John R. Marks, IV, Technically an attorney; practically I teach IT at FSU for a living.
I run a nonprofit that teaches stem; for a while my company Vivergent managed the official website for the Black News Channel, RIP.
Huge FOSS/Linux/Free Software guy as well. Harvard undergrad, Columbia law.
Also I like the old school rappity rap.
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Every social media platform I'm on (Twitter, Threads, Bluesky) I'm seeing a very necessary and solid level of tough-but-important conversations and fights. about the clashes between (Far?) Leftism and real Black folks who actually participate in politics*
Except here. Same ol same ol do-nothing far-left type stuff except also WITHOUT the "good but ugly" fights
(*Yes, I'm aware I'm being harsh here, but I don't have better terminology and its important)
my position is that servers should be able to limit their membership any way they wish. but the norm should be that servers federate with other servers unless that server allows their users to harass users on other servers. basically unwanted tagging.
both of these policies are about the betterment of the network and promoting growth. avoiding harassment is obvious, but one should also have the sense that they can join the network as a user or server and reach almost everyone.
Ah, looks like another round of this:
You can perhaps think what you want to think about Dave Chappelle, but please consider the massive *volume* of hate he is getting from the internet. Why -- precisely -- are you seeing that?
He made a pretty good joke about this, only about Ja Rule...
The only quibble I would make with this is that if you are doing what makes sense, you shouldn't beat yourself up about it.
I've been a U.S. citizen my whole life, and my country has engaged in many wars I find reprehensible.
Should I have renounced my citizenship? No. It's my country, no more or less than theirs.
Is there no alternative to Walmart? The alternative they closed for me was mine. I want it back, but meanwhile I have to live. It's not wrong to choose to live.
@wdormann The default setting for the iPhone by the US company Apple is to pass messages through to their Notification functionality.
They could be retrieved by the FBI from the US company Apple's push notification database.
The US company Apple, not Signal, has a shoddy security model here.
PS: To any Apple fanboys who can't stand a single bad word about Apple, I'll block you permanently and happily if you even give a squeak.
Y'all, so sorry, but I gotta go full Hotep here.
"The return of Kanye" is not being pushed by US.
It's being pushed by THEM.
being Black is a roller coaster but i never wanna get off it
Idea I've floated over there (and on twitter) that I want to float here:
ATProto / Bluesky for social media is *bad* actually. Worse than here and even Twitter, precisely for the reason people might think it's better.
By "verifying" and rebroadcasting everything in a more precise way, you make it more dangerous by creating "better surveillance"
Mastodon ends up being better due to plausible deniability
#twitter #mastodon #bluesky #socialmedia #atproto #privacy #surveillance
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