@tante@tldr.nettime.orgAny social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care.
- care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation)
- care for those doing extra work (like moderation)
- care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc)
- care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects)
The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.comShow me all these magical teams shipping “‘slop’ that works”, I’ll wait.
I bet you the slop doesn’t work, and the teams are just too sloppy to know or care.
https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/115787010150256693
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, Joy carries out the verification calls for Gaza Verified everyday as a volunteer.
Please help support her work and help her take care of her family in Gaza by donating to her fundraiser.
https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWould you stop work? Just tell them you’re not coming in until this is over? What would that look like? Would you get fired? Would you still get fired if your whole team or half your division refused to work? If your union was ready to strike over it?
Maybe you can’t stop work. Maybe you’re unemployed. Maybe you’re retired. Maybe you still have people to take care of — from your income, or as part of the job you do. •Think• about it. What •could• you stop, work or otherwise? How could you prepare for that, save now, be ready?
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@mrwedders@social.linux.pizzaCounterpoint from someone who doesn't care about sport but used to work at a sports e-tailer: please buy fake shirts, the amount of money I saw changing hands every time a club had a new kit is obscene. Esp. once they introduced 3rd shirts, 50% to the take.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/artic<…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itPolitical candidates are like pets. Okay, it's very exciting, you brought a new one home, but like, are they even housebroken? You've still got to train them, take care of them... And it's heart-breaking, but sometimes things just don't work out and you need to return them to the shelter.
Oh, you purchased rather than adopted? Well there's your problem.
@hex@kolektiva.socialFascism has arrived in the US. Here's a video of a (liberal) lawyer just straight up saying the courts won't save you.
The system only speaks two languages now: money and violence. If you want a chance to avoid the second, now is the time to use the first. #MassBlackout is a #Boycott of the American corporations that support the dictatorship. By showing that people have the power to shut down the economy if elites don't listen, we can hit them where it actually hurts.
From now until December 2nd, do as many of these things as you can:
- Stop online or in-store shopping (except for small businesses)
- Stop work
- Stop streaming, cancel subscriptions, no digital purchases
This is one of the few times that boosting stuff on social media and doing nothing else actually *can* make a difference. Boost posts tagged with #WeAintBuyingIt, #MassBlackout, and #BlackOutTheSystem. Make sure everyone you know knows about it. Hold each other accountable to keep from spending. You may already not be spending because.... well,.. #Trump has already made everything too expensive. The thing is that elites can't actually tell the difference. Spreading word, making the protest seem as big and impactful as possible is all that's really needed to fracture elites and turn them against each other. Boost, write your own post, make these tags trend on every platform you can, then do nothing.
Don't buy things, don't work. Just stop. Refuse to participate in capitalism. This is the ultimate "fuck you, make me" because they absolutely can't make you. This is the ultimate reminder of where power actually comes from.
If you're outside the US, (continue to) boycott American products (if the tariffs haven't already taken care of that) until the regime falls. Cancel all American streaming services, and any other American tech you can. If you're stuck on American tech, spend some time to look for local alternatives.
It turns out the world is more interconnected than capitalists would like you to believe, and we all actually have the power to change things. It's time to prove it.
#USPol
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI still need to spend more time learning TrueNAS and how to get container applications running properly. It's much more complex than OpenMediaVault.
Some applications do just work, but many seem to need a lot more care and configuration to get working as desired.
#trueNaS #selfHosting
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe GDP bump isn't really the story in this story…. this is the story:
"That would-be tariff is even higher in service-oriented sectors like health care and educational services — more than 40 per cent — where professional mobility between provinces is highly regulated. "
Teachers and Nurses and Doctors (and anyone else in any industry) should be able to work anywhere in Canada!
What a no-brainer move to make to make our country work better!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #Trade #internalbarriers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-economy-report-imf-interprovincial-trade-9.7062567
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsTypical #rail line reactivation in Poland:
1. For many years, reactivation is debated, meetings are held, studies are done — and nothing happens.
2. Suddenly funding appears, and preparations start.
3. Just before the work starts, some of the stakeholders start debating a New Better Route.
4. Mutual mudslinging starts, as some of the counties that already paid for the project, discover that the New Better Route omits them.
