volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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Anyone know of a fedi or at least free-ish alternative to SoundCloud? I like posting my stuff for archival and for whatever folks might enjoy listening to my brand of self indulgent improv, but I just have no desire to engage with that site anymore. What are the cool Indieweb kids using these days?
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current poltergeist levels are 46%
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"An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to block ads in it "
great insight by @pluralistic
I think this really captures the state of things with Republicans shooting themselves in the foot because even though these numbers will be staring them in the face, they're going to miss the critical lesson about independants.
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What t-shirt size fits on the 12 foot skeleton? How many Xs before the L?
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One more mention for anyone interested in tiptoeing into #BlueSky
I currently have 5 codes if anyone wants to try it out. As I've mentioned previously, it is more Twitter-like, but the top accounts have been used to being in a closed system and mostly just talk to each other which is... weird.
Not bad for real, unfolding American news. Otherwise, eh.
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Also if you’re a #puppet builder and/or performer, I’d be happy to expand the server and give you a channel. So far I’m the only puppet-based video maker I’ve found on the #fediverse but I want to carve out a friendly little space here for puppet folk
Reach out! Always happy to chat.
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I'm all for open source services, but realistically, what potential issues are there with using GitHub?
Every contributor has a copy of the Git repo, so isn't the worst case basically losing access to issues and similar data? And even that is very unlikely.
Tagging for people interested in #ActivityPub and #Mastodon development
Finally figured out why I hadn’t had much luck with edited posts on Micro.blog making their way to Mastodon. Mastodon requires an “updated” date, n...
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Why Starship IFT-2 upper stage didn't quite reach orbit but exploded instead:
#space #SpaceX
RT https://twitter.com/SpaceOffshore/status/1745946623958483273
#Biden's strike on the #Houthis shows once again that he screws things up coming and going.
The complete lack of response was probably not great, but apparently he was worried about escalation.
But then he overcorrected, with a strike of magnitude that won't bend incentives but will grant the escalation that was exactly what he was supposedly looking to avoid.
It's really the story of his whole administration, incompetent administrators lurching left and right as they find themselves in way over their heads.
Nobody's better off from that, and it's tragic to see so much death and destruction coming out of that utter failure to engage rationally with the world.
It's the kind of #Trump moment that I love to laugh at.
The quote as best I care to remember it from his town hall:
Retribution? I won't have time for retribution. I'm going to be making America successful. That success is retribution.
Ah, so no time to make America successful?
I always say the way to undermine Trump's chances in the election is to focus on pointing out to his potential voters that he fails at the things those potential voters think he's good at. Too often people attack Trump in ways that actually make him look good to those voters.
Believe it or not, a lot of Trump supporters think Trump can talk good. Amazingly enough. So I would think making fun of his rhetorical gaffs would be a minor path of criticism, pointing out that he actually can't put sentences together as well as his supporters think.
But ah well, at least I'll laugh privately about these occasions.
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I have such grand ambitions for this account. Once I reach 100,000 followers I will launch a tshirt store. It will contain only one shirt that has a picture of a frog and says "A frog a day keeps the government away". The shirt will cost $20 and you will all buy it.
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"ActivityPub and ATProto break #siloing in different ways.
#ActivityPub is built around URLs and can "socialise" more or less anything on the Web, which is great, but they don't touch the underlying substrate—either you run your own server or you…are at the mercy of an admin.
#ATProto, on its side, provides a good initial foundation for an extensible #PDS designed around user agency and credible exit.
…you can be guaranteed to be able to take your content elsewhere."
https://berjon.com/ap-at/
So much reporting on Trump's claims of immunity miss the actual argument:
It's not that #Trump
can't be charged with stuff, but that charges related to a president carrying out presidential duties must target the office and not the individual personally.
A core question is whether Trump was actually carrying out presidential duties, but one can't raise that if they don't realize what the argument actually is.
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The sky was looking ominous so I asked Siri, “Surely, it’s not going to rain today?”
And she replied, “Yes it is, and don’t call me Shirley.”
That was when I realized I’d left my phone in Airplane mode.
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500 logs.
Despite various countermeasures which significantly reduced its severity, I still seem to be experiencing the Mastodon Stampede DDoS where people are occasionally getting HTTP 500 errors.
The problem is that while I see these errors in my...
https://jwz.org/b/ykIG
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
