Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam (@so_treu) is an activist, artist & scholar from Atlanta, & one of the 1st people that identified the growing online threat of white nationalism & hate organizing online. They continue this work in the fediverse. See this convo with them & Artist Marcia X.
https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/
As someone who always prefers websites over apps ( whether it be me writing a project or using a technology ), my favorite line from @pluralistic keynote in PyCon US is
"An app is just a website that we have wrapped in the correct DRM to make it a felony to protect your privacy while you use it"
3/ I really do recommend going back to the primary sources from Toyota. Because software dev has a weird attribute, making 1 app locally on your machine that you deploy locally to your phone as a hobby, can take days/months/years. But once it is "done" you can put it in an app store or online, and all subsequent copies are "free to produce". This is not common in manufacturing. Making item 2 and 3 has cost, in materials and labour. But in software all of, or the overwhelming amount of, cost is in making the first one.
So the perspective is wrong. Developers don't produce code. Developers are trying to design a solution, and that is not done in isolation and more isn't necessarily more.
Like imagine you like a minimalistic style, putting more and more stuff into your house doesn't make it better, it makes it worse.
The goal isn't to write code faster, it's to make something that is valuable to someone.
9/ People are clearly not getting my point… I’m clearly struggling to convey it properly. Clearly.
Yes! It’s recognizable! It’s a very common architecture!
It’s everywhere!
But it’s In Our Programs!
We use it all the time!
Unix pipes is an example (though we usually don’t write that complicated Unix pipelines).
Java steams, functional programming… it’s absolutely everywhere.
In our programs.
@lgbtqia
We are always looking for volunteers.
Check out our list - anything on it you can do to help trans folk?
https://transrescue.org/current-volunteer-opportunities
email volunteer@transrescue.org if interested
#WEtell ist echt ein toller #MobilfunkProvider! Es gab neue Tarife und ich wurde angeschrieben, ob ich wechseln wolle. Hoch wie runter ginge.
Da ich die für mich passende Leistung bereits in einer günstigeren Stufe fand, antwortete ich entsprechend.
Einige Zeit später bin ich kostenlos in meinem neuen, günstigeren Tarif.
Datensparsam, grün und Gemeinwohl-orientiert ist der natürlich weiterhin.
Topp!
„Was ist in Deutschland los, dass eine derart haltlose und unverantwortliche Aussage einfach hingenommen wird? Wie kann ein Jude so vielen anderen Juden, die die Jerusalemer Erklärung unterstützen, Antisemitismus unterstellen? Herr Schuster und der politische Diskurs in Deutschland unterscheiden offenbar zwischen »guten Juden« wie Herrn Schuster und »schlechten Juden« wie mir – also zwischen legitimen Formen des Jüdisch-Seins und falschen, illegitimen.“
🤯👇🏼
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.
A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 2/2 ☀️
A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️
Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉
Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts
Knacken wir die Millionen? 😁 👍
Unfuckingfassbar was hier passiert.
Soll mir noch einmal einer der Social Media Bitches auf #Meta erklären, im Fediverse erreichst du doch keine Leute! 😉
Unter dem Video ist der Spendenlink zur Aktion #unplugtrump für @kuketzblog
Danke
@FLOMB, dass du mein Frumpel bist (Freund und Kumpel) und #Kabarett zu #Punkrock zaubern kannst.
Ich mache schon Screenshots, aus Angst das der Server crasht. 😁
#punk #trump #musk #bigtechmussweg
https://punktube.net/w/nrm686bY6wsryJ98rTf3aS
And exactly as I thought instead of education and simplifying workflows purposes these companies' "AI's" will be used to generate a "better" ads experience for you. Absolutely disgusting.
While they are still available use the Ad Blockers or FreeTube App if you want to see more sane and adequate ytb like it used to be long time ago.
Alle sind anders, alle sind gleich. Nein, zu Homophobie und Transphobie. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 und Solidarität!
#IDAHOBIT #IDAHOBIT2025
ive been forced to forward this to you, the unsuspecting victim, by circumstances beyond my control
with deepest apologies
Manchmal frustriert mich die Ignoranz meiner Mitmenschen in Bezug auf #Klima und "Aber warum fliegst du denn nicht auch einfach mal ein paar Tage nach Malle?" so sehr , dass ich mir fast wünsche, die Erde möge noch schneller verbrennen als ohnehin schon, nur um ihnen möglichst bald "I told u so" ins Gesicht schreien zu können.
Und ja, ich weiß, dass das nicht der Weg ist, der zum Ziel führt und versuche mich nur kommentarlos und geduldig als Vorbild. Aber es ist oft genug echt frustrierend. 🤬
The European Citizens' Initiative on banning conversion therapy has reached the goal of one million signatures! 🎉 I'm genuinely surprised how much it picked up pace this final week
That doesn't mean you shouldn't still sign it! It'll only be brought to the Commission if it has a million *valid* signatures, and some fraction is always found to be invalid. So let's give it some margin above one million!
These: Die Arroganz einiger „Nerds“, die denken „weil ich programmieren kann, checke ich den Code der Welt“ ist Teil des Problems. Und diese permanente Abwertung einiger von Nicht-Naturwissenschaften a la „Ja die waren halt alle schlecht in Mathe LOL“ ist einfach nur Kindergarten.
It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.
The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know
Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website
