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8Petros [Atlas Unshrugged]_udostępnił to.


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in reply to Abra Staffin-Wiebe

@abracanabra Great question! I would say 13+ or YA. There's a few f-bombs in one story and some implied (not on screen in any way) SA in another but overall nothing your average teen hasn't seen/heard (much worse). (There are some queer romance storylines but I don't consider that a problem for kids).
in reply to Abra Staffin-Wiebe

@abracanabra FWIW I recorded an audio version for my cover artist for inspiration and he and his family listened to them together, including his 11yo who was struggling with climate anxiety, and the whole family loved it ❤




8Petros [Atlas Unshrugged]_udostępnił to.


Mastodon becoming a US entity with a neoliberal board of directors and the goal of growth über alles is the issue here folks, not whether Eugen and company are compensated for their work. Of course they should be and well too. Or is that a privilege reserved only for the mediocre yes-people at the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?

Here’s a longer thread I wrote elsewhere. (1/7)

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in reply to Aral Balkan

Given the removal of the not for profit status by the German Tax authority, which may be temporary, it seems prudent to have a US entity.

I don't think it's an EU problem, corporate and tax affairs are for member nations not the overall EU.

It may well be a Good Thing to have a single EU corporate governance and corporate tax regulation but I doubt an open source project will be that persuasive to the general population of the benefits, if any.

in reply to Aral Balkan

What's going to happen?
Total shock.
Is it too late already to keep Mastadon in the EU sphere?
Jeez. Ḍisaster pending.

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@HeliosPi

And yet there were and are societies that didn’t use rules like these and those children did do things like contribute and mature into responsible adults.

in reply to HeavenlyPossum

Sure, but realizing this doesn't point to how to do this. For me growing up there was no tv so naturally i read books and played outside. Is the absence of a choice better than choices with limits (or choices without limits -- and just hope they make the correct choices)?

People set reasonable boundaries involving their space and body. Similarly plenty of libertarian spaces set conditions for being in that space. Other societies have restricted spaces based off of identity or what-have-you.

For some where the chief leads by personal charisma, by talking, and people are free to disobey, if someone acts out of line of social acceptability instead of people intervening they say "the gods will deal with them". At the same time many of these societies include outliers because during times of crisis they may rely on them to come up with unorthodox solutions.

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@HeliosPi

What would you do if you had an adult roommate who told you that you weren’t doing enough around the house and took your stuff (say, your wallet, keys, and phone), withholding it until you complied with their demands?

Also your roommate is an MMA fighter and you couldn’t possibly hope to physically retrieve your stuff.

in reply to HeavenlyPossum

This context is distressing. A similar comparison would be a parent taking their child's piggybank away and restricting their movement and access to their home. Their necessities aren't being withheld like this hypothetical with wallet, keys.

I guess i would engage in this order:
1. dialogue / conflict resolution
2. sneak it
3. call for help
4. change the locks / replace the wallet & disengage maybe forever

in reply to HeliosPi

@HeliosPi

The context is “what it’s like for a child to have a parent seize the child’s belongings and be physically able to overpower the child at will.”

in reply to Corvid Crone

@CorvidCrone Thanks for the link to the anarchist parenting lit.

I understand the point, such as how would you like it if the same (or similar) was done to you? Just the insinuation is disturbing since there's a weighing of whether the child can overpower violently the parent or not. But really i don't think that's as clear cut, depending on the parent.

in reply to HeliosPi

@HeliosPi @CorvidCrone

“Just the insinuation is disturbing since there's a weighing of whether the child can overpower violently the parent or not.”

This is how you can take things away from your child against their will.

in reply to HeavenlyPossum

Another reason they continue to participate may be because of caring for them. (Graeber's Bullshit Jobs.) People doing care work and in lower positions of a hierarchy have to expect their superiors' motives, and so therefore care for them by trying to see things from their perspective. No doubt that dynamic is way significantly more pronounced between a parent and child.

Really i don't think it's the possibility of violence at root of many parents' authority, instead its the kids' dependance. I know some parents punish their kids with spankings and worse causing great trauma. I would never harm my child purposefully so i dislike the incinuation that i would.

in reply to HeliosPi

@HeliosPi

Withholding care from a dependent child is a form of violence that those children cannot escape because, again, you’re vastly stronger than them and your authority over them is endorsed and supported by other adults who are also vastly stronger than them.

This is implicit in every relationship of such disproportionate power. It takes active work to *deny* any space for violence. “I’ll take this away from you if you don’t do as I say” is no less violent when a parent does it than when your hypothetical MMA roommate does it.

