Posts by dynamic@cybre.space
(DIR) Post #9lWRs82qUxEPonw0a8 by dynamic@cybre.space
2019-08-03T10:44:02Z
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@carbontwelve I love this article, which gets at exactly the issue of the unwillingness of Americans to believe other people deserve the salaries they are currently erning: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1511935.html
(DIR) Post #A38PD1RejFCuVIaHVQ by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-01-11T14:52:26Z
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@cjd @Capheind @dazinism @meejah Regarding Land Value Tax, it should probably be noted that in North America, European colonizers intentionally set up incentives to make it impossible for people practicing indigenous lower-impact land management practices to continue to hold land.In _The Mindful Carnivore_, Tovar Cerulli cites historian Daniel Justin Herman as having noted that these policies were based not only in the desire to prevent the native peoples from holding land but also the goal of keeping white colonizers from choosing subsistence lifestyles.It is not an accident that it is nearly economically impossible to maintain a farms at an appropriate scale for local subsistence. There are continual pressures to scale up.Taxing land means that people need to participate in capitalism in order to hold land at all.
(DIR) Post #A6BfmQTi8DNfUYSviq by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-04-13T00:47:02Z
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@arteteco I love the boomers. Some of them raised me!
(DIR) Post #A6CTnfIvUPNnTJCo9Q by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-04-13T10:07:30Z
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@arteteco One of the things that perplexes me about the current use of "boomer" is that the term refers to people who were born between specific dates, but that the way it is commonly used seems to be an exact stand-in for older terms for old people: "grandma", "pops", "fogie." Those kinds of slurs have been with us for a while, but this one seems to be stereotyping not old people, but people of a specific generation. And yet, I think that a lot of people using the term don't know that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are too old to be boomers. I wonder whether it's common knowledge that Barack Obama is too young to be a boomer.
(DIR) Post #A6CUG1DNcVWFXC8CZs by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-04-13T10:09:03Z
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@arteteco A millennial friend of mine recently got "okay boomer"d by one of his students. Would it hit you any differently if the student had said "okay, pops" instead?
(DIR) Post #A7kqBxRtViVvYSriVs by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-05-29T21:47:47Z
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@alcinnz Fantastic quote from this Le Guin piece: "One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty "hi," is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?"
(DIR) Post #A9RuIq0TQqfhj3C2ts by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-07-19T11:44:58Z
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@Azure ...is Symmetry's name a William Blake reference? If so, that is awesome : )
(DIR) Post #ABLmeiY9V6CvNhyesS by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-09-14T11:09:59Z
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@ashwinvis I also think that the activist push to publish joinmastondon.org links was (intentionally or not) engineered to provoke automated censorship. When a bunch of people all start posting the same outside link, that's bound to trip some flags. I wonder if it would have gone differently if there had instead been a push to share links to various different instances.
(DIR) Post #AC5dDR7e9ZXeAiHDxA by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-10-06T10:43:29Z
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I'm curious how other fediverse folks are feeling about the ongoing U.S. congressional hearings about Facebook. Thoughts?I ask because, while I haven't been following them closely, I have the lurking feeling that congress is in danger of responding to all of this with the wrong kind of legislation.(boosts welcome)
(DIR) Post #AC6ADLEDMeT8NYuYpU by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-10-06T20:10:39Z
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@sullybiker Reading between the lines, I'm inferring that the only legislation that you think it likely is that advocated by Facebook's management?
(DIR) Post #AC6GgL75TDKi94mvQm by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-10-06T21:22:24Z
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@sullybiker In the hypothetical universe in which the U.S. congress passed a law that actually addressed any of the big problems, I'm pretty sure that Facebook could find it within their capabilities to adhere to the law in order to avoid penalties (assuming of course that the law is enforced and that the penalties are high enough), but I don't see any particular reason to think that congress will pass the kind of law we need, so... : \
(DIR) Post #ACFpWUTL8xhuktsLTc by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-10-11T12:01:42Z
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https://www.npr.org/2021/10/10/1044917871/facebook-instagram-safety-controls-kidsThis, right here is the kind of thing I'm talking about:"Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who chairs the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, told Bash in a separate interview Sunday that it's time to update children's privacy laws and offer more transparency in the use of algorithms."Facebook is treating users as products, collecting masses of individual data through passive surveillance, selling it to private corporations, using individualized user profiles for highly targeted advertising, refusing to give users control over who they associate, and arguably has been instrumental in the rise of fascism in several countries including the U.S.And what is Congress talking about? The impact on children.
(DIR) Post #ACFqJ3ISyB5of6wg3k by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-10-11T12:08:32Z
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@Azure Yes, exactly. I'm not sufficiently plugged into pop social media to have seen anything about the "Finsta" memes until NPR did a piece on Senator Blumenthal's flub, but as far as I can tell, the mainstream media are falling all over themselves to analyze whether or not Blumenthal understands the slang correctly, and not even touching the fact that **maybe teenagers need anonymous social media accounts.**
(DIR) Post #ACFqJ506dPavwkN2ie by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-10-11T12:13:50Z
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@Azure This is made even worse by the fact that one of the NPR articles about the Blumenthal "finsta" thing highlighted a quote from Blumenthal expressing concern that fake Instagram accounts make it harder for parents to monitor their children's online activities. *No shit.*Adolescents need spaces where they can be themselves without worrying about overbearing adults peering over their shoulders.
(DIR) Post #ACO6hL4jadUHuBs5i4 by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-10-15T11:56:04Z
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@djoerd What are their main selling points? (If you've already posted about this, a link to the old thread would be fine!)
(DIR) Post #AE8IqzHsWRDoOd0yAq by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-12-06T16:41:05Z
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@rimugu How much would it cost to homeschool a single student if the parents were paid a living hourly wage for all time spent on preparing, researching, and delivering educational materials to their children? I don't know what it would be, but I'll bet it's more than $600.
(DIR) Post #AEAQBIXoHisDwt0MTo by dynamic@cybre.space
2021-12-07T13:01:06Z
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@Azure https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=688
(DIR) Post #ALedY426JNAEPtrdLc by dynamic@cybre.space
2022-07-18T18:19:26Z
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@hankg I don't really use Facebook either, but it sounds like maybe you can also avoid this by never clicking on outgoing links from Facebook?(Evil regardless, but it would be useful to have an idea of whether I'll be taking risks if I occasionally log on to message somebody about a party invitation they sent me or something like that.)