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@kamyk Oh it appears your server blocks our crawler, might want to get that fixed!
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Almost 40 years ago, the Left was warning about the consequences of tying Canada economically to the US with free trade.Judy Rebick (rabble)
losing government workers is devastating for small town economies.
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Fun fact: this instance doesn't have a coffee emoji and had to add that one from the system emoji selector. Seems like a serious oversight. 1 demerit, instance!
Update: at mid-coffee I'm only capable of clumsily Fediversing.
💬" The key principle we should follow to achieve just, comprehensive and lasting peace for #Ukraine and entire Europe"
Source: MFA Ukraine
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Users attempting to add their Signal.me URL to posts, DMs, and bio descriptions are being met with error messages.
X users are currently unable to post links to Signal.me, which allow people to quickly and securely send direct messages to Signal users.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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Good morning Fedi friends!
Today marks the 2-month anniversary of my #selfhosting journey: on Dec 17 I signed up for a VPS and installed #YunoHost mastodon.social/@_elena/113667…
I have never felt more empowered, tech-wise, than in the past two months. I set up my own #GoToSocial, #Pixelfed and #Friendica instances. Seeing the label "admin" next to my name always makes me smile.
Today I will sign up for a 2nd VPS (that runs on Ubuntu) and manually install #Ghost. Wish me luck!
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I haven’t followed the context, but I wish they had decided to try and get things to work with MariaDB rather than MySQL 8, considering that the latter is now Oracle-owned and not FOSS…
oh. I got the same issue on gotosocial (which I discovered through you!)
good luck!
What worries me with YunoHost is the implications of an easier point of entry for self hosting.
Someone more experienced could run MySQL and MariaDB on the same server, create docker instances of either or find other possibilities to run it, without depending on Yunohost volunteers.
Having an easy point of entry is good, but it poses it's own risk. And someone with less experience might not be able to evaluate those risks when they want to want support something long term.
Considering switching to Ghost? You're probably trying to figure out whether it will be the right decision for you. Find out how Ghost compares to others.Ghost - The Professional Publishing Platform
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not much to add beyond cheering you along the journey. Thanks for sharing your notes of your venture!
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I don't think this error means a disastrous install problem.
ECONNREFUSED is a TCP error, so this tells me you are not connecting with a socket, but using a TCP connection on port 3306. So why would the connection be refused?
What I would do next, from the command line, is to see if anything is even listening on port 3306. Depending on whether anything accepts the connection, it gives the next debugging step.
telnet, btw, is not natively installed on Ubuntu, so you may need to do this first before continuing:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install telnetd
Then:
telnet localhost 3306
So, is anything listening? If not, then either the database didn't start or it's listening on a different port.
If something is listening, then try to access the database directly:
mysql -h localhost -u root -p 3306
If this fails, hopefully you get a meaningful error message telling you why. Maybe a DB issue, or perhaps no database is up.
If it works, then your database is up and running and listening on port 3306. This is good news. So either your Ghost configuration has the wrong host/port information for the database, or perhaps the connection needs or doesn't need an SSL connection.
But, these are the steps I'd do first just to get additional information about the issue.
I wish it finished the sentence, "not a recogonisable Ghost installation because ..."
What happens when you run "sudo mysql" ?
If it opens and connects, then it's still using socket-based authentication. Then I would manually run the ALTER, FLUSH, and exit. Then try to restart ghost.
If it doesn't open, but asks for the password, and the password works, then this change in the authentication method already was done and the problem isn't this particular step. Does ghost doctor provide any diagnostics?
This is what self-hosting is about. Living in a cloud of confusion because you're dealing with a bunch of different tech, none of which you'd ever be able to become an expert in. So, there's a lot of trial and error. This is so familiar. And the fun of it.
The ALTER statement format, I believe, is wrong. It is showing single quotes around "mysql_native_password" which makes it a literal string. But, IDENTIFIED WITH specifies the name of the authentication plugin, not a string. Can you try instead:
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '<your-new-root-password>';
Reference: dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/e… and the section showing:
| IDENTIFIED WITH auth_plugin BY 'auth_string'
Notice, no single quotes around auth_plugin
Don't give up yet.
Can you ping the exact ALTER command that you are using (with the password redacted, of course).
