Notices by Derek Powazek 🐐 (fraying@xoxo.zone)

@annaleen Please tell me "stop talking about filter bubbles" also includes why "echo chamber" is just a pejorative way to say "community."

@annaleen Yup. Abuser logic.

If you're also giving Bluesky a try, I'm over there, too. Come say hi.

https://bsky.app/profile/fraying.bsky.social

I crosspost sometimes, but I'm finding it interesting to see what's different about here vs there. I feel like I can be more real here, esp in followers-only posts. There seems more newsy because of all the journalists and quote posts. And honestly? Fewer reply guys there.

(Please don't have here vs there arguments in my comments. Loyalty is for friends, not social networks.)

So far, my biggest complaint about Bluesky is how everyone says it's great because it "has no algorithm" which is a bananas thing to say because it has tens of thousands of algorithms called Feeds that you can choose from.

And before anyone here gets preachy because Masto has "no algos," yes, it does, it's just called Explore.

Algos aren't the problem and never have been. Loss of control is the problem.

Don't get me started.

This explains a lot.

Source: https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/link-between-media-consumption-and-public-opinion

@phaedral You’re talking about my family did you know that? So shut the fuck up

We have survived nazis before.

@iron_bug Oh fuck off.

Cynicism is easy. It asks nothing of you or the world. Cynicism delights in despair.

Hope is brave. Hope takes work. Hope makes you take responsibility for doing your part, however small, to steer the world toward where it should be.

Do something brave. Have hope. And then do your part.

We. Are going. To fucking WIN.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2024/11/02/iowa-poll-kamala-harris-leads-donald-trump-2024-presidential-race/75354033007/

I’m telling you, it’s not gonna be close. We are collectively done with that man.

This is the very definition of "don't threaten me with a good time."

“Ideally, you would want to interact with your car through voice,” says Rivian’s chief software officer and someone who I'd never want to be in a car with.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/30/rivians-chief-software-officer-says-in-car-buttons-are-an-anomaly/

"Software is eating the world" didn't seem like a threat at the time, but it sure does now.

I really love Rivian's hardware design, but their digital design is why I'll never own one. (Also the fact that I could buy two Tacomas for the price of a R1T.)

Here's what the techbros fail to understand: the joy of driving is in the physicality of it. The control. Touch and feedback is key to that feeling of power and independence.

The idealized scenario of handing your decision making ability over to a car AI is exactly the opposite of what most people who drive trucks want.

It's WILD to me that he doesn't know this.

I'll stop making these when they do their fucking job.

No matter who wins this election, I can tell you this: I’m gonna remember who said it didn’t matter. I’m gonna remember who said they were both the same.

@collectiveownershipratical That's all fascism needs to succeed - ordinary people doing nothing.

You are picking a side. It's the wrong one.

Refusing to pick a side when one of the sides is fascism is picking the fascist side.

It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.