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@toolbear@union.place

🧔🏻‍♂️ bearded 🐻 burly 👨🏻‍💻 geeky 👨‍❤️‍👨 gay

A @toolbear valence shell focused on #Solidarity, #CollectiveAction in myriad forms, and #TechUnions.

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Header: Actress Kim Cattrall as Lieutenant Valeris in STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991). A young Vulcan woman stands on the Enterprise bridge, crew & readouts in the background. Wide, colorful shot.

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shlee, to random
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test

video/mp4

toolbear,
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@shlee kudos to the animator for deciding to have the skull disintegrate at the fusion points. Nice attention to detail.

toolbear, to random
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I'm going to see if I can use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques so that I hear an airhorn sound over the word "union" whenever I hear or read "police union" and imagine that there's always someone somewhere in the crowd with an airhorn whenever someone is giving a speech about organized violence workers and the violence they perform collectively.

jmcrookston, to random
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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior

https://www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10.1073/pnas.1118373109

"Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals."

toolbear,
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@jmcrookston
Hooray for that lede!

"Seven studies reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals.
…more likely to break the law while driving
…more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies
…take valued goods from others
…lie in a negotiation
…cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize
…endorse unethical behavior at work

[T]endencies are accounted for, inpart, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed"

ErickaSimone, to apple
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nerds. Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of an entire site page? I want to take a full screenshot of this copyright class and keep it. But not bit by bit. The entire thing.

I know the used to let us do that. Is this still a thing? Please send help, thank you.

toolbear,
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@mike_vlasman @ErickaSimone
This is an unhelpful response in the age of search engine #enshittification which is well documented especially on the Fediverse. Please stop this style of reply.

Radical_EgoCom, to random
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What efforts have you made offline to push for socialism/communism?

toolbear,
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@Radical_EgoCom
I built a lending library in my front yard and filled it with books until neighbors started filling it with books, too.

toolbear,
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@Radical_EgoCom
Related, I started talking to my neighbors. Per Timothy Snyder, I'm at least helping to fight fascism by fighting my own urge to isolate.

jwz, to random
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Fun with the Electoral College.

If These 3 Counties Did Not Exist, Trump Would Have Beaten Biden:

Overall, Biden got 7 million more votes than Trump in 2020 (81,283,501 vs 74,223,975). The most of any President in history. [...]

If we remove just 1...
https://jwz.org/b/ykUa

toolbear,
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@jwz
This is why I keep crowing about #TheStatesProject which is laser focused on these kinds of swing counties where your political contributions (money or activism) have a disproportionate impact. That and collective action through their Giving Circles program.

https://statesproject.org/get-involved/giving-circles/

#uspol #2024Election

ant, to random
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For years, I have been harassed by an r/signal moderator over a petty disagreement (temporary bans, comments removed, etc).

I am not a troll or bad actor, and instead frequently post to help newcomers out with the quirks of using an app that is tasked with simplifying complex encryption algorithms for average users.

Today I have been permanently banned from r/signal for replying to an unhinged rant about how signal is bad with a picture of an adorable dog in a suit.

What an awful website.

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@ant
Gross.

Each subreddit is a small microcosm of "absolute power reveals". I know of a handful of healthy subs and each is a testament to the decency of the core person(s) involved.

What you describe is the worst.

I also dislike the brand subreddits that are "official" in that the company which owns the brandname controls the forum. Those subs are just advertising billboards and ways to squash criticism and place for fanboys to flash their tailfeathers at each other.

Sorry that happened.

ben, to fediverse
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There's no good way to prevent AI models from being trained on art published on the fediverse. But there's work we can do to prevent it and protect the artists who post there. https://werd.io/2024/protecting-artists-on-the-fediverse

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@ben I feel like we'd get so much further addressing this via culture and community.

We have server rules, CWs, hashtags, and senstive media. What we need is a cultural norm that AI content must be declared and consequences for the occasional person who lies and cheats about it.

Posting untagged AI content should be a standard option in a list of reasons when reporting someone.

We don't need to solve everything with new software and in fact it won't work without the cultural shift anyway.