Were other Elliott Smith fans aware of this Bandcamp page with like 250 live show bootlegs, all for free download? 
@Buffy Leigh (she/they) oh wow! I had no idea about this. Thanks!
Although I have to be careful here because Elliott Smith can give me the sads like almost no one else..
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(if only just for a minute)
Double baaaaack!
(if only for a second)
While #Trump favours tariffs, the Irish know the power of boycotts.
It's time for Europeans to unite and boycott American products. Our consumer choices can send a strong message.
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The thing about boycotts is that they only work when they've got enough same-minded people to be effective.
Their side is all about "go woke go broke", but the problem is that "woke" is more profitable. They couldn't stop the Barbie movie from making far over a billion dollars.
Obviously they retroactively crow victory whenever something they call "woke" fails to be profitable, but some part of them realizes how pathetic this is when most productions fail to catch on anyway.
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Same playbook.
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No need to parse dog whistles with the advocate for Germany’s neo-Nazi party, who laments the end of Apartheid in South Africa, does sig heils in public, denigrates minorities, and proclaims that white men are inherently superior. Yes, he is. We don’t need to ask anymore, we need to deal with it.
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The "crows by the sea". I wish I saw them more often. They could really become "friends" with me. They're less shy than Mr. and Ms. Crow (they're much younger too)
#crows #birds #corvids #ハシボソガラス
#カラス #CarrionCrows #CorvusCorone
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russia passes 10-year sentence over two years after abducting and torturing 20-year-old #Kherson student
Hanna Yeltsova had been held incommunicado for almost two years, and almost certainly tortured, when the Crimean FSB suddenly claimed to have 'arrested' her and brought spying charges
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russia's retention of the occupied territories subjects Ukrainians to ongoing injustice.
This threatens their culture, human rights, and future generations, undermining international law.
This is why #Ukraine continues to fight for its sovereignty.
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For example, the link to this story at nasa.gov about Margaret Dominguez, an optical engineer at NASA.
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Thanx for that information. I just complained to NASA, on their website. I mentioned something about catering to Nazi's.
Sorry if this post goes to too many people, i just joined an hour ago.
I keep pleading with people outside the US to store things and not just count solely on the Internet Archive to do this for them. They're amazing, but a huge target right now.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like many non-Americans understand how bad it has gotten in one month and that this is really happening, right now. I will buy all the hard drives I can myself when I move.
The digital book burning and minimization of trans/black/gay/women's history is very well underway here. And because the US hosts much of the internet architecture, it has been very effective.
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Doing my humble best to capture and archive the essential weather and climate data I know well, and make that process easy and repeatable for others. 🫡
registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nex…
If you are truly well-equipped with time, wherewithal, and space, and want to help make sense of this massive corpus, start by snagging the NWS storm reports.: ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/ftp.…
The Storm Events Database contains records on various types of severe weather, as collected by NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS).www.ncdc.noaa.gov
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While a lot of the data I've targeted is arguably US-specific, there is a big, neatly-organized corpus of global upper atmosphere soundings for the National Weather Service's entire period of record, available from the fine folks at the NCEI.
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@claudinec @xan @SecureInStyle @SafeguardingResearch
It needs organisation. I'd like to help. I could get a big external drive tomorrow and start seeding torrents from Germany if I had any idea what data I should be seeding.
@claudinec @xan @SecureInStyle @SafeguardingResearch
Presumably any attempt at public mobilisation is vulnerable to far right trolling. I made a possibly naive suggestion to minimise such trolling by keeping the set of people moderating datasets constrained to those who care about them the most.
dju.social/@eswag/114013198480…
I'm sure there is stuff I haven't thought of, and maybe something like this is already happening, but my searching didn't turn it up.
@xan@xantronix.social @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange @SecureInStyle@fashionsocial.host Maybe the approach should be that academics in safe jurisdictions register as volunteers to vet/moderate datasets in their areas of expertise.Mastodon
Your link looks to be behind an allowlist, which I can understand.
Is there anywhere where data holders can register at-risk datasets openly & volunteers can download and seed torrents or similar?
I was about to say, "something like academictorrents", but I see it's down RN.
academictorrents.com/docs/abou…
Presumably the restriction is due to the problem of validating requests for data extraction?
