Quill7513
@Quill7513@slrpnk.net
Alt account of @Cube6392@beehaw.org for looking at stuff Beehaw defederated
- Comment on ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice 4 hours ago:
you name a way to divide a people in a harmful way, they’re doing it
- racism
- Islamophobia
- homophobia
- sexism
- transphobia
- ablism
- shit you ain’t never even thought of hating on
they’re hating on it
- Comment on ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice 9 hours ago:
i beg of everyone to keep an open mind and to try to remember that while this might seem like racist bullshit upon first glance, that upon further inspection you will find that the reasons for these things are also racist bullshit
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 1 day ago:
i can’t help but be pleased that you associate 3 of my favorite instances with eachother! it makes me feel like i’m acting in a group who’s putting good things into the world
in addition to those, and anarchist.nexus (which @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com mentioned), i think quokk.au also belongs (i think they even had a vote to join the flotilla db0 was mentioning, but that they voted no). while these instances are not formally allied via the governance pact of said flotilla, i do find them, and the users on them, to generally have complementary views and stances on the world, how it works, and how it should work.
it’s less like a flotilla and more like ships at sea who all hate the royal french armada together. we party at the same ports together, but we’re all on different adventures
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 days ago:
the key is, from microsoft’s perspective, you don’t own your computer
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 3 days ago:
Tolkein’s idyllic structure for a society, the shire, is frequently analyzed through a lens of “is this anarchism?” and it’s not all that uncommon to conclude “yes”
all these fuckers read Tolkien and adopted the imagery of the villains. none of them realize that the message is that all the top level people are addicted to power. the people who actually get shit done, the hobbits, they are tempted by power because it’s tempting, but ultimately value singing songs, making tea, and eating potatoes too much to want to possess the ultimate power in the universe. almost everyone who comes into contact with the one ring wants to possess it forever. Bilbo’s first desire for it is to use it to help him escape a dangerous situation. Frodo is indifferent to it at first. Sam immediately hates it, feels guilt for letting Frodo carry it alone, and commits himself to destroying it.
You’re not supposed to read Tolkien and implement fascism. you’re supposed to read Tolkien and learn to value pacifism
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 4 days ago:
it’s incredible how many people just need to hold onto the ball and run out the clock and they still can’t fucking do it. I guess on the bright side it shines a light on that no one should be a billionaire. But from their perspective the thing to do once hitting a billion is to sit on your fucking hands, avoid interacting with normal people so they can’t realize how fuckin’ weird you are, and await death
- Comment on What a great idea 4 days ago:
okay. there’s been research out about the disorienting nature of of grocery stores since the 1970s when piggly wiggly was first normalizing a certain sales area experience.
and yes. i am talking about the sales area. i wae never trying to claim otherwise. the context this entire time was the experience of being a customer inside a building whose only purpose is to extract value from you as you try to acquire basic living necessities.
and impulse buys in that context are a desired outcome of the overwhelming experience.
is your objection just my use of the word bombard? i can use a different word. overstimulate you. better?
like i can find more articles this was just literally the first thing i found and i hoped it would point you in the right direction and help you understand. but reading your comment here it almost feels like you’ve taken such great offense to how i’ve worded this that you can’t be bothered to engage with what i’ve been saying since the start
- Comment on What a great idea 5 days ago:
did you design the store layout?
