Theo Chiotis

@kimota
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Poetry person. Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (Penned in the Margins). Screen (Paper Tigers Books). Limit.less_an assembly of the sick (LitmusUK). ed @frmkpoetry. Code poetry enthusiast.
@kimota in the latest issue that just dropped from Cutbow Quarterly #vispo #visualpoetry #literature #books #Booktotodon https://www.cutbowquarterly.com/issue2
Issue 2 | CUTBOW Quarterly

CUTBOW Quarterly
https://www.cutbowquarterly.com/issue2
Happy LAUNCH DAY!! And be sure to #toot some of the #vispo creators in Issue 2 like @MichaelOrr and consider submitting to Issue 3 in January! Enjoy 66 pages of #visualpoetry
Issue 2 | CUTBOW Quarterly

CUTBOW Quarterly
Superhybridimmunitydebtexpialidocious.

Στο φεστιβάλ Bridge 2022, οι συγγραφείς Elise Schmidt, Tullio Forgiarini, Όλγα
Βερελή, Μάριος Χατζηπροκοπίου, Tom Reisen και Θοδωρής Χιώτης διαβάζουν
από τα βιβλία τους (αλλά και πρωτότυπο ανέκδοτο υλικό) και συζητούν με
το κοινό για το έργο τους, την προσωπική τους θέση απέναντι στη γραφή
και για τη συνάντηση λογοτεχνίας, πολιτικής και κοινωνίας.

Επιμελητές του προγράμματος είναι ο συγγραφέας Χρήστος Χρυσόπουλος
(Καιρός) και o Pascal Seil (Conservateur, Centre national de
littérature).

Disturbed by reports of Black Mastodon users—Black women in particular—having negative experiences on this app, including being randomly banned for discussions of racism. Some of these users will not come back. All will share their experiences. The answer is not to condescendingly lecture them on “how the fediverse works,” as if their experiences are inevitable, nor to swear to do better next time. (There may not be one.) It’s to do better now lest the reputation of this app be cemented.
And the robot is doing Billie Jean-era Michael Jackson dance moves. 
Daughter is dancing with a robot. :pika 

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

Into the #fediverse. (digital manipulation, data collage)
#self-portrait