, queers and freaks came out of hiding, patriarchal white masculinity did not disappear. Rather it shed what restraints it had on its own cruelty and rapaciousness. Not that these restraints were a proper check, mind.
What this means is that it sheds qualities that are deemed weakness. In order to more sharply define itself. And to be able to act with less restraint in re-establishing supremacy.
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So if transparency is important, what did Mastodon’s leadership talk to Facebook about when they met?
It’s fine. I’ll wait. mastodon.social/@Mastodon/1138…
Transparency is a key part of our transition to non-profit ownership. Follow us to stay informed about our progress, priorities, and the move to community-driven governance. Together, we're building a safer, more open Fediverse. Join us 🙂blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/…
The people should own the town square
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership.Mastodon Blog
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The Ladybird browser is a thing. Definitely dependent on commercial sponsorship, but so far all their sponsors are much smaller than the "big tech" tier of corporations.
What would really allow other organizations to step up would be a simplification of the Web Standards. Complexity of standards equals high entry cost equals oligopoly or monopoly.
I think the best thing going might be Gemini, a massively simplified version of the Web Standards, and there are plenty of Gemini browsers that have been implemented noncommercially. Only downside, the community of Gemini users probably isn't large enough to form a critical mass.
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The great thing about the recent #NetNeutrality court decision is that it allows service providers to get into the #enshittification game. Now they’re no longer required to observe neutrality with respect to content sources, they can (a) deliver an inferior experience to consumers – phase 1 of enshittification, per @pluralistic – AND (b) extort more money from content providers – phase 2.
Welcome to Year 0 of the true enshittocene, when ubiquitous enshittification REALLY kicks into high gear.
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