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The problem with billionaires is that they’re billionaires.

#capitalism #billionaires

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I thought the correct term for billionair is oligarch?
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it is nothing personal. Well, apart from the sociopathy

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Hi all, I have made a #Hometown release that brings us up to date with Mastodon v4.0.4.

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.0.4%2Bhometown-1.1.1

(I have one for v.4.1.2 coming soon.)

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Ban Facial Recognition at Live Events (Petition)

https://www.banfacialrecognition.com/venues/

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I finally put up my tea girls pt 1 on #etsy! Meet green tea girl, black tea girl, white tea girl and oolong tea girl :>
You can find more about their designs in the link.

(My entire art presence is based off me being way too thirsty for tea, in the innocent sense of the word of course)

https://etsy.me/45mENq2

#artPrints #ShopSmall #FediGiftShop #MastoArt

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these look amazing! I really love the idea and the way you drew them 🥰
in reply to vanlau :tialove:

@tiarael Thank you so much 🥰 That makes me happy to hear, I pour all my soul into these (no pun intended)

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Let's call this my introduction post.
I setup my own #calckey server up. It is now up and running! (Still teasing out the last few wrinkles.) Using Hetzner, Docker, and (But Muy Securitay!) Cloudflare Tunnel.
Thanks to @atomicpoet@calckey.social for putting Calckey out there enough to help me decide this over Mastodon.
I'm looking forward to the future of The Fediverse. 🎉

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Julian #Assange writes letter to King Charles and urges him to visit #Belmarsh #prison


source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/06/julian-assange-writes-letter-to-king-charles-and-urges-him-to-visit-belmarsh-prison

“As you embark upon your reign, may you always remember the words of the King James Bible: ‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy’. And may mercy be the guiding light of your kingdom, both within and without the walls of Belmarsh.”


#Britain #king #letter #justice #wikileaks #news




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UN calls on governments to reduce, reuse, recycle — for real this time https://grist.org/accountability/un-report-plastic-pollution-80-percent-2040-reduce-reuse-recycle/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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It's like they think governments have the ability to pass laws and regulate things...preposterous;)




Meet the splash screen for the upcoming Blender 3.6 LTS!

🎨 Featuring Pet Projects by Blender Studio

#b3d #DevFund #OpenMovie



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OK, I am on qoto.org, if I feel there is too much spam or something I don't like from a user / instance (domain) I can manually block that instance from my own account? One of the strengths of the fedivers is I can do JUST THAT. I can block / mute individual accounts for a set period.

I think defederation is rather extreme, unless there is known illegal or questionable content.

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please, anyone with experience with Sass / NPM, i desperately need help, i promise it’s a simple problem but i’m completely lost

boosts for visibility greatly appreciated
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Today in 1885, after the end of the North West Resistance at the Battle of Batoche, Louis Riel surrenders himself.
His trial for treason will begin on July 20, and he will be sentenced to death on Aug. 1.
He is put to death by hanging in Regina on Nov. 16, 1885.
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Fast forward to Jan 6 2021 there was an insurrection incited by the former president The criminal. behind this attempted coup to overturn a democratic election is still free 4 years and also free to run for office again for a 2nd term.

How times have changed, we are apparently now more enlightened.

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Never forget. Over half the people surveyed. Not a minority- a majority..

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" AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. Perpetrated by respectable-seeming corporate entities backed by Silicon Valley venture capital. It’s daylight robbery."
https://artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Letter

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If they can’t afford to pay writers then they can’t afford to be making movies and TV.

If you can't afford a yacht, telling the yacht dealer to simply accept less doesn't work. If you can't afford an employee, telling the employee to simply accept less doesn't work. #WGAStrong
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@fcktheworld587 @gilesgoat

I am logging off for the night so will catch up ion this thread tomorrow

nite all


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Another #cryptospam op is running on the default server. Pls report so your admins can suspend the accounts until they’re dealt with on mastodon.social

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I'd like to thank @supakaity@blahaj.zone for adding an edit feature to #Calckey. Within a day that I've been able to use this, it's been such a huge quality of life improvement for me. I no longer have to stress out because I misspelled something or forgot a word in a sentence.

She does so much great work. Please show some appreciation and love for this incredible Calckey developer!

💓
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thanks Chris!

I hope the editing functionality improves everyone who uses our software's experience on the fediverse.

