Richard MacManus @ricmac is coming to #FediForum next week and wants to talk about:
Fediverse development
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Once again, Gen X has been skipped over in a leadership transition. Just as we were when John Key/ Bill English, both Boomers, were replaced as PM by a Millenial, Jacinda Ardern. I wonder how common this will turn out to have been?
For clarity, I refer to the selection of Kuiini Ngaa Wai Hono i te Poo, a Millenial, to succeed Kiingi Tuheitia who was a Boomer;
rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/…
No disrespect intended to the new Kuiini nor to Ardern. Just noting the trend.
👋 We are excited to join @fediforum next week for the first time.
We'd love to exchange ideas with you about
➡️ academics’ mastodon use: drivers and hurdles; it's a small #research project we're currently starting;
➡️ #decentralized #SocialMedia in #academia; our #university #library’s perspective;
➡️ applying #OpenScience principles in our #mastodon #communications
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Bluesky says it had over 9M users as of September 6, after adding 3M new users in the week or so since Brazil blocked X, and that video support is "coming soon" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2024/09/07/blue…
techmeme.com/240907/p9#a240907…
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Israeli settlers vandalise olive trees in West Bank
Israeli travel restrictions and attacks on olive groves meant Palestinian farmers lost approximately 1,200 metric tonnes of olive oil from last year’s harvest.
@palestine
#WestBank
#OliveTrees
![A Palestinian olive farmer checks damages to her olive trees near Salfit in the occupied West Bank [File: Alaa Badarneh/EPA]](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/15536895 "A Palestinian olive farmer checks damages to her olive trees near Salfit in the occupied West Bank [File: Alaa Badarneh/EPA]")
I know it's annoying to hear me and others keep saying this but: none of these adaptations will matter if we don't stop burning fossil fuels.
FEP-7888 and the Add activity
@thisismissem@hachyderm.io in a post yesterday brought back the idea that better post controls could be achieved if the reply were sent to the target only, and the target then forwards it if applicable.
It reminded me of @trwnh@mastodon.social's w3id.org/fep/7888, which attempts to govern a similar flow where a reply is sent to the context owner (instead of inReplyTo, which I think was Em's intent), and the context owner (and/or originating server) federates out an Add if approved.
Which got me thinking about whether that federated server could actually send out a Remove too!
Let's say a reply is made but later on, a mod decides that it is to be deleted. A Remove would be a way to signal to other instances that the content actually be removed/deleted!
We could even take it one step further; servers will always exist who don't adhere to the philosophy of the context owner approving replies. If they federate their own replies out, the context owner could actually proactively send a Reject and limit the spread of those replies...
I would be happy to consolidate, but I think the chances of some large percentage of the fediverse choking badly on an array for the context element are pretty high. Same reason I don't use an array in an actor 'url' field. It's a few years since I tried this, but 2/3 of the fediverse projects at the time couldn't deal with it and nobody bothered to fix it for years because "Mastodon doesn't do this, so you must be doing something wrong."
Anyway, I'm retired from the fediverse shit-show now. Y'all can do what you want. But please implement comment control. It isn't a "feature" - it's basic online security (except for some freespeech folks who still think everybody with an opinion or a dick has some God-given right to shove it in your face).
The fediverse you save might be your own.
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Big props to Jeremy Saulnier who wrote and directed Rebel Ridge. Recommend.
The film covers so much of what is wrong with US policing, in an action packed drama movie. It also covers the evil and racism in the system vs the individual. I don't think a cop calls a Black person the N-Word once in the whole movie.
*Civil asset forfeiture
*Cash bail and prison violence
*Why Black folk don't give statements
*The power of sheriffs in small towns
*Violence of the war on drugs
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Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •Please note:
* I'm using 1965 as the cutoff year for Boomers, following the generational boundaries used by Pew Research;
pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
* I'm following the Waikato-Tainui convention of using double vowels, rather than macrons, to indicate long vowel sounds. If you think this spelling of the monarchs' names is incorrect, please direct me to a source clarifying the official spelling. Wikipedia editors would like to know too, and I doubt they're the only ones.
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •"As has been the case in the past, this means that the differences within generations can be just as great as the differences across generations, and the youngest and oldest within a commonly defined cohort may feel more in common with bordering generations than the one to which they are assigned."
Michael Dimock, 2019
pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
Agreed. I'm technically Gen X (born before 81). But culturally and politically I'm more of an older Millenial, like most of my siblings, cousins, etc.
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •I note that according to the generational cutoff used by Pew, Kamala Harris, born 1964(1), is a Boomer. Her parents were both born in 1938, making them Silent Generation.
So whether or not Harris becomes US President (not a certainty), there remains a good chance that this title too will end up being won by a Millenial before Gen X gets a look-in.
(1) All birth dates taken from their Wikipedia articles
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •FYI a lot more post-Millennials can vote in elections held this year than in the preceding ones. Whether they turn out in force could have big impacts on electoral outcomes around the world. Not least in the US Presidency, where a strong turnout of Millenials and post-Millenials is likely to favour Harris;
pewresearch.org/social-trends/…
So if you're a US citizen and that's the outcome you want, I suggest doing everything you can to get young voters registered, and to the polls.
#USPols #Harris
Sam
in reply to Strypey • • •The numbers have shifted even more since 2019, and the silent generation is all but gone.
Boomers are retiring in droves to sit and rail at TVs.
It is time now for the generational hand off.
And knowing the shifts dynamics SHOULD be front and center of the policies #Harris selects.
