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

@jimcarroll
Don't they also do a Shaw Festival there? Or is that part of the larger Shakespeare Festival? [Insert appropriate crack about Shakespeare Writing the Plays of George Bernard Shaw.]
@mcc

I'd speculate on what Trump's game plan is with undercutting the GOP speaker process at every possible turn, but at this point I think he's just being pathologically disruptive. Plus I'm not sure he's bright enough to have a plan. He's just not a smart man, never has been.

@goatsarah @tommyyum
The principle motivating feeling of most American Republicans is fear. Even their greed is subordinate to & filtered through fear. (I suspect Tories are similar, AFAICS this is super common for conservatives in general.)

So 'stop being frightened of the guy who can unlease an overwhelming swarm of low-skill ratfuckers' is a noble aspiration, but one to which the majority of Republicans cannot obtain.

@mekkaokereke
& nobody's argued with that.

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.