I know a lot of people cited lack of editing as one of the detractors from being able to move across, so hopefully they now have additional choices.

That's what the fediverse should be: a bunch of small to middle sized instances and largest choice driving innovation and growth.

Cramming as many people onto a stagnated platform as you can, milking them for donations and then not providing the required amount of moderation, protection and new functionality is not the proper way forward, in my opinion.

So if there's anyone out there who's been on a mega instance and waiting to move, now might be the time. With editing functionality, improvements to moderation and tooling, and a lot of quality of life improvements in the pipeline, why not jump to a new instance where your needs, safety and visibility is important?

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Sending love today to all the moms, and to all who could really use a mom hug today but can’t have one for whatever reason.

It’s my first without my mom ❤️‍🩹 but my 16th with my amazing daughter and have much to be grateful for. I have lots of extra mom love to spare if you need some today. ✨

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Here Justine Bateman’s thread lays out a case for why AI in entertainment must be addressed now, protections created or writers, actors and directors may not have a profession or career at all very soon. Writers Guild (WGA), SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) are fighting for our professions to exist at all.

#WGAStrong #SAGAFTRAsolidarity #WritersStrike #ArtificialIntelligence #writers #actors #directors #film #tv #actorslife #writerslife #directorslife #UnionStrong #union

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Being a mom in the US is dangerous—and wildly expensive:

More new mothers die in the US than in any other rich country. Several times over. The US has a maternal mortality crisis. ...

Giving birth in the US is insanely expensive ...

America remains one of exactly two countries that don’t mandate maternity leave ...

Lack of accessible healthcare

The cost of childcare in America is astounding. ...
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UK peeps: consider signing this government petition (to halt passage of the Online Safety Bill, which will gut end-to-end encryption including your online banking security, personal message privacy, and right to privacy in general): https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

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This week we released AntennaPod 3.0 – three reasons why the latest update rocks 🤟
◦ The Home screen personalises your experience while maintaining your privacy
◦ Our Material Design interface can adapt to your wallpaper colour palette
◦ You can now use multi-select in the Inbox to clean it up even faster

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I have been struggling with the world of podcast apps for 20 years and am absolutely blown away by how good #Antennapod is. Every feature I always wanted captured in one app. #podcasts have become the curated radio stream and thanks to private RSS and Patreon you can support the ones you want.

Great work 👏👏🎉 Antennapod community!
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close to perfect podcast player. May the development never stop!

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What open source license should we use for Mammoth?

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AGPL so the next truth social stuff can’t reuse your code without at least a bit of a pain on their side





New #introduction :artpeek:

Hi there! My name's Gema and I’m a digital artist from Spain. I love drawing colourful, whimsical illustrations, often with surreal themes✨

I love sci-fi and fantasy and they deeply inspire my work :D

✨ Art prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/ashenshop/

#mastoart #illustration #AshenwaveArt



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I’m hearing murmurs of YouTube blocking browsers that support ad blockers.

You know where you don’t have to worry about such things? Host your videos on a #PeerTube instance and use #Owncast for your live video streaming needs.

But of course you already knew that.

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I was just let go from my job and I’m looking for a new place to land.
If anyone knows of an open role for a Senior QA with 10 years of experience, please let me know.

I have extensive skills in Agile, SDLC, Jira, Confluence, Smoke and regression testing, Postman, documentation and more. I’m in the US (NY) and am looking for something remote / WFH.

Even if you don’t have a role but see this post, PLEASE BOOST IT so someone else may see it. Thank you.

#FediJobs #GetFediHired #NeedAJob
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Got fired from working maintenance at Disney World because every time I found something that needed to be fixed I would yell out “What kind of a Mickey Mouse operation are they running around here?!?”

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I really don't see how they could fire you for being goofy.


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Alright #CalcKey junkies, I'm a Mastodon instance admin and I'm an engineering group lead at Automattic (think the company of WordPress' founder) who is leading the work to add Mastodon as a supported service for our Jetpack Social product.

That said, what's the sell to get me to spend more time here?

