Notices by Internet Rando (mousey@mastodon.seattlematrix.org)

@SlicerDicer @feld @sun lol, if people smoked as much cannabis as they smoked tobacco, we'd have a totally different set of problems.. ^_^

@jeffowski bruh, I'm not arguing that.

what I'm arguing is.. the cannabis *community* only focuses on the getting high part. every HempFest I've ever been to has been about getting high, and related paraphenalia.

I am YET to go to ANY cannabis conference that is about:
- industrial or consumer textiles
- fuels
- feed
- oils
- paper products
- cardboard products
- medicines (other than CBD)
- soaps, lotions, makeup
- building/construction materials
- paints or inks
- coatings

and so on.

@jeffowski I'm pissed the "cannabis" community is stuck in the "get high" category, when HEMP is fucking so superfuckinguseful. it's criminal that we don't industrialize hemp.

`US$0.02++`

On a scale of very, to firing squad, how illegal is vote buying anyway? And where are cops?

https://imgur.com/gallery/elon-musk-offers-1-000-to-outside-agitators-latest-vote-buying-scheme-hkgPP3Y#/t/current_events

#votebuying #uspol #Wisconsin #arrestelon

@feld

that tracks...

@killyourfm ...then make transcoded digital backups of your privately owned physical media. Validate the backups any time you want, without wear and tear to your physical copies. 👍

Plex, VLC, Kodi, peertube, funkwhale, all great backup validation suites. There's lots!

@feld Gold, Jerry, GOLD!

@killyourfm the giant advantage being old people like me can read it? 🤣

@GossiTheDog

I keep explaining to IRL people why I'm on Fedi, and that there's no "Engagement Engineering" so ofc I put it down after a while, naturally.. THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE..

Weaving my (own, personal) social network with "tools" is so much more healthy than being on a corporate attention treadmill with "products"!

Volunteer to help your local admins, and/or contribute. It's worked for public radio, it can work for public internet..

✌️

@mttaggart @vrruiz @kims @mekkaokereke @ecosdelfuturo

It doesn't have to be a Mastodon fork either, right?

Pleroma
Misskey
Friendica
pixelfed
loops
PeerTube
hell, even nextcloud

There's a ton of ways to implement ActivityPub, trying to reinvent Twitter is kinda tunnel vision, no?

Consider, instances themselves are less important than being able to *connect* with people. Everyone doesn't *need* to be on the same instance. Too much emphasis on One True Platform™ is how we got in this mess.

@countcol 🤷

@inthehands @BlackAzizAnansi lol, how amazon doesn't get arrested for Ring?. 🤔

@scott can we, perchance, instead, stop making tech bros?

kthx

@brainwane heck yeah i have stuff to hide!
- credit card numbers
- medical records
- ideas for novels/products
- family communications
- bank account details
- property deeds

You can't have *privacy* without *security*, but you *can* have security *without* privacy.

Be most wary of those (systems) which would obscure this fact.

@jeffowski thanks, but you're not my boss. I will continue to steal your memes regardless!!!

@feld wow, IRIX.

@feld

@BlackAzizAnansi

shameless repost,

@feld
*cough*funkwhale*cough*

@feld

*cough* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/ *cough*