| politics | lean left |
| nationality | Australian |
| age | old |
| interests | philosophy |
Thank you for this. You've got me thinking that you can frame an argument either positively for change, or negatively against status quo, depending on who you are trying to convince.
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#TrumpVirus Gazette
Here’s my take-away, thin-sliced from watching Fani Willis, hearing various reactions, ending w/perspective from Neal Katyal...
For RICO charges (#GA) you need to be connected to at least two different ‘racketeering acts’. There were 161 here. Defendants are like spokes of a wheel, interconnected. There's incentive, if you're a lower-level actor who did only one thing, to flip on the one who made you do it.
Donald #Trump was named 193 times; all roads lead to him.
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@spocko @emptywheel
Thanks.
Just FYI though, there's an error in the link. I hope this is the correct one.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/08/trumps-co-conspirator-volunteer-lawyers-and-their-means-of-bullying/
Yes. Hosting a server in the #Fediverse is apparently a simple enough thing to do. I wonder if more organisations will eventually start doing this, just as they host their own email servers.
@krishnadeltoso @philosophy @historyofideas @indianphilosophy
Hmm.
If you perceive philosophy as a foundation on which ideas can be built, then you must start with the "giants", and then add your own idea. But philosophy is not like that. It's more like a soup with new ingredients occasionally being added. The soup slowly evolves, but the original ingredients remain.
Perhaps there's a compromise. If your aim is to taste the soup rather than add to it, then relationships among the ingredients is what you write about. If you want to add to the soup, you need to find new ideas and let someone else stir the soup.
@chipotle on micro.blog writes about vanity, Mastodon and Threads style.
https://micro.coyotetracks.org/2023/07/10/youre-so-vain.html
This longish article is worth reading if you're interested in the Threads business model (see Facebook), where Mastodon fits (it doesn't), so why bother with Mastodon (regulatory deniability), the philosophy that generated Mastodon (respect), and what the danger of Threads is to Mastodon (fragmentation).
@darnell @jdp23 @osc @mastodonmigration
I read somewhere that a former Head of State set up Truth Social. He posts on it a lot.
Published a couple of days ago, this ZDnet article claims that the Threads team was unable to create a suitable framework for ActivityPub. If true, I wouldn't spend too much effort figuring out how Threads might affect the fediverse, or vice versa.
"Mosseri* said in a post that future versions of Threads will integrate with ActivityPub, a decentralized social networking protocol that also supports Mastodon. However, he said that the team responsible for building Threads could not create the framework to support ActivityPub."
"Historically, ... [Meta's] apps rely heavily on walled gardens to maximize the profit made from marketing and advertising campaigns targeted at users. "
*Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram
#Threads, #Mastodon, #ActivityPub, #Meta
Michael Fenichel