5. In the meantime, the railroad company proceeds with the original plan and doesn't care.
@lilmikesf@c.imAll mammals naturally make hypochlorous acid to fight infection, and now it is available commercially, and much safer to skin than most harsher chemical cleaners.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hypochlorous-aci…
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeOne of the strongest factors in building and motivating an organization as a leader is saying out loud regularly that you care about people.
As Alicja frames, it's the difference between knowing what ice cream tastes like and actually eating ice cream.
It is so SO meaningful to tell people that you care about them, that you value their expertise and work, that they deserve to be respected and supported, and so on. Customize it to the individual situation: identify what someo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEven if AI could take over every job, humans will invent new work for themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just output (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/ai-and-the-human-condition/
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioMy husband and I have been sick with the flu and completely out of anything going on with society for the past week.
This time of illness has been worse than COVID - I showed up to urgent care last week with a 104.2 F (40.1 C) fever after sleeping for 22 hours straight.
I am still delirious and unable to keep track of meetings or emails, so trying to get caught up on work will be a struggle.
Don’t be like me, get your flu shots if y’all can 😭
@wraithe@mastodon.socialWas just reminded that I needed to kick in some more money to the BlackSky stuff.
Considering the money I’ve kicked in for great Mastodon clients and instances, the work Rudy and others are doing is well worth the same! https://mastodon.sandwich.net/@Sharksonaplane/114997406…
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWho are going to be the five D senators who chicken out and sign a blank check to the trumpies?
These wimpy-D's are willing to give away what little power we have left to obtain magic beans - which are worthless promises that the R's will allow a vote on ACA subsidies. A vote? We know that the R's will roll over that vote, that el-cheato won't sign, and that even if enacted, will simply become a bag of cash that el-cheato will use for whatever purpose he wants.
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@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaOne-sided rant.
The permissions system on Linux is driving me totally bonkers. Why an inserted usb drive suddenly should belong to root is sth I am totally not interested in exploring. I couldn't care less, it just has to work, especially since I'm a wheelie. Fuck it, I'll have a beer. Or 3.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukBoots.com is using a service that's blocking my ISPs (CGNAT) IP - it's got a phone call to contact their customer care centre and asks you to quote the 38 digit incident ID.
Like that's going to work to a customer service person by phone.
@felwert@fedihum.orgI don’t know what bothers me more: That "lock aspect ratio" is not the default for images in PowerPoint, or that people don't notice (or don't care) if their slides contain heavily distorted pictures. (LibreOffice Impress is also hell to work with, but at least it does not make this mistake.)
@m0les@aus.socialInteresting: We're in approximately our 250th year of people making jokes about "Maybe this is the year of Linux on the desktop?" Two of the blockers have been "games" and "printers". However in just the last year, Bazzite and SteamOS have taken care of the former.
On the latter: My brand new Win11 laptop and relatively new colour laser printer require a decice reinstall every time I want to print something (and often this doesn't work anyway - I ju…
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caSomehow Bill Watterson published this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about generative AI 40 years ago.
#genAI #CalvinAndHobbes
@markrsmith@smithtodon.orgDear Europe and others,
I've had a busy day.
I had work all day - as a hospice chaplain taking care of dying people.
This morning my mother went to the hospital for testing related to her dementia. Then, in the late afternoon she fell and had to go back for more testing. She's OK now.
And ICE shot a woman who did nothing wrong. And will probably get away free.
I'd love to protest in the streets but I'm just trying to live. I'll do what I can.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThe current "Never Post" episode on DIYing your "cloud" is great. Not just cause it shows what is possible, that you actually can do a lot, but also the cost (financial and others). Because hosting things (especially for others) is and requires care work. Great interview.
https://www.neverpo.st/dont-do-it-yourself…
@hex@kolektiva.socialPart of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol