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Then from there, those storm reports can be fed into a tool I have written to archive NEXRAD Level II data for which storms are reported (avoiding archiving radar data indicating clear skies):
dev.xantronix.net/xan/nexrad-a…
I've been working forwards from 1991 on, so if others outside the US wished, work backwards from 2025 back. We've had a LOT of tumultuous weather in that period worth protecting and documenting.
@SecureInStyle I don't know why I was shocked to hear that even the monument at Stonewall is being wiped of any references to trans.
The cruelty and dehumanization is devastating.
And it's like cancer.
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One of our Marines the other day was joking about trans folks getting kicked out. Using pronouns like "it".
I don't think he even thought about what he was saying. He thought he was being funny. He...
- Doesn't think he knows any trans folks
- Didn't realize that we have at least one trans person in our unit affected by this
- Didn't realize he was making jokes in the presence of a gay guy
I shut that shit down right away.
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@SecureInStyle Reminded him and the others nearby that we are talking about fellow humans and fellow Marines.
That somewhere around 1% of the military is transgender, so they almost certainly know someone who is trans and will be hurt by this policy.
That many of the jokes made at the expense of trans folks are similar/the same as the ones I experienced in my first decade in the Corps.
That we treat others with respect and dignity. Always.
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@SecureInStyle But I'm not around for every conversation 😞
It just hurts so badly that these kinds of conversations are becoming 'okay' again. That it's becoming publicly acceptable, at least in certain crowds, to again treat people like they are inhuman and as if some lives are inconsequential - without making any effort to understand.
Things feel so dark right now.
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(Also, ironic that the young man I mentioned is Hispanic, and it's a near certainty that people he knows and cares about will be impacted by certain other policies. Why do groups of humans pick other groups to harm instead of banding together to protect us all? We're all so damn stupid!)
Sorry for spewing a load of despair that had little to do with your post.
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@jack @SecureInStyle The defining characteristic of all of these racist bigot misogynist homophobe transphobes is: fear.
Something in their individual personal histories -- not the same thing for all, but *something* -- has caused them to be, at their very core, utterly terrified of the Other. It's really a terror of the otherness within themselves, that part of all of us that we disavow, the place where we're innately alienated from ourselves. Most of us try to deal with it...
@jack @SecureInStyle ...in healthy ways, and we succeed and fail, succeed and fail, and such is life.
But *these* people...these hate-filled, violent people canNOT tolerate even the mere hint that they themselves are not whole and complete. The only way they can sublimate the fear is to disavow that innate self-alienation. They only way they can deal with it is to look for a scapegoat, someone(s) *outside of themselves* they can blame for why they're scared...
@jack @SecureInStyle ...and why they cannot know themselves.
Every fascism is born of a failed revolution, and every attempt to create "utopia" is really an outward symbol for these people's terror and disavowal: they create dystopia instead.
Wanting to create The Good Place where they (think they) can be whole and complete, they inevitably create The Bad Place instead.
@courtcan @SecureInStyle My personal experience is that exposure is the best medicine for overcoming fear of otherness.
Traveling to other places. Trying new things. Considering new/uncomfortable perspectives. Making an effort to talk with (or read content from) people who aren't cookiecutter examples of ourselves.
But you can't make someone care or to expand themselves or to allow themselves to be a bit vulnerable if they aren't willing to step a bit beyond their comfort 😢
@BruceMirken @SecureInStyle I'm thankful I am able & confident enough to do this these days.
That was not always the case. For many years while I was closeted, it hurt that none of the leaders in my life would stand up for folks (like me at the time) unable or afraid to speak up for themselves.
I'll be damned if I'm going to let someone experience that frustration if I can do something about it. No policy (or lack of policy) makes it okay to punch down on or scapegoat others.
Hell, I'm still angry with the Navy Chaplain Corps for being so cowardly near the end of DADT that LGBTQ folks couldn't trust them for fear of being outed.
Chaplains are supposed to be the spiritual mentors of Navy/USMC, & provide counseling & other services, but they made it clear during that time that admitting one was LGBTQ would be reported.
I'm 100% sure this led to deaths of folks among the LGBTQ community 😪 It certainly left me hurt back then.
Amazon recently announced you will no longer be allowed to download and offline store your purchases. What's your bet that after they do that, they announce that certain titles/categories of books are being removed?
