People don't have rights to themselves. We live in a society, where our actions have consequences on others. Abortion is right, because it harms nobody, and anti-abortion harms many people, even giving power to those who would cause more harm. The whole nonsense about bodily autonomy is really just ego stroking. What we want is prosperity, not the individual freedom to choose between failures.
Difference is there are a lot more collaborators and they are much more dangerous. Fascists are weak, cowardly, everything they tell you to despise. Thinking themselves puppetmasters, they use the rubes they've fooled to do their dirty work. People held in debt to the fascists, who believe that disaster will fall if they are not obeyed, are the ones breaking down your door, even if the only way to end fascism is to destroy their masters, who are doing seemingly nothing at all.
Make sure that everybody has the ability to not be the product for some billionaire We wanted to give everyone the opportunity to join us in helping us build this and we established a #Discord community Uh...
Oh, I can think of a lot of reasons not to implement ActivityPub. That doesn't apply to Bluesky though, they're not doing any of it. I do think a bridge is ultimately doomed, since there's always something lost in translation, but I don't have any particular fucks to give over the people doing it. When I mark something Public it means Public.
@georgetakei@universeodon.com@ecsd@commons.whatiwanttoknow.org Really, the claim that lead, and uranium-238 emerge from supernovas is itself faith-based. It's different from religion because nobody's threatening us if we don't believe it, but we truly don't know where those elements come from. No model of nuclear fusion that I know of can proceed past iron. Iron doesn't produce a net positive energy when fusing, so there's no more fusion reaction to fight against the crushing gravity. That's as far as it gets. At that point, our mathematical models hit undefinable asymptotes, as the energy density of the collapsing star goes to infinity.
I'm pretty sure that a neutron star can form through simple Newtonian laws of gravity, where the only thing keeping the star from collapsing further is the Pauli exclusion principle. There are also white and brown dwarves, which are basically balls of iron. But a mathematical model for the creation of uranium in the massive chaotic energy blast of a supernova just doesn't exist. As far as I know all they can say is "Uh, 238 protons just randomly happen to smack into each other, and just happen to be ejected away from the explosion, and just happen to drag 238 electrons along with them. Along with every other value of N protons. I guess."
I suppose some people might have a working model for a heavy metal forming in a supernova, but it's faith-based for me. I just don't care where lead or uranium 238 came from. Supernova's my best guess for uranium, but why would I have to know for sure?
@georgetakei@universeodon.com Really, these people aren't arguing that the earth is 4000 years old. They're saying they have no choice but to believe that it is, because their god commanded it. It's like arguing to that skinny kid in the back of class that he shouldn't give his lunch money to bullies. I don't argue with them, but try to provide compassion, respect and opportunity. Give them a way out, help them figure out for themselves if they've been deceived, and help them figure out what to do if they have.
It uh... doesn't work, because I'm mostly powerless to help, but I'd do whatever I could to ease people's fears that God or their family will punish them for not pretending as hard as they can that the bible is inerrant.
The Soviet Union was absolutely terrible, an autocratic tyranny disguised as a communist state, that everyone in it hated and no one was allowed to say they did. But it was also subject to decades of economic embargo from every bastard capitalist state out there, doing their absolute best to starve poor people to death to force them to revolt. They sent fanatical capitalist spies in to undermine what little stability the Soviet Union managed to achieve. The gulags were arguably arranged by capitalists who had a full on underground campaign to infiltrate and obscure just how bad the camps were getting. The Soviets had their own spies and fanatics, but they were a much less stable state, so they didn't have near the imbalance of power that capitalists/mafiosos could use to create horrible things. You can find dozens of examples of people in the USA driven to enforce their own oppression out of fear of Soviet spies, and almost no actual infiltration doing any actual harm.
Ironically, now that mafiosos have taken over Russia, and the whole thing has converted to a capitalist state, now they have the power over people to carry on a coordinated campaign of destructive infiltration in the USA, up to and including throwing presidential elections in the favor of maximum chaos and mayhem.
So uh... what I mean is "we" sped things up for a long time before Reagan. He certainly went high octane on the Kill the Evil Empire line of thinking though.
Yes sorry, I didn't mean to say it wasn't possible. A securely signed key namespace is great and would totally work. I'm mostly complaining about HTTP signatures, and saying that hypothetically if your proposal is out of the question, then the absolute, minimal, most half-assed and barely functional way to enable smooth account migration is to just... stop signing HTTP headers. Signing HTTP headers along with the body, rather than just the body, is the only thing absolutely stopping us from migrating to a new account after the old instance dies. It serves no purpose other than making things difficult.
Embed this noticeCy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 23:27:10 JST
CyTrying to figure what I even want my program to do. Log on to multiple Fediverse instances, keep up with some timelines. How do I time it so it starts polling for updates, only after the oauth negotiation is done? How do I deal with sites randomly expiring tokens, so I'd have to negotate oauth again? You get a token and... start waiting for the next instance to be ready for polling, except that token is for a different instance, but does that matter, but...
Hadn't heard, but I'm trying to make basically a fancy reaggregating client, so I can get posts from pdx.social and pnw.social and equestria.social and whatever else, as well as posts to fedicy.us.to. Ideally it'd let me direct everyone toward my main account, instead of posting as alt accounts and having to keep up with those too. But downloading notifications and private messages from alt accounts is also a thing I'd like to have. Most Fediverse clients throw away the info they download, so the servers can have more control over what you see, but that means downloading the timeline again every time you refresh the page.
And uh, also a little server I guess, just a single user instance. Is that sort of what @silverpill@mitra.social is doing?
...with paid subscriptions, donation buttons, and cryptocurrency, in #rust OK
@silverpill@mitra.social Account migrations (from one server to another). Identity can be detached from the server. I don't think this is possible, because of how HTTP signatures include the Host: header. Because HTTP signatures are the worst. But if you take a look at Friendica's support for moving instances, you can learn how not not not not not not notnot to do it. tl;dr using the private signing key your instance created, not creating your own, downloading that private key, then sending it to other instances is a bad bad bad bad inhales bad bad bad idea.
That's a gorgeous infographic. It might be wise to note that there are many steps before those 14. Those in the infographic are only the steps taken once the fascists already exist, already know what they're doing, have some power, and have decided to make their move. Cult of tradition, irrationalism, etc, none of which the fascists buy into. They're just using those strategies as propaganda, to try and psychologically manipulate people into giving them more power.
(Ironically they do end up owned by the propaganda in the end, but initially they always believe themselves immune to it.)
@dublininquirer@mastodon.ie Sorry that wasn't directed at the article. That's just what I see every time I try to find some way to help the homeless around here. Like, where's the help like "help your neighbors" help, rather than "save the poor impoverished drug addled wastrels from their own sin" help?
Desperately lonely wannabe activist in #hillsboro near #Portland in the Pacific Northwest. (#PDX)Always looking for ways to meet with people who live nearby so we can organize our community. Not... succeeding for 20 years is kind of discouraging.#stories #writer #lonely #adhd #ponies #mlp #cryptography #idk #help