What's the best argument you've seen for this invasion? Perhaps a long article that not only says why it should be done but how it could work out well and tries to answer all the obvious arguments against it. Thanks cause it seems fucking evil and idiotic to me. #iran #operationepicfury #USpol

Why are they merging? They are profitable. But together they will be able to fire half of the people who did the same job at these two companies. #paramount #WarnerBros https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-paramount-deal-layoffs-110-billion

We can play the headline game every time their imperialist wars start.

An #ai could send out a drone that uses face ID to identify a target and self destruct. Have we seen such targeted assassinations by humans yet?

Blacksky has officially launched their AppView, meaning they're now a full-stack alternative to Bluesky! https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:kta7dqcqoamo5ixlajxbtjps/post/3mg3q6hkaxk2r

So they say #eurosky proves that #atproto really is decentralised and can be independent of #bluesky (the company) and by extension American Big Tech. Curious, I asked for an account and after waiting a few days received the instructions to create one: "Step 1) Go to Bluesky" Err […]

I guess we are all set for tomorrow's un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web. It's a bit of experiment. Un-conferences are bad enough :-) and now we are doing an un-workshop! We'll try and marry the high-intensity peer conversations of an unconference with the well-thought-out proposals of […]

Bill Clinton says he didn't know or abuse girls and you believe him, but when Trump says that, you don't? Or the reverse? C'mon. Partisanship is a cult. #epsteinfiles

That speech by #harrisonford. Wow. #sagaftra

Reading the replies to this post about saving the servers used by many journalists just proves my point re moderation on the fedi. There were complaints that some of these journalists pushed mainstream propaganda, and other complaints that some journalists there were transphobic. Of course […]

Corporate media will never tell you that wealth inequality is a problem. #democracyofreach

Because I assume #trump knew this war on #iran would make his odds of Republicans losing the midterms badly much more likely, I've got two guesses at why he did it. He thinks being at war can be turned into justification for cancelling the elections. Israel has some really bad shit they were […]

Our "paying for media" system is broken because it doesn't keep up with what is recommended to us via social media. You can pay a lot of money for lots of services and still not be able to check out the cool new thing all your friends are suddenly talking about. Or still have to sit through ads […]

when the guy constantly complaining about other people complaining about the intel community being shady, complains about the intel community being shady. when the regime change people complain about regime change. still I'm too scared to point this out directly to them cause they might block […]

People want democracy and competitive markets until the people don't agree with them or they are losing business to other companies. It's obvious but we keep believing regime changers will ultimately support whatever government the people come up with, and billionaires won't try to become […]

All of #maga who said being opposing regime change wars was a big reason for supporting Trump, especially those in the administration, are welcome to publicly renounce their support for this shit show any time now. #iran #operationepicfury

Hopefully somebody hits Trump with a shoe. #iran

It makes sense for Russia and their allies to support #iran with weapons like NATO has done with Ukraine. Create a quagmire until my shitty country goes home.

If there was a global nuclear war, we'd still have people posting "don't let it distract you from the #epsteinfiles."

A standing reminder: a small handful of Republicans in Congress could stop this chaos tomorrow. They simply choose not to.

North Korea has nuclear weapons. So does Pakistan. And Israel too but they don't admit it. What the weapons do is deter regime change. But any country that uses them loses that protection immediately because now everyone knows they might use them again anyway. People are still somehow under the […]

I'm seeing there's a protest at Federal Plaza in downtown #chicago at 5pm today. Anybody know more or going? #iran

War and chaos in the Middle East is not how you prevent more immigration to Europe, but it is what you'd do to empower right-wing propaganda there re immigrants and Jews orchestrating it all. #iran

The US and Israel will never actually allow a government that's popular with the people of #iran. This reality is why most of the Middle East is dominated by repressive dictatorships that try to balance professed support for Palestine with doing what the US wants.

