Posts by ninavizz@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AWgoqlCGdZL96pkP3Y by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-06-14T17:57:35Z
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@gretared WAAAAA!!!!!
(DIR) Post #AWh2BTR3AUaDVYrxDM by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-06-14T20:27:02Z
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@gretared HAH!! Yeah, I can also usually identify the "happily married forever" ones, too. I wish everyone were required to get therapy as part of American high school, y'know?
(DIR) Post #AWv7GO0EqGUvzRlzkG by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-06-21T07:19:55Z
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It's making my head spin that its ok for a SCOTUS judge to publish an opinion attempting to discredit a private press entity that wrote of him critically, on a different private press entity that's paywalled. Between Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, rapey guy and handmaid lady, we're long overdue for some clear ethics governance of SCOTUS. Confirmation hearings have devolved into performative PR stunts.
(DIR) Post #AX1k0f0QuZVI2A3wWG by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-06-24T20:10:46Z
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@webmink This bums me out so much, to read. I'd really expected better of IBM, and had hoped they'd lead the way in demonstrating how a viable, ethical enterprise business in a Capitalist market could work with OSS. 😢
(DIR) Post #AXR6yqtIzjxfZAqb8S by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-07-07T01:57:30Z
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@debs Waving "Hi" from Oregon! Would love to see more of your sparkle, here. All for the sparkles, with the attention seeking just... *oy* it was fun for a little while, eh?
(DIR) Post #AXSPrn2725nJrSGyDA by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-07-07T17:03:50Z
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@debs It's a different kind of attention seeking it seems, than the more fun early-days attention seeking... y'know? Like competing to be Mayor of different bathroom stalls at Austin airport on FourSquare, kinda remains one of my favs. <3
(DIR) Post #AXhN64UiZf2TswueCO by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-07-14T05:48:55Z
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@taylorlorenz Reminder: Narcissists love attention, more than anything else. His accusations are just confessions.
(DIR) Post #AYkHs2ZkIEAigj1bG4 by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T05:46:54Z
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@internetarchive @brewsterkahle No... they go to meatspace libraries, and listen to archived records and tapes. Still, though, the recording industry needs to STFU and quit hampering its own cause. A love of music is a caveat to its success, and that can't happen when its own profits are more important than basic access to archives. Nobody's going to the library to hear Taylor Swift or Kanye.
(DIR) Post #AYkImPsipR1FBfmbZ2 by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T05:52:27Z
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@internetarchive @brewsterkahle Also: Lars Ulrich of Metallica has been quoted to "deeply regret" his lawsuit and position against Napster. As a Bay Arean and music industry heavy (now on his own record label, too) he could be an interesting ally to bring into this. Picking up where JPB left off?
(DIR) Post #AZR2dZc3lRizn79CZE by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-09-04T20:45:11Z
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@jalefkowit White dudes drunk on iNnOvAtIoN obsessed with calling everything "x"
(DIR) Post #AaoeTKm8V1VF5iPzIO by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-10-16T03:59:52Z
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Friends that freelance: does anyone use @Stripe to accept client payments? They refuse to enable my account, claiming I'm not a "business within their ToC," and yet as a freelancer (for the moment), I'm a sole prop. Which is in their ToC. No help from their CSUP. Help?
(DIR) Post #AaoqqvpW62wk7l1BLs by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-10-16T06:25:17Z
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@clive I do NOT have a business-specific account; and that could well be it. Which I could easily rectify. I just wish they'd communicate that!
(DIR) Post #Aaptj5eLf42MseWXDM by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2023-10-16T18:33:03Z
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@debs THIS. @Rycaut the emotional and psychic toll has to matter. Facebook and LinkedIn both *still* send me notifications for deceased friends, to celebrate their birthdays. There's really basic stuff like that; bombing me with air purifier ads, knowing I live in a wildfire zone... or with self-defense ads, in the midst of a shooting crisis. Targeting what could be our most primal survival needs, also puts empaths in a spiral—and changes all of our behaviors. It's not right.
(DIR) Post #AhN2zpzb0fmavAAFu4 by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2024-04-29T05:34:31Z
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@aral How else do you believe the folks behind Mastodon could get paid livable wages? As it stands today, they each make very little; and can't even afford non-profit rates for open positions. Biz can at least attract SV donors, which is where so much capital is otherwise being burned by enshittified shit.
(DIR) Post #AhNknLb679P8domCAa by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2024-04-29T13:45:15Z
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@aral We briefly chatted about this, though. There really isn't, today—and considering Eugen supports himself, another adult, and two pets, it's not right to expect him and his family to personally take the hit for today's scant funding for public interest tech. Mastodon would at least need a full-time development director, and even then there's barely enough. Barely. TorProject and many others subsist on USAID & the US Dept of Defense. Our community needs better.
(DIR) Post #AhNl7M5S0ITDx2VwdU by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2024-04-29T13:48:50Z
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@aral The EU is also in a precarious state I suspect, following Brexit and with other matters of the world (Ukraine, Putin, Drumpf) happening. I am very with you, but just as I left public-interest tech for for-profit for my own sanity living in the US & supporting both my parents and a disabled partner, Eugen and Mastodon deserve stability. I'm cautiously optimistic, that that is all this is about. How to sustain, in a world not yet ready to properly fund a commons.
(DIR) Post #AhO3ZCNFVYwT6uGXGS by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2024-04-29T17:15:31Z
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@aral Do we really want the growth limited of the primary federated platform functioning as the world's Shitter replacement? I honestly don't see Mastodon going for "unicorn" (blick) growth, but instead to meet community demand. The world does want usable, accessible, and easy to access social platforms; and this is truly the only one with a reasonable entry curve. Discord is ok, too; but Matrix, too hard. Most others, also too obscure or hard.
(DIR) Post #AhOHCkGoiPDiw4RdVw by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2024-04-29T19:48:24Z
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@aral I guess that's where I disagree. Non-nrrds and folks leaving proprietary/for-profit media need the "gateway-friendly" mastodon.social instance and experience, imho, to learn about the fediverse and to feel emboldened enough to take the next step(s). To really force the failure of for-profit tech, a much more massive migration has to happen; and (almost) anything possible, I want to support.
(DIR) Post #AhQOuauRy2pOdml5qi by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2024-04-30T20:24:05Z
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@aral Threads is part of facebag, which we all know uses people's data for ad targeting, LLM training, etc. So, we still need both the org and the one instance, as well as the platform and the protocol—which don't matter, if they can't be usably accessed by our parents and other non-techies.
(DIR) Post #ApTASs68ctilFXKp7o by ninavizz@mastodon.social
2024-12-27T08:11:47Z
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@eloquence Sure, but my social community will never come here because it's too hard to find folks across federated servers. It requires too much work—which goes against human nature.I agree, federation matters—and, we also have to meet humanity where it's at. Which regrettably, is a low place of laziness and entitlement r/n.