Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

It would be interesting to have a service that gives you summaries of the news from 6 or 12 months ago, with care taken to cover the general response and counter-narratives.

Epstein - like other conspirators - used legal threats and worse to attack people who threatened to expose him (think of Harvey Weinstein hiring ex-Mossad agents to harass women who publicly accused him).

So there was a period when Epstein was a "conspiracy theory" (because his crimes hadn't been brought to light and publicly acknowledged) and then they became a mere "conspiracy" - in public view.

10/

it's amazing the number of libre tools I have at my disposal these days

I can program
I can make programming languages
I can paint
I can make 2d and 3d animations
I can make music
I can make games

20y ago I mostly just dreamed I'd have this much cool FOSS stuff at my fingertips

Please consider boosting.

This is me screaming across the fediverse. I'm looking for people that used the original Seesmic before the service was shut down in 2009. I feel like if I were to reconnect with anyone from there, they'd be on the fediverse in 2020.

For context, Seesmic was a cross between YouTube and Twitter. Micro-video blogging with threaded conversations, no commenting, only videos.

I feel with a custom PeerTube instance we can maybe recreate what once was, what do you think?

Also: "I now think wearing masks is just common sense. Can I just keep on wearing them?"

https://i.insider.com/59289f0379474ce7238b499a?width=1200

What do each of these companies have in common? Expand, embrace, extinguish.

The leading corporations of our time take up a majority of their markets by snuffing out competitors however possible. This unhealthy genocide of independent competition has led to the inevitable dominance of the lives of many commonwealth.

Although singular usage of their products and services may not pose harm to associated markets, the collective assumed-impasse of all individuals carries the devastating impact. By tearing oneself away from such major corporations and choosing to side with the suppressed (often unheard of) competition, a small step towards justice and balance is being courageously taken.

"But there isn't a comparable product/service in the market? What then?"
-If absolutely no other alternative is available, then it is fair and logical to proceed with the only option capable. If however an inferior alternative is present, efforts(occasional at least) should be made to support the minority in hopes to influence a wider market horizon.

"But the leading competitor has all of my information, making it easier to to x,y,z. Why would I want to give up that convenience?"
-Every time you volunteer your personal information, you're locking yourself inside a cage of luxurious captivity. That 'ease of use' you speak of only makes your grow more lame and incapable of freely doing as you please outside of their ToS(Terms of Service[a contract you agree to]) which is also provided with a license(their permission to use X for Y time, under Z conditions) you had might have had to pay for just to use the single product/service you may have already initially paid for but has been intentionally made unusable to you by them.

Fighting for your rights, safeguarding your privacy may be more important than you might realize, but I hope that you might seriously consider the greater implications and impacts that inevitably follow when you stop caring about something as fundamentally simple as your identity.

No Net November. Just log off.

#introductions

Let's see... apparently, putting in a bunch of tags of things that interest me is going to make it easier for other people who share those interests to run across me.

Alright, then. Let's see...

#literature
#pratchett
#boardgames
#programming
#ai
#sciencefiction
#science
#machinelearning
#fantasy
#mathematics

...that should be enough for the moment, I guess.

@vim

Cool source of really nice VIM plugins!

https://vimawesome.com/

#VIM