Notices by Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca)

@evan @RandomCanuck
I'm wondering who is playing the Azov Brigade here.

@RandomCanuck @evan
I've thought about this as well. I live in Calgary.

Sigh.

@evan Where is my magic 8-ball?

To early to tell.
Ask again later.
Not likely.

@evan
How do things like cultural appropriation jive with this? I know you've posted in the past about the appropriateness of cooking recipes from another culture, which I found strange because the power imbalance was the opposite than I would have expected.

It seems more useful to talk about raw power imbalances. Yes, acknowledge there are patterns in who is powerful and who lacks agency, but focusing on the imbalance and the abuses, which go from powerful to powerless.
#notall

@evan @Anibyl
Touché.

And I promised you no answer!

@evan @Anibyl
Mine goes to the legitimacy and utility of yours!

@evan @Anibyl
Let me ask you a different question. If there is one person from each country who lives in each other country (less than 200^2 = 40,000 people), then does using a country as an adjective modifying the word history have any meaning anymore?

@evan You ok?

@evan @Anibyl
I searched for "cana" and got zero hits and refuse to put more effort into finding a Canadian connection.

@evan @Gargron
are you thinking the worst of him?

@evan @avilewis
Indeed indeed

@evan @avilewis
Excellent question.

I would want current MPs and future candidates to have named accounts and the riding associations to have named official RA accounts.

@evan @chad I absolutely believe Canada needs a healthy collection of stable Fediverse instances. I hope the sincerity of this call is heeded by some of your strongest members.

@evan @mpjgregoire The US population has enthusiastically wanted each US war before each war began, usually due to the manufactured consent before the action. Currently the US is in a very weird state where there is huge disconnect between the people's view on policy and the federal government's view on policy.

@mpjgregoire @evan I absolutely agree with this. Perception absolutely matters and you are describing a fundamental difference in perception due to timing.

@evan Sounds like a gap in the protocol interpretation. Oh well. Maybe it will eventually be fixed.

@evan Mumble mumble CAP theorem mumble mumble eventual consistency.

@evan I do not really understand what this means (and have worked in IT for almost 30 years) but find it very interesting.

@evan @timbray Nope!

@evan Having heard of ActivityPub relay servers, it seems to me that relay server owners and regular instance owners can pick and choose what to broadcast (including filtering algorithmically), which relay servers to broadcast to, and which relay servers to receive broadcasts from.

So in other words, don't have regular instances broadcast to regular instances, but rather use relays for that purpose, which then allows distributed choosing.