Posts by polotek@social.polotek.net
(DIR) Post #AlEAHJuVzptcypBLt2 by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-08-22T14:11:32Z
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Oh shit.https://beige.party/@Lana/113002433657176963
(DIR) Post #AlSradrf33dWbtkJ7Y by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-08-29T15:48:20Z
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@billiglarper @mekkaokereke @ricci can you explain why the racist cliché portrayal of Black people is "okay" to you? Please address explicitly how it impacts people's ongoing negative perception of Black people. And then talk about what elements of the movie you feel effectively offset that harm in order to make it "okay" in your book.
(DIR) Post #AlffZiWRZXb6N65qK0 by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-09-04T20:28:32Z
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Oh.https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/
(DIR) Post #AlhHUOK1ExKdgo84Ei by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-08-30T20:56:00Z
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What's wild is once you actually start paying attention, you find out what we mean by "systemic". There's a story like this in every major city. Once somebody figured out this particular strategy of getting infrastructure built in a way that white constituents would accept, it spread all over.We talk about how white supremacy requires a visible and identifiable underclass. Part of it is so that there is always a designated sacrifice so you can get what you want.https://urbanists.social/@getalifemike/113052876190442664
(DIR) Post #AlhHUQQ7RFOqCIzy1Q by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-08-30T20:58:29Z
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People like to think about racism as if it's full of malicious intent. But often it's much more banal. Most of the time it's nothing more than "if somebody has to get hurt, let it be them. Because who's gonna complain about that am I right?"
(DIR) Post #AlhHUSgqzzyTEmqMNs by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-08-30T21:12:25Z
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Even if you start to get this part, there's yet another societal hurdle ahead of it. Many Americans don't realize how many things they take for granted start to break down if America stops sacrificing people in order to make it happen.Part of the reason places like SF are deadlocked on building housing is that they can't figure out who they can sacrifice. SF already fucked up and drove out most of the Black population. So that's not an option.
(DIR) Post #AlhHUUz0TTgQLfLsxM by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-08-30T21:15:41Z
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The way you got police put into our schools is that they signaled to everybody that they were really there for the Black people. Because somebody needs the prison pipeline to stay full. Some of the goods and services that you want can only have that low price because some percentage of people are working for slave wages. Not to mention a new prison will bring "good jobs" to your area.
(DIR) Post #AlhHUWj7zUAbkzwEU4 by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-08-30T21:28:51Z
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A lot of the things that Americans are complaining about today are because we are slowly making it harder for America to sacrifice people.@mekkaokereke talks a lot about how football is changing because we decided maybe it's not okay to watch Black men destroy their bodies for our entertainment.College basketball is changing because we decided maybe it's not okay that Black men hold up this billion dollar industry while being legally barred from making any money from it.
(DIR) Post #AlhHUYStWoND9EMISW by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-08-30T21:36:22Z
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I remember being so upset talking to people about prop 22 a few years ago. This was the vote in California to decide if gig workers like Uber and doordash have to be treated like employees instead of "independent contractors". I thought this should've been an easy decision. You wanna make these big tech companies pay right?Nah. All they had to do was tell you that your rides were gonna get more expensive. And it actually became something we have had to fight tooth and nail for.
(DIR) Post #AlhHUaOiLKDZ8qPzDk by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-08-30T21:57:00Z
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What I'm saying is that a lot of American Exceptionalism™ is based on sacrificing people. It is a very long tradition. And up until very recently, Black people were the default sacrifice. That was our explicit role in White American society. As soon as you understand that, a lot of American history starts to make way more sense.And today starts to make more sense too. This is an America we're it's not so easy to designate groups for sacrifice. And we are finding it harder to get things done.
(DIR) Post #Alpt8dICFZMfGv0YF6 by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-09-09T17:08:18Z
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It turns out that people don't really want to be touching their software every few months. Go figure. The upgrade treadmill is not a benefit. It's a cost center. People who make software should really keep this in mind. Yes, we all understand that upgrades are important for security reasons. But if that's all you've got, then you're gonna keep seeing charts like this.https://fosstodon.org/@mcollina/113108488351596227
(DIR) Post #AnbguGRzBwiodzRuts by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-11-01T18:07:23Z
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I'm still on the fence about mastodon's choice not to notify people when they get quote posted.In the past I wanted it this way. Because I believe getting notified created bad incentives."Is this person talking to me or about me?""Is this a dunk? I don't know, but I better assume it is."Anyway, right now I'm thinking about the tradeoff. I think I'm missing a lot of discourse because I don't get notified of people commenting on my posts.
(DIR) Post #AnbguKaHp1jpStMbOS by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-11-01T18:09:26Z
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Mastodon has some signals about "engagement". But it's clear that this platform wants to de-emphasize that as an important metric for it's own sake. I'm sort of okay with that. But I believe we still need to address related issues like discoverability and network effects. Those are actually important for the growth of a network.
(DIR) Post #Anbk8xr2udBFAzs7yy by polotek@social.polotek.net
2024-11-01T18:52:13Z
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@trwnh @mkljczk what is MRF?
(DIR) Post #Atkz5KCbVcfeJ1kAwC by polotek@social.polotek.net
2025-05-04T17:03:55Z
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Remember when I said Bluesky was part of the fediverse and everybody got real mad about it? They're pretty close to enabling fully independent self-hosting.https://bsky.app/profile/bad-example.com/post/3loe7iy2gdc2c
(DIR) Post #Atl8WqNQtLLVV40PnU by polotek@social.polotek.net
2025-05-04T18:54:57Z
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@wjmaggos @nullagent I'm curious what you see as fundamentally different between activitypub and atproto. IMO, atproto is the one designed to have access controls involved whereas AP is having a hard time layering that in after the fact. I'm not sure what you're referring to in terms of vitality.
(DIR) Post #AtlIkJH1lTjwQa4N3A by polotek@social.polotek.net
2025-05-04T18:55:13Z
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@wjmaggos @nullagent virality I mean.
(DIR) Post #AtlKFGV8DsIOlBzVdg by polotek@social.polotek.net
2025-05-04T21:06:20Z
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@wjmaggos @nullagent I'm still not sure you've explained what you think is different about atproto. I'm a little confused at the censorship issues as well. If you run an independent server, you can send out whatever you want. The receiver also gets to decide. And part of that might be accepting some tradeoffs from the policies of whatever server they decide to reside on.
(DIR) Post #AtlQ4APp6lTeQRbDvs by polotek@social.polotek.net
2025-05-04T22:11:30Z
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@wjmaggos @nullagent I may be confused. Yes it has taken a while for all of the parts of the atproto system to be ready to run independently. Not subject to the policies of the bsky company. That has always been the stated goal, and the post I shared says they're very close to that. I assumed you were pointing to some kind of technical concerns.
(DIR) Post #AuKRhNJnqLBOs4RU9o by polotek@social.polotek.net
2025-05-21T18:52:40Z
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Anybody who is a freelance developer/engineer. How do you find work? Where do you go to find opportunities? If I had an opportunity and I needed to find someone, how would I find you?