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Joseph Kaminski
@josephkaminski
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Social historian with a passion for education and diversity. Sad Canucks fan. J'apprends le français.
Sinus/ear infections are terrible, man. I was prescribed antibiotics (amoxicillin) and tomorrow is my last dosage - but I still feel like crap!
This article is bullshit because it believes that there will be such a thing as "cheap transport" with self-driving cars.
Clayton DeweyIt is now illegal in Pennsylvania to donate a book to someone incarcerated.
Instead, books must be purchased as ebooks through prison profiteer GTL or ordered through the DOC
This is an attack on gift economies and free speech/culture while expanding the surveillance capitalist, carceral state.
Check out my latest article on The Scum Gentry Journal for Alternative Arts. I wrote it about a month ago, and it just so happened to be put up today. I think you'd enjoy, @[email protected]!
"Ad hominem, esquire: Professional unprofessionalism in today’s methods of online interaction and the sociopolitical echo chamber of social media"
https://josephkaminski.org/2017/01/27/nazi-punching/
Since people here don't understand the social construct of political affiliations, ingrouping, and bigotry, here's an article I wrote in January 2017.
Nazi Punching and Dirty, Old Fascism
@Gargron Also - basic sociology - when too many categories are created, those categories become worthless. The overuse of content warnings on this site break the overall flow of the timelines and creates a terrible situation where "if everything is content warning'd, then nothing is content warning'd at all."
@Gargron To summarize, the site has evolved from a good-natured alternative into a "you're either with us or fuck you" social club that seems to exist solely to make fun of those who don't agree, constantly bring up "the problems" with "birdsite", and circlejerk pointless information for the rip-off "toots" that rarely exist as the site is split off into different sub-communities that do not seem to interact - yet all serve the same purpose.
@Gargron The Wil Wheaton drama coupled with the hoards of John McCain "shitposting" (honestly some of the rudest messages I've ever seen on social media) really turned me off from the so-called good qualities this website offered. Corporatized Twitter sucks, but mob-fueled digitized verbal lynching is not a proper or coherent rival. Maybe social media in general needs revitalization and not half-hearted attempts at becoming the "next big thing" in the short attention span of the internet.
Not really understanding Mastodon at this point. It claimed to be anti-harassment, yet I've seen some horrifying messages about McCain and his family since he died. It claimed to be an alternative to Twitter, yet every damn message I see on the timelines say "birdsite" (why mention what you're supposedly trying to get away from?). I really don't see purpose of the site if its foundation is compromised/contradicted by its general users. @Gargron