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@nomad2035 @CharlieActual @SecureInStyle I'm not saying this is technically impossible, especially considering the Android safety core thing as the step one to detect, but this is probably a bit of a reach.
More likely to see them stop supporting generic storage access or something - downloading PDFs or epubs to begin with being discouraged or disabled in favor of some walled garden approach for some made up technical reason & a subscription model atop that. Like they'll say their pubs are digitally signed but then put in a flag to not allow importing unsigned pubs. Their garden keeps the keys & access for the masses is reduced, but without the extra bad taste of just deleting data from devices.
@CharlieActual @SecureInStyle This is the worst part of Digital Rights Management technology.
They did it before: Amazon removes copies of Orwell's 1984 from Kindles (users' devices) nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technol…
An Amazon spokesman said that “1984” and “Animal Farm” were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function.Brad Stone (The New York Times)
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You have to realize that,
. That, the servers are American(), servers in America, subject to American control... ...!
It's Fascism. It's what they do, it's ugly, it's ugly, every time.
@SecureInStyle Yes, this IS HAPPENING now and yes, many Americans see this. Remember, some are happy about it.
I can verify from many European and Asian friends outside the US that they too are seeing it and have been busy archiving outside the US. Because. Just in case…
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I have a few old 4TB and 2TB drives, though I don't really know where to start.
I don't suppose you could point me in the right direction?
Edit: I'm now following @ SecurityInStyle
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r/LadiesofScience 3h
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Female scientists are having their information deleted from government websites. Women in STEM aren't having it.
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Female scientists are having their information deleted from government websites. Women in STEM aren't having it.
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Ok. I saw a post from someone at NASA whose bio was erased bc some fragile male egos are threatened by women in STEM. So I bought the domain womeninstem.us. Who'd like to help crowdsource a website where we can house all the stories of women in STEM
being censored? fuckthepatriarchy
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"Have you ever wondered how good was so easily destroyed by evil in the past?
And thought to yourselves how ignorant and unaware those people must have been?
Well, look around.
Because the past is upon you."
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Add #safeguardingresearch
There's a lot of good work going on
This thread is long so apologies if I missed it, but is there a repo out there to contribute to?
Its been a while since I've put my webdev shoes on but would love to help with fullstack or infra work to help this initiative.
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Yes way. Amazon sent both 1984 and Animal Farm down the memory hole!
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For quite some time we’ve been pointing out the simple fact that, unlike with a physical book, you don’t really own the ebooks that you buy on your Amazon Kindle. Even worse, Amazon can…Techdirt
If the US blocks access to HRT, ADHD drugs, and SSRIs, I cannot begin to describe to you how much all of the tech sector will screech to a halt. The internet is built and maintained by trans people, people with chronic depression, and the neurodivergent.
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The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.Mother Jones
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Brought this up with my psychiatrist recently and he started talking about “media diets” as a means of managing anxiety.
Heh.
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Clearly all that enthusiasm is faked performative theater, by those conniving research scientists all scheming to hide the true science of how slavery is good actually. 🤡
I was thinking about this earlier today. The "brain drain" aspect. Not unlike Jewish intellectuals fleeing Nazi Germany. Progress relies heavily on diversity and therefore on tolerance.
If you only keep people with the same thoughts, you're not going to get new thoughts.
Yet another way in which this BS is sabotaging and weakening the USA.
newsweek.com/ronny-jackson-und…
"It said in a three-year period, the White House Medical Unit spent $98k on Provigil, used to treat sleepiness…
…in the first nine months of 2019, the medical unit—which is responsible for tending to the medical needs of the White House staff—ordered 34 packs of fentanyl, 40 packs of morphine and 30 packs of ketamine. The drugs are usually used in a medical setting as a sedative, but can be used illicitly." Jan 29, 2024
The congressman and former president's physician is facing criticism after a scathing report about the White House Medical Unit.Aleks Phillips (Newsweek)
I've thought for some time that science denyers lack whatever you need to imagine the vastness and intricacy of things. They can't imagine the amount of data that's gone into predictions about climate change for example, and in their minds, if they can't visualise it, it can't exist. If it can't exist, then scientists are just guessing, or are complicit in some kind of sinister plot.
