Notices by carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)

"We teeter on the brink of collapse into an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing"

https://theonion.com/

Having instances with open registrations on this network means each person that is actively anti-racist here, or that experiences racism, will randomly have some loser @ ing them with pages of the N word and other unhinged hateful bile out of nowhere.
If you've got open registrations on your instance you are literally facilitating that mechanism for harassment. Happens all the time. Can happen at any time, from any instance with open registrations.

I am very shocked to see this in the ToS for the flagship Mastodon instance, promulgated by the Mastodon nonprofit.

To be clear, I think this is *much* worse than, say, requiring users of mastodon.social to agree to have their posts used to train LLMs. The harms of having your work fed to an AI are mostly hypothetical and relate to moral qualms.

By contrast, a binding arbitration waiver would literally allow the management of mastodon.social to cause your DEATH and face no consequences.

humoring a friend by watching tom hardy thirst traps that he keeps sending me because he is obsessed, gosh friendship is so tough

You know, there's a lot of shit happening these days that I am far from thrilled about......but the fact that I get to share an era with Janelle Monae makes me feel so, so fortunate.

I truly feel like their work would call to me across time and space because it speaks to me so so deeply...so imagine my delight when I get to breathe the same air like damn!

Definitely my biggest creative influence ever. And seeing them during Pride month.......BITCH

:BlackTransCricketBat:

Had this conversation on here before and I guess it's time for us to have it again.

The last group of people, and I do mean LAST. The last group of people I will go to when I want my racial identity validated is white people. You no purpose flour, mayonnaise manager KKKarens have the worst track record when it comes to shit like this. Out of every racial group, you truly understand race the least.

And that's wild to me, because you invented white. You invented the nigger. You invented the mulatto and all degrees and designations for each and every shade and complexion you could find, trying to neatly and efficiently categorize your prey. You conjured white supremacy out of your collective pasty asses because you couldn't live in a world where you weren't on top of everything. And you still can't!

So what happened? I'll tell you. You became so besotted and bewitched by the convoluted tapestry of illusion you call whiteness that you can't even recognize your own creation anymore. You have grown so attached to your false sense of superiority and so addicted to your comforting fantasy that you don't even have the ability to understand what you have wrought.

It's the very definition of getting high on your own supply. Said plainly, you bought too much of your own bullshit and now you can't tell up from down, left from right, white from Black.

And so whether you're a wannabe Gestapo who's flailing at your own incompetence, huffing your farts in your family's basement and trying to pass off your emotional support bigotry as humor or just some jealous rando who's mad any time a Black person is obviously better than them at something… if you're planning on insulting me by questioning my Blackness, just remember this:

Without us you own nothing, you built nothing, you have nothing, and you are nothing. You don't know who I am because even while looking in the mirror you have no idea who you are. I will come to you to learn about myself when I want nothing more than cluelessness and self loathing, because that's all you have to offer.

I pity you.

Thanks for reading!

As many have been pointing out, it's the enforcement we're worried about.

... and now, the closing talk for April's #SFRubyMeetup @ #Sentry HQ, San Francisco Bay Area: Irina Nazarova (Evil Martians): Start-ups on Rails

#ruby

PSA: The demonym for Burkina Faso is Burkinabè

Burkina Faso is a name made up in 1984 by our socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial president Thomas Sankara. It joins the 2 biggest languages, Mòoré and Dioula, to mean Land of Honest/Upright People.

There is only 1 demonym, and that is burkinabè. Bè means child in Fulani, another major language. Child of the Land of Honest people.

Burkinese, burkinabese, or any other demonym is a colonial attempt to dilute our political history.

@Shrigglepuss THAT PART!!

@blogdiva For me, I think some self-defense is going to be violent by necessity. Maybe a lot of folks don't want to hear it but that's the reality.

So I guess I don't see it as ceding ground to the oppressor, more presenting the bitter pill up front rather than cloaking it in semantics. Fundamentally, though, I agree. It IS self defense.

@mike_wazowski some context: shrig is a mutual of mine as well as some of my mod team, and their Fediblock post drawing attention to the suspension is why we knew about the server to block it.

Fedilore did absolutely nothing to help my mod team and is banned on this server, they merely tried to distort the reality as I explained in my post.

The criticism relating to racism is tied in with other analysis I made in the post this is replying to, which you will be able to read in full if you just scroll to the top of the thread

@Hoehlenmensch good question, I am speaking in a moral sense rather than a legal sense in this case. I am fully aware that part of the purpose of the law is to preserve the status quo; therefore under this system (in the US anyway) the law is designed to prevent the oppressed from using violence in any way

@swelljoe reading the history of the civil rights movement, I think nonviolent wings of the movement were able to deal with the white government ONLY BECAUSE they didn't want to deal with the folks that were more willing to commit violence.

I also think, looking at history writ large, power is never surrendered willingly.

@being Jim never could.

@TofuTheSquirrel @JonathanMBR yeah ain't no Cuumga lol. Or Democratic Drp. Fongo

And several others are just unreadable. And one is blank lmao

@TofuTheSquirrel @JonathanMBR has to be

@JonathanMBR the sentiment is good but what is going on with the names of these countries lol

Here's what the folder structure looks like, it's basically the same as before.