if you don’t actually want to run a social network, don’t brag about all the posts on your own product you hate

If you want to understand why what’s happening today is happening, learn about what happened before you started paying attention, then work both backward AND forward from there to get a bigger picture of the world you’re living in. Without good history schooling, this is kinda the only way it goes.

A failure w/Mastodon (and many open source projects) is how devs copy so much of the look & feel of what they’re replacing, but change certain fundamentals without making those distinctions intuitive, or even noticing how it sabotages what they’ve emulated. It turns familiarity into obstruction.

When insecurity complexes become oppositional defiance disorders, which mutate into malicious, weaponized-“civil discourse” propaganda money machines, the nation’s deficit of critical thinking skills becomes an overt assist for sociocide by psychopaths.

Touchscreen keyboards, text editing, and impotent rage. On first appearance in 2007, autocorrect was a necessity; keys are too small/close together, flat & unreal “objects”. It was a thing to learn. It was supposed to “learn” us. It didn’t. It’s gone from amusing errors to overt face-punching.

Which generation is the cutoff point for people who can *remember* living in a world where most companies manufactured & sold products that did useful things effectively, consistently, didn’t push subscriptions, had default multi-year warranties, and lasted more than 2 years? Gen-X? Millennial?

Yes, it’s really embarrassing to see supposedly serious people continue to act like this stuff is mysterious. It’s never aliens.

I care about so much shit that doesn't impact me, because I fundamentally care about other people

I suspect there‘d be considerably less bigotry in the world if a fairly large percentage of people weren’t acculturated into being deathly terrified of being “found out”. In some places on this planet, it’s actually life-threatening to be found out. In the USA, bigots want it to be that way again.

Stephen Miller is fomenting civil war and here I am trying to have a simple fucking breakfast while listening to the Sunday Gun-day ammosexuals shooting their loads at the range that’s not nearly far enough away for my sanity.

Woke from a nightmare where I was part of a group of people being harassed & abused by cops. Couldn’t go back to sleep. People are living it for real. Will the American people ever unite against unconstitutional acts & demand legislators do their jobs to defend us against a rogue administration?

Probably obvious, but… anyone who rightfully thought the Orwellian shitstorm of delusional whitewashing, censorship, pearl-clutching, anti-free-speech fuckery was bad when argument-nazi-boy died, are you preparing yourselves for how bad it’s going to be when their narcissistic bronzer king dies?

It‘s extremely painful to watch a family member suffer in an abusive relationship they can’t just leave. It’s even worse to see that my *whole country* is trapped in an abusive relationship, and the so-called “unbiased” observers are almost fully aligned with, and actively aiding, the abuser for $.

If I owned a website, each day I would say "Good morning Userbase, thank you for posting to my website. Your demographics may not be ideal from a growth perspective but without you, I would have nothing and together we will find the best path forward."

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

Hey, first time caller long time listener. Quick question: do you think it's a good business strategy for a website whose sole niche is being a more ethical copy of its competitor to wholly abandon any pretense of ethics & mock its userbase for wanting that to not happen?

Laissez-faire capitalism will never bring us trustworthy, unbiased, & safe… anything. I was going to say “social media”, but really ANYTHING. No tech will ever solve the social problems for which corporations don’t want responsibility, and unregulated capitalism religiously opposes accountability.

As usual, tech people have no tolerance for the social responsibilities they take on when they think they’re building something that will make them Big Money Heroes. Jay needs to learn about a concept called “power disparity” and that social media can’t be divorced from social responsibility.

As angry as [waves arms around] all this gets us, it’s healthy to seek & acknowledge the beauty that persists, and to be kind to those who aren’t doing us harm. I know this sounds like cliched platitude. Getting physical activity and seeing beauty in the cracks (and fellow thinkers) keeps me sane.

I almost never contact senators. I hate form responses. I just now wrote to both (dem & rep) reps. My individual effort wont matter. If it was millions of us? If everyone could commit to a general strike? We’d throw out every corrupt fucker. If you’re unable to commit to big actions, try small ones.

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”Who wants to live forever?” — Tron: Ares soundtrack 👋🏽Me. I want to live forever. I say again & again: the amount & type of damage done to my life is such that, even with no further damage for the rest of my life, I have insufficient time left to recover and “start over” with a life of my choosing.

I get the sense that those w/even a bit of tech savvy now actively FEAR “upgrades”. What’s THIS going to fuck up that’s not yet fucked? When will announced features WORK as advertised? Ever?? How many revisions will it take for even some bugs to be fixed? We’re being tortured, not served.

People who swear by ”any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” seem not to understand technology (or applicable physics). It presupposes vast naivety and/or ignorance upon observers, which proponents demand all share, lest they be considered “arrogant” & “closed-minded”.