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@HeliosPi
I am a little confused. Why are we assuming violence is necessary?
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Ostrzeżenie o treści: renote: politics, settler colonialism, disciplining children


8Petros [Atlas Unshrugged]_udostępnił to.


Zapewne to było tak:

"Drogie dzieci, wiecie, że jedziemy na wakacje do ciepłych krajów, ale nie możemy zabrać ze soba króliczka, bo to non-inclusive all-inclusive. Więc zostawimy go w lesie, tam będzie żył długo i szczęśliwie".

Taka kupka nieszczęścia siedziała w lesie koło kompostownika. Raczej nie miał jak przywędrować z najbliższej wsi. Druga, prawie równie prawdopodobna jak wakacje hipoteza to to, że porwał go gdzieś daleko wielki ptak i upuścił tuż koło naszego domu.

Chce ktoś króliczka? #IdąPsięta wykazały duże zainteresowanie.

#KrólikPasztet

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Yesterday I pointed out that the fertility rate dropping is a good thing, because the biggest drop has been the disappearance of teen pregnancies.👍🏿

I also said that the right way to increase the birth rate, is to build a society where girls who grow into women, *choose* to have babies *when they are women* and understand the world and the implications more.

But many of those women, choose not to have kids. Why not?

This is easy to know. Because women tell us.

https://www.tiktok.com/@tallmomrunning/video/7362198294891760942

in reply to mekka okereke :verified:

as a Brit I do sometimes wonder how USA keeps going, in terms of people actually having kids and not going bankrupt, and people just not dying from exhaustion.

But then I remember that treating people like trash is one of the principles USA was founded on. (And yes, I'm fully aware how culpable Britain is for that)

I really do hope there's a way to build a new USA on compassion, but I don't think it's a smooth road there

in reply to Craig Nicol

@craignicol This country would destroy itself to prevent doing so.

I'm pretty sure human sacrifice is the only thing keeping this country as held together as it is.


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Cops are sort of the embodiment of flanderized American masculinity. They're ultra hard core professional badasses with military grade hardware, but they won't confront an active shooter while kids are being killed and piss themselves over being bonked on the head by an empty plastic container. The worse they are at their jobs, the more money they get. Cities will literally give them millions in overtime pay to prevent $10k in lost subway fares. They are the most coddled people on earth.

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in reply to Nowhere Girl Rolandudostępnił to.

Cops are a gang of overpaid fascist hitmen whom middle class and more affluent white people send to murder anyone they don't like, and that's the only reason they're so adored by our political class.
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in reply to Nowhere Girl Rolandudostępnił to.

There's a reason cop shows are so prolific on American TV and why they have become increasingly grandiose and detached from reality.

They're the Andrew Tate of genres. But they're effective apologia for the out of control violence and cowardice and greed of police.

"Those People have gotten so out of hand only a state sanctioned kill squad can restore order, and they're REQUIRED to break the law to do so."

Fascism is already normalized in America.

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Hipoteza: obecna młodzież mniej zna się na robótkach wokół domu, bo albo mieszkają kątem u rodziców, albo u czynszojada, który nie pozwala nawet wbić gwoździa w ścianę. Po czterdziestce zacząłem ogarniać domową elektrykę czy hydraulikę, bo musiałem. A mój ojciec robił to, kiedy miał 24 lata. Bo musiał.

Don't blame the player, blame the game.

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in reply to Aubrey De Los Destinos

jakie tam, hate the game, rodzice nie przygotowali cię na prawdziwe życie 😅
in reply to Aubrey De Los Destinos

Racja, moja dwójka zetek (syn 19, córa 22) regularnie uczestniczą w pracach społecznych w stylu: skręcamy siostrze nową szafę z ikea lub wymieniamy panele w sypialni ojca.
Liczę, że to im pomoże później, mnie zawsze łatwiej z dwojgiem stażystów ;)

8Petros [Atlas Unshrugged]_udostępnił to.


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in reply to Brie Mmm

Didn't it start with an 13 year old Polish girl and a Lithuanian guy old enough to be her dad?
in reply to Leszek Ciesielski

Yep, pretty typical for those times. Age of 12 was considered age of majority for girls back then (I'm not sure if this is good translation of Polish “wiek sprawny”, but seems equivalent). Next year she lead armed expedition to take Red Ruthenia back from Hungarians – and succeeded ;)

8Petros [Atlas Unshrugged]_udostępnił to.


