Notices by bhaugen (bhaugen@social.coop)

@dangillmor
> using Substack and thereby supporting Trumpists (undoubtedly without realizing it).

I did not realize that. (Altho I don't use Substack myself, I do read people who post on Substack.)

@GottaLaff

👀👀

“Dem EEOC Commissioner Jocelyn Samuels was fired by #Trump in an unprecedented move that undercuts Dems’ voting majority on the board

…leaves her seat on the 5-member civil rights panel open to be filled by nominations from a Trump admin & a GOP-controlled Senate”
http://blawgo.com/dUz5Jni

#BREAKING— #Trump's freeze on grant funding temporarily halted by judge—Bloomberg

The typical #FOSS #dev lifecycle:

1. #showerthought idea
2. git init, start #CI pipeline
3. code, don't forget #TDD

It is great for doing what you love to do as a coder: #coding. It is less great if over time your coded work becomes popular, and all kinds of boring other considerations must be dealt with.

One easily ends up in a #OneManArmy situation, and if not delegating timely, on a burnout vector.

This kind of ad-hoc #ShowDontTell also leads to #TechnosphereMyopia: tech-only perspective.

@smallcircles
> The fedi we can't get is the one where we all #collaborate and #cocreate at the level of the #OpenStandards #ecosystem, where the true potential is.

I agree that is the true potential, but have you seen any signs or movements to get there?

@Danetteb We need more. Trump will do everything he can to destroy them

@GottaLaff #unionstrong let’s go!
It takes a lot of work (and courage!!) to form a union from the ground up. I applaud these workers!

@PaulaToThePeople
I am sorry that you are going thru winter depression. You often cheer me up. Often with your helpful messages.

Hope your friends here can help cheer you up.

This place needs you! and needs you to feel good about yourself!

OMG i just reckoned the amount of times The Enterprise gets into trouble because Kirk can’t stop swirling his dick in interstellar crazy.

peace my ass, the mans was on a quest to spread his seed across the universe like he was some galactic dandelion.

#StarTrek #tv

Aw the US tech industry was trying to be a big dog, but the big dog got so full of shit that it was all backed up with if and couldn't fight.

I really appreciate the snarkiness in this writing and interview, including:
'The over-the-top marketing and snake oil salesman level of pushing by the U.S. AI industry has caused somewhat of a freakout among less technically literate government policymakers."

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/deepseek-openai-lina-khan-sam-altman

(10/10)

Finally, if @pluralistic wants to see composable moderation in the fediverse, he could do worse than supporting IFTAS;

https://iftas.org/

Moderation-as-service is right there on their homepage as one of their core purposes.

He could also support the FEP process, by which the fediverse developer community are extending ActivityPub to address new needs, created by new kinds of social software;

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/

Some of these are about federating features that BS has.

@melis @GottaLaff

1/5 thread

Petro is very active on social media and knows how to dunk on people. His national corporate media actively lies to diminish him but he remains popular.

So his silence on the concessions the US made I believe is intentional so that Trump can bray for domestic audiences, because Petro already got what he wanted:
1) humane treatment for the deported
2) an opportunity to expand Latin American solidarity & unity for Petro's global progressive & anti-colonial agenda

@GottaLaff @Pachacutec My National broadcaster did the same…

i don’t believe the broligarchy didn’t know about China’s tinkering in the domain of LLMs. i think it’s bullshit. they saw it coming and that’s why they went ahead hyping it, laying off hundreds of thousands of skilled tech workers, talking shit about reactivating nuclear plants and buying up MAGA & stealing the 2024 elections to make their fever dream seem inevitable.

yes, the techbros stole the elections to ensure a leg up on whatever was to come out from China…

THERE IS NO OPEN/LIBRE OFFICE WITHOUT CHINA

sometime in the aughts the Chinese government started investing in open source software development. it was right about the time the first Lula administration in Brazil told Microsoft and Bill Gates to go fuck themselves.

actually, THE MICROSOFT INCIDENT IS WHY BRICS EXISTS. had it not been for Brazil and China seeing Microsoft as symbol of a new gringo colonialist expansion, the trading block wouldn't exist… 🧵

so here’s the part the people over at Stratechery missed when they answer “So why is everyone freaking out?”.

just like with driving cars, the American elites have this weird prejudice about the Chinese and their tech culture. techbros often believe that China isn’t good at software development.

it says something about the intersection of racism and class/elitism; that the capitalist elites, don’t understand how CHINA is basically an OPEN SOURCE powerhouse… 🧵

a $100 billion article of faith being propped up by the OPEC mafia because they see the incredibly wasteful and inefficient data centers needed for running techbro AI as an opportunity to continue pumping petroleum.

and since these data centers consume water, theyre gambling on turning this an investment into convoluted schemes of diverting water from water-rich countries like the USA, to their deserts.

China just killed that with a scripty kid and a couple of computers, sort to speak… 🧵

Pastors and priests whose sermons were considered in any way critical of the Nazi regime were reported to the authorities by people sitting in church to listen, to spy, to report.

If you Americans think we are not there now in our own time and place, if we think this could only have happened in Germany in the 1930s, then we're not seeing what's going on in our country now — with Christians leading the charge.

#Hitler #Nazis #Christians #Catholic #Protestant #Trump #BishopBudde #Bonhoeffer
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So by slapping tariffs on Columbia, #Trump just slapped a 25% tax on the US. Way to go, Felon!

3/ 3rd: use your privilege and access if you've got it. He and his buddies stole weapons from the Nazis by driving up with a truck to the weapons depot, speaking German, acting like it was a routine pick up, and driving away.

4th, and this is part of the third point really, sometimes the best way to do things is right out in the open. Because no one will believe something like what you're doing would be happening so blatantly. All good Social Engineers know this.