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it already works on Calckey/Misskey! https://calckey.social/share?title=blah
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@kainoa@kraft@dansup@mastodon.social So, already a significant part of the fediverse (outside mastodon) supports this! On second thought, I'm not sure if a Share button for articles applies to Pixelfed, since it's a photo sharing platform. But if this is supported by a few more other major platforms, like Lemmy and Akkoma, then this would mean any "Mastodon share" button would practically work as a "Fediverse share" button! This is something we need to standardize. I wonder if @evan@cosocial.ca has any thoughts on this, if there is a way to achieve a standard on that front.
I found this project https://github.com/Uden-AI/fediverse-share but I think that it would be better if we could somehow have an official (or unofficial, but widely used) universal way of doing it, so that other sites could add Fedi share buttons easily.
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@kainoa
My thought is that this is a great case for #WebIntents . /cc @paul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Intents

That said, I think the most practical option for Automattic would be to ask for your Mastodon API server, let you log in, and then save your key for future likes/shares/whatevs.
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@kainoa
And to top off the discussion I'll add an obligatory reference to the #Fediverse Enhancement Proposal process, where any dev can take the initiative and bring a particular mechanism into standard use..

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

Discussion of #FEPs take place at #SocialHub at: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks
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@kainoa
That's definitely something worthy of discussion!

As far as I know there is no FEP for this yet, but we have been discussing introducing a standard for a set of ActivityPub protocol handlers in this issue (the first issue in the fediverse/fediverse-ideas repo!).

Instead of Web Intents, we were discussing custom Web-based protocol handlers, that would be useful for all kinds of ActivityPub actions:
  • Share, like with a "Share to Fediverse" button.
  • Like
  • Follow: this would greatly improve the user experience when following new folks.
  • And more.
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Thank you all so much for your input! With new fedi platforms emerging or gaining traction, the sooner we find a way to standardize things like that, the better it will be for the success and wider adoption of the #Fediverse.
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@kainoa this is probably the best time to point out that the @w3c has a group specifically for discussing this kind of issue.

https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/
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@kainoa fwiw I think custom protocol handlers are the best solution here

https://paul.kinlan.me/thoughts-on-web-follow/

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@kainoa I love this idea most (besides the WebIntents) because it is not only independent from Mastodon, but also from the fediverse and a generic solution that sadly never established.
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@kainoa these are very specific to ActivityPub and the fediverse, I would suggest to be way more general with web+share: or web+follow: or web+subscribe: to not be compatible with any kind of service/website/cms/blog/… as @paul suggested in his blogpost
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👍 I've added a link to @paul's post to the issue:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/1#issuecomment-911531
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it is a tragedy that we are discussing the same problems over and over again. I just had a look at my blog and realized that I started writing about WebIntents and Custom Protocol Handlers over 10 years ago https://notiz.blog/?s=web+intents (I maybe should install a multi language plugin and translate all of this). In most of the cases it ends with someone "having a better idea" and years later we start over again ;)
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On our side, @jeremy@fedi.jeremy.hu kicked off a discussion about evolving our Share to Mastodon to be more generic:

https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/30675
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@kainoa great.

Probably the big overlooked item here is that ActivityPub does include a standard API, which would make this process pretty clean.
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@kainoa Could you expand on that? I'm not sure I understand where the API would fit in here, so I'm guessing I'm missing something obvious 😀

To me, API means that the visitor aiming to share the post would have to authenticate to their ActivityPub instance to be able to push an update there, but I do not imagine folks would be interested in entering private credentials on sites that are not theirs just to share a post.

Or do you think we should provide the service that would cover all of that? You'd click on the share button, a modal for a service hosted on WordPress.com would open, and there you'd authenticate, then modify / customize the message you want to post, and hit send?




This best selling sedan from BYD offers a range of 342 miles (550 km) and is officially priced at USD $27,500.

➡️ Electric cars will SOON be dirt cheap. We will have to implement distance based road pricing to avoid the worst negative externalities.






When will people realize he does this shit primarily to stay in the news cycle? When will they stop reacting to these pronouncements like Pavlov's Dog? #ElonMusk #MuskIsADick #BillionairesShouldNotExist


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My name is inigo montoya...

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Yup…

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Hands in chains for a fist full of dollars
Who do we blame for the holes in our knowledge?
The past you know has been written by the victor
So I ask you now, who is it writing your future?
The butcher, the liar, the thief or the killer?
Your freedom died quiet in the halls of power
Starved for peace, we'll eat war until it kills us
Six feet deep with a belly full of bullets