Posts by baslow@social.coop
(DIR) Post #AU0qNEGaAzi4JEoGqu by baslow@social.coop
2023-03-26T12:13:06Z
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When I told my wife about the Wired article she immediately responded that it reminded her of these guys... in mode of operation, if not in ideology...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family:_The_Secret_Fundamentalism_at_the_Heart_of_American_Power
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2023-03-26T15:27:12Z
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@koherecoWatchdog You seem to write this from a perspective that holds that big banks and cryptocurrency exhaust the range of options for dealing with money, but I don't think so.Rather than turning to technology or to big-boss ownership we could and should revitalize (and, where necessary, reinvent) community-based institutions like credit unions.#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
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2023-04-10T12:08:05Z
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@JonathanMBR Mazel Tov!
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2023-04-15T02:17:40Z
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Today I learned how deeply *many* people feel the need to fulminate via the Fediverse, how important it is to them that such fulminations not be contradicted, and how disturbed and angry they become if they encounter any objection.This saddens me because those are all the hallmarks of people who feel defeated, who see no hope of changing their world.#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
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2023-04-26T10:57:35Z
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Brooklyn Public Library offers teens free library cards and access to banned booksTeens and young adults across the country now have unlimited, free access to books that have been banned at their local libraries, thanks to a digital initiative from one of the nation’s largest public libraries. Teens do not need parental permission to apply for the card. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/us/brooklyn-library-banned-books-access/index.html
(DIR) Post #AV3T4I5Hd0VSFKluiG by baslow@social.coop
2023-04-26T20:27:41Z
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@dave Most of these tips would seem to apply, with a little rewording, to novice movie directors...
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2023-07-08T00:16:09Z
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@grammargirl "jackanapes"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jackanapes
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2023-07-08T00:36:30Z
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@grammargirl If I may double-dip:I think we should bring back "phlogiston" as a synonym for "social media".https://www.wordnik.com/words/phlogiston
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2023-07-30T17:31:33Z
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The Coming Enshittification of Public LibrariesGlobal investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dryOverDrive, has a monopoly on managing the availability and distribution of ebooks and audiobooks for government-funded public libraries in North America["Intellectual property" enlists creators in a system of Jackpot Capitalism whose rewards go mostly not to the players but to the house, while restricting us in our access to our culture.]https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries
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2023-09-07T15:14:57Z
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@lowqualityfacts More dangerous than how it looks: any broker with access to your browsing history will know with almost near certainty (barring a public campaign encouraging *everyone* to do these searches) that you use an ad blocker -- which is an attribute which can then be correlated with other info collected about you, to compose a more detailed profile of "the type of person who uses ad blockers".
(DIR) Post #Aaz2CYdBXKvDDaBHyi by baslow@social.coop
2023-10-21T03:35:35Z
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I've learned that my wife, arrested in a mass civil disobedience action in front of Kirsten Gillibrand's office, was taken all the hell the way down to Police Plaza 1. Although members of her group are being slowly released she has not yet been.#CeaseFireNow
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2025-04-18T22:28:45Z
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@cdarwin FWIW (and, admittedly, somewhat tangentially): https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/trumpism-as-rebranded-fascism-a-new-formation-for-a-fractured-age
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2025-04-29T16:53:50Z
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@glynmoody @mmasnick "What’s particularly notable is that the AI’s response is actually more coherent than Trump’s — it maintains a more consistent narrative structure while hitting the same rhetorical points. This suggests that Trump’s responses are even less constrained by reality than a typical LLM’s output."
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2025-05-01T20:59:01Z
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My wife is my intrepid on-the-scene correspondent at today's #mayday2025 demonstration at Foley Square.She has sent this video of the Resistance Revival Chorus chanting.The People Will Rise!#ThePeopleWillRise
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2025-05-01T22:37:48Z
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I should have guessed that photos of AOC would be popular. Here are two more from that intrepid correspondent, my wife, from Foley Square. Each shows Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes standing at a podium, in front of a large blue sign which reads "They Are the Few". A red sign on the front of the podium itself reads "We Are the Many". #mayday2025 (In this case, the Alt Text just duplicates the above description.)
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2025-05-01T22:57:22Z
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May Day: protesters rally across US over workers’ and immigrants’ rightsTens of thousands expected at protests taking place in nearly 1,000 cities against Trump and his administration"As Trump surpassed 100 days in office, a period filled with slashing and burning of the federal government and democratic norms, a resistance has taken shape... People have started to organize in larger numbers to pressure Democrats to stand up more strongly to Trump."#mayday2025 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/may-day-protests
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2025-05-01T23:46:10Z
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My intrepid, on-the-scene correspondent (my wife) has returned from the #mayday2025 rally in Foley Square with this brief report:
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2025-06-07T13:03:06Z
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Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event[We must, collectively, develop the capacity to take note of the early stirrings of potentially harmful groups and movements without exaggerating their current extent or wildly projecting their futures. We must collectively develop our own mechanisms of sober, deliberative, transparent intelligence evaluation.This seems like something the fediverse could do.]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/the-base-neo-nazi-group-paramilitary-training
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2025-06-20T18:30:27Z
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Why Bernie Sanders Says It’s Critical to Elect #MamdaniForMayorNYC and Reject Cuomo> “I think that the status quo politics of the Democratic establishment is designed to fail. It cannot succeed...” argued Sanders. In contrast, he said, Mamdani has a vision that has the potential to succeed, both politically on the campaign trail and practically in power as a Fiorello La Guardia–style “people’s mayor” of New York.#ZohranMamdani#DontRankCuomo#RankMamdaniFirsthttps://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-zohran-mamdani-endorsement-interview/
(DIR) Post #B0H5b8RddMTGXF7eYC by baslow@social.coop
2025-11-15T15:52:32Z
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Gifting with Integrity: Federated Digital Spaces for Mutual Aid NetworksWhen friends told me, years ago, about "Buy Nothing" -- a Facebook group that implemented an impressive mutual aid ecology, I was intrigued... but did not follow up...because Facebook.Now, though, they are undertraking a move to the Fediverse, using @bonfire as their online framework!#CommunitariumProject #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunityhttps://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/gifting-with-integrity-federated-digital-spaces-for-mutual-aid-networks/