Notices by EVHaste (haste@mastodon.social)

@Gargron Thanks for making this cool place I like

@dalias the former is a feature already! The latter isn’t though

Fediverse HOA shit doesn’t fly with me so I try not to comment on this sort of thing, and just go about my day.

But when I have to retroactively scramble to make sure I’m not suddenly complicit in a scam, thats not a good feeling. I’ve got better things to be doing with my day.

I’m happy to see and share space with mutual aid posts, but today I noticed a new behavior that I’m not comfortable with.

Editing a link into something unrelated after it starts getting boosted widely is pretty rude. You’re essentially injecting an ad into a bunch of people’s feeds, who are now implicitly endorsing something they didn’t have the opportunity to evaluate or consent to.

There’s a lot of surface area for abuse here. You won’t notice it’s been done if you aren’t watching your inbox

When I was a teenager, I was active in the warez scene, because I was broke but passionate about technology and art.

At some point, probably after Steam but before Spotify, there was a tipping point in the cost and ease of buying digital goods— and I stopped pirating software for literal, actual decades.

It’s rare to look back on your childhood and think, hey maybe she had a point actually. I have a feeling a lot of people are having similar thoughts right now.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/disney-ceo-says-ai-is-an-engagement-engine-and-disney-is-soon-gonna-be-crammed-to-bursting-with-it/

@ProPublica sweet Christ on a cracker, I can only aspire to receive such a warning some day. That’s how you know you’re doing good work

As we feared, all previous versions of #Affinity have been deprecated and replaced with a new freemium version— and a funnel to Canva, which acquired developer Serif over a year ago.

Up-sales are AI features, and the functional, pay-once versions have been removed from stores for Apple products. No details on how long the license activation services for V1 and V2 will remain, so even if you bought it, someday you won’t be able to install it.

Was my favorite tool, I’m devastated. :(

#art

@mcc I’m picturing a side-scrolling stealth platformer. A forgotten and poor company town. You’re running packages between neighbors, delivering mutual aid and helping them jailbreak their infrastructure with solarpunk shit. The community garden is illegal.

The enemies are mostly police drones; they’re dangerous but you can scrap them if you’re clever.

Everyone in the town is tired but determined. If you can all save enough in a side hustle, you can buy the town back. Roll credits.

The government has indicated that it would like to designate both trans people and the antifascist as terrorists, which I guess makes me a double terrorist.

What I want to know is, how high can I get it? Can we do triple terrorist for being a journalist? Quadruple because I like olives?

I can be really competitive.

Update from Cal Anderson; so far the folks I’ve spoken to have seen only one group of three provocateurs nears the entrance. I think if a last minute march is planned, the fash is gonna have trouble. The neighborhood is already here, and it looks like theyre bringing the concert with them. :)

Here’s the banner set up outside the DJ’s truck. :)

Watch this space for updates; I’ll be here for an hour or two and then I *guess* I’ll go to Gas Works to listen to Feucht. :((

@Gargron Does Truth Social still do that? I remember it being reported on a few years ago, but there wasn’t much follow up reporting.

@Mastodon @dopatwo @signalapp these are really cute!

I will say that the quivering effect on the resharing sticker (which I assume is meant to represent the mascot hitting the desk so hard) does make me feel a little queasy to watch, as if it were strobing. But it’s still quite adorable so I’ll probably use it anyway

So a couple more observations; first, the park is filling so fast. We’re so far back that the speakers cannot be heard, we’ve almost gone back to Barbara Bailey and the fountain.

Second, I’m going to have to update on a delay because there is no longer any reception. Entirely too many phones.

Third: a stranger thought I was someone they knew and gave me a hug. They seemed embarrassed but I got a hug out of it!

Current speaker is telling the story of a loved one being taken by ice.

Opening chant is “only the people save the people”.

Center of the field is full of flags; mostly American, a couple of Mexican and pride flags, and the absolute largest trans pride flag I’ve ever seen, where did they even get this?

Cell tower is having trouble with all these folks, and you know my usual protest rules on photos, so you’ll just have to take my word for it for now.

Well I can tell you already that turnout is extraordinary! The baseball field is overfull, with folks spilling into the park proper farther than I can see.

I can make out crowds feeding up the street in a steady stream, and I could hear the speaker over two blocks away.

On my way to the #NoKings protest in #Seattle ‘s Cal Anderson park!

Any live reporting will go in a thread here!
I’m on the lookout for fash groups; if you see something, I’d love it if you could ping me.

Stay safe fam!

ps fuck these Nazi pricks

I honestly really doubt I’ll run into any proud boy trouble after all because there are simply too many people clearly itching to punch a Nazi. All ages, too; I’ve seen some harrumphing about demographics but that just doesn’t seem to be the case here, every kind of neighbor I can imagine is out here with us.

There is no question that this crowd is at LEAST as big as the last anti Trump / Elon rally, but it’s probably bigger tbh. I have absolutely no way of counting, but it’s appropriately nuts.

On the way to the protest, I was delighted to see the return of this #streetart , which was originally put up around the anti-trans event last month.

I watched them try to paint over it, but it went right back up. This time with a little wink.

Tonight I’m joining the #Seattle anti-ICE protest being held at Cal Anderson, which began at 7pm.

Since military force had been deployed in LA already, I’ll be bringing my humble camera equipment, but for OPSEC purposes I am not collecting general protest footage or conducting interviews.

Feel free to say hi if you see me! And stay safe out there, fam.

And if you’re on site and can point me to someone with medical supplies, I’d appreciate it. Mine have gone missing.