Mastodawn

And the irony of somebody with a profile claiming to be so self-proficient and self-contained and bragging about it. That #isolation and #entitlement is exactly what allowed #billionaires. It's called #denial of having a responsibility towards your fellow man because you think you're so amazing.

BellingenNSW Apr 28

A masculinity crisis

* American Crusade w/ Eleanor Janega
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chvlbx9zAHg

* Manosphere: A community centred on male grievance and empowerment.
https://theconversation.com/youd-better-start-paying-attention-to-the-manosphere-youre-living-in-it-279547

* Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality
https://confrontingpoverty.org/research/rugged-individualism-and-the-misunderstanding-of-american-inequality/
#MasculinityCrisis #manosphere #masculinity #individualism #competition #SocialDarwinism #RuggedIndividualism #ressentiment #entitlement #equality #inequality #CultureOfMisogyny #misogyny #ChristianRight #violence #war #zeitgeist

American Crusade w/ Eleanor Janega

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🫧 socialcoding..Apr 20

@khinsen @johannab

Indeed. And we see what the result is. After various supply chain attacks and whole range of other software supply line related issues that typically are not well handled in most #FOSS projects, the 'market' (need not be commercial clients per se) start demanding all kinds of quality compliance guarantees.

In the new and upcoming #HorizonEurope grant programs by @EUCommission I heard - there was much discussion about this - on changing nature of #NGI0 #grants as provided by @nlnet whereby the #EU mandate shifts towards placing bigger focus on these concerns.

Though I admit that I'm not fully in the loop, and neither do I know if things were already all clearly communicated to the public. Perhaps @michiel or someone else at #NLnet might point to the most relevant info resource atm.

Other than that, the misunderstandings which lead to perceived #entitlement (client/customer) or #privilege (creator/devs) are expectation mismatch, solvable by better comms practices.

quackademic Apr 16

I wish we were all more thoughtful in our use of language.

A man fatally shoots his wife, then himself, in their family home, leaving their kids to find the bodies. The local chief of police tells the media that the man ‘was recently served some paperwork associated with an upcoming court proceeding that apparently led to this incident last night’.

Having been ‘served some paperwork’ is not what caused him to do this (‘look what she made me do!’).

It was a man’s belief that his entitlement to control his former wife is of more importance than her life - & of his kids’ lives & wellbeing, & even his own life - that made this murder possible.

Words are the tools we think with. Pay attention to the assumptions our commonplace phrases embody.

#entitlement #misogyny #language #LookWhatSheMadeMeDo

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/justin-fairfax-murder-suicide-virginia-lt-governor?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Justin Fairfax, ex-lieutenant governor of Virginia, kills wife and himself

Police say the couple’s teenage children called 911 after a domestic dispute at their Annandale home during divorce

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Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱Apr 15

“Netanyahu paying political price for military campaign launched with Trump that failed to deliver decisive outcome.

approval ratings slipped & political risks rising“

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/despite-israeli-firepower-netanyahu-struggles-political-gains-iran-war-2026-04-14/ @palestine

#poll #democracy #IsraelWars #JewishState #citizenship #coloniality #israel #israelPalestine #Lebanon #zionism #entitlement #Zionists #israeliWars

BellingenNSW Apr 13

Freedom of movement and freedom to stay
Entitlement and the Urge to Destroy

* " As the habitable areas of the Earth shrink under climate change and as many governments around the world adopt measures to deport migrants and refugees, it is time to re-examine our traditional notion of freedom. In the Western tradition, freedom is generally understood in relation to space: it is the freedom of movement, and the freedom not to be obstructed in one's movement by the state or anyone else. In The Freedom to Stay, von Redecker puts forward the radical argument that we should think of freedom in temporal rather than spatial terms."
The Freedom to Stay. Eva von Redecker >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-freedom-to-stay--9781509574292

* "The core of fascism is an unleashed logic of property. Its counterparts are not people, but things; its enemies are not opponents, but thieves."

The New Fascism. Entitlement and the Urge to Destroy, Eva von Redecker >>
https://www.fischerverlage.de/verlag/rights/book/eva-von-redecker-dieser-drang-nach-haerte-9783103977240
#property #liberalism #NewFascism #EcologicalFreedom #ClimateCrisis #habitability #RightToStay #entitlement #destruction #TemporalLiteracy #mobility #freedom #theory #books

The Eclectic Light Company [Unofficial]Apr 11

Explainer: sandboxes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/11/explainer-sandboxes/

Explainer: sandboxes

One of the requirements of App Store apps is that they run in a sandbox. What does mean, and how does it affect the app? And why does privacy protection also use a sandbox?

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Ramesh Gupta Apr 5

⬆️ @cdarwin

>> #Vance would happily throw his in-laws under the bus.

Even more fundamental is the sense of #entitlement in JD's grievance that you missed.

>> "…for #American kids who want to go to a nice university but can't because their spot was taken by a foreign student."

"THEIR spot" reeks of entitlement, as the spot is not theirs, or anybody else's for that matter, but for those who can show that they deserve the spot.

Has #JDVance looked at test scores of American vs foreign students?

Eric Foltin Apr 4

Copy-Paste Existence

Why do you feel like your days are harder to separate from each other? Every day feels the same because it basically is. Same people. Same attitudes. Same recycled nonsense like the world’s stuck on autopilot and nobody knows where the off switch is. You wake up, deal with the same entitlement, the same lack of respect, the same emotional laziness… then go to bed just to run it back. It’s not just routine. It’s repetition without meaning. We made everything easier and somehow made […]

https://ericfoltin.com/2026/04/04/copy-paste-existence/

Copy-Paste Existence

Eric Foltin

CelloMom On Cars Apr 4

RE: https://social.overheid.nl/@RWSverkeersinfo/116346329909945517

Reminder that the Dutch LOVE their cars.
And like drivers everywhere, can behave as if they own the roadm with pure #entitlement.

And yet the country has the largest and safest walk and bike network. Yes, they fight over every parking space that needs to make way for pedestrian or bike infrastructure.

Ped & bike advocates, keep fighting the good cause. You too can win.