Notices by Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)

@dma@hachyderm.io @esk@hachyderm.io @thisismissem@hachyderm.io @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io you know, this really puts the old "twitter doesn't make any money" arguments into perspective (in that their argument wasn't that Twitter doesn't make any money so much as it was "Twitter doesn't make money hand over fist for the capitalist backers like they want it to").

I still hear some variation about "fedi needs monetization!" and my first instinct is no, for a ton of reasons, but it's also nice to know that in theory, things can work out just fine and people can get paid for their time without forcing advertising or VC backing down people's throats.

Simplify our content policies and remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse.Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.If your instance is federating with threads... stop. In case it isn't clear, this is literally "we're going to be more explicitly regressive and right wing." Remove restrictions on immigration and gender that are "out of touch with mainstream discourse"? The "mainstream discourse" on these topics is really bad (it's also not truly mainstream, but I assure you he means the hateful rhetoric).

And moving their safety and content mod teams to Texas? Not only is this the state that tried to change the language in history books to describe enslaved people from Africa as "workers" (!!! https://web.archive.org/web/20250104193254/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/publisher-promises-revisions-after-textbook-refers-to-african-slaves-as-workers.html)... well, that should be enough really, yeah? But Texas... I don't know enough about existing reporting pipelines inside Meta to know whether or not they already forward stuff like "discussions of abortions" to Texas law enforcement but if they don't, I have to wonder if this won't make it much easier for Abbot, et al, to request that discussions about abortion and gender marker changes be forwarded to law enforcement.

Seriously, get the fuck off Threads and defed that shit.

RE: https://cyberpunk.lol/users/rachaelspooky/statuses/113787586102773727

@jonny@neuromatch.social I know this is only tangentially related to p2p but my god is this ever a fucking issue with VC backed tech shit. Their landing pages are just nothing, nothing at all. Just pointless.

@The_Icarian@federated.press do you think donated legal costs are FSA eligible

@seachanger@alaskan.social @kjhealy@mastodon.social how did they manage to make this even harmful than anticipated!?

Something about making an “AI” profile that is specifically a Black woman feels incredibly “blackface, but with a computer”. Like Jesus fucking Christ.

@jonny@neuromatch.social I am so weirdly in love with the idea of "learn the bible the MONTE CARLO way"

can we monte carlo bootstrap a new bible

I am so sick of being sick. I have just been terminally online for days because I'm isolating to keep my spouse from getting it. So I'm just online. ugh.

@xgranade@wandering.shop it's SO FUCKING GOOD

I'm a little past you and have put it down for a bit but they have done really fucking good work.

Also? I love that Personalikes allow for easy indications about whether you should or should not read a spoiler. So good 😭

Susumu Hirasawa has so many goddamn bangers

Oh, I forgot that he is also reported to be very pro trans rights and anti-war, which is always nice!

https://hirasawalyrics.tumblr.com/post/81459318825/susumu-hirasawa-interview-2009

He has such a lovely voice and beautiful falsetto. His voice so effortlessly glides up towards clouds tinged gold with the warmth of sunlight.

And they’re playing some sort of laser harp!?

https://youtu.be/uVtGNCwcJJw?feature=shared

I’d like to get physical copies of his albums eventually.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io how can someone frame this as a “labor issue” and think about it for more than two seconds and not come to the conclusion that what we need is better support and protections for workers. Why would a business prefer an H1B holder? Is it because they’re more skilled? Let’s say yes for the sake of argument. Why are you then insisting it’s the role of business to train citizens with the necessary skills instead of, say, the fucking state!? Maybe we lack “skilled” workers because of issues like our terrible for profit education system! Maybe we lack “skilled” workers because our educational system actively discriminates against more than half the population! Or because companies are biased against hiring women and BIPOC and don’t think of them as skilled! Maybe we’d have more “skilled citizens” if some of systemic issues were worked on?

god. how was the this guy allowed near policy.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io “which side is right?”, he asks. NEITHER THEY BOTH SUCK EGGS. god.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io oh Jesus CHRIST

What a fucking load of garbage. God. That’s infuriating.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io Allowing many more skilled workers into the United States reduces any incentives on American business to invest in the American workforce. Why do so when they can get talent from abroad?Allowing many more skilled workers into the U.S. also reduces the bargaining power of skilled workers already in America — and thereby reduces any incentive operating on other Americans to gain the skills for such jobs.Jesus CHRIST how could anyone write such drivel. These are the fucking galaxy brains that have been running this shit show?

Why, pray tell, would allowing more skilled workers come in reduce the incentive to hire citizens? What’s the logic behind that? Does it have anything to do with, ohhhh, I dunno, them being easier to exploit?

And then he fucking leads into an argument “reducing the bargaining power” BUDDY. BUDDY MY DUDE. WHAT bargaining power? Bargaining power is not given, it is (rightfully) taken.

These assholes have eaten 99% of the goddamn pie and arguing over who gets the scraps. Fuck em.

Jesus Christ, this is the most asshole article I’ve read in a minute.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I can’t say I’m surprised to hear that people are doing this but it is very fucking disgusting that this is happening.

Elon is a ridiculous fucking sham of a person and all he does is exploit whatever, and whomever, he can. The fact that self-proclaimed leftists are immediately blaming the visa system instead of the guy who really sucks and makes a ton of problems for literally everyone on this goddamn planet is just… ugh. I’m sorry. I’ve been sick and am clearly in a bubble because I haven’t seen any of this. You, and every person in this goddamn country and elsewhere deserves none of this garbage.

Elon isn’t even pro immigration, he’s just pro exploitation. That’s it. For fuck’s sake.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io is it okay if I boost this? I think this should be said really loudly but also I don't want to open you up to harassment.

#monsterdon is finally watching something I have seen and I don't know how to feel about this because boy oh boy is it a movie

you're in for a... mmmmm. Admittedly I saw it like, 20 years ago! So it's been a minute. But I did find it mildly disturbing! But maybe I'm confusing when I felt disturbed with that time I watched Deliverance (a movie I wish I could scrub from my brain), which was around the same time.

anyway, enjoy! Don't uh... well, you'll see.

There’s a lot that 20 year old me had to think and say about this film and I don’t know if a 40 year old me watching it would have the same or different feelings (probably the latter).

ANYWAY. DELIGHT ME WITH YOUR TAKES. I LOOK FORWARD TO THEM.