Posts by idlestate@toot.cat
 (DIR) Post #AI6PKUIHRRqc6qzDJQ by idlestate@toot.cat
       2022-04-04T10:12:32Z
       
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       @info_activismScholars like Stanford's Renée DiResta have also called on tech giants to embrace this approach and realize that "free speech is not the same as free reach."
       
 (DIR) Post #AIFdwUyl6kfXi3ACe0 by idlestate@toot.cat
       2022-04-08T21:08:47Z
       
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       @mshin retrospect maybe that didn't quite work out. Only one more public toot several days later from @blondpanda (found this looking at the "welcome" hastag in light of our current de facto plutocrat-driven recruitment process)
       
 (DIR) Post #AJHP3mwzOtf3w7wwpU by idlestate@toot.cat
       2022-05-06T00:56:50Z
       
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       got a little caught up in 'splaining things to a cousin-in-law, connecting the dots between present-day toxic waste sites that used to be 19th century manufactured gas plants, through Fritz Haber's rise & fall, Sylvia Plath, and why food costs are going up because natural gas remains the favored feedstock for driving fertilizer production
       
 (DIR) Post #AK7UqbW4hqqPtAzCRk by idlestate@toot.cat
       2022-06-03T18:18:48Z
       
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 (DIR) Post #ALwMSW3vVBUCE8ioim by idlestate@toot.cat
       2022-07-25T15:37:32Z
       
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       Maybe this is a way of talking about recent happenings without re-inventing the folk sociological wheel:FOSS is/has a fandom. That fandom struggles like so many others with a subset of participants exhibiting toxic fandom behaviors.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMPidfRaEVrZ7HdBdg by idlestate@toot.cat
       2022-08-06T14:30:58Z
       
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       "we will automate this to make it easy for people"there is a lot to unpack in that sort of notion but the things I'm thinking about today revolve around the vast space between "oh, that's sounds nice and helpful" versus "'easy for you to do' and 'in your best interests' are not nearly the same thing at all".We want good things to be easy, but not all easy things are good.In fact, people work to make entering and persisting in an exploitative situation "easy". I have Lots of Feelings about how frequently people position themselves as "helping" when mostly what they are doing is making something easy that perhaps not be done at all, let alone made easy to do.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUaYbGHV5Lp3RmhcG0 by idlestate@toot.cat
       2023-04-08T21:07:25Z
       
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       checked out from the branch where I volunteer the 2 DVDs for the HBO/Sky "Chernobyl" (2019) miniseries.finished the last half of the fifth and final episode this afternoon
       
 (DIR) Post #AUaYbKRvaWXYNHc048 by idlestate@toot.cat
       2023-04-12T15:02:50Z
       
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       and, as so often seems to be the case, when I begin to pull on a thread like this I end up finding another place where the late Industrial Age, of which WWII was the signature conflict, was knitted together with some edge of a nascent, post-modern Atomic Agein this case, it was working my way around to reading about the Acheson processhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheson_process