”obsessive preoccupation with community decline” ”Cults of unity, energy & purity”.. ”Internal purification and external expansion” ..
These are direct quotes from Robers Paxton’s definition of #fascism
And it doesn’t matter to them. They would drive the whole thing to the ground and still blame someone for it. After all, victimhood is another key defining aspect of fascism..
I live in europe and I was devastated reading about this last night. Was unable to finish the article, unable to endure the ableism of what it describes.
I have ADHD myself and was also treated for depression almost a decade now until october last year when we were finally at the point to put me off SSRI.
I am in loss of words. This would have killed me.
can't wait! 🥳
I look forward to tech workplaces becoming even more disorganized and chaotic since, you know, so many people that specialized in executive function roles were laid off because it was deemed unnecessary.
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I said this in the last posting of this maniac's attempt to ruin the lives of perfectly healthy, medicated people:
This is me. RFK Jr and the Republican Party want to put me into a concentration camp. There is no other word for it.
Because I use SSRIs to keep my mental balance, they want to come for me, take away my computers, my cellphone, my livelihood, and put me in a camp where I'll grow, I dunno, organic cabbages for the government.
This is Nazi shit.
@SecurityWriter Add the entertainment industry to the list, we have a similar composition of folks.
At a glance we might seem like 'small fish' in comparison to the entire tech sector, but the cultural ripples of declining quantity and quality of live events and performance would be insidious. They wouldn't even need to directly quash dissenting shows, the entire performing arts community would just be choked out by this.
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Maybe? Or maybe not. Our government *was* run by corporations. It's now being strangled by the single wealthiest human on earth. All bets are off.
It's not coincidental that I'm now in the process of replacing my SSRIs with microdosing, which has been found to be more effective than antidepressants.
theguardian.com/science/2019/m…
Before the school run, or commuting to work, increasing numbers are taking tiny doses of psychedelic drugs in the UK. Why?Hattie Garlick (The Guardian)
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I have found the lunatic approach of this admin "interesting."
They are against "woke" things like electric cars -- and yet Musk is there. You would think Pharma would be completely opposed to RFK and his "You guys are evil" approach to medicine. Is it even possible he will have Medicare/Medicaid not pay for vaccines and some medicines at all?
And then there is the whole, "Law and Order Party" lets violent criminals out of prison and legalizes outright corruption.
And yet Johnson and Mitchell say not a single word.
Johnson is an acolyte. McConnell is reaping the wind.
Big Corporations must not have as much power as I thought, because they all KNOW that this hurts their profits.
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It seems like the Trump administration keeps attacking its own political and material base. I think the fascists actually believe their own propaganda.
The challenge is how to let them destroy themselves without destroying the rest of us in the process.
"I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.”
#RobertFKennedyJr, 2025
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The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.Mother Jones
"The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be 'food-related'.”
Kiera Butler, 2025
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Doesn't sound so bad. Aotearoa once had places a bit like this.
Having time and space to deal with trauma may cure or at least mitigate some poor mental health. There is some evidence that poor diet can at least exacerbate it too (that's been my lived experience).
The devil is in the details though ...
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The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.Mother Jones
Will these wellness camps be voluntary? I can imagine worse places to be placed under a compulsory treatment order (think One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), but rural camps could be much more difficult for family and friends to visit. Reducing the mental health benefits and informal oversight of care that comes with such visits.
What will they cost? Will this contribute to health-related debt for people who don't have insurance, or when the companies can avoid paying out?
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@strypey History says they absolutely will not.
I get the rhetorical angle... But come on.
Kennedy is scary.
But just because he is wrong about solutions and causes, does not mean he is totally wrong
> 13 percent of American adults who use SSRIs to treat depression
That is very concerning. The pharmaceutical industry has captured health care.
"There's a pill for that".
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Rumor has it that the actor wasn't given instructions, and instead had to improvise on the spot. The further off he got, the more enthusiastic the production crew became
Which is praxis, tbh
ever since "fetid moppet", I am obsessed and amazed at the various discursive anomalies the writers throw into the show (e.g. frippery)
Salon wrote a piece about the strange lingua franca of Severance, and how it is very much on porpoise
salon.com/2025/02/15/severance…
Creator Dan Erickson weighs in on how the very precise, intricate Lumon-speak conveys the weirdness of it allSalon.com
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Some of that Ailes history here:
Before Fox News, Roger Ailes H...
