Did you know that the company that wants to find your lost dog is owned by Jeff Bezos?

Ring, having acquired the company in 2018 for approximately $1 billion. So fuck Search Party, fuck Ring, and—most of all—fuck Amazon.

#JeffBezos #NORing #NOAmazon #NOWholeFoods #TaxBillionaires #USPol

Spending some of the time we have left together watching cat tv with my buddy 😭😭😭

@YoungBlood The Billionaire class just wants to own whichever group is in power. The moment it was clear Trump would be the winner, every single one of them kissed the ring. If Epstein files have taught us anything it’s that the billionaire class has solidarity when it comes to protecting their own.

1992 • Tupac Talks Donald Trump & Greed in America • MTV News

#tupac #music #hiphop #rap #trump #fucktrump #fyp #video #interview #1990s #90s #corruption #civilrights #history #loops #mtv #politics

I realized this morning what local AI agents (OpenClaw, Cowork, etc.) remind me of

Just found out my buddy of the past 12 years has cancer.

Niri WM is pretty cool, I’m liking it better then hyprland.

This is thanks to https://danklinux.com/ which made deploying the setup super easy.

#Poll time again! This one is all about porn sharing!

Please select *all* the options that you believe apply to you.

Vocabulary:
- "nudes" includes images, videos, gifs, etc that are of a person, that you would consider to be overtly sexy, erotic, pornographic, or intended to be such.

- "privately" includes any distribution which is intended for a small, selective audience (a DM, Signal message, text, etc)

- "publicly" includes any distribution which is intended for general public or a larger group (such as on a Fedi timeline, Discord channel, Reddit, etc).

- "another's / others' nudes" are nudes that are of a third party, such as a friend's partner, a photo found online, etc.¹

- "your nudes" refers to nudes either of you, or which you produced with the subject's expressed consent (such as as a photographer).¹

¹ If the nudes contain, say you and a partner, then those would be your nudes *and* another's nudes.

- "femme/masc-presenting" refers to *presentation*, so femme-presenting would include the majority cis women, trans women, and some nonbinary folx. For example, I'm nonbinary, but I think most people would consider my nudes to be more femme than masc. If you don't prefer either label, then don't pick either (or pick both).

- "younger than me" if you have to ask how "much younger?", then the answer is probably yes.

Use your best judgment.

I bet men would be less lonely if they hugged each other once in a while and meant it.

One thing the Epstein files reveal is that the capitalist billionaires absolutely have class solidarity. The rest of us should too.

Its finally happening.gif

"Stoat, which is the new name for Revolt, has seen the biggest search gains in the past 48 hours, jumping about 9,900% with another 4,100% for the old Revolt name. Stoat is an open-source chat platform that focuses on privacy, which is something that's quickly disappearing in Discord.

Matrix has also seen a significant 2,133% rise in search volume, with IRC gaining 1,500% and Mumble gaining 1,000%."

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/discord-alternative-search-10000-percent-stoat

@Quasit @FediTips yep, MirrorMirror is the account that syncs youtubes on my service and it was syncing a Comedian who has over 2,000 videos. I recently added additional hardware to get more videos processed at faster so this was an unintended side effect of that too. Normally videos sync as they get released on yt so it doesn’t cause any overload. It would be nice if peertube had an option to sync only a few videos at a time but currently its pretty much an all or nothing situation.

@Quasit @FediTips Hi, this seems to be related to a bot that syncs youtube videos on my peertube instance and I’d like to know a bit more about what happened here. What is the boosting account and hashtag it was for?

The flood of posts was because a channel with a lot of old videos was being imported. I wasn’t even aware these things show up on non-peertube instances until i saw your comment about blocking the mirror account. The video descriptions and hashtags they include are direct from their original authors descriptions on youtube.

I’m not sure if there is anything much I can do to change how it auto posts videos to the peertube feed but perhaps i can block whatever auto-boosting account it was from my end so it doesn’t end up causing more problems. Sorry about all that.

BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!

Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!

