Notices by Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt), page 2

fuuuuuuuuck you, pledge to end the genocide

lmao I just looked at an email the dems sent and it literally has a donation button

The election is over. We want change? Now is the fucking time to make them change. Not a single goddamn cent till they start making iron clad ass promises they can keep* about ending the fucking genocide, cutting off billionaires, regulating the FUCK out of tech and strengthening labor unions

* (also don't give them money then, either)

the DNC

Dunno how to tell you this but the minorities in deep red states, even the ones in groups that "went for Trump" (people are not groups or statistics) are really, really gonna need help. Do not write off the deep red states or the people living in them: not only do those people deserve safety and support and community, but they're unfortunately "the front fucking line" for basically all the white supremacist shit that is thrown around internally.

They already don't get help from the government; they already aren't hired by corporations and companies down there. So if they ask, welp. Let's help them stay safe and build, yeah? That means giving mutual aid, funding, emotional support when they need it, writing recommendation letters, helping with their education (tutoring, financial, emotional, access to resources). Fuck, if they have a business idea, throw some money towards them! I'm not one who cares too much about business stuff normally but you and I both know they're not gonna get that money from banks.

#mastodonForHarris #mutualAid

What do we need? We need safety tools. We need safe communication networks. We need to keep BIPOC, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people safe. We need to keep people housed, fed, and safe. We need in-person networks.

You tried to keep a ladder up and you did your best. But this isn't a democracy; we didn't have many choices on the ballots (we really did not). What you did was community organizing and we can do it for ourselves, too. Because that's what you were trying to do anyway.

#mastodonForHarris

Alright. You guys raised a lot of money. A lot of money. Think about what we can do if we channel that money towards community and mutual aid and projects that protect us. Think of the people we can uplift.

#mastodonForHarris

If you're in a position to help with mutual aid, do it. Don't do more than you can, just do what you can. If you're looking for art, look for independent artists! Buy their stuff! You get to decorate and have happy art and they get to keep making it. Do the same for musicians. Hire from these groups; contract them for things.

Don't do more than you can; don't put yourself in danger. But also don't donate to candidates for an election that might not happen if we don't take care of each other now. If you want an election in 4 years, a good way to start is by taking care of people now.

#mastodonForHarris #mutualAid

I'm not the first person to say; I'm not the first person to even say it here. But something someone said really stuck with me: that he was partnering with imperfect people for a goal to make things better.

I was talking with a lot of people yesterday and they said that community isn't about forming emotional bonds, or requiring commitment to an ideology; it's about being there for each other. You don't have to commit to supporting someone forever; you don't have to be their best friend. You don't have to worry about if they have some problematic opinions or if they sometimes use insensitive language. Maybe they do all those things, maybe they do none of them. Is their heart in the right place? Are they helping to make things better? Are they not working to make things worse? You can work with them; they can be in your community.

@pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se as far as wiretapping goes, the encryption (assuming it is robust, correctly implemented, and also not trivially cracked) make that pointless unless I’m mistaken, right? Without access to the key, they’d just get noise. Definitely, though, the “US controlled operating systems” is a weak link for sure, particularly if there’s a method of obtaining said key.

I think it’s probably wise to assume no encryption will help you stave off the eye of Sauron when it’s aimed directly at you, but if you want to make sure you don’t catch it by accident signal is probably a good choice.

Do you have any suggestions for communication programs not entirely controlled by US entities? (this is a genuine question but because I’m tired it reads as sarcastic to me so I’m writing this to make it clear it’s something I’m genuinely curious in!)

It's true that a lot of servers in the fediverse are probably run by cool people, but remember that everything you say is copied many, many times over to many, many different databases. For example, my single user instance here federates with like, 11,000 fucking instances, I am not joking. That means this little post could be copied into 11,000 databases, give or take, depending on the nature of the instances I'm federated with.

So in theory, let's say I posted something, like, I dunno, "fuck dtolnay". Any one of those servers could take offense with that and be shitty to me about it. And I don't control their retention policies.

So! While we don't have to worry about Mark "My Cold Dead Eyes Are The Mark of the Beast" or Elon "I fucked my own cybertruck and liked it" being shitty about our stuff here, it's not a bad idea to consider the nature of the fediverse when writing spicy things that could be prone to misinterpretation.

#activityPub #fediverse

There are no secure DMs in the fediverse; this is basically the equivalent of walking onto a street and chatting with a friend. Whether anyone hears you is just about whether or not they're listening.

So! The safest data is the data that never existed. So don't rely too much on DMs; switch to something else!

#activityPub #fediverse

Hey everyone! A couple good things to remember:

Signal is your friend! https://signal.org/
Be careful about what you post on corporate and federated social media. You don't need to self censor but you should take extra spicy discussions to something like Signal!

(people: please feel free to add hot tips for helping people keep things private!)

#security #secureCommunications

I can't believe how focused my brain is on trying to find the inverse of "inherit" (not disinherit! I'm not talking about the opposite action; I'm talking about the action in the reverse direction).

I'm not sure there is a word for it because... things don't work that way.

A child inherits from their parent; the parent _ to the child.

Perhaps, amusingly, the best analogue is chimerism: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-discover-childrens-cells-living-in-mothers-brain/ such as when the cells of a child are passed to the parent during gestation. So perhaps something like "chimerization"?

paging @trochee@dair-community.social 😅

@xgranade@wandering.shop cool. this is one of those times I'm feeling salty that I let that whole "evidence" and "statistically proving or disproving the hypothesis and getting enough data to confidently say anything" get in the way of the publication needed to finish my phd.

@xgranade@wandering.shop I had to spend six months reworking our statistical analysis pipeline because things just weren't agreeing and I still couldn't get convergence across the 900-odd simulations I was doing for the fixed set of parameters.

and these people just... they just... ... "prompt engineering". I.

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@destroy@masto.anarch.cc @jalcine@todon.eu @vantablack@cyberpunk.lol No, he did not. He has had David blocked for ages and had no way of knowing David's pronouns when that post was made.

If someone is harassing you, you don’t “owe” it to them to gender them correctly. 1. Stop putting your priorities (“misgendering is bad”) above theirs (their personal fucking safety). 2. People here have, and continue, to twist the narrative of what happened so that the “ultimate sin” here is “misgendering”, not the harassment.

It’s not “misgendering because you don’t like someone”, it’s “not giving a shit about the gender of the person actively engaging in racist harassment of you” and pretending it’s all about gender just to incite a racist hate storm against someone who has openly and repeatedly said he will take all the racist harassment because he can and it means you people don’t harass others… fuuuuuck off. Lose that bullshit narrative. Kill the cop in your head and move on.

@freakazoid@retro.social 1. Ro didn’t know David’s pronouns
2. Ro made a spicy follow-up post… followed later by a much more detailed series of posts that somehow never get considered here. But there was no deliberate misgendering.
3. Also, if someone is harassing you? You’re free to get them to leave you alone in whatever way you need. Don’t prioritise the potential audience’s feelings over Ro’s literal safety.

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hey so, if you're on tech.lgbt, you should... leave. I'm probably gonna defed from them, if they don't server block me first.