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KimSJ

@KimSJ@mastodon.social

Escapee from Twitter, and now from home.social too. 🫤 Tofu-loving woke ex EU citizen. Retired hi-tech entrepreneur, once focused on future cities/buildings, climate & UBI, now keen on saving the planet and democracy. I dream of the day when I can return my focus to my first loves.

If you don’t like #politics, you probably shouldn’t follow me. 😁 Though I do also have a #creative side, and I'm a #maker too.

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w7voa, to Florida
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All Republican presidential candidates will have to pledge their loyalty to the eventual party nominee to make the March 19th primary in . https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/desantis-trump-florida-2024-gop-primary-loyalty-00104819

KimSJ,
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@w7voa And the crazy thing is, the only Republican nominees with a chance of beating the Democrats are the ones who are honest enough to refuse to sign that pledge. 🥸

Mastodon, to random
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There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

KimSJ,
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@Mastodon The fact that Threads is not available in EU at launch causes me to worry. EU is generally stronger on consumer protection than most other regulators. What EU requirement are they failing to meet?

sean, to random
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A really annoying dark pattern I see over and over:

  • start using an app or service
  • agree to receive notifications such as “your car is here” or “someone replied to you”
  • time passes
  • app or service starts abusing notifications to get me to engage via promotions or even plain advertising

Often my easiest recourse there is to turn off the app’s notification privileges.

Abusive, short-sighted, and dumb. You’re never getting that permission back.

KimSJ,
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@sean So many businesses lose sight of their reason to exist, which should be to provide goods or services that consumers need. (I avoid saying ‘customers’, because there are so many businesses whose customers are advertisers, not consumers.)

Short-term greed inevitably destroys reputation and long-term viability. Often this is driven by investors who don’t understand and don’t care, as long as they get a quick, profitable exit.

magdelenehall, to random German
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Minister ordered Home Office staff to paint over art for children at asylum centre, charity boss says
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/minister-home-office-staff-paint-over-art-asylum-centre-2451897

KimSJ, (edited )
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@magdelenehall There is no end to these Tories’ ability to do the wrong thing for purely ideological reasons. How about this one:

“ Government minister orders South Cambridgeshire District Council to stop four-day week trial immediately” — despite evidence that it is saving money, helping staff recruitment and increasing staff happiness.

https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/government-minister-orders-south-cambridgeshire-district-cou-9319802/

eniko, to random
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controversial opinion: neoliberalism should be illegal

KimSJ,
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@eniko 👍

ryanhoulihan, to random
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I feel like some (otherwise reasonable) people are using Twitter more than ever and it’s really starting to freak me the FUCK out.

It’s like watching a crowd of people stare directly into the sun. Why are you not blinking, babe? Are you under a curse? Are you pod people? How can I end this and get you treatment???

KimSJ,
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@ryanhoulihan It’s laziness. Twitter is designed to pleasure lazy people. Alternatives like Mastodon require users to create their own algorithms. Many people don’t have the time, energy, inclination and skill to do that. Perhaps Mastodon needs a sister app that emulates Twitter’s lazy mode? Or the registration process could allow users to create a list with interesting hashtags (chosen from a tick list)?

GottaLaff, to random
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$$$$ over lives. 🤦🏻‍♀️

“Top oil and gas companies have made little progress in turning away from hydrocarbons and towards the goals of the 2015 Paris climate deal, multinational nonprofit platform CDP said on Thursday”

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/oil-gas-firms-making-almost-no-progress-towards-paris-goals-cdp-2023-06-29/

KimSJ,
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@GottaLaff The board of any company, including oil and gas companies, has a fiduciary (i.e. legally obligated) duty to maximise profits for their shareholders. The only thing that will get them to change course is regulation which makes it too expensive to continue their current business model. Carbon tax, for example.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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All you need to know about how rentier works in one bit of data:

The UK's water firms were privatised without any outstanding debts over thirty years ago.... now, the privatised (regional) have around £62bn in debt, but are still failing to deliver an adequate service.

If that debt has not been used to invest sufficiently in the , which the firms now (grudgingly) admit,, you might wonder where has it gone?

I leave that for you to guess!

