Notices by Mick 🇨🇦 (mick@cosocial.ca)

“We do not know what led to this crash, but we have some very strong ideas and opinions, and I think we’ll state those opinions now,” is a statement that really captures the essence of the moment.

'The question now is not a million miles away. Who will support? Who will collaborate? Who will decide that they are “not political” and look away as millions of people are harmed? Who will make excuses for it all? Who secretly welcomes the push for theocracy, for in-groups and out-groups, for “traditional” values that prioritize rigid gender roles, segregation, and oligarchy? Who, in other words, is safe?'

#uspol

https://werd.io/view/6793aa35e6c2fc33600f1b22

@GottaLaff @emd @coop while this is more of a question for our Trust-and-Safety team, I can say that we keep an up-to-date blocklist and our T&S people are really on the ball. Tagging @timbray @evan @johannab

Mastodon.social has oodles of bots itself… you might find anywhere else better for that reason alone.

@evan I think this shift to Redbook is interesting for the same reason.

It’s an incredibly unlikely place for an English-speaking community to establish roots, and yet…

It’s also hilarious, given the (stated) aims of the TikTok ban.

@evan one of my favorites from 2024!

I think about the strange ecology of Vesta often. Very hopeful that it finds a second season.

@evan nice

@bobjonkman enjoy!

Each is an absurd masterpiece.

I don’t think I can pick a favorite, but the scale of the the Bezos creation really stands apart.

The #fediverse and #CoSocialCa continued to grow and be excellent.

#GoodThingsFrom2024

New Bobby Fingers dropped:

https://youtu.be/NF4VJJKTjy8

@homegrown
@pluralistic has a cautionary tale to tell you, here: https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/#more-6162

The actual operation of a server is nbd.

Ensuring that everyone you want to reach from that server can be reached from that server can occassionally become impossible for reasons entirely out of your control.

@evan 💯 gimmie rain or gimmie snow. pick a lane.

Participating in annual reviews this year, and it occurs to me that the process now mostly consists of groups of employees using various vendors’ LLMs to populate another vendor’s database.

@evan genuinely struggling to think of a “good company” that hasn’t just turned into “a company” given enough time.

@futurebird @pluralistic sells his through https://libro.fm.

They don’t have the selection of Audible, but the artists and authors get a fair(er) share of the books you buy.

And they sell some without DRM encumbrances.

@0xabad1dea a colleague just got a new dog who’s name is also Odin and I asked for a photo of him to share. Blender for scale. 😂

@pluralistic is as clear-eyed as ever here, and I agree wholeheartedly with this take on #bluesky:

“Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I've entered into community with there.”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

#enshittification #mastodon #fediverse

@Sebprovencher oh noes!

Goodnight #Fediverse. You are a wonderful thing and I’m glad to know you.

Do you ever think about how weird it is that you can hear my voice in your head as you read my voice as you read this?

Weird, right?

Language as a thing is 60k - 100k years old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language