Arthur Dent @ArthurDent@unxpnx.farm

I cannot tell you what to do, watching the US president and his horrific regime trying to plunge the world into flame and darkness. I can’t tell you because I have no idea either.

All I can tell you is this:

You have to know, with total and completely clarity, that nobody is coming to save us.

And knowing that, you will feel lost — but strangely clear.

And suddenly the work will be on you.

And you will do it, because that is •just what you do•, because you •know• that nobody else is coming.

And you will still have no idea what to do, even as you are already doing it.

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@thegibson

Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice 🫤

#jurynullification #juryduty

Personally I think the internet should exist but should have stayed text only and require CLI.

@pluralistic @forrcaho @dctucker I try to split the difference with gentle reminders. If we don’t give pointers to the original definition, then the million normies never learn it; mirriam webster and a million linkedinfluencers posting slop about how to “de-enshittify your marketing funnel” or whatever will bubble to the top and all that remains is a longer word for “degrade”. This is of course different from *scolding* people for using it that way though.

@glyph @pluralistic @forrcaho @dctucker Descriptivism and prescriptivism as praxis and theory.

#AI or #NoAI

I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost.

How come?

I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

#Fediverse #FediHelp #gotosocial #mastohelp

Alright. We're starting to get into the planning and coalesced action phase!!! Yay!!!!!

Jonathan V Last writes in Bulwark - How to think and act like a dissident in trump's America: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-think-and-act-like-a-dissident-in-trumps-america

It starts with:

"I was wrong about one big thing in 2024: I did not realize that most American institutions—the media, the legal world, big business, universities, the tech sector—would immediately capitulate to Trump."

and continues with:

"Once you accept that reality, our next steps become clear."

And lists out short and long term actions (with details). Plenty of room for discussion, hashing it out, disagreeing and counter ideas, and just plain trial and error (perfection is the enemy of good enough / hesitation kills and all of that).

Good to be in this place. Folks are not just fighting back but fighting back together.

Pass it on: #deleteyourtesla

And she shared it with two friends, and they shared it with four friends, and so on, and so on…

This is an excellent meme! Give me a hand: let’s make it go exponential.

Would you help a poor single-user Friendica server admin out and boost this post?

Boosting will increase the number of servers my server federates with.

Thanks!

#fediverse #friendica #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

People, please stop wearing so much perfume/cologne. Jesus Christ, people are trying to eat. You smell awful.