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"I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will"

Strongly agree with @pluralistic and same for me: pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky

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in reply to Em

This is why I went #POSSE a long time ago for anything of persistent relevance. I grew weary of using my time and energy to create value for others only to find them extremely shitty stewards of such.


Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic:

"I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will."

"Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to ... mitchw.blog/2024/11/02/bluesky…



Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was an English writer and philosopher known for his novels, including 'Brave New World', and wide-ranging essays.

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." #stoicism #life #philosophy



Word of the day: Ulysses pact.
"Whenever you take a measure during a moment of strength that guards against your own future self's weakness, you enter into a Ulysses Pact – think throwing away the Oreos when you start your diet."
@pluralistic pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…
#wordoftheday #motdujour
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Because of course they did. This does, at least, finally settle a question: apparently the party membership’s innate fascism trumps the party membership’s innate racism.


The last sentence sounds like an order actually ... #Trump
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in reply to Helma

Ah, he does not trust his own wife voting. That explains it.
#Trump


#OTD eight years ago, I awoke in Sydney long before sunrise, heavily jet-lagged after flying from Europe via Singapore 😴

Meaning this picture could be taken 🙂

The next fortnight included stops in several packed Aussie stadiums & the prime minister’s office in the company of a rather famous man, a volcanic hike in New Zealand & consoling distraught Americans, & a drive across the Atacama desert in Chile between three epic observatory sites 🔭

More memories to follow … ✌️

#Photography 📷

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"it's a real problem but we should just let people die from it" is a weirdly honest position from these people

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wfuyb…



We live in an amazing time—a Pakistani website specializing in publishing fake news created by AI to earn advertising revenue published an announcement of a non-existent Halloween parade in Dublin. The article was picked up by search algorithms and rose in Google's results. Journalists began spreading the news in their publications without even bothering to verify it. As a result, thousands of people came to the square, ready to participate in a parade that didn't exist. #FakeNews #AI #Media #Dublin #Halloween #Misinformation


After my last post, it was pretty clear what everyone wanted to see on the Alarmo. So, here it is - Doom running on the Nintendo Alarmo!

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You Say You Want A Evolution... | The revolution you seek begins in the mirror. Don't be a fascist.

johnhenry.us/blog/2023/08/31/y…



Glenn Greenwald on X: "Trump is saying what every liberal pundit and DNC operative I know was saying for 15 years -- from 2001 until 2016 -- about the Cheneys, neocons, and warmongering. But now that liberals are aligned with those people, they claim it's a threat of execution to say it:👇" / X


#politics #USA
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xcancel.com/ggreenwald/status/…



ncdu NCurses Disk Usage - is highly recommended on *BSD or Linux. Great for finding large files to delete or whatever. #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Linux #ncdu


Recap of the past week via #WeekNotes

I apparently didn't read any books this week, but watched more classic Disney Halloween movies from my childhood to wrap up LC's favorite time of the year.

notes.jeddacp.com/week-notes-0…

#100DaysToOffload #blogging #WritingMonth

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mastodon - Link to source
Hyde 📷 🖋
a book per week 😱😱😱
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mastodon - Link to source
Hyde 📷 🖋
That's still great !
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In 1980, the world successfully eradicated smallpox using vaccines.

Today, we're on the verge of eliminating a second disease -- Guinea worm -- because of the efforts of Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center.

In 1980 there were 36,000 cases of Guinea worm disease. In 2023, there were 14.

#water #dracunculiasis #guineaworm #jimmycarter

iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/…

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JUST IN: Donald Trump's election odds have fallen from 67% to now 58.3% of winning the US Presidential election against Kamala Harris on Polymarket.

The US Election is on Tuesday. Who are you voting for?

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

in reply to unusual_whales

Unusual Whales partner Polymarket is still currently showing that Trump is leading in all swing states, however Kamala Harris is now close to potentially flipping a few.

Link: t.co/BoHjXqxgV0

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options



Narrator:"In the pressure of the closing days, he just blew it."
in reply to drdind

Our children should not be subjected to Evil Trump!*Lock him up!*The hateful potty gutter mouth!


Average October 2024 #Arctic sea ice extent was the 4th lowest on record...

This was 2,410,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. October ice extent is decreasing at about 9.52% per decade.

Data: nsidc.org/data/seaice_index



We need one more Biden misstep calling Republicans Drag Queens. He's so close he doesn't even realize his power.

#MAGA #MAGAGarbage #USPol #Trump #KamalaHarris #Biden #Harris