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Found in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger. The one lesson I wish the modern left would internalize more than anything.

Use shared language.

Don't use lefty jargon when the person you're talking to doesn't subscribe to these ideas. No white privilege, no colonial oppression, no intersectionality. Translate to a shared language, built on reasonable, common assumptions and do the work required to bring people on board.

Because you can be damned sure the MAGA crowd are doing the work.

“Speak in the vernacular” the radical historian Mike Davis once pleaded with young organiz- ers. “The moral urgency of change acquires its greatest grandeur, when expressed in a shared language"
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There's a new wave of joiners here, some coming from sites other than the usual Twexits of the recent past. Some of them are posting objectionable stuff.

Report, if it rises (perhaps I should say "sinks") to that level, but if you're just blocking you can remind yourself why:

1. Copy the link address to the objectionable post.

2. On the user's profile, paste that link (along with the date and any comments you want to make) into the Personal Note field.

3. Block.

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A key mark of totalitarianism is government and party ownership and control of the means of speech and information. The party, through its main apparatchik, owns Twitter. The government wants to own TikTok. The only free speech is the fascists' speech.

I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark! I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security. The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order. Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday, as well as other events and conversations. I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture. By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow it to say up. Without U.S. approval, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars - maybe trillions. Therefore, my initial thought is a joint venture between the current owners and/or new owners whereby the U.S. gets a 50% ownership in a joint venture set up between the U.S. and whichever purchase we so choose.
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The Fediverse is a network of thousands of independent servers, running lots of different kinds of software. Some of them are Mastodon servers, some of them are Pixelfed servers, some of them are PeerTube servers... there are dozens of different kinds!

But all of them are connected together into a single social network called the Fediverse. You don't need to be on the same server to follow and interact with someone, in fact you don't even need to be on the same type of server. People on Mastodon can interact with people on Pixelfed etc.

There is a non-technical guide to the Fediverse at https://fedi.tips/what-is-mastodon-what-is-the-fediverse and a list of reasons why it's on so many servers at https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers

You might also want to check out this animation that explains why the Fediverse exists: https://framatube.org/w/4294a720-f263-4ea4-9392-cf9cea4d5277

#Fediverse #Pixelfed #Mastodon #PixelfedTips #FediTips

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No billionnaires at FOSDEM by @how

"If Jack Dorsey would donate $250 million to free software every year, certainly that would make a valuable recognition of his debt to the Ruby language and all the free software that he made a fortune on. But would it really compensate for all the assholiness Drew describes in this article? I think not. Billionaire money, although certainly long due for redistribution, should not be a way of passage downwards through the glass ceiling. They can look down upon us all they want, they’ll never be part of us, because what makes us, us, is not something that can be bought."

https://oxygen.offdem.net/t/no-billionnaires-at-fosdem/463

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"We may no longer be a epistemologically literate society any more but still have value to enough of us for them to still be a business. However, the problem lies in finding ways to promote & sell because only lends itself to promoting texts & creators that have a strong element of .
I am pondering whether, again paradoxically, video & podcasts might not lend themselves better to promoting and selling books than newsletters and blogs."
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2024/interim-3/