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@joachim @mlncn
I feel like we'd get farther addressing this via culture and community. We have server rules, CWs, hashtags, and senstive media. What we need is a cultural norm that AI content must be declared and consequences for the occasional person who lies and cheats about it. Posting untagged AI content should be a standard option in a list of reasons when reporting someone.

We don't need to solve everything with new software and in fact it won't work without the cultural shift anyway.

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@joachim @mlncn
We will fail to stop the scrapers using technological solutions and waste a lot of time, energy, and development effort making the attempt.

Solve it with culture. What tools are missing to solve it with norms? I don't see many gaps other than the will to start shunning folks for enabling art theft.

waldoj, to random
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It's 2024, and Major League Baseball is finally integrating the record books, which will no longer protect white baseball players’ stats from the superior performance from Negro Leagues players. As a result, Ty Cobb is no longer recorded as the leading hitter, and Babe Ruth is no longer recorded as the best slugger—those titles both now belong to Josh Gibson. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/05/28/negro-leagues-statistics-officially-incorporated-into-major-league-record-book/73882293007/

toolbear,
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@waldoj so we should have been handing out funsize Joshy Gibson bars at Halloween all this time

toolbear, to random
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I have a cranky outer shell surrounding a gooey inner core. That's why I play the to lose. I believe eventually we'll win.

toolbear, to random
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toolbear, to random
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My position on guillotine imagery and sabre rattling at oligarchs is — amusingly — expressed best by Ali Wong:

"…we just wanna experience some risk and be out of control, you know? Like, “I don’t wanna die! Don’t kill me! I don’t wanna die!” But I also don’t want to be sure that I’m gonna live. You know? I just wanna be out of control for once. Just– Just choke me enough so that I can’t talk. ‘Cause if I can talk, I’m gonna tell you what to do."

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toolbear,
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Don't kill them. I don't want them to die. Don't murder them. But I also don't want them to be sure they're gonna live. I just wanna have them out of control for once.

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If execs keep feeling sure they're going to live, they're going to keep killing . It won't stop with Boeing. Remember that time Elon tried to have police murder a Tesla whistleblower. He won't be coy next time, he'll just order a hit.

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LOL reply-guy in my other thread.

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toolbear, to random
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is killing whistleblowers like they're dissidents, so please DO keep with the imagery. The oligarchs are afraid. That's why they're killing us. They need to be more afraid, though.

As far as executives go, we're past the point of intimidation. Some Boeing execs and probably some need to die to make this right. They aren't going to stop killing us otherwise.

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If I believed laws would be upheld and executives put in prison, I would accept that. But we're past that point if you've been paying attention. is over. We're witnessing a new era of that the powerful are trying to bring about. Boeing is doing a flex; they want to appear sovereign and above being governed by us.

If we band together and organize, we are more powerful than . We could always try a strike if you're feeling sympathetic towards necks.

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@AlexanderKingsbury
Advocacy that the oligarchs responsible meet the same fate that the dead whistleblowers did 😘

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@AlexanderKingsbury
" is killing whistleblowers like they're dissidents, so please DO keep with the imagery."

Do you think this speculation is probably correct or incorrect? If you think I'm incorrect, then what are you worrying over, those billionaire necks will be fine.

If you think they DID have the whistleblowers killed AND you agree that the U.S. justice system won't pursue these crimes, come again with what you think is hard to take?

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@AlexanderKingsbury
Okay, so you agree the billionaire oligarchs had the whistleblowers murdered. Thanks for making that clear.

toolbear,
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@AlexanderKingsbury

toolbear, to random
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I've been going about it all wrong. I need to celebrate the common people with epic dick sculpture

https://socel.net/@oglaf/112427111862697607

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bookish, to Rutgers
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We (sort of) won! Hats off to the students who kept the peace despite provocation and the colleagues who negotiated without losing their cool. Wins: will partner with ; 10 scholarships for students from Gaza (OK, drop in the bucket); new MENA program, and more. @inquiline your ex-colleagues came through heroically. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/rutgers-university-of-minnesota-protest-agreement

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@tkinias
I saw a post within the last few days suggesting we stop calling them "cops" and instead call them "violence workers".

Now I'm mentally rewriting "cops" and "police" so that becomes something like "protestors have been met with violence workers" and that's 🔥 to me

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