Notices by Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social), page 3

Finally, the Democrats Have Found Trump’s Achilles’ Heel: Ridicule Him | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/article/185270/democrats-harris-trump-achilles-heel-ridicule

ICYMI, in what may have been the most narcissistic moment in the history of the @GOP, @RNC chair @LaraLeaTrump released a video of herself. Singing.

Only a duet of Dinesh D’Souza and @anncoulter savaging the national anthem could have been more painful.

https://www.threads.net/@shoqv4/post/C_bOSsDve6i?xmt=AQGzvov6ctcro3BRQSyWH4M2Mq6kgwtb3c-H3NDdiIVzRA

@jessamyn @steve @tchambers

No ask yet, but tossing stuff around is how ideas are born here. Sometimes the tech can drive the idea, and sometimes the quality of the content can. RSS is not going to help you much. But a well constructed group and some bots might. When I have a little more time, I’ll outline a few ideas.

@steve @jessamyn @tchambers that was my first thought which is why I'm asking for clarification. There are other possibilities.

@steve @jessamyn @tchambers RSS feeds are fine for consuming content generally, but they get messy fast without some degree of moderation. And they’re not designed for thread-specific moderation as Lemmy and like products are.

@jessamyn @steve @tchambers BTW, there are fairly easy ideas that could put a toe in the water, if you haven’t already. A “Best of Mefi” feed, for example, only requires a good posting tool and some guidelines to curate. I think Tim could hook you up with some existing solutions for that.

This is a real @nytimes headline. Seriously.

Conservative Moms, Charmed by Trump, Would Rather Avoid His Misogyny

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/us/elections/conservative-moms-for-liberty-trump.html

It wasn’t until I saw that Metafilter owner, @jessamyn, was here on Mastodon, that I fully realized that in the back of my mind, MetaFilter was always the closest analogy to what I thought typical and lasting Fediverse “communities” should feel like. A place where freedom of expression was carefully balanced with common sense moderation and a certain intolerance for random fuckery. I personally feel the entire fediverse has become way too preoccupied with whether and how it can …

lots of other tools so far beyond what big social would ever be capable of providing. That is crazy-exciting to me. The potential is enormous. But we’re still talking about not having quoted posts, and whether we’re appealing enough to sign-up Brazilian refugees who just lost their Twitter.

compete with Big Social, and not focused enough on what it does well, which is facilitate smaller and ultimately more impactful and necessary creative, professional, civic, and educational communities. And for all of them to much better served, we need far more than these extremely simple, brute-force communicators like microblogging. We need things like textcasting standards, personal and group repositories, clearinghouses, verifiers, metadata, more robust full-text search indexes, and …

@jessamyn Indeed. Which is one reason I am working with @newmast and @tchambers on first getting activityPub group actors working well, and then building on that. Integrating and cross-connecting groups should be easier than entire instances. May I add you to our “interested parties” list? I’m organizing a chat about it.

You know what really concerns me. The thought that if Big social media existed in the 1940s, the New Deal might never have happened, the federal highway system wouldn’t exist, and William F. Buckley’s portrait would be on the $100 bill. #shudder

My gripe with @o_simardcasanova’s thread is his grievance seems predicated on the assumption that the Fediverse should be an “equivalent” to Big Social, which by its nature, must play to Big Capital. Who ever said it should be that? He wants that, and that’s fine. Let BlueSky and Threads support the masses with Big Social, post-Musk. The Fediverse can serve those who benefit those masses with productive ideas, discourse, and leadership.

Good morning. I’m off for a bike ride. And after seeing this awesome video, I’ll have some kick in my pedal.
https://mastodon.social/@KamalaHarrisWin@newsmast.social/113054109642536898

Once again, @mmasnick tells some basic truths we have come to never expect from big media. This is a precision airstrike on some of the most odious Republican bullshit.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/28/trumps-accidental-admission-and-zuckerbergs-surrender-the-real-takeaways-from-metas-letter/

Having already insulted almost every demographic other than white evangelical choir boys and fundamentalist Baptist candy strippers, Donald Trump and his weirdo cabal have found one last big target of opportunity for their obsessive hate agenda: the neurodivergent.

I’ve lived a long time, and heard a lot of nominees accept a lot of nominations. I have never heard one like this. This woman has been reborn into this role and she is fierce. This is historic. #DNCConvention

I can’t believe the media is going to give RFK exposure as he ends his stupid scam.

Good morning. I’m watching @BarackObama’s speech at the #DNC. That kid’s got somethin. He could really go places. And he held his own against his wife, too. And that was a tough act to follow.

I’m sure that Republicans already plan to make him a Senator. They’re just like that.

George Santos reaches plea deal, pleads guilty to wire fraud and identity theft.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/george-santos-guilty-plea-deal/