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Jay

@jaystephens

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Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23

Born 330 ppm, Shetland. Dad to 2 kids (384, 390ppm)

Dayjob: Resilience/Disaster Recovery/Infosec

Live Bundjalung Country
Always was, always will be

Banner: Pirate flag, Alasdair Grey (mis)quote

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*Contains left-ecomodernism

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Jay 3h ago

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Stefan Bohacek Jan 23

Just think about how radical the fediverse is: a place for real human connections and communities where no single individual or business is in charge.

No crypto companies pouring in money and hoping for a big payoff some day.

We make the fediverse together. And for that I am grateful to each one of you. Thank you for sticking around!

(Fediverse map via https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/.)

#fediverse

Jay 3h ago

Stefan Bohacek Feb 6

I know I'd be preaching to the choir here, and also, apologies about the Substack link, but this might be worth sharing with some of your friends who are still stuck on X/Twitter: They're in a pretty bad company there.

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is-not-real-life

#USPol #study #SocialMedia #X #Twitter #LeaveX #ICE

Jay 3h ago

Argals 12h ago

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

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Peter 2d ago

technology can be "normal" but still incredibly dangerous. cancer drugs are "normal" but we don't let people synthesize molecules in their garage and sell them on Etsy. nuclear fission is "normal" but you can't build a reactor in your garage to sell power to the neighborhood. if your call to accept machine learning tools as "normal" doesn't also include the caveat that it needs to be carefully regulated, you're a crank. we already did the unregulated tech thing and it's been a fucking nightmare.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦10h ago

RE: https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/116233785931986954

may a new era of "illegal" libraries, mobile and tethered, rise across this country

#antifa #libraries #education

As people in the US and Middle East have been mourning their dead,

"The White House had begun posting snuff videos. Footage of actual US missile strikes hitting their targets in Iran are spliced together with scenes from Braveheart and Gladiator and Call of Duty and Mortal Kombat. Explosions that have killed innocent civilians are timed to the crack of a baseball bat or an NFL tackle."

~ Jon Favreau

#Trump #Iran #war #memes #AI #AISlop
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Jay 8h ago

Max Leibman 8h ago

Ram prices didn’t skyrocket because of a “capital strike” or some coordinated effort to make computing unaffordable for the masses. It’s all—always—so much stupider than that.

Jay 8h ago

GeePawHill 11h ago

People who characterize DOGE as having failed in its mission startle me.

Of course, that mission wasn't what the thoroughly and repeatedly documented straight-faced liars said it was, so I suppose there's room for some naïve folks to think that.

The mission -- "destroy one of the most successful governments in the history of the world as much as possible as quickly as possible while creating maximum chaos and taking a profit" -- was a stunning success.

Jay 10h ago

Selzero 11h ago

A better world is possible.