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   Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 08:06:57 JST Urzl

   Money *is* power. Not "can be turned into power", it *is* power.

   That's why UBI works and why people in positions of power oppose it.

   It's why cutting taxes for the powerful is always high priority but cutting taxes for the weak is not.

   It's why education and healthcare are kept as expensive as possible, because that keeps the poor from ever acquiring any power.

   #oligarchy #usa #fascism #250th

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 18:58:47 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Pivots are often made years before they happen." - Futurist Jim Carroll

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   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
   --

   Every pivot you have ever admired looks like a single moment - it's a big decision, a sudden leap, a brave day.

   It's not.

   It's something you've been thinking about for a long time. But more important than that, it's something that you were getting ready for long before you knew you were getting ready.

   Why is that? Because every pivot worth making was paid for in advance, in the tiny experiments, side projects, abandoned hobbies, accidental curiosities, and detours that didn't make sense at the time. Here's the truth: people who appear to have made a sudden leap had been quietly preparing for it for years. They just didn't know it.

   I have a name for it: experiential capital.

   It's a topic that sits at the center of one of my books, Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast! It's also a phrase and concept that draws a LOT of attention in every keynote I do, because it offers up a concrete mindset pathway for moving forward.

   What is it? Experiential capital is the deep, practical knowledge you can only acquire by doing something. By running small experiments, by tinkering, by playing with technologies and ideas before they matter. It cannot be bought. It cannot be downloaded. It is earned, slowly, through accumulated small bets.

   And here's why it matters - it's getting you ready for a new trend, new opportunity, or new disruption, long before it happens. In that way, it accelerates your timing of adoption or aligning to a different future. That's important because in an exponential world, the gap between when a trend appears and when it dominates your industry has collapsed from decades to months. You no longer have time to start learning about a major shift when it arrives. The only people who can pivot fast enough are the ones who were quietly playing with the new thing for years before anyone called it important.

   The ones who invested in it through 'experiential capital.'

   That is the entire argument of the "Start Small" part of the Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast mantra that I share! People love Think Big. They love Scale Fast. They often skip past the middle, where the actual work happens. Start Small is the discipline of running tiny, low-stakes experiments without yet knowing which one will matter.

   You don't run experiments to be right.

   You run them to be ready.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll spends many of his days doing a lot of small things.

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-34-pivots-are-often-made-years-before-they-happen/

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 16:27:04 JST Aral Balkan

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   @raphv You can suspend their account.

   This isn’t about whether you should be moderating or not.

   It’s about whether you should be able to delete their posts.

   If someone is posting swastikas I would expect their account to be suspended because the swastika is the symptom and deleting the post isn’t going to delete the Nazi.

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   Play Ball and Fight Fascists (cafechatnoir@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 03:28:02 JST Play Ball and Fight Fascists

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   The little electric snowshovel seemed like a very indulgent, silly purchase at the time.

   It was not.

   It takes a few more passes than a regular shovel, but there is no lifting, no back strain, no cardiac events.

   Just gently pushing it along.

   You do have to pay attention to the wind direction so you don't get a face full of snow, and my hand was kinda cramped from holding the power button, but those are non-problems.

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   Thom, a distro-agnostic tool (thomholwerda@exquisite.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 06:02:16 JST Thom, a distro-agnostic tool

   I mean, Fedora's Flatpak repo has ppc64le binaries.

   Flathub does not.

   It's not all bad to have Fedora run its own remote, I guess.

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   Anthropy (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 14:51:21 JST Anthropy

   pro tip: a Homelab and Selfhosted infra are two different things.

   If you use your #homelab for #selfhosting your personal stuff, one of two things happens:

   - you can no longer use your homelab as homelab and for experimentation

   - your selfhosted infra is constantly offfline

   Selfhosted infra should be seen as a PRODUCTION environment, which homelabs are not.

   It should have automated backups, and ideally receive automated updates for security; you should avoid touching it as much as possible.