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

@thomasfuchs
When dogs stop fetching you basically know they're getting old enough to worry about.
With cats it could happen any time & means nothing much, as far as I've ever been able to see.
It's a bit like how a kid one day decides 'no that breakfast cereal is actually poison, yes I am aware that yesterday I would eat nothing else.'

@thomasfuchs
Interesting!
I haven't done it so far just because my mental bandwidth is about maxed, but I'm seeing more & more arguments for at least getting familiar with how bsky works.

@thomasfuchs
Is sharing mute/block lists an actual UI feature, or does one do it via export/import? (E.g. I export & send to you, you import.)

@jwz @jhpot
I use it unironically on a regular basis. It's a pretty darn cromulent word. Reliably embiggens the conversation.

Note total failure by #AirCanada to acknowledge that the problem wasn't lack of a wheelchair, it was publicly humiliating a human being for the sin of being disabled. #accessibility #a11y
[h/t @knittingknots2 | https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/111324914769560604]

@goatsarah
I would not go to those lengths, but I sincerely & heartily respect that you have done so.

@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.