Notices by Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)

@HistoPol well, if you're using generative ai for images like that, you're definitely looking at an audience that likes that sort of stuff.

And I can say pretty confidently that in my circles, that's more offensive than long posts for a variety of reasons.

I believe we're done? Because it's clear we don't see eye to eye, and I don't need to win or lose.

You do you. I'll do me.

@HistoPol well, I suppose when you see a beach you don't see the boundaries interacting. Shifting. Constant churning. A sunset displays that more.

Shifting.

So you say unrelated. I disagree.

And...

As far as favorites and all of that... that's not why I write. My reward is externalities my thought.

Some people get it, some people don't.

*shrugs*

I don't force the issue.

Good luck.

@dalias @TCatInReality @Npars01 @EUCommission

I said I am done.

Consent begins with deciding what you choose to engage with, including online platforms.

Let me be done.
Please.

@dalias @TCatInReality @Npars01 @EUCommission the point is that I do care.

I care enough to suggest that no one should be using the platforms.

And i am doing it on... Mastodon.

Caring is not my issue. I've written a lot about centralized social media.

I care enough to say that this becomes a moot point if people stop acting like the platforms involved need to be defended when they are harmful in and of themselves.

Consent begins with use.

@dalias @TCatInReality @Npars01 @EUCommission 2/ all this time, energy, outrage and passion could be doing something else if people looked to their own self-interest.

There are so many reasons not to use the platforms in the first place. At the base of it, extraction.

Meanwhile, in the US, FISA just got extended for 10 days. The Trump administration wants 18 months.

And because of where the companies are, it impacts all those online platforms.

I don't agree with age verification because of

@dalias @TCatInReality @Npars01 @EUCommission 3/ the privacy issues, and I don't agree with using those platforms for privacy issues and the attention, intention and influence economies that extract (privacy).

So... why not just not worry about age verification if you ain't gonna use it, and explain the privacy issues to the kids?

They're smarter than most adults about this stuff.

@dalias @TCatInReality @Npars01 @EUCommission 1/ effectively, that is what the law is doing if you really care about privacy.

I cannot find it in myself to argue that children should harm themselves in any way.

And for or against age verification seems the wrong thing to be arguing because of that.

We have enough societal problems with adults using the platform, don't we?

Attempting to raise the stakes for self-interest is the only thing a government can appear to do.

@dalias @TCatInReality @Npars01 @EUCommission

I am in agreement about the proxy harm.

Yet my point remains. Everyone seems to assume the platforms must be used.

If people don't use the platforms, this becomes a non-issue.

Consent begins with the decision to use the platform... or not.

If anything, raising the bar for people to make that choice is good.

https://knowprose.com/2026/03/the-puddle-we-keep-choosing/

@dalias @TCatInReality @Npars01 @EUCommission Good arguments for and against...

And...

Since there are privacy concerns either way...

This is only a debate because there is a fight to a right to have access to extractive online platforms...

Why use them at all? 🙃

There was life and messy childhood long before the techbros.

Remember this.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Worlds-Top-Oil-Companies-To-Rake-In-Extra-234-Billion-In-War-Profits.amp.html

#oilandgas #oilprices

@HistoPol I suppose it's a style issue.

If it's over 500 for me, it takes real estate from me and makes me have to scroll scroll scroll past it so I generally mute users that post like that.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong.
It's just what I do.

It's rare for me to find something THAT interesting in a feed. Very rare.

For me, the Fediverse is a way to find things, not to read things. But I am only one.

Here's an example of how I post my content:

https://mastodon.social/@knowprose/116392089406159325

@HistoPol @anjara you could, of course, just post a link with your account with a intro and hashtags.

I have in the past experimented with automating WordPress posts.

It becomes painful to interact with people responding because of account switching, it spams long prose to the fediverse (hopefully that flgot fixed over the years?), and some users such as myself don't like long posts in our timelines. I mute them.

Just posting a link with some hashtags works.

Everyone's mileage varies.

This is sad. Apparently in dealing with one emergency, this happened.

And within a few hours, everyone will be focusing on why their flight was delayed instead of the very human thing that just happened.

https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/laguardia-collision-ice-airports-tsa-03-23-26

#LaGuardiaCrash

Helium. This I did not see coming.

Helium.

https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

#tech #iranwar

@dansup right on. Don't lose the faith (responding to edit)

@dansup My word. As someone who doesn't like the filter but doesn't care enough the filter to try to inflict my opinion on other people about it... Wow.

I think... your post should demonstrate the awareness that fediverse developers also spend time dealing with issues like this.

That I don't like the filter doesn't mean no one should use it. That it shouldn't be available.

The world, such as it is, doesn't suffer me.
I suffer it! 🤣

@dansup I think they lost me with the way that they handled season 1.

Good writing. Great characters. Loved the ambience and texture.

But I don't want an open cognitive loop for weeks after a short episode.

This is why, generally, i wait til the end of the season of a show and binge watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik_effect

@dansup if you did not make mistakes, you wouldn't be where you are.

Thanks for what you are doing.

People looking for perches undervalue their wings. Just fly. 🙃

@dansup @supapp man... I thought of this when I was working on the Alert Retrieval Cache way back when and never followed up. The idea is had at the time was pop encryption that could be transmitted in multiple ways, though I was more focused on asynchronous communication leaning toward SMS.

kind of got lost in the shuffle of... life? Twitter started, the tempo shifted, and enshittification began.

But yeah... it should not matter the service. It can be completely agnostic.

@anildash yeah. The US census history is an amazingly silly bunch of stuff.