Instead, on so many fronts she seems guided by the boomers. That is likely because she barely missed being one
#genocide #climate #COVID #Health #loans #equity #justice are all vital for them. +++
Strypey
in reply to Sam • • •@samohTmaS
> Instead, on so many fronts [Harris] seems guided by the boomers. That is likely because she barely missed being one
I note that according to the generational cutoff used by Pew Research;
pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
... Kamala Harris, born 1964, is a Boomer. Her parents were both born in 1938, making them Silent Generation.
She definitely reads more Boomer than GenX to me.
Sam
in reply to Strypey • • •The boundaries on generations aren't firm. She isn't a boomer.
She is potentially very late Jones Generation, or very early X Gen.
The Jones Generation is a cusp generation that occurs at the overlap between generations.
She is so late in Jones Generation though as to be on the cusp of the cusp..
The defining events for Jones generation were over by the time she was born.
She won't remember Woodstock, or even likely Watergate.
Reagan was President when she came of age.
Strypey
in reply to Sam • • •(1/?)
@samohTmaS
> The boundaries on generations aren't firm
Indeed, they're completely arbitrary. Which is why I referenced the source of the one I'm using.
> She isn't a boomer... She won't remember Woodstock, or even likely Watergate
Her parents were Silent Generation. She was part of the post-WW2 baby boom. So technically she is.
Is she culturally a Boomer? That's a separate question. You may well be right that she isn't.
Strypey
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My parent are Boomers and I'm on the GenX side of Pew's boundary year. But some of my younger siblings and most of my cousins are on the Millenial side of that boundary. Culturally, I have at least as much in common with the older Millenials I know as with other younger GenXers. Probably more than I do with the older Xers, who are hitting retirement age while I'm still in middle age.
As a fellow cusp-dweller, I can imagine Harris having similar feelings about Boomers and Xers.
Strypey
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@samohTmaS
> The Jones Generation is a cusp generation that occurs at the overlap between generations
Intriguing. Is there a named equivalent for the Gen X/ Millenial boundary I'm straddling?
Sam
in reply to Strypey • • •#harris
She is younger than I am by several years. I am no boomer,
The sex-drugs-rock-and-roll thing that defined the boomer generation was over before we became young adults.
I am old enough to vividly remember the whole space race, the Cuban missile crisis, John, Robert, Martin and Malcolm, plus Walter Cronkite, and all the rest. The Viet Nam war. She won't remember most of that.
Some of it will have shaped her - the Soviet Union in its dying days in particular. We are Joneses.
Strypey
in reply to Sam • • •@samohTmaS
> She is younger than I am by several years. I am no boomer
The plural of anecdote is not data and all that ; ) But see the following 2 posts in that chain. While defending my claim from a dry demographics POV, I freely acknowledge that you're in a much better position than I am to speak to the cultural aspect of what generation Harris might identify with.
You may have answered this elsewhere (a link is an answer 😁), but why "Jones"?
Sam
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in reply to Sam • • •@samohTmaS
> The name for the cusp generation comes from a common phrase from that era "Keeping up with the Joneses"
I know the phrase. Do you know how it stuck to your cusp? Genuinely curious. I find such things fascinating.
Sam
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in reply to Strypey • • •The X gen in the earlier years were also called latch-key kids.
The early boomers come in two flavors - the hippies and the yuppies. Both made for less than ideal parents. For very different reasons, both flavors tended to have delayed having kids, and then to have to work as their kids grew up. So their kids were left largely on their own, often in single child households.
They of necessity had to fend for themselves. And that caused their generation to be quite different.
Strypey
in reply to Sam • • •@samohTmaS
> The X gen in the earlier years were also called latch-key kids
I remember a UK TV series called something like that. Although that was broadcast in 1980, based on an older novel;
thetvdb.com/series/the-latchke…
Sam
in reply to Strypey • • •#generations
Citing a source on social science stuff does NOT male it right.
As part of lived experience I can assure you that no one born in 57 or later is a boomer. Many born from 54-56 aren't either.
The general population-science of generations is interesting, and often useful. However, 20 years is much too long.
One alternate to that is the idea that the 'main generations' drive the cycles, but that cusp generations overlap the beginnings and endings. Definitely true here.
Strypey
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@samohTmaS
> Citing a source on social science stuff does NOT make it right
Agreed. It's just a reference for the analytical model I'm working with.
> The general population-science of generations is interesting, and often useful.
As the old saying goes, all models are wrong, but some models are useful. This is true of all versions of "generations" as a model;
inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=-HFwok9…
The key to science, especially social science, is figuring which model(s) to use for what, and when.
Strypey
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@samohTmaS
> 'main generations' drive the cycles, but that cusp generations overlap the beginnings and endings
Sure, that's a model. What makes it analytically useful? Eg when examining a political candidate. You said in earlier post that Harris is influenced by Boomers. Couldn't the same observations be explained by saying she thinks like a Boomer, without outside influence?
Is there even a practical difference that makes this hill worth dying on? Genuinely curious.
Strypey
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@samohTmaS
> As part of lived experience I can assure you that
Anything that follows this statement is (subjectively) true, but..
a) can't be reliably generalised, because everyone's experiences emerges from their own unique context
b) may not even be objectively true, because there's what happens, and then there's the stories we tell ourselves about what happened
🌈Magical Thinking
in reply to Strypey • • •Future Sprog
in reply to Strypey • • •Nothing wrong with the new generation.
The older generation hung on to power for too long.
@strypey