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@loops Hi (PixelFed) - 2 Suggestion!

Q1❓➡️ Add FAQ pinned post so at least people can find answers and answer each other so we don't have to go elsewhere outside Fediverse AND see answer on this official Loops account!

Q2❓➡️ No Google Captcha please.
Will you ever get rid of Google Captcha? (this currently the deal breaker to actually signing up).

Thanks for you hard work.

Waiting for a reply before "signing" in, partially with google.

"I always remember (sadly) that human beings are not always rational.”

- Asimov’s perspective
From post: defcon.social/@Oobleck/1136262

read Cory Doctorow's short story "Radicalized"! it's now been published online for free, and is highly relevant to current events

prospect.org/culture/books/202

The PeerTube mobile app is out!
A simple way to explore platforms and enjoy #videos.
Free from doomscrolling and dark patterns, this app respects your attention.
Learn all about behind the scenes and the upcoming updates on our blog: framablog.org/2024/12/10/peert

🎃 ⬅️ Cook Pumpkins with skin! YES 

Eat and and with skin? YES 🎃

They stand the cold and quite well but few small spots tell me it's time to liquidate and not lose stock as they go bad behind you back...

So just endlessly cook the whole pieces in any ( yum!) and re-hydrate into one giant pot cooking almost whole (split in half and take seeds out - that's it - into pot!_ I eat the skin too which is like melon skin but better - perhaps like or apple skin when soft.

Why - it's faster and more food for you / less waste and taste really good.

Funny how people get used to throwing and peeling absolutely everything!

@Em0nM4stodon My experience is average or embedded people don't want to talk much about that. Like looking at each other and building each other - more than bashing Trump?

(easier to bash right? The hashtag shows a lot of that so we need better tags like:
or or something less general than )

This is also invite for you to reply and do this (and if you don't it would be telling a bit most people don't want to try or get down to needing real names in order to feel ok about doing something mutual).

EU News- & scanning supposedly coming to EU in 2025

Link below is picture of 2 website articles in 1 picture. Just food for thought...

🖼️ bin.dembased.xyz/eunewbordersy

Facial Recognition is slowly
getting embedded in most systems in the name of security.

This needs to stop.

Not only it will not help, but it will definitely harm a lot of innocent people: Identity theft and doxing when the inevitable data breaches happen. False positives, which can be very high and even higher for people of color. Normalized discrimination for many.

We collectively need to
refuse each time facial recognition is requested, and we need to write to our public representatives to demand better legislation against it.

If we do not refuse to participate and
we do not fight for our privacy rights collectively, we will lose them.

Here's how it works for airports in the US: gizmodo.com/senators-say-tsas-

#Privacy #Biometrics #FacialRecognition #SecurityTheater

@freemo @selea
Great stuff with 2 main considerations:

1- Children - if they can really grow out of terrible spirals (even with good education / morals)

2- Banks - who might not represent or declare fascism but all but do things similar.

So more on each optionally below, Otherwise above is fine.

Mostly asking in regard to future of children (or adults based on many I have come across) and a kind of better long-term decision-making perhaps needed in regards to both Children (perhaps not 'creating' the relative debt) and Banks as poor / cold money managers...

(Back to 1)
🧒 Raising children still inside cold systems will be a bit like "do as I do as a child but not what I say as adult" (do as I do not what I say or care about)
So when they grow up into 'work' it's still perhaps only the soft-fascism option being in yet another binary/ultimatum style sub-company culture (or just hierarchy inside state with too many rules)

(Back to 2)
🏦 Banks might be fascist if they are as an authority having almost total monopoly on money or the driving force behind life is getting managed largely financed by negative energy / debt first...

The rest is more detail why they might be fascist but you can skip to summary in next section:

1- authoritarian hierarchy themselves (or large uncaring authority with not much morality in lending etc)

2- and if they team-up with similar totalitarian state (so to some degree that are from playing ball state)

3- if almost (99%?) of life is piped through Pipe_exb: banks :Pipe_right: :and who doesn't get loans for the many good humans endeavors blocked for pure-profit style reaping and keeping power. Does seem accusative is about power and control and state.

4- and the public they are lumped as a result of unfairly public money and private money having blurry lines (bail-outs etc) is just too unforgivable it seems and very obvious stealing for their mismanagement of debt (allowed to lend x10 more than it has just bizarre).

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SUMMARY
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So considering all that with (!) Children and (2) Banks - seems it's all about taking from behind people's back / using negative maths and leveraging debt to compound stress all over the place which then leads to a lot of negatives society as a result of negative equation
or
$ = $ + debt (can't really win this and it's very "extractivist" / fascist ?)

