Hi friends, sorry for the nuisance, but I'm moving to @awe. Hopefully it'll be my last move, and I hope to see you all on the sunny side. 😊

@eibhear Good question: I think the concept is still young, variable, wide in scope. But there are a few influences for me, one is "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", and the presumed-prelude "Walkaway", by Cory Doctorow. A more recent nonfiction book I enjoyed is "Utopia for Realists". Generally, the idea that between reducing our lifestyles a little and better distributing resources, we might eliminate poverty for all, and stop focusing our lives on working to survive.

@dajbelshaw agreed, we can work towards a better definition (alt-right, neo-fascists, white supremacists etc...) but the essence stays the same: they are violent, despicable people who don't deserve a place on any self-respecting social platform.

Murray Bookchin would never condone Google.

So it strikes me as though it'd be pretty rad if loomio had a mastodon integration. boost to vote with toots 🐘☑️

"Maybe everyday life was the real prison, all along" - Michel Foucault

good news: my girlfriend is really into Stardew Valley
bad news: I might never get my Switch back

mundane life updates (that I’m excited about anyway): I have an apartment in Boston now and a comfy mattress. I need other furniture, but I still feel proud. I guess because this is the first time I’ve felt like my housing is really mine (because it’s unfurnished).

I feel like at some point I should learn to actually microblog actively, but it’s hard to break my habit of posting that sort of content into IRC instead.

i dunno. i'm not here because i love debates and committees and voting. i just don't trust anything else. and i only trust this to a limited extent.

You want a diverse community? You want to be inclusive? Then you have to stand up for people that are the targets of hate and harassment. And you have to be decisive.

People aren't going to trust you just because you say you want it. You have to show people you are willing to mix it up for their safety. You have to show you are willing pull the trigger and simply not allow the people in your community to be subject to endless harassment.

You have to _prove you're worth their trust_

I have personally promised people that social.coop will never tolerate Nazis and TERFs, that we will sort this immediately, and we will get on with longer term problems afterwards. Hope I'm not disappointed too.

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Thesis: Matter

Antithesis: Antimatter

Synthesis: Doesn'tmatter

the set of all acceptable ads has zero members

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Just saw a Bitcoin-themed mastodon instance wander across my timeline and wow I sure wish I, personally, could block an entire domain without having to have my entire domain block theirs :/

I don’t necessarily feel super driven to toot about programming languages stuff all the time, but if anybody has questions about PL research, formal semantics, type theory, ML languages (including Rust), academic computer science, etc., I’ll always try to do my best to answer them. 😊

me 1 year ago: "a better world is possible! All we have to do is join together, form autonomous collectives, and eventually violently overthrow the bourgeoisie!"

me now: "a better world is possible! All we have to do is kill every single human being on this godforsaken planet!"

as you can see I've gotten a lot better at setting achievable goals

Google Chrome is a badly designed, dangerous and buggy operating system that pushes software developers further a way from their own hardware and up into the application-layer walled garden that Google has created with its languages, libraries, and services. it ignores decades of best practices derived from solid research and development efforts, and, via Google's strong influence over the IETF and w3c, it threatens to gut the internet at its base level.

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