Mastodawn

This is how Eid passes in Gaza—amid siege, pain, destruction, and ongoing suffering. Yet Eid prayer is still performed, a small act of faith like a thread of light in deep darkness.
An Eid that comes to exhausted hearts, bringing little joy, but still not breaking faith or hope. Between takbeers and tears, a voice rises from the rubble: “Help us… help us…” 💔🕊️

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-rahafs-family-in-gazas-crisis/fb/o?lang=en_US

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John Abbe (aka Slow)1d ago

John Mark Ockerbloom 1d ago

From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....

The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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John Abbe (aka Slow)1d ago

@chrkrhc Appreciating your timing here, on multiple levels.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 1d ago

Two students at #FAMU in #Tallahassee, FL, sat in the whites-only section of a bus on #ThisDayInHistory in 1956. They were arrested & charged with incitement to riot! A bus boycott then began, lasting the rest of 1956, until #SCOTUS issued a decision ending all such #segregation.

John Abbe (aka Slow)1d ago

nathan 1d ago

#CatsOfMastodon

John Abbe (aka Slow)1d ago

You can't spell alienation without AI.

(In before the literalists' complaints: Alienation has been around long before AI, and can exist without it. Yes, I know. Being poetic here.)

John Abbe (aka Slow)2d ago

DFW Support Committee May 3

WANT TO KNOW what really happened at Prairieland Detention Center last July 4th?

The evidence in the Prairieland case has FINALLY been made public, so now you can see for yourself. And BIG SURPRISE - it's NOT what you heard from the government or on the news.

John Abbe (aka Slow)2d ago

olfat Tayyam🍉🍉4d ago

We were displaced from our homes to areas we thought were safer.
These areas we sought refuge in are now also threatened with evacuation.
We stand in the midst of this immense pain—between fear for our children, constant anxiety, and hearts exhausted by moving from one place to another without stability.
There is terrifying shelling right now.
We are not asking for much… just a moment of safety🥺💔🙏
🔗 https://gofund.me/e53b4cdd

John Abbe (aka Slow)2d ago

Ecociviliation

This book comes out tomorrow, and I am very much looking forward to hearing what folks say about it? (Will take me a bit to get my hands on it.) https://book.ecocivilization.net/ #life

Ecocivilization Book by Jeremy Lent | Making a World That Works for All

Jeremy Lent, called "one of the greatest thinkers of our age," reimagines civilization through ecological design, justice, and deep transformation.

John Abbe (aka Slow)3d ago

What could be more disheartening than a slop grenade? https://noslopgrenade.com/

Asking everyone on a video call to watch in real time while you (mis)prompt a chatbot to construct a slop grenade.

no slop grenade

Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves.