Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 33

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@Tryphon whoever owns it, if there are people paid to do a job, there is an employer. Any unionist worth their salt will tell you that.

@arcans OK, that makes sense, but "I don’t want you to be hopeful, I want you to do something” may have been a clearer way to communicate that ;)

@arcans I believe they evolved from slave halters and that free men refuse to wear them. I know there's no solid evidence for that but it works for me ;)

@arcans was it ever? I've adopted the view that closing the windows where the bugs get in is better than spraying poison around to kill them after the fact. Same with Windows and viruses/ malware.

@arcans does she really? If so, that makes me less supportive of her. The regurgitation of #ClimateChange "skeptic" talking points is mostly panic that hasn't yet consciously registered. Panic makes people do selfish, short-sighted things, not think carefully about causes and effects and organize large-scale collective system change.

@Tryphon any idea how many jobs the mere existence of the web has displaced? Whether workers are made unemployed or redeployed is a political-economic choice made by employers, not a neutral result of technology change.

@Coffee it does seem in practice that throwing fuel on the forest fires of the culture wars is an excellent way to reduce the threat of different factions of the #precariat from joining forces against the 1%. As Shamus points out in the blog piece about Titter I quoted from, the fires themselves may be just an unintended consequence of the ways certain network media have evolved. But smart political strategy always uses small nudges to leverage existing social dynamics.

@nicksellen agreed, but this is a long term strategy probably requiring a successful post-capitalust revolution. We hoped that approach would keep sufficient volunteer geeks hours available to keep Indymedia infrastructure afloat. Mostly, it didn't. If social.coop and similar operations need geeks now, they need to be creating jobs. They don't need to be as highly paid as corporate gigs, but they need to be more than a temporary dribble.
@wu_lee @mike_hales @protean @bhaugen

@vik fair points. But an oral medication (or an ointment/ anal suppository/ what have you) could be picked up from a pharmacy and adminstrated at home by the caregivers, which would be unlikely to lead to accidental injections, as well as being inherently less risky and far less traumatic for the child.

@dsfgs Tor users aren't the target audience, see:
https://w3c.social/@jamesmullarkey/102424688729665054
@jamesmullarkey

Great work @jamesmullarkey

#JamesMullarkey on the #CarbonFootprint of the web:
"There’s a chance of a double win here. If we design and build our websites to be smaller, and use less energy we will be both making them accessible to more people and scorching the earth a bit less."
https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2019/11/its-not-as-hard-as-you-think-to-be-a-climate-crisis-influencer/

#ClimateEmergency #AppropriateTechnology

"But even if they did somehow come up with enough money to hire the army of moderators required to personally investigate every dispute, it still wouldn’t solve the problem. Instead of saying vile things to people they want to harass, trolls will goad their targets into saying vile stuff and then (ab)use the moderation system to get them punished. To the harasser, Twitter is a game. Making people miserable is how you win. Strong moderation doesn’t stop the game, it just changes the meta."

How could we redesign the way #SocialMedia works, so that it generates mutual understanding and collective problem-solving, instead of zero-summer partisan meme wars?

"The problem isn’t that Twitter doesn’t care, the problem is that the basic mechanics of Twitter create a no-win scenario. A social media #KobayashiMaru."

Insert Mastodon, or any other microblog software, and the same applies. The problem is not the host or their software, the problem is the medium itself.

"Just like the score in Asteroids tells you your goal is to kill ships and asteroids – and not simply to fly around in circles dodging stuff forever – the mechanics of Twitter push you into behaviors you might never otherwise engage in. They also intensify the existing social rewards for negative behaviors. While not part of the deliberate design of the system, these behaviors are actually kind of insidious."
- 'This Game is Bad for You'
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=41853