Did someone say new tech nonprofit? Let's dig in!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

in reply to MF Dume Pandkaudostępnił to.

Once I'm able to scroll past Amir and Mastodon's CFO, I reach Biz Stone, who did such a good job of turning around Twitter several years ago that he's being brought aboard to help monetize, err, I mean stabilize, the Fedi.

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in reply to MF Dume Pandkaudostępnił to.

So between the Mastodon c-suite (and allied instances) aggressively embracing Threads and BlueSky, and this signaling of AI fuckery to come, seems like the Mastodon founders are tired of being indie grinders and are ready to cash in and let the enshittification begin.

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in reply to MF Dume

The good thing is we're on ActicityPub.

I am hoping something like Goto Social gets a little more support and I can move across full time, I had hopes for fire fish but.... I'm already spending way more time on Lemmy.

in reply to MF Dume

I already blocked mastodon.social because the moderation there boosts Nazis and bans antifa.
in reply to immibis

@immibis It's sad to see how quickly it's spreading here, considering Mastodon was supposed to be the safe place.
in reply to MF Dume

that was always a lie. Most mastodon instances are run by Nazis - simply because they keep making new instances to evade block lists. What it actually does is take away control from Elon Musk.
in reply to immibis

@immibis True. Much like how Jack Dorsey's Twitter let hate accounts multiply because more accounts meant more love from Wall Street.
in reply to MF Dume

no, not like that at all, because the Nazis have to pay for their instances.
in reply to immibis

@immibis
I haven't figured out yet whether the targets of nazis have an easier time here than on the silos or not - I hear a lot from some people that it isn't, but then, I would be hearing that from some people no matter what, wouldn't I?

But I *am* pretty sure, based on this simple fact, that the nazis have a more difficult time here than on the other ones.

No sysop here, other than @Gargron that is, is incentivized to get as many users as possible. The opposite is true. Key.

in reply to JimmyChezPants

compared to Twitter they have to keep making new instances, which is more work, but also means they don't get bored as quickly because there is more work to do. Who knows?
in reply to immibis

@immibis @Gargron

Only a certain kind of brain thrives on that, honestly - I firmly believe that most trolls who are not getting paid, are basically playing the same slot machine as any TikTok user, just a very custom one focused on upsetting libs as the jackpot.

There definitely are the nazis who stand up the servers and whatnot too, but with Twitter, the corp did that boring stuff while they just manipulated algos.

Their easy days are over now, even if *we* can't relax yet.

in reply to MF Dume

something that many people didn't appreciate is that the average person is really really lazy and thinks mastodon is mastodon.social.
in reply to immibis

@immibis
I had similar confusion about wordpress.org and wordpress.com for years.

It's always gonna be a problem, but anyone who joins dot social is *probably* gonna get exposed to enough salty fedizen rhetoric that they'll sort it out eventually, like I did about wordpress.

in reply to MF Dume

Sad, but inescapable conclusion.

Time to ditch Mastodon ASAP and find another platform.

in reply to Parade du Grotesque 💀

@ParadeGrotesque Not even really a need for that. It's designed to be able to defederate bad actors. Worst case, mastodon.social ends up in a containment zone. Not nothing of value is lost, but overall, not much.
in reply to Site Reliability Enby🏳️‍⚧️🏁🔦📈🐺👗

@SiteRelEnby @ParadeGrotesque
That's the great bit about it, it's no longer an all-or-nothing, stay-or-lose-everything proposition.

We have established a zone where interoperability is the focus; if we leave Mastodon entirely, we lose that progress. This is not like "staying on Twitter to keep up the fight," this is good fertile soil for future development, even if a couple of VC scum are trying to get a few fingers in the ground too.

They'll get no algos here and lose interest.

in reply to JimmyChezPants

@SiteRelEnby @ParadeGrotesque
I'm a bit paranoid now that I came off as a white dude telling everyone not to worry. Not singing kumbaya over here.

I actually think that the future will involve a number of different federated networks with different foci, many of them not talking to each other at all, or possibly through some sort of prophylactic instance, where this is benefit to some contact (infosec, for instance), that applies hard whitelist-only type filters.



8Petros [Atlas Unshrugged]_udostępnił to.


Wow, reading all these letters by NYU faculty to the office of the president is quite something. Do read them all. Highlighting one by History Professor Steven Hahn, as it encapsulates everything (in one screenshot).
#Gaza #campusprotests

https://facultyforpalestine.education/statements/faculty-letters-to-the-office-of-the-president-and-the-office-of-the-provost/



8Petros [Atlas Unshrugged]_udostępnił to.