I'll try limit myself from saying more but for me and current 'children' even it seems far from neutral and almost mission impossible fascist with more hoops of fascism and a kind of sterilized design without people.

See if you have more on Children getting out of that lock Banks have.

@freemo @selea
Thank you. Really good.
Yes on the same page with that. ✅

❓ Any answers for what to do in regards to people born into it and existing people struggling (?)
as it does seem to all be devolving and people going along with it soft form of fascism knowingly also and never really looking to build each other up.

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(My answer is below but just for your time for you can skip the rest of this and just answer whatever you think about that)
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For example is working together, almost no matter who, to building communication and then maybe trust. Because even at the beginning people need the practice let a lone coming to actually do anything or working together with so much 2 hands and brains can do),

And then another suggestion is not over-spending time trashing Trump, Musk, Bezos etc or not spreading their news at all - and again re-fueling into doing our own thing. This seems the way.

But doesn't seem to catch people's interest or perhaps they are not dedicated / desperate enough to break the online things and imagine all comes from communication and now is best chance not later and we need to practice seeing / building up people themselves and not only what they do but entertain others and branch out / grow even more.

The whole takedown system is majorly flawed and now it's going to be even worse. As long as there's no punishment for filing unwarranted DMCA/whatever takedown and sending the request is cheap/free accidents/incompetent/purposefuly evil takedowns will continue.

@FediThing Wow just saw the pinned post which explains why I can't follow FediThing (FediTips) about and it's position on things.

The hashtag is where you can see other comments which is the main reason for this post in case others are wondering why we can't follow.

Thanks @FediThing (FediTips who moved account that I couldn't see to search or see) and glad you pinned it to this account.

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Backing up your data from ? Start deleting all your for free when you're ready...
See fediverse account...

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⌨️ Website cyd.social/

Step One of deleting all my tweets - done ☑️

Thanks @cyd

Only thing missing is a little guide on navigating the accompanying existential sadness of deleting what once felt like a significant part of my life... 🤦‍♀️

I'm interested to see that there may be more sites added to Cyd one day 😃

What has been on my mind today: the high costs of digital sovereignty and privacy.

I quit #Substack and pay 30€ a month for a Creator plan on #Ghost (approx. 360 Euros a year).

I quit Dropbox in favor of #Proton Unlimited (drive but also mail, calendar. VPN). 119 Euros/year.

I nuked my Google Analytics accounts in favor of #Plausible (90 Euros/year).

I'm HAPPY to pay for these services & yet I'm highly aware of my privilege.

#BigTech won't fade in popularity anytime soon bc it's free 😩

Being tired is not a badge of honor. It just means you're tired.


"Good, healthy relationships aren't punctuated by distress."

- Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0

#Quotes Facts aren't "arbitrary" ❓ (feel free to discuss the types of 'fact') 

Facts aren't "arbitrary"

- 𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱
@SmartmanApps

❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
⬇️ MY COMMENT / CRITIQUE ⬇️

we cannot check ourselves are often are because it is by people's at .

Perhaps more is much easier and believable but even AI can fake what evidence you can really think you 'see' but is not there at all (Deepfake videos, poor statistics, framing, narrative etc).

So the meaning of "arbitrary" in this context is what I'm focusing on to mean "someone's or a groups opinion" and therefore "arbitrary" if literally I don't have things in my hand and if I didn't go myself to count it PLUS can honestly and measurably question those 'fact"-ing

Seems harsh and I'm not saying "believe nothing" but imagine it's easy to tell a lie about anything from distance and people even inside the hierachy don't see what's actually going on. .

So a quick/bad example:
if an American group or agency tells me what's good for me / us and quote some numbers then I'm much less likely to believe *anything* from USA (again seems harsh but as quick example and certainly at least almost everything political modern times more than ever has just been bloat and exaggerated).

People with a bad reputation / manipulation / violence to everyone in I think cant repeat things so there's that too.

Long-story short :
it's all so calculated (and miscalculated) / controlled / conquered / manipulated etc...

oh sorry we got it wrong or reclassifying this toxic thing

oh no we're call this green now

(just typing fast here not moaning!)

It's hard not to have things so inaccurate today as people wouldn't write bad about themselves and toward more towards constant power and control.

ADDED to that is how one phrases and words the counting (even assuming it's right by numbers, how you say it is not always perfect or purely said).

Ok will stop there but can't trust today's " facts "

💖 Said with love (that's a fact, unless I'm faking it - hard to know right?)

Generally like your stuff so hope you can comment equally to some critique.

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