The ADL thought it could fall in line with Musk and it would stop his attacks on them. Instead, it just made them complicit, legitimized Musk, and ultimately didn’t actually change him at all. This is how fascists work. Greenblatt tried being transactional: for fascists, it only goes one way.

I just watched my iPhone delete the word “a” and add the word “an” in a different position in a sentence I just put a period on. WHAT ALL THE FUCKS? I did NOT ask for rephrasing, and my phone doesn’t even support “Apple Intelligence” (iPhone SE3).

I’m so fucking fed up w/how poisoned my iPhone/iPad keyboards are at this point that I searched settings for the “reset keyboard dictionary” function (missing from where it used to be), to be specifically directed to the “reset device” function because Apple have REMOVED this from our control!

Ah yes, the “comedians” for whom there‘s absolutely no limit to things about which they can “joke”. The best thing about this whole scenario is seeing awful people (so far, all men) hanging signs on their names saying “I am awful”, in case you might unknowingly encounter their “comedy” in future.

MANY people on here have very appropriate responses to the horror of Hegseth and Trump’s blabbing to military commanders, and I must resist the urge to re-post 20 excellent comments, all in a row. What I worry is that what I’m seeing here on BlueSky isn’t representative of the general population.

I am starting a new service where I slash the tires of expensive cars in Silicon Valley unless their owners specifically opt-out.

The professionalism that our most senior military commanders exhibited with their silence today despite repeated attempts by Hegseth & Trump begging them to please clap was encouraging, & should be an example to all troops when they try to exploit them for partisan politics. bsky.app/profile/atru...

To survive as a society, it’s necessary to require competency for people to hold positions of power, and to ACTIVELY FILTER personality disorders OUT of such positions. The reason we haven’t yet: a combination of “how to write laws to avoid fascists abusing them” and “composition of the status-quo”.

if i were a would-be dictator whose only civilian check on power had been consumed by total-complete partisan loyalty, something i would definitely do is call an unprecedented in-person meeting of the only people who could stop me and then proceed to illustrate why they should stop me

The way Hegseth & republicans in general seem to regard military personnel has made a villain quote from classic Doctor Who pop into my head. In “State of Decay” a vampire says to his lead guard (seeking help against an incoming force too numerous for them): "Then die! That's what guards are for!"

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hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

To paraphrase a friend when she posted about the Tulsa massacre she’d just learned about (informing me for the first time): ”I know so many horrible things, and yet…” Side note: The mayor of this particular town is another Trump voter who says he didn’t vote for the ICE crackdowns… 🤦🏽‍♂️ Yes, you did.

Fearful that we do not have such people in our own country; actually patriotic, constitution-abiding people. We already have failed to hold any of the January 6 ringleaders accountable, failed to hold Bush administration people accountable, etc.

I just learned the word “shibboleth”. Saw someone use it and then went to read up about it. First example on the wiki article was kinda humorous: identifying out of town protest against removing confederate statues. Then I read how they’ve also been utilized to commit genocidal acts 🤦🏽‍♂️ Humanity.

I was. What was missing in those cases was the massive public reaction Kimmel‘s censorship received. Wonder why 🤔 Is it just “enough is enough”? I struggle to believe this because [waves at the horrifying Naziism of ICE] 🤔

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

Looks like a long list WITH citations. I did not investigate them.

Do not fall for the propaganda tactics used by ”polite” bigots using “civility” to convince you that they’re having a sincere debate with reasonable arguments.

Just witnessed a family member promote pro-Kirk bullshit propaganda by a known conspiracy theorist, on Facebook. It’s more of the same false civility bullshit that’s being peddled to whitewash him. It fills me with disgust and visceral fear to watch a well-meaning family member be lead by this shit.

This is CARTOONISH fascism. It’s strikingly bizarre (to the degree that no words emphasize enough just HOW fucking bizarre it is) how republicans WITH POWER are freakishly exploiting the murder of an American Nazi loser. Democrats keep waiting for “the good republicans” to call out the crazy ones 🤦🏽‍♂️

This morning I awoke from a dream where Donald fucking Trump kidnapped my girlfriend for selecting a Taylor Swift fridge magnet to mock him at a store he was visiting. I could do without the panicking of a dream about people I care about being fucking kidnapped by the President of the USA.

If your vehicle is INTENTIONALLY loud, you’re a fucking selfish asshole. I spent a few hours today at my parents‘ house where I grew up. Despite their stressful personalities, the nature and lack of noise left me in a positive mood… now I’m back at my fucking shitty row house surrounded by noise.

Hey fuck you Apple, for constantly rearranging the workouts list on Apple Watch, like fucking dumb fucks who know nothing about UI design. There is SO MUCH FUCKING STUPIDITY and user-hostile design from all fucking angles in the goddamned computer industry and I’m fucking sick of it.