Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social), page 7

It's important to critique the Andreessens of the world, but it's also important to remember that in the short term, they _will_ win the fight if we let it be fought on their terms.
& if they win, everyone - including them - loses. Which is REALLY important to remember when reading sermons about their hubris such as this from Andrew Leonard.
#TESCREAL #MagicReality #TechnoOptimism #TechSolutionism
https://www.salon.com/2014/06/13/the_tech_industrys_god_complex_is_getting_out_of_control/

So take the #TechSolutionists seriously - & literally, because a lot of them will literally try to do what they say they will.
& especially, keep track of what they say they're trying to do. #TESCREAL is a real thing that increasingly really matters, bundling up & extending toxic #TechnoOptimism, #TechSolutionism, #Longtermism, #EffectiveAltruism & a lot of other dangerous #MagicalThinking.
This thread's a good start:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111248660039613908

@mekkaokereke
There is a difference, yes, but Newsom is gonna know that the vast, vast majority of people will not PARSE the difference. If we're gonna assume there's a pre-announcement there are phrasings that will address that without tripping the 'make racists feel better' switch, & ones that a clever operator like him should've thought of. E.g. 'I have a list of top candidates for any appointment, and they are all black women.'
He set her up for a rough go & could've done better.
@breiter

@nicholashead @thomasfuchs
...& McConnell doing more or less the same thing. Byrd & Thurmond both as precedent. Do these people have nothing more they want to do before they die? (TBF with Feinstein there seems to be evidence she wasn't sufficiently compos mentis to presume she made the decision on her own.)

Struck me after reading this comment that ActivityPub platforms could be great ways to disseminate media, data, information, etc., for organizations - like the US Gov't, & maybe parts of BBC - who produce material that is by law in public domain.

https://mastodon.social/@box464/111099167060216087

I've got work to do & there's absolutely nothing in my job duties that lets me justify monitoring #fediforum [https://fediforum.org/] as professional devlopment, but it looks like there's some really cool stuff being shared.

@darckcrystale
No, it's really not.

Here's what happened:
Ro designed a system to aggregate domain blocklists, & seeded it from a number of large-ish instances.

Unfortunately several of those instances had really bad moderation, in some cases with pronounced & well-documented anti-trans bias, so the seed data was flawed.

People pointing this out were met with hostility & the presumption of racism. Things predictably spiraled from there.

@neitahchan

@dansup I get that you didn't intend it to be.

@dansup
Why are you presuming that the people who are worried about this solution have never felt unsafe here?

@goatsarah well that sucks.

@goatsarah supposedly they're going to be bundled with flu shots here in the US, but I probably won't wait that long & will jsut get them separately.

@goatsarah
LIke I said, no egg, no pastry crust. That's a yeasted crust.
(Some might have egg if they're filled with ricotta, which sometimes gets a bit of egg to fluff it up.)
@po8crg @pseudomonas

@goatsarah
yeh i gotta get religious about this stuff - wife had Guillain-Barre earlier this year & now she can't get vaccines for a while. Which means I've gotta get all the shots, to keep her as safe as I can.

@pseudomonas
It ain't remotely a quiche. I've yet to encounter one that included eggs or had a pastry crust.
As a linguistic realist, I believe foods are what they are called if they are called that by enough people who eat those foods.
@goatsarah @po8crg

Started looking through some of the sites blocked by #TheBadSpace. This is at my very most charitable interpretation some serious scorched-earth #HOA nonsense, resulting from #MinimumViableProduct mindset without regard for consequences.

Again,charitably: Someone deciding his end justifies any means. It doesn't.

https://thegoodspace.neocities.org/
[h/t @TheGoodSpace | https://mastodon.social/@TheGoodSpace/111052271194393071]

Something I haven't seen mentioned about #TheBadSpace: it's an algorithmic solution to a human problem. Just exactly what people claim they don't want anymore, but now a bunch of people are lurching eagerly toward it because integrating TheBadSpace's blocklist is a simple action they can take that they believe will innoculate them from blame for racist bigotry.

@goatsarah @fne8w2ah
I loved magsafe for the first couple years I used it; then I started to see them fraying & breaking at the connector. It was almost the rule. (I ordered power bricks for Macs for an ad agency for about 8 years, so I saw this a lot.)

Mind you *mine* never went out, so I think this was a user behavior thing, but I would say they were poorly designed for the behavior of most of my users.

@goatsarah This is a fun question. Unless I'm mistaken the answer for North/South America is probably Prince Edward Island, in the Canadian Maritimes. There are much bigger islands (e.g. Baffin Island), some of those even more important (e.g. Newfoundland or Long Island [in New York state]). Caveat that I haven't looked at Tierra del Fuego to see how much of that one can get to by bridge/tunnel.

@scr
Either I didn't see it or I didn't think it had a bridge to the mainland.
@goatsarah

@goatsarah @cy
The "bug" in this case is a major conceptual flaw in the design, which basically was to create a stupid-simple CENTRALIZED blocklist aggregation tool that had no facility for documentation, review, appeal, auditing, moderation, etc. Basically "minimum viable product" [MVP] applied to a case where applying MVP methodology was guaranteed to cause harm.