Co-founder of Twitter joins new Mastodon board of directors. Right, so federating with Threads wasn’t a mistake. This is just the direction Mastodon is going. Oh, well. Another Mozilla emerges.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

#Mastodon #BizStone #SiliconValley #BigTech #Threads

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in reply to Aral Balkan

what? This seems fine to me? The code is still open. Anyone can contribute. You can still spin up a new instance of you want. What is bad about this?
in reply to Aral Balkan

How else do you believe the folks behind Mastodon could get paid livable wages? As it stands today, they each make very little; and can't even afford non-profit rates for open positions. Biz can at least attract SV donors, which is where so much capital is otherwise being burned by enshittified shit.
in reply to ninavizz

@ninavizz Yep, Biz can attract Silicon Valley money. And Silicon Valley money comes with Silicon Valley expectations and goes to entities compatible with Silicon Valley goals.

How else? Many ways. Sadly – and all too predictably – the EU dropped the ball by not funding it properly and stipulating its own demands to forestall corporate capture.

But are there other ways? Yes. Are there other ways if you’re chasing growth über alles? Probably not.

in reply to Aral Balkan

We briefly chatted about this, though. There really isn't, today—and considering Eugen supports himself, another adult, and two pets, it's not right to expect him and his family to personally take the hit for today's scant funding for public interest tech. Mastodon would at least need a full-time development director, and even then there's barely enough. Barely. TorProject and many others subsist on USAID & the US Dept of Defense. Our community needs better.
in reply to ninavizz

@ninavizz Indeed. We’re living this ourselves and have been for the past however many years. I had to sell two family homes to stay independent. Laura contracts with the mainstream so we have a roof over our heads as I work on the free/open stuff. This is why I spoke at the parliament about how we must fund tech from the commons (https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/). And this is why I’m building Domain so that it can be sustainable in this current (shit) system. But you must also limit growth.
in reply to ninavizz

I don't know what the tax situation is like in germany, but gargron's claims to not be taking money from venture capitalist also came with the declaration that his full time job pays about twice as much as mine does, so it's not like they're getting paid nothing.
in reply to Demon Queen Lucretia

@lucretia @ninavizz To be fair, it’s at least half of what he’d be getting if he had a job at a well-funded tech company in the mainstream. And, more so at a Google or a Facebook.

This isn’t about Eugen’s compensation. Eugen should be compensated and be able to live a comfortable life given what he does. Heck, asshats who work at Google and Facebook do. Why should people have to sacrifice to do good? (1/5)

in reply to Aral Balkan

No, this is about Silicon Valley influence, the wrong success criteria, and loss of control.

And, if the EU didn’t have its head stuck up its own arse, it would have already made sure that Mastodon could be kept in the EU and those working on it well compensated while also ensuring that the correct success criteria (hint: NOT growth at all costs but decentralisation) were set. But not with this EU Commission and its fixation with the Single Market above all else. (2/5)

in reply to Aral Balkan

They probably see Mastodon becoming a US entity and having Silicon Valley folks on the board as a sign of success when it is an abject failure of the EU, and all its costly PR initiatives (Next Generation Internet, etc.) It’s the Web story with Tim Berners-Lee and CERN all over again. And we know where that neoliberal and corporate capture left us. (3/5)
in reply to Aral Balkan

All that said, the one thing this isn’t about is how much Eugen makes. If we’re saying any old asshat engineer at Google has a right to a comfortable life but folks working on free and open source don’t, let’s not expect too many people to do the former as a full-time occupation. (4/5)
in reply to Aral Balkan

If, on the other hand, maybe we’d like more folks to contribute to the commons and maybe not even be captured by Silicon Valley how about this radical idea: Fund them so they can live (at least as well) as any mediocre yes-person at a mainstream tech company. (5/5)
in reply to Aral Balkan

The EU is also in a precarious state I suspect, following Brexit and with other matters of the world (Ukraine, Putin, Drumpf) happening. I am very with you, but just as I left public-interest tech for for-profit for my own sanity living in the US & supporting both my parents and a disabled partner, Eugen and Mastodon deserve stability. I'm cautiously optimistic, that that is all this is about. How to sustain, in a world not yet ready to properly fund a commons.
in reply to Demon Queen Lucretia

@lucretia @ninavizz (And, of course, you should be making more too. In a sane world, we shouldn’t even have to worry about it but here we are, struggling to get by because we refuse to fuck people over with our skills and knowledge.)