Before Roger Ailes worked at Fox News, he used his television instincts to help Richard Nixon be elected President.Olivia B. Waxman (Time)
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Latest FOSS Academic post:
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In which I respond to the @404media article, "You Can't Post Your Way Out of Fascism."
I argue that the "you can't post" piece ignores alternative social media, which itself is a form of activism that can, in fact, contribute to the fight against fascism.
[replies to this will appear as comments on my blog, unless you set privacy to followers only or DM.
Unless of course my comment system is broken, which is very possible.]
I’ve been mulling over Janus Rose’s recent 404 Media article, “You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism.”. In many ways, she’s not wrong. But once again people are ignoring an entirely other way of doing social media that can, in fact, fight fascism.RWG (Your awesome title)
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To "yes, and…" your post:
I do think organizing our own online communities is a necessary part of the activism, but alone it is not sufficient. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, as I still keep thinking about Freire's words on hope: "hope is necessary, but it not enough. Alone, it does not win. But without it, my struggle will be weak and wobbly." (c.f. scholar.social/@gedankenstueck…)
I think the same applies to activism here! 🙂
Here in Canada, people @af3marti and I have been interviewing are keenly interested in local instances. There are quite a few -- Ottawa.place, @kostyn's niagara.social. We are working on a paper where we argue that local instances could be a really good approach, especially because of small market news deserts.
But all of this will take a lot of work.
Hmm it seems to me that posts amplifying fascist propaganda and talking points (framed as how horrible or stupid they are, but still) do just as well here as on Bluesky -- and "“posting about what people in power are saying and doing" (as Rose says) is certainly common here. And they're both as destructive here as on corporate media or Bluesky. And at least on Bluesky there are a lot of posts from abolitionist organizers with useful suggestions about what people can be doing, and posts from Black Americans highlighting the Jim Crow analogy -- which most white Mastodonians don't seem to have a lot of understanding of.
So while I certainly agree that in principle alternative social media has a lot to offer in this moment -- organizing on social media can help in the fight against fascism, and it's valuable to center or your organizing on platforms where the means of production aren't controlled by fascists -- the reality falls short in a lot of ways.
So I also disagree with the idea that running, moderating, and participating in federated social media is inherently in opposition to fascism. No, to the contrary, the admins and moderators who are tolerating -- and often contributing to -- anti-Blackness and anti-BIIPOC norms here are *reinforcing* fascism. So are developers and organizations that who don't prioritize safety functionality, and people who are supporting those projects at the expense of ones that do -- or people who only (or almost exclusively) supp[ort cis-led projects. The hard, unsexy work of organizing requires foregrounding racial and gender equity.
That's a good thing to change, and I think it is changeable. My thread at infosec.exchange/@thenexusofpr… is a step in that direction , as is the organizing work @waprivacy is doing on privacy. But it won't just chage itself so this perspective really needs to be foregrounded.
Organizing on decentralized social networks (1 / N)The Nexus of Privacy is planning a series of online discussions and video/phone calls focusing on organizing on decentralized social networks. There's a range of topics to cover, including looking at the tradeoffs between the different platforms for different use cases, brainstorming how organizers can leverage these platforms, easy ways to start exploring, and ways for groups to move as a whole.
privacy.thenexus.today/organiz… has a CryptPad survey (as well as a link to a version using Google Forms if you prefer that)
Or if you prefer, here are a couple of polls along with open questions, that cover some of the key information
#organizing #fediverse #bluesky
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Yikes. But yeah.
Although, more positively that excellent doc by Mariame Kaba points to both the value of posting and the potential of alternative social media: @Alien_Sunset posted a non-Google version at alien-sunset.neocities.org/blo… and shared it with fedi, and I saw a fair number of boosts.
Yeah. How often do you see admins of larger instances back Black people here challenging the anti-Blackness in fedi? How often do you see them intervene? Do moderation teams have the necessary cultural competency (and if so are people getting paid for their expertiese or is it relying on free labor from marginalized communities)?
And @emma you're right that there's an overall question about how people know what instances have enough of a problem of problematic behavior to defederate. But also even when track records are known opinions differ. looking up fosstodon on The Bad Space for example, there are some blocks, some silences, some unrestricted federation.