- Comment on What a great idea 5 days ago:
- Comment on What a great idea 5 days ago:
it’s the who does the telling who creates the hostile design. the other things you’re describing, the dehumanization of the employees, are part of that design
- Comment on What a great idea 5 days ago:
people lack spacial awareness in the grocery store because a supermarket is an example of hostile design. it is intentionally disorienting and overloads you with information
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
i don’t understand how that negates the utility of a mobile app that presents this information. also i’m not saying to get rid of the server-client paradigm, not sure what you’re talking about
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
status. part of the impetus of the development of piefed was a frustration with how the lemmy devs treated people who tried to get onboarded to help with the development of lemmy. i can go into more depth about how this is a reflection of how the lemmy devs see the world, but i don’t necessarily feel like hashing all that out when i have bigger fascists to fry
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
phone apps can’t use activity pub as that’s a server protocol so if you want a good mobile interface you generally speaking need a rest-y api that an application can query. yes, lemmy and piefed both feature PWA frontends that can be installed to your homescreen, however on older phones this can be an extremely suboptimal experience as PWAs tend to require more RAM than native apps.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 1 week ago:
this is the problem rooting a system of ethics in an authoritative morality. morality is socially assigned where as ethics are derived based on reaching consensus. whether or not something is morally right or wrong is nearly indistinguishable from whether or not something is legally allowed or disallowed. the Israelis have been programmed for 80 years to believe that theirs is the most moral army because their interpretation of the torah tells them it must be so. the nazis believed they were right, and so did the americans and british they were drawing inspiration from.
much better to focus on ethics derived on features of what it means to be human and what dignities we must all have respected as we navigate the world
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 1 week ago:
this has also been the case for prior genocidal projects
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 2 weeks ago:
i think often about that GM and Volvo paid Virginia Tech a lot of money to help them design a safe touchscreen infotainment center and after years of research the researchers basically reached the conclusion “there’s no safe way to put a touchscreen in a car” and now we all have touchscreens in our cars
- Comment on Honestly how????? 3 weeks ago:
i had a frustrating conversation recently about the ethnic cleansing of Königsburg to create kaliningrad. the person i was talking to kept saying that all the Germans had to be removed because they were nazis. the problem there is that this simply isn’t true. the red army and the Free Deutschland movement cooperated on the liberation of the city from nazi control. after the collapse of nazi germany, the red army largely turned on their former Free Deutschland allies, only keeping the most staunchly authcomm officers around and relocating them to what would become East Germany.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 weeks ago:
like when you looked into it you didn’t find much you were interested in, or like the people you were interested in have left that way of interacting with the fediverse? between the threadiverse and the microblog portion of the fediverse, we are by far engaging with the less popular and populous way of interacting with the fediverse
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 weeks ago:
then why restore the posts and accounts? why did you say the mandate would exist soon instead of already? and yes. the absolutely have the money to hire a lawyer and put forward the legal deposits to challenge this in court. any company with more than 50 employees not approaching bankruptcy filings does
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 weeks ago:
i wanted to take some time to review and reflect, and i cannot bring myself to the same conclusion. as you said, the mandate does not exist yet. plus, this fascist regime has invented new ways of losing in the courts because they simply don’t have total control yet. bluesky has the resources to fight for their users right in court. by choosing not to wait for a court order or even put up a minimal legal resistance, they complied in advance. to me, their decision to remove these posts or ban these accounts reflects not a requirement to comply, but instead company values. they thought it would be easier and cheaper to roll over. i think this is ultimately the underlying flaw of for-profit media companies so i’m not surprised, and the conclusion i reach is that with a for profit media company, i am the product. as the product, i can refuse to have my attention sold to the highest bidder as an “impression.” if i don’t like fascism, i don’t use bluesky. so i don’t
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 weeks ago:
took me longer than i would have liked to realize you were joking 😂
we live in a nightmare…
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 weeks ago:
more than you’d think…
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 weeks ago:
lithub.com/resist-authoritarianism-by-refusing-to…
bottom line: compliance to fascism before it’s forced you to comply is how fascism goes from visible in the public sphere to all consuming slaughter machine. the best way to resist fascism is early and often. make them work for it. especially when the current iteration is fundamentally composed of lazy losers
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 weeks ago:
i largely guage the toxicity of platforms by how quickly you encounter a genocide denier. nostr holds the record in that i encountered one on there literally as soon as i finished onboarding. a record that can only be tied, not beaten
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 weeks ago:
complying in advance is incredibly dangerous
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 4 weeks ago:
Japan
bah dum tiss
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 4 weeks ago:
yeah i upvoted despite that piece of infommation and was going to come back later because the core truth remains: they only ever do the right thing for customers when forced
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 weeks ago:
that’s not what anywhere is reporting, where are you seeing that?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 weeks ago:
right now for android i recommend ironfox