herid @herid@qoto.org

It's perfectly reasonable and possible for *both* of these statements to be true:

* it is better here than on Twitter
* this better *isn't good enough*

Federation and decentralization *as currently and inconsistently and idiosyncratically practiced* while better, are not good enough.

Digging in and saying that decentralization and federation *is* good enough is really, really unhelpful.

Also, the potential for better does not mean the practical experience is better.

If you need a break from everything here is an #audiobook recommendation:

P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1 narrated by Stephen Fry (who is on mastodon btw at @stephenfry)
I **absolutely love** Jeeves stories and this is my favorite narration.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/P-G-Wodehouse-Volume-1-Audiobook/B08QDKHKP7?qid=1668956004&sr=1-3&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_3&pf_rd_p=b278ed0a-c3b2-4491-808c-7cb2190a487c&pf_rd_r=7DAA9GC8F979WTRS8F9P

#audiobooks #books

1/ In what may be a bizarre case of mistaken identity, the Russian FSB has killed a group of Russian people it claims are pro-Ukrainian saboteurs – but who reportedly appear to be Airsoft enthusiasts who were engaged in live-action roleplay of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video games. ⬇️

*NEW* Geopolitics Decanted episode is out!

I talk to @danny about Russian cyber attack successes and failures in Ukraine, why a conflict with China over Taiwan might see a very different cyber campaign, the scary vulnerabilities of highly networked US weapons platforms like the F35, why Russia has not yet used cyber to retaliate against the West for sanctions, and much more!

Available now on the usual podcast platforms.

https://podcast.silverado.org/episodes/russias-cyber-game-what-worked-and-what-didnt

Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

https://youtu.be/ABXtWqmArUU

in honor of this toot
https://mastodon.scot/@jonreed/109400665716703959

#FavoriteMusic 14/

Try reading this without being moved by these descriptions of not only what life was like under Russian occupation in Kherson but what it is like to be from there and to have been cut off from the city without word for months. https://on.ft.com/3AMfyQe

>§#Ukraine's leaders will have to be "far-sighted" to secure peace, #Pope Francis said on Friday, suggesting that #Kyiv would have to make concessions to end the war with #Russia.

Maybe missing it, but why are these calls always directed at Kyiv? Russia could put on their big boy pants and be far sighted and offer concessions to end the war too, you know

Why do folks always talk about Russia like its an inanimate force of nature like a hurricane? They have agency too.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-needs-be-far-sighted-secure-peace-pope-says-2022-11-25/

The last Saturday in November is the day Ukrainians and people of conscience around the world commemorate the Holodomor, the systematic genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by the criminal Stalin regime in 1932-33. Millions of people were deliberately starved to death.

Zelenskyy's statement reveals the politics around the oil price cap - Poland&Baltic countries are pushing for a 30 USD/barrel cap that would decimate Russia's oil profits, while unnamed other countries are too afraid of any disruption to the flow of oil.
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/zalezhnist-yevropi-vid-rosijskih-energoresursiv-pochala-zmen-79425