Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social
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I worked for the burningman project as Department of Public Works for 16 or so years. I have been programming since I was 12 and this is my 1st forray into social media. Here's hoping federation lives up to its promises!
Joined Jan 2023
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if AI companies get access to all copyrighted works for free because "it isn't possible to train an AI without it", should we not give free access to all copyrighted works to children because it is not possible to train one without it?
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People are like, "OMG, I get so much more engagement here."
It's simple as to why.
On X, Instagram, literally any other platform, do you post and your followers see it?
OH NO.
You post, and then.... the algorithm determines if your followers see it.
What determines that?
Gamification.
Likes, shares, retweets, comments.
Get enough of those, the algo decides your response is worthy enough to trickle out to a few more of your followers.
If you encourage those followers to engage ("Like! Share! Subscribe!") you get even more engagement trickled out to your followers.
You perform like a dancing bear, and the algo goes, "Good performance! You garnered more clicks for the machine!"
Post a "dud?" No one sees it.
So what's the super complicated fediverse algorithm?
Here it goes, I'll explain it:
You post shit. Your followers see it in the Home feed.
That's it.
For all the 'complicated' nature of Mastodon, you can explain the "algorithm" in a fucking sentence.
Try doing that with any other "simpler" platform.
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To avoid being emotionally manipulated by Beatitude-less Dominionists, Torah-less Kahanists, Sufi-less Islamists, Brahmos-less Hindutva and spirit-less atheists, you have to develop #FirstPrinciples, #KnowThyself, and your own #CoreValues.
They are literally counting on you not paying attention.
Good luck!
You’ll need it.
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Do not mess with me. I am older than the Internet.
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A great #Canadian politician who brought in #Canada’s universal #healthcare system in the early 1960’s..
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"HERE I AM MAKING USERS BY HAND AND CHOWNING THINGS INSTEAD OF USING ADDUSER. LET'S GO INTO THE SPECIFICS..."
[2 hours later]
"...NOW THAT DOCKER IS RUNNING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING AS ROOT..."
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Tinnitus + auditory processing disorder is an especially hilarious prank for the universe to pull on a linguist. #comics
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Meta wants you to keep Facebook Link History on, here’s why you shouldn’t:
“Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords.”
https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018
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A month ago I found a cute meme on the internet that I thought would look excellent on my office wall. The bottom of the image said “National Park Service” and some quick image searches found it was originally from the nationalparkservice Instagram account, part of a promotional series to encourage park safety. But Instagram resizes things for the web. So, of course, I did what any internet weirdo would do; I filed a DOI FOIA request for the original artwork. Today the DOI found it for me!
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All right, people. It’s January. Undeck the the halls.
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Make 2024 the year that we stop ceding cultural ground to fascists.
The fash love attaching themselves to cultural and artistic movements and subcultures with the express intention of claiming everything and everyone within those subcultures as their own.
The corollary of this is that we have to support anti-fascists within subcultures that are subject to this.
No, not everyone interested in medieval history is a "deus vult" chanting neo-monarchist who has wet dreams about a new crusade against a Muslim infidel.
Nor is every Crusader Kings or Divinity player out using the Steam forums as a recruiting platform for the alt-right.
Not every neo-pagan is also a neo-Nazi, nor every satanist, heathen, or Asaturar - hell, the Icelandic Ásatrúarfélagið, which should hold some sway in this, repeatedly speaks out against racism within heathenry, in the face of a long and organised project of entryism by the international far right.
Nor is every black metal fan or musician a racist, homophobe or bigot.
And not everyone with either a scholarly or practical interest in ancient Greek philosophy is a mammoth-hunting sexist, crying "men's rights" at the sight of a woman with a voice.
The same goes for enthusiasts of romantic landscape painting, classical sculpture, European architecture, fantasy fiction, goth, furry culture, and LARP.
Fascists specifically want to lay claim to a certain kind of cachet, coolness, cultural validity, rebellion, or edginess.
This list - which could be far longer - comes from my own experience fighting them out of spaces I enjoy being in or am adjacent to.
But more specifically, fascists want everything. Today it's someone's niche tabletop gaming hobby or music subculture, but the end game is that they wish to be the cultural arbiters of what is acceptable, what is decadent, and what art and culture mean.
Fascist works and movements exist within the fields I've named, but their broader project is to devour culture and shit the remnants back out as a bland narrative of white supremacism, stripped of context, diversity, history and deeper meaning.
Do not go along with this.
Do not go along with them.
Support anti-fascists within fields and subcultures subject to far-right entryism, appropriation or activity.
By agreeing to let fascists lay claim to that weird special interest group over there, by dismissing the people in that subculture who're actively fighting them off as apologists, cat's paws or useful idiots, we accept the fascist narrative that they - and only they - get to own and define culture.
Do not take their fucking word for it when they say something belongs to them.
They think the world belongs to them, and they're wrong about that, too.
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Yeah. You living your life based on your beliefs is perfectly fine by me. Enjoi. Go hard.
When you tell ME what to do based on YOUR beliefs, I'm gonna tell you to fuck off.
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I worked for the burningman project as Department of Public Works for 16 or so years. I have been programming since I was 12 and this is my 1st forray into social media. Here's hoping federation lives up to its promises!
Joined Jan 2023
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