Decentralize it. We're getting there. The details are: Servers and apps for reading, watching and listening that require no middleman. See #ghost #wordpress @wallabag #peertube #owncast #podcasting The social news feed that lets important news and ideas go […] [Original post on liberal.city]

Thanks Tulsi. #iran

When will the EU Council of Leaders meet to decide on sanctions against the US and Israel? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 #iranusawar #notmyeu #eu

Is Iran in the Western Hemisphere, #maga? Idiots.

The global terrorist states US/israel are attaining Iran.

@gabek is it possible to connect the chat that #owncast has with an audio only stream? my buddy @ryno#owncastdoes a live audio stream on Fridays at 6pm CST and the chat room is a big part of it, but he's been using IRC forever and it's kinda broken. your chat is awesome and it would connect people […]

"He offers a questionnaire that helps tease out the [conspiracy theorist] personality trait. Would you rather: - Stab a photograph of your family five times with a sharp knife? Or stick your hand in a bowl of live cockroaches? - Sleep in laundered pajamas once worn by Charles Manson? Or pick […]

Currently watching this streaming from #aljazeera on YT. It's beautifully done. I love the Cuban people's fuck you to US imperialism. We visited Puerto Rico recently but I wanted to be a few 100 miles west. https://youtu.be/U931IsZtzBw?si=B2tXpNOSH7ozXZSM

Anybody remember #boxee? It was cute and had a keyboard on the back of the remote. It's part of my dream of a big screen future. something like that whose actual OS combined #peertube and #owncast and Plex and Steam capabilities.

Who are the very bad people with criminal records that #ice says they want to remove (and polls say most people agree) but sanctuary cities/states won't allow them? how many are there and where are they assumed to be?

@limebar is it possible to make anything happen during a live stream on the Roku #owncast app based on remote interactions? cc @gabek

being different is not a worthy goal in itself.

"I did not have sexual relations with children."

Jack Dorsey just let 40% of Block employees go. Block are highly profitable but Jack says AI can replace the people. Stock went up 20% on the announcement. The Industrial Revolution displaced people. The Digital Revolution did the same. I guess we are in the AI Revolution. What will people do next?

We must value working class people having a job and a good life more than we do lower prices, better returns for ourselves in the stock market, our home value and even the professional class making much more than most. This change in thinking would lead to a necessary rejection of endless […]

The mega corps are afraid of what the US military will do with #ai (sure, of course, I agree) while we have no idea what weapons these businesses could build and empower themselves or which other governments they might allow to pay them for its capabilities. If it's dangerous like nuclear […]

Activists will always want electeds to do more. To wonder if they are really on our side or worth a vote. Say they've sold out etc. And I kinda agree with all that but it's a useless conversation that only has relevance because of our broken electoral system. In a two party system, game theory […]

There's an argument that the #epsteinfiles release will lead to less cooperation with law enforcement in the future cause relative normies wouldn't want embarrassing private details about stuff that isn't illegal to come out. Sure but that assumes investigators will go after elites without […]

It's cute and all but just imagine if all our apps changed their icon like #duolingo does? JFC.

Recently, there was a discussion about generic #activitypub servers. Several people claimed that they were working on one, but it turned out that their "generic" servers only support activities defined in the ActivityPub specification. Such a server shouldn't be called generic. It is not […]

I get that liberal now means progressive in other countries, but does it need to? Separating the two would be so useful today when much of the left is desperate to never see misinformation and views they disagree with. Many conservatives are this way too but we've always known that. It's already […]

Probably mostly not my audience here, but I'm currently looking for a business-side/CEO cofounder for an encrypted radio startup. There are solid funding options, but while I can build the team to make the product happen, I'm not the person to navigate the money side of things. I'm looking for a […]

before the repeal of funding by #maga, the US was only giving about $2/person annually. while the UK was giving about $100/person annually. in general, I don't like government doing it but I do think money needs to be allocated in such a way that keeps our media from being so subservient to the […]