Notices by INACTIVE (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org), page 56

After reading The Communist Manifesto, all I can say is that 80% of what Marx says about the bourgeois paints them in a rather favorable light, in this document.

Reduced the sanctity of monarchy and the absolute power of religion? Check. Reduced feudalist powers into mere customers, patrons, and investors? Check. Drove technological innovation to a point that eclipsed all prior development of the Pre-industrial Era? Checkitty check check!

Of course, he's painting a bigger picture here.

@lnxw48a1 See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

@dt And I'm a radical centrist. I hang a horseshoe symbol over every doorway in my home.

@dt :(

@dt The problem with radical ideology is that the radicalized individual does not often think of themselves as anything other than a hero.

For most people, being labeled a fascist or a terrorist is utterly inconceivable to their psyches.

@xj9 It's me.

@kaniini "So, imagine that there's a startup that can secure the economic value of your ideas, and goes after people who infringe on your good ideas?"

@dt Saying "this demographic that I did no research on is your entire cohort and therefore shapes the definition of your service" is bad logic, yo.

If he were talking about RiseUp even five years ago, he would be calling it Occupy Email.

@kaniini This is a really good setup for a joke. What's the punchline?

@xj9

Info warrior jack the hacker
The rolling stoner
Profit on disaster!

My existence is a
Momentary lapse of reason
Got the DNA of gothic lemons
Shred it thirteen times
Out of eleven

Your bad ideas are the ATM
Shed my skin
Leave it for the homeless
To sleep in
Prodigal, fuck that nautical
Teachin' bitches how to swim

#DeathGrips

@BryanLunduke @bob @colomar @Angle

Easy. You basically misused the transitive property, ascribed a small portion of RiseUp's userbase and designated that group as the main cohort.

That's like finding a bunch of radical terrorist blogs self-hosting on the Wordpress platform and calling Wordpress the ISIS Blog Platform.

@delores The more you use the word "normie", the more you turn into one.

@BryanLunduke @bob @colomar @Angle

With respect, doing the bare minimum required of investigative journalism is not due diligence. Sending a few emails or making a few phone calls isn't exactly bending over backwards.

@bob @colomar @Angle @BryanLunduke

God, this reminds me of that one time that the BBC caught wind of a handful of self-proclaimed ISIS acolytes hanging out on like two Diaspora servers. Headlines blared that ISIS joined Diaspora, Diaspora could not / would not stop ISIS, and that their accounts would not be suspended by administrators.

Fun couple of weeks, that was. Not one journalist did their homework.

@xj9 That's less stupid than "we should all buy Twitter".

> Buy all the EvanCoins
> Force Evan Prodromou to migrate identi.ca to GNU Social
> NowIamtheMaster.jpg

@h @xj9

The disappointing part, though, is that GNU Social was forced into existence by StatusNet's codebase being dumped, as its founder decided to write an ugly ActivityStreams client in Node with Mongodb.

On the positive side, it looks like there actually is some measurable progress happening in furthering GNU Social's development.

@rysiek That's right! Two weeks in now, working in the Customer Success department. :)