SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
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Facebook Bans Saint Augustine Quote as ‘Hate Speech’ https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3764799/posts
Fact check : true
Nation Relieved As Politicians Too Busy Bickering To Push Their Terrible Ideas On The Country
U.S. - The nation reported it was relieved Friday as it appeared that politicians were so busy bickering with one another that they didn't have much time to work on their terrible ideas for running the country.As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi began to fight with one another, the nation breathed a sigh of relief as they were distracted from...
I think the most interesting things about this article about abortion is that the word "mother" never appears. Instead it says : "or to save the life of the woman." words matter. These words are chosen to drive an ideological agenda.
Trump abortion restrictions effective immediately
WASHINGTON (AP) — Taxpayer-funded family planning clinics must stop referring women for abortions immediately, the Trump administration said Monday, declaring it will begin enforcing a new...
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♲ @thegibson@hackers.town: Things were not worse then.
two things happened to destroy the modeled future that we lost.
one, 9/11... we lost our future in the states that day... and due to that, much of the rest of the world did too due to our influence.
two, 2008...
the consumerization of IT DID NOT make anything better.
that was the lock-in for surveillance capitalism.
in the 90's, while the tech wasn't mature, we had the frontier you mentioned, and it made everything better...
it was freedom... and freedom that I work daily to restore.
What climate change crisis is really about. Spoiler : it's not the climate.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff recently admitted that the Green New Deal was not conceived as an effort to deal with climate change, but instead a “how-do-you-change-the-entire economy thing”
Trump approval higher than Obama's was.
I'm surprised. We form our opinions based on media, as we don't know the guy ourselves. With an objective media (which I know is impossible), I wonder how different these approval numbers would be. Wildly different, I suspect.
http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_jul11
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the old internet was like running through untrammelled snow and exploring the possibilities of what this could become, internet today is like being boxed into a train car with a bunch of other cattle and jabbed with tasers
How to win in business and limit independent thought :
Step 1: put your competitors out of business by being the place that has it all.
Step 2: with competitors out of business or limited to tiny market share, begin changing your model to only give access to things that match your ideology.
Step 3: having established your business as the market leader, push for new legislation over your market category so that only you can handle the additional overhead and keep competition down.
Amazon. YouTube. Google. Facebook.
In the news : Amazon pulls books by authors who once identified as gay, lesbian
Following the removal of books by a Catholic psychologist amid LGBT activist pressure, Amazon has removed the works of other authors who once lived and identified as gay.
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I'm extremely pleased to launch Run Your Own Social: How to run a small social network site for you friends.
This is a guide book to running a small, tight-knit federated social network server. It comes from my year of experience running Friend Camp. It's focused largely on SOCIAL solutions, though it does touch on the technical.
I've tried to keep it technology-neutral, and it should be a pretty easy read for anyone who's been on the fediverse for a while.
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Np, glad to hear of your community.
Here on mastodon there's always been the offer the top comments line : if you disagree with me you're a fascist and a nazi and people like you should be physically attacked into silence.
Then gab is going to join and proud open federation turns into demands for censorship, and I think : well they called me, someone who disagrees with everything that nazis and fascists stand for, a nazi and a fascist. This is certainly just more of the same : a desire for an echo chamber instead of the open web that's been nearly lost.
Now gab has joined and I'm wondering whether it's in effect not much more than a shelter for trolls who want to spam threads with garbage.
On the one hand people want to use open tools to shut down others through mandate and defederation, in the other side, is it going to be a group who wants to shut down others by shouting over them?
We need more like qoto: the desire to treat others with excellence while having and discussing different ideas.
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RT @Lord_Arse@twitter.com
Today would have been the 100th birthday of one of my favourite Doctor's, Jon Pertwee. Happy birthday, number three! #DoctorWho
I thought it silly that people would complain that a mythical creature (Ariel the mermaid movie I've never seen) was recast to be black in a remake, so I watched a video about it, thinking it would be ridiculous or racist, but I heard a line that has me thinking :
this is condescending pandering thinking that the black audience needs a black character, but instead of getting their own character with a story, they get a ******* hand me down.
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12,300 year old campsite replete with bird bones and tobacco found in Utah Desert https://www.sott.net/article/416335-12300-year-old-campsite-replete-with-bird-bones-and-tobacco-found-in-Utah-Desert
(2 thoughts : are the voices in the dem primary leading to more approving of Trump's term? And I do wonder whether they asked the "unpresidential" question in polls regarding the past Presidents.)
Poll: Trump's approval rating hits highest point of presidency
President Trump's approval rating has surged to the highest level of his presidency...
In addition, 65 percent of respondents said Trump has acted in an "unpresidential" way since taking office. Twenty-eight percent said he has acted in a "fitting and proper" way.
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This.Is.Incredible. 😮
You see that dark spot on Earth in the distance?
That is the actual shadow of the moon cast on our planet during the solar eclipse this past Tuesday, as captured by a Chinese satellite in orbit around the Moon!
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NYT Fake News. 60 years ago, the nytimes predicted an ice-free Arctic and ships sailing over the North Pole, within a generation. 50 years ago, they predicted an ice-free Arctic by 1989. It is now July, and there are no ships traversing the Arctic
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Do you ever think the standard of English in journalism is declining? (or maybe this is Aquaman in his day job). There's another one in the subtitle - surely he can pitch with 'either' arm, not both!
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#Antifa Shatters Mirror In Attempt To Punch #Nazi
PORTLAND, Or - A member of Antifa, Dustin Day, injured himself over the weekend while attempting to punch a nazi he spotted. "So I had my mask on and was ready to fight any nazis that came to Portland -- because I guess the city is full of them -- and then I saw one," explained Day. "You could tell from just one look at the guy that he was..."
https://babylonbee.com/news/antifa-shatters-mirror-in-attempt-to-punch-nazi
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
