josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

I recently became an active member of @codeberg@mastodon.technology, and I must admit I'm not exactly happy about it.

All they do in the internal discussions is talk about TOS and selling swag. I wish they were more focused on free software and collaboration than on policing speech.

I, for one, am only interested in discussing technology and software, and I assume most other active members are like me, so why would we ever need a TOS?

And swag? If we have so much money that we can invest (more like spend, really) some on mugs, t-shirts and long socks (?), maybe we should look first at collaborating with other institutions with similar goals, or supporting whatever free software projects we decide as a community and establishing synergies that way.

I don't know, it all feels so... _gentrified_.

It should be clear to anyone who has read _The Test_, the comic strip where the Bechdel Test came from, that its original intent had nothing to do with female representation in movies. It was just a way to determine whether a lesbian would be interested in watching them.

It has always amazed me that the very first thing reactionary thinking (and by this I mean valuing law and order more than freedom) attacks is sexuality. What's the logic behind that? How does satisfying a healthy and natural urge become the main source of anarchy in the world? And when in history has that happened? The 1960s, for instance, were cool: Great music, the birth of the peace movement and environmentalism. What was so dangerous about that? We'd be living in a much better world now if we had kept those ideals.

If for some reason you can't see the thread I was referring to, it was this one: https://functional.cafe/@loke/107573918579584406

Interesting thread:

I knew it was spelled ‘connoisseur!’

Well, I mean, I didn't. That's why I misspelled it yesterday. But I knew I was misspelling it somehow. I even searched for it. Unfortunately, the search returned so many results that it seemed plausible that I had gotten it right.

What's wrong with you, Fedi? Joan Didion has died and I had to go to Twitter to find out.

Maybe we need a little less shitposting and a little more real talk, I don't know.

Also also, supposing that there was enough time and resources to create a serious study in less than a month, I very much doubt that there was time to have it peer-reviewed.

The Omicron variant was discovered less than a month ago. How can scientists create studies so fast? And how accurate can they be? Also how can they distinguish between the natural effects of a variant so mild that very seldom requires hospitalisation and a vaccine protecting people from said hospitalisation?