It's complicated. Defederation is powerful but blunt, it works for the worst-of-the-worst but when you've got an instance where most of the people are fine but a handful say casually-but-not-blatantly anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, etc things and mods don't take action ... maybe better to block individuals? But that's got it's own complications as well -- how do you get information on which individuals to block preemptively?
Oh yeah I remember that. First of all the absolute gall of somebody thinking they're a better judge of the risk-accessibiity tradeoff for people in the US likely to be surveilled and targeted reading that document than Mariame Kaba! Show some respect dammit!!!!! And not knowing who she is isn't an excuse. Grr. Fedi at its stereotypical worst.
On the other hand it's true that different people are in different situations and have different view of risks and may not want to interact with Google in any way shape or form , so @Alien_Sunset making it available in non-Google format has a lot of value. So it's also fedi at its best.
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It was the best of Fedi, it was the blurst of Fedi!
It's all related -- quote boosts, Mastodon's refusal to support local-only posts (and hosting company's refusal to support forks like Glitch and Hometown that *do* have that support) or reply controls, the opposition to allow-list federation ... the culture affects what functionality gets prioritized and funded.
That said, I don't want to paint with too broad a brush, there *are* lots of admins and moderators and individuals here who really are participating in ways that are in opposition to fascism and big tech -- DAIR's combination of a microblogging instance and PeerTube is a great example. Some of fedi's (intermittent) values are very opposed to fascist norms -- for example the emphasis (by some, not others) on consent.
And I do think things are changing here. GoTo Social's getting a lot of momentum and and *is* prioriting safety functionality and consent. Website League and island networks are very interesting directions.
So I'm not pushing back on the possibilities, just objecting to the framing that it activity here is *inherently* anti-fascist (etc) or "for Rose to write this article, the only way the argument works is to forget the existence of the fediverse."
To me it's more that she's focusing on the activities that aren't helpful (on any platform) and ignoring the ones that are organizing and building power on social networks, complementing real-world organizing. But it's not a fedi-specific oversight; she also doesn't mention Blacksky, or the role that social networks can play in complementing locally-based mutual aid efforts), but that's not tied to a particular network -- several local organizing projects countering Moms for Liberty in Washington have leveraged Facebook effectively.
@emma to your question about tools: Bluesky's tools aren't that much better in general and for that matter there's plenty of anti-Blackness, anti Indigenaity, anti-trans bigotry, etc there too -- I'm not holding them out as a model in general. To the extent that it's a better option than fedi for many Black people, it's largely due to a cople of things: the efforts Aveta made recruiting Black people there at a very early stage led to enough critical mass that's persisted despite the company's anti-Blackness (a similar dynamic to Twitter); and, Blacksky has so much value that a lot of Balck Twitter moved there en masse -- along with a compelling vision for the future direction.
Still, there are some useful improvements: reply controls (which GoToSocial has and Mastodon has said they'll introduce at some point although not until after quote posts) and feed generatlors (whcih would need to be done in an opt-in way here on fedi but that's certainly possible). The packaging of starter packs also makes it a lot easier for newcomers to find people although the implementation is flawed (no consent or notification) so it has some big downsides as well.
But then again, Bluesky (like fedi) also doesn't have the ability to make accounts private. The moderation UI (for people running their own labelers) sucks and they haven't improved it muh over the last year. Safety relies on shared individual-blocklists which on the one hand are useful but on the other hand reproduce all the problems of blocklists from other platforms so also have huge downsides. So like I say I'm not holding it out as a model! But there certainly is stuff there to learn from.
Trump’s senseless capitulation to putin is a betrayal of #Ukraine —and terrible dealmaking
As the US and its European allies head to the Munich security conference, Europe must learn from its tragic history and oppose appeasement
By Timothy Garton Ash
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If you're a user of friendica.world, you might have noticed it's not working for a few hours per day, almost daily.
We're troubleshooting this. There's a limit that's reached, which we raise every time. One day we'll find the value that's enough and also doesn't crash the server..
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@danbert Thank you! Donations can be made here: ko-fi.com/fhfworld
(We're also looking for volunteers that can help run this thing..)
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But then your work is usually good!
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