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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Just 20 years ago a similar hurricane by the name of Katrina rocked the nation and was part of the 24 he news cycle for months. Katrina was (and rightfully so) a huge deal in America, and recognized as a mega traumatizing event.

It’s amazing to me how jaded the American public and media have become in that time, to where this disaster hardly even makes the news and is forgotten before it’s even joever.

I’m honestly not quite sure what to think of it. Have we become so calloused to the idea of climate change that this isn’t newsworthy? Is this more reflective of the corporate capture of media, and insurers not wanting to pay out for destroyed homes and lives? Or is this just secondary to the overriding effort to further a new war in the Middle East?

in reply to crusa187

The fact that these kinds of events are barely hitting the news cycle really shows how far we've progressed into a dystopia.

in reply to Ailantd Sikowsky🔻

*breaks and tires squeaking*
But actually, I feel like some engine or something is missing, and there are also not really wings, so it feels a bit off. Maybe a rotatable engine like from a vertical take off plane, or some downwards facing boosters like when a rocket lands could look nice.


More Friendica questions


HI #askfedi

Is there a way to add an invidious redirect to #youtube links in #friendica as you can with some #mastodon clients?

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follow YT RSS from Friendica?


Hi,

Is it possible to follow YT creators and be alerted to new videos by subbing to their RSS feed in #Friendica ?

It would be amazing to be alerted right from my timeline!

in reply to LPS

sadly, this isn't even outlined in the documentation:(
in reply to LPS

It is super easy! Copy paste a Youtube channel URL into the search box and Enter. No need for the full RSS just the channel URL. Then you can see a Follow button. In the Notification area for that "contact" just select to be notified when there is a new post.

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Blender Studio Log 04 - Meet Your Heroes


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in reply to Blender

wait! What happened to log 03? 👀
Thanks for sharing those candies regularly ❤️🍭
in reply to Blender

God I love these logs! It makes me want to apply to work for the Blender foundation.

You guys are looking for artists at the moment? X)



I just got back here after months trekking thru other parts of the #fediverse and currently getting tired of #mastodon and the bloat....I've always loved #friendica, but it seemed slow...maybe things have changed, thoughts?

Is development still ongoing?

Also, loving the #relatica app on android:)

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in reply to LPS

@LPS

... likely to happen more as time goes on ...


Sad, but true.

... a project that fully embraces IPFS or something similar ...


I wasn't aware of IPFS; I'll have to look into it.

@LPS


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Hey, I like notifications and praise, so just a reminder that if you read a book or saw a painting or video you liked recently, tell the creator!
Share their stuff, leave a review, or even just hit like.
Seriously, we love that shit, it's like pet treats.
👋

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Hawaiian pizza isn't 'Hawaiian' but a colonizer's invention to make tons of money in collaboration with Dole, who helped overthrow our sovereign country, resulting in genocide of Hawaiians, banning our culture, language, and erasing the history. Neither is 'Hawaiian Spaghetti.'

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It's strange to think that there is going to be any sort of rough consensus in the fediverse about federating or not federating with any particular instance large or small.

We've put a ton of effort into making sure the Web doesn't fragment at the protocol/interop level, but the most important part of the entire Fediverse exercise is how that interop level empowers people and communities to make their own choices.

I think that a Balkanized fedi is the best, healthiest possible outcome.

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in reply to mhoye

@mhoye
Totally agree, that's how the real world works. Representation at the local level, human scale...think "Monkey Sphere"
cracked.com/article_14990_what…

@Hank G ☑️


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I mean…

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in reply to Patrick 🌎

@FuchsiaShock The juxtaposition of “...spreading misinformation for free" and “journalists need a way to compete.” Heh.
@Nyae
in reply to David Chartier

@chartier lol, like "people are getting it for free, instead of paying us for it"

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'Latin America is taking on a pioneering role in this. In Latin America, scientific outputs are considered a public good. Free-to-publish and free-to-read cooperative publishing is supported by non-commercial and publicly funded infrastructure. Ninety-five per cent of Latin American journals are diamond open access: community-driven and collaborative platforms with no article processing charges. Their example shows us that research is a more global and diverse enterprise than is typically acknowledged. By including diverse voices, they contribute substantially to the academic landscape and the accessibility and dissemination of research3. Unfortunately, these journals tend to be excluded by indexing systems, which causes science published outside of the Global North to not receive the attention that it deserves.'

nature.com/articles/s41562-023…

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Reddit perma-banning account promoting Lemmy has Streisand effect


As Reddit's enshittification reaches new heights their attempts to suppress attention for alternatives, like federated Lemmy, has the opposite effect as this Hacker News discussion shows.
in reply to smallcircles

Hilarious that a #HackerNews top voted comment on a post wrt #Reddit censoring mentions of #Lemmy effectively argues that the latter is "too geeky and hard to use" and that the former two won't be displaced because they're well known and easy to approach.

These people have ZERO self awareness. Never mind understanding about the legacy of their forums.

@humanetech

in reply to Osma A

the same will happen with kbin, even tho its interface is hyper similar to reddit. pretty sure that's gonna be another case of "too geeky, unusable, unstable, useless, sh!tty reddit ripoff and bad".

the "useless", as one guy said (not on here) when i mentioned lemmy: "Another sh*tty reddit ripoff? Useless"

in reply to noth

I saw a similar thread on Reddit itself. They had several sources that claimed mastodon had "failed to convert Twitter users", and therefore the fediverse was a waste of time and would never catch on.
I just chuckled because the longer they stay away, the better the fediverse will be (for me).
in reply to DodoTheDev

I remember reddit was sorta seen that way back in the day. The concept of of subreddits that had different sorting features and the like was a lot different than forums way back when
in reply to smallcircles

I'm here because they banned it. Figure if they are threatened by lemmy it must be good.


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This is how to treat Billionaires:

"Swiss billionaire jailed over asbestos-related deaths in Italian town

Stephan Schmidheiny found guilty of causing deaths of 392 people in Casale Monferrato in Piedmont"

12 years in jail for a 73-year-old, Italy isn't messing around

theguardian.com/world/2023/jun…

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in reply to Pauxlll Kruczynski

More of this!! No fines, take away their freedom and you'd be surprised how fast these criminals/business people change how they operate

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'CURATOR - Animated Short Film' by Ali Hoff

blenderartists.org/t/curator-a…

#b3d #blender3d #blenderart #blenderrender #blendercommunity

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Ten years ago, Edward Snowden revealed details about US mass surveillance, including the role of the UK's GCHQ in gathering comms data globally.

Our Exec Director @jim marks the anniversary of the revelations: what they told us then and where we are now.

#surveillance #snowden #NSA

openrightsgroup.org/blog/snowd…

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