So i heard discord is making everyone a “teen” by default now unless they submit to KYC or biometric verifications… LM-FUCKING-AO

Well I don’t want to miss an opportunity to help folks get away from corpo trash like discord so I went and setup a self hosted Stoat / Revolt chat service.

Join the test server

https://chat.gravitywell.xyz/invite/SVBJTahm

https://rv.ugh.im

Ok, listen, if we want to accomplish anything from a grassroots perspective, we need to start thinking like engineers. Good engineers don’t just look at a problem and say “It’s impossible,” and throw their hands up. You define the problem, research solutions, come up with potential actionable strategies that can be broken down into discrete logistics.

So we’re gonna have a general strike in America the week before the midterms, or else an asteroid will destroy all life on earth except for Kid Rock. We have to figure out how to make this happen no matter what. The future of humanity is at stake.

OK, so we know that general strikes have worked in the past in other countries. What were the conditions which allowed them to succeed? How did the people not go hungry and lose their houses? What were their demands and how long did it take their government to acquiesce? What percentage of the population striked? (Struck? Whatever.) Identify common factors in successful general strikes. Never mind about unsuccessful ones for now.

Start there. Don’t tell me why it can’t happen in America, tell me how it did happen elsewhere.

Once we understand that, we can start to reverse engineer from the outcome we want. People needed X, Y and Z to get by and their system allowed A, B and C that ours doesn’t; OK, so how do we enable A, B and C and get X, Y and Z for people so they are equipped to carry out a general strike. What precisely would satisfy us to end the strike? Not “Stop fucked up shit from happening”, or “end racism and bigotry” because these are not discrete, defined goals that are achievable by the people we mean to oppose with this. “Create a nonpartisan regulatory body to control the use of AI in the workplace” is a better example. “Do not allow Donald Trump to use ICE as his own Praetorian Guard to interfere with the midterms” is another. These are Boolean conditions that can be objectively met or not.

(Here’s the really important part: some of you are already itching to explain to me why this can’t work or my examples are bad or how I’ve missed a crucial step. If you are one of these people, sit this one out. I want to hear from people about how something could be accomplished and absolutely no one else. If you ignore this, I will be angry, because it’s not helpful or useful in any way. I know you think it is, and that’s why you need to not get into this conversation. You are not a problem solver, you are a problem definer, and we all know what the problems are and it’s not helpful to redefine them yet again.)

So who wants to start? Some quick research, maybe?

@birb https://bsky.app/profile/parkroseperma.bsky.social

I suppose on the bright side, of all the things AI is ruining, the advertising industry is probably my favorite to witness. Advertising has never really been about creativity, especially not for the people who pay for it, its really about getting the most eyeballs for your $, and I doubt many of the folks in power at advertising companies care to waste money employing humans when they can just tell the slop machine what they want and have it done at a fraction of the cost (not including the cost to the environment or society of course).

I could not care less about people whos job it is to create ads no longer being able to do that job. Probably a lot of them were just in it for the pay check and will find other, more respectable work. I think of people who work in marketing and advertising as being about morally equal to meth and opiate dealers (and technically because of phama ads, there is a bit of overlap in those groups).

https://www.si.com/nfl/super-bowl/nfl-fans-sick-of-ai-ads-super-bowl-lx

@pfrazee.com

no company is supposed to be in the center of it. bluesky, graze or anybody. it's not supposed to be a company thing. it's supposed to be based around a hashtag with users and traffic on thousands of servers. not funneled at all.

but while I have your attention, please be more transparent about your funding and plans for monetization. bluesky's approach puts everybody who has seen what always happens with VC (and doesn't just want to cash in) into a holding pattern.

Some anti anti-AI arguments are really bordering on ignorant stupidity and show a lack of historical and political awareness.

It is possible to recognize that LLMs work well enough for the average company for software these days AND still not use them for many ethical, political or personal reasons.

I can also see that a car would ease my life and bring me faster from A to B and still not own one for plenty of good reasons.

I can also choose where/when I take a stand and follow my conscience