Nothing about this is "fair" to Black people.
In the long run, maybe #Mastodon and the #Fediverse could become a better haven for Black people. But that will require a lot of work and self-reflection by the people who are currently shaping the discourse around here - starting with reading up on why #BlackTwitter bounced off so hard around here.
And it goes further than that - I mean, by all accounts Mastodon is still overwhelmingly white and European / North American. There is very little representation from, say, Africa or South Asia.
And if people from these communities don't come here because they feel they would be screaming into the void... well, the best we can do is listen to the concerns of those who _are_ sticking around.
This is what the city of #Bakhmut looks like now, which #Russia occupied a year ago.
The city is completely destroyed. All houses are destroyed. There are no people.
In Russia they are proud of what their army has done.
that the beauty of it, being marketable does not mean they have to design to a particular persons whims..
An artist who is good, but follows their own internal vision will usually create great works, and that will be **more** marketable than a design intended to target a particular person.
So even here it is in support of what Im saying, creating good art, by whatever mechanisms createt he best art, is inherently marketable because we value that as a people.
In other words you have the cause and effect wrong, an artist is marketable because we put value in good art... he doesnt create good art and is marketable because he is designing for the market.
@jeff The occurence of a failure to moderate a server of 1000 people is very different from the ongoing failure to moderate a server of 100 M people.
In one case, you get an abusive message, block the person behind it and discuss it with their moderator. In the other case you may wake up to an overloaded server, a hellthread and notifications with thousands of abusive dogpiling messages from hundreds of people and no person to contact about it because it all comes from an anonymous corporation with a handful of unnamed mods.
Caution and selective admission makes sense. Mistakes can cause immeasurable harm.
I personally knew a few (albeit not many) Jewish people, including 2 directly from Israel, and none of them are defending Netanyahu. This idea that condemning Netanyahu = condemning Israeli people OR Jewish people is in no way a universal feeling among Israelis and non-Israeli Jewish people. There are a ton of Israeli pro-peace movements. The only people pushing the "Netanyahu = Israel = all Jewish people" are either ultra-rightist Zionists or anti-Semitic maniacs.
It does get more complicated by the fact that open and die-hard antisemites have been using the Palestinian cause to justify hating Jewish people.
In any case, it's clear that using Hamas as justification for ethnically cleansing Gaza will not bring peace either to Israel or the Palestinians, but it's a great way for Netanyahu and his maniac cabinet to centralize power.
Ever more pervasive and intrusive surveillance tech in everyday communication gear.
Probably illegal in some countries, as it could be used to spy on other people.
In combination with #AI, this tech could make the surveillance gear of #1984, #MinorityReport, and even #TheMatrix look 2nd rate.
Also, the ,#embodiment, seen as a necessary step towards General Artificial Intelligence by some experts 1), could make a big leap forward in...
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