In case you missed it, my #solarpunk short story collection is now available in print and ebook!
These hopeful #climatefiction stories take you from the bottom of the sea to the towers of a bot-filled city, from sparkling labs to flooded lighthouses, all imagining futures halfway to a better world.
(print copies are especially pretty and would make good gifts for someone needing uplift around the #climate )
#hopepunk #sf #scifi #shortstories
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He has studied corporate psychopaths for 20 years: this is what you should look for
According to one of the world's leading corrporate psychopathy researchers, there may be far more women psychopaths than we realise. Get his concrete advice on what to do, if you meet one.Nanna Vium (Science Illustrated)
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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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.
Total shock.
Is it too late already to keep Mastadon in the EU sphere?
Jeez. Ḍisaster pending.
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What We Can Learn from Rich Dudes Who Vanish from Society
Everyone wants to escape.Jessica Wildfire (OK Doomer)
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.
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.
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.
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
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.”
@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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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
@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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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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Liczę, że to im pomoże później, mnie zawsze łatwiej z dwojgiem stażystów ;)
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Did someone say new tech nonprofit? Let's dig in!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/
Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit
As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, we have established a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity in the United States aimed at facilitating our efforts, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S.Mastodon Blog
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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.
Mastodon
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profitMastodon hosted on mastodon.social
@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.
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.
Mastodon
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profitMastodon hosted on mastodon.social
@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.
Sad, but inescapable conclusion.
Time to ditch Mastodon ASAP and find another platform.
@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.
@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.
I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why.
Americans are letting education fall apart. Politicians are helping it.Jessica Wildfire (OK Doomer)
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
Faculty Letters to the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost
Faculty Letters to the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost in Response to the Events of April 22 April 26, 2024 Dear President Mills and Interim Provost Dopico, We, the undersigne…NYU Faculty for Justice in Palestine
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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
Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit
As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, we have established a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity in the United States aimed at facilitating our efforts, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S.Mastodon Blog
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@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.
The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament
A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.Aral Balkan
@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)
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)
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