Kevin Hoerr @kjhoerr@cybr.es

no for real: https://press.kibousoft.co.jp/posts/takeover-of-operation-of-mastodon-cloud-a-mastodon-instance-with-over-50-000-registered-users/

**'Rule of law' in the Trudeau era**

"A major scandal has hit Trudeau's cabinet and is destroying the Liberal Party's 'progressive' credentials."

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/law-trudeau-era-190217113312413.html

#news #bot

If last year was the tipping point, this year the final shoe dropped: With Nielsen numbers to boot, hip-hop has proven it needs the Grammys less than the Grammys need it.
https://n.pr/2E6H6Tx

I've been watching Westworld again, which I think is very solid show with great writing in spite of it being narrow culturally.

However, it makes me wonder why we never see speculative fiction shows about oppressed people winning.

We have quite a few shows exploring futures where fascists win with even more on the horizon.

When do we get a speculative fiction about Native Americans fending off white people? Or Black folks getting reparations?

It's telling we rarely see this.

mastodon is not just a server (and why that's not necessarily a good thing) https://ktn.fyi/blog/posts/20190208-mastodon-is-not-just-a-server by @kity

The post is about the current trend of having "specialized" AP servers rather than the dream of general, extensible ones where you can swap out frontends using the client-to-server API. Happy to hear more people talking and thinking about this!

We need to remember this moment because it so perfectly encapsulates where we (that is, white people) are right now.

This isn't about penance. Liam offers no new insight or aid. His anecdote serves no purpose, aside from making white people feel a little better about abhorrent thoughts by saying "I've been there, too".

This is about expecting forgiveness. We say this kind of shit like it redeems us. We want a stamp of approval, we want to not feel shitty about being shitty.

read a book by a non-white person that was published in the latter half of the 20th century and gain some kind of understanding of postcolonialism thanks

#Pine64 has some pre #FOSDEM announcements.

Biggest one is the #PinebookPro.

14" 1080p display
**usb-c**, with power input and video output
#Rockchip #RK3399

and the usual laptop features. target price, US$199! I look forward to getting #OpenBSD running well on this #arm64 system.

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093&pid=43850#pid43850

*documentary voice*: and over here, we see the white man, already in the midst of the argument. Logic and reasoning are being thrown at him, but we'll see him double down in a moment - there he goes, "but this is the way it's always been done." This does nothing but frustrate the other parties - they will continue the arguments, but since the white man is in charge he does nothing.

So.... Remember all the shit that Eugen gave about invite only instances?

And refusing to list invite only instances on the join mastodon page?

And resisting making an invite system for mastodon at all?

Yeah.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/101505703946150711/

We are utilizing all the feedback from previous discussions to make decisions and move things along.

We will still fork Mastodon’s code, and we’re reaching a decision about the details around that in the end of this week.

We've prepared an org on GitHub, where the work will start.

https://github.com/florence-social

#ForkTogether is dead, long live #Florence

The argument I made when m.s blocked other instances was, we are protecting our users. Our users expect us to protect them like this, that's why they are here and if they are not that audience there are other spaces for them.

This is exactly the same.

It 👏 does 👏 not 👏 matter 👏 which 👏 server 👏 blocks 👏 another 👏 server 👏 its 👏 their 👏 own 👏 god 👏 damn 👏 choice

Men! Try out this new challenge that's going viral! It's the "don't give advice unless someone is ACTUALLY ASKING FOR ADVICE challenge!"

hey uh mastodon.social friends

we’re gonna be blocking you. so like if you wanna still be friends (or even be Better friends aka interact more because we silence you rn which means i can’t see anything you do or say unless i follow you)

you should move to another instance