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this is what Google/Facebook spokespeople sound like

@enkiv2 The biggest political 'tell' to me in this whole (now-linked) soup of UFO and Christian conspiracy mythology is that the Enemy is *always* the 'one-world government'.

I mean, everything, absolutely everything in the multiple incompatible multiverses of the conspiracy zoo can be swapped out - and is - EXCEPT that.

That's what this has always been about. Fear of 'the Beast'. Fear of 'the New World Order'. Fear of 'the Illuminati'.

It all == fear of world socialism.

Stolen from Slack.

I had to, because of the reasons.

Saw a shipping company called "Midas" yesterday.

I'm disappointed that it wasn't a refrigerated one, and that it didn't say "Everything we touch turns to cold" on the side.

federated servers dispatching plain-text toots across a variety of languages and softwares is *literally the very exact thing* unicode was invented for, i don't see why following the spec is that contentious of a discussion point to be honest

twitter's losing millions of users but the ones that are are more engaged, which they take as a form of brand strength and a sign that they're still worth investing in

translation: twitter all but admits they make money off harassment

Basically what I'm saying is reroute our entire defense budget to new seasons of battlebots, but in space.

Surely I'm not the only one who accidentally pronounces CoreOS like "Oreos" with a C

Can I just say, that i have NEVER been scared of AIs or computers in general. Never. It's always the humans that are the worst part and the weakest link in any system. Computers just do what they're told and trained to do. Humans, on the other hand, can go through all kinds of socialization and training and schooling and still say "no, i think you aren't a person worthy of respect and dignity" Seriously. Was getting taught in kindergarten how to fucking share something new after 1984?

A VC-backed company is taking over open-source projects to insert their own adware or worse:

https://theoutline.com/post/1953/how-a-vc-funded-company-is-undermining-the-open-source-community

> The new version of autocomplete-python demoted the open source engine it had been using, called Jedi, and enabled Kite’s engine by default.
>
> Kite’s engine required code be processed on Kite’s cloud server[;] previous version did this [locally].

Don’t hand over projects to someone you don’t know.

I didn’t know this: the Civilian Conservation Corps, despised by Republicans as a socialist boondoggle, got the USA ready to fight World War II.

Lumberman’s Memorial, Huron National Forest, Michigan
https://mastodon.social/media/Q6EOXMQsHPfH7e6fRyM

Hey.

Psst.

Yeah, you. Reading this toot.

You deserve to exist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/opinion/hbo-confederate-slavery-civil-war.html?smid=tw-share

"Each time I see a reimagining of the Civil War that largely replicates what actually happened, I wonder why people are expending the energy to imagine that slavery continues to thrive when we are still dealing with the vestiges of slavery in very tangible ways. Those vestiges are visible in incarceration rates for black people, a wildly segregated country, disparities in pay and mortality rates..."

I'm trying to write a trademark policy: https://gist.github.com/Gargron/8287a6d961397ad3b877d6c0cfa8352e But I am not a lawyer and haven't done this before. Feel free to give me some feedback. I hope the spirit of the policy is clear - tl;dr use Mastodon trademarks for Mastodon stuff, don't pretend like you're official endorsed though, don't sell faux-official merch without permission, don't name your company stuff like "the Mastodon company"

Just asking because I need help ensuring licenses/copyright is in order and I need do trademark stuff properly too.