KimSJ,
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@SeaMonster @ChrisMayLA6 ‘Glazering’ is a word we need in the English language… bleeding institutions dry by loading up debt to pay huge dividends. It’s a far more effective way for the parasites to get richer than old-fashioned asset stripping, and probably even more destructive.

aral, to security
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Wow, Bank of Ireland are completely clueless about .

“BOI: We need to speak to you about your credit card application…

Me: Sure…

BOI: First, let’s verify you…full name, date of birth…

Me: …

BOI: Mother’s maiden name?

Me: LjwOtrNGIgpJlJE

BOI: So this is the problem: We need your mother’s maiden name.

Me: I just gave it. This is a security question and I provided you with a password.

BOI: No, that won’t work, we need her name.

Me: Wow… OK… Please cancel my application.”

KimSJ,
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@wakame @ainmosni @aral At least most sites now accept hyphens in names. There was a time when I regularly had to find a work-around for my family name.

notjustbikes, to random
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    KimSJ,
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    @notjustbikes The thing about Mastodon is that you have to drive it… searching/using hashtags, following everyone you find interesting, creating and watching lists (web interface ‘advanced’ mode allows you to pin lists, which helps a lot, and lists can be of people or hashtags). If you don’t have the time, energy or inclination to do that, sites with algorithms are your better option. If you do work at it, Mastodon rapidly becomes far superior, because you’ve effectively created your own lists.

    bynkii, to random
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    For anyone even vaguely interested in sussing @lisamelton’s previous incarnation out, why?

    Said incarnation is of neither interest or value to you, and no, “curiosity” does not justify it. Lisa is Lisa, and her current self is both awesome and the only Lisa we need to care about.

    If you feel the need to poke around, you really need to do some reflection on why, because it is not a good impulse.

    KimSJ,
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    @bynkii @AlwaysAutumn @lisamelton Something it took me longer to figure out than it should have is what pronouns to use when talking about historical events (Walter/Wendy Carlos’s early work, for example). My view now is that the current pronouns have always been correct, even if we didn’t know it at the time. So, we should talk about Wendy Carlos’s early work, for example, as created by her. Simple, when one gets it! 🤦

    Free_Press, to Ukraine
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    MOSCOW RIGHT NOW!

    And THIS will supposedly stop the Wagner hordes from invading Moscow... 🙄🙄🙄

    ️

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    KimSJ,
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    @Free_Press That should slow down Wagner for at least two minutes. 😁

    augieray, to random
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    3.5 years of constant caution and sacrifice, withholding dinners at restaurants & concerts, and I let one professional event encourage me to take needless risks. I spoke in a room with 80 people without a mask. I asked the event planner to have air filters in the room, but she said "their effectiveness for Covid prevention is limited," which is, of course, BS, and that should've been when I withdrew from the event. I let my guard down, and now I have my first infection. Be safe out there!

    KimSJ,
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    @augieray Thanks for a story that helped me to reinforce my extreme carefullness. It is so easy to get sucked in to other people’s dumb insouciance!

    drewharwell, to random
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    New records from inside Twitter one day before the Capitol riots: "Does somebody need to be murdered ... for us to take this seriously?"

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/23/new-twitter-video-jan6/

    KimSJ,
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    @drewharwell Americans need to take more note of Popper’s Paradox — that the one thing a tolerant society cannot tolerate is intolerance. Everything that is going wrong at the moment can be traced back to ignoring that limit.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

    aeva, to random
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    I hope nobody has anything interesting to say about 19th century German composer Richard Wagner in the next few weeks

    KimSJ,
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    @aeva 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    Jakra, to auspol
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    KimSJ,
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    @Jakra Creditors are not those who invested. They do include people who supplied goods and services for which they were not yet paid. They have just as much right to compensation as those who paid for goods and services not yet delivered.

    Radical_EgoCom, to random

    Sounds like we should continue to push for a general strike.

    KimSJ,
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    @Radical_EgoCom I’ve been noodling the possibility of legislating pay rise equality (including bonuses). If the CEO gets a certain percent pay rise, all others in the organisation should get a bigger percent pay rise. Ideally, the bigness should be increased the further from the CEO’s pay scale people are. We need to reverse the pay differential growth!

    Unixbigot, to random
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    Your periodic reminder that VC-funded CEOs are in a situation that they have bet both their kidneys on being able to deliver a 100x return to the bone-saw wielding loan sharks who funded them.

    Your “community” is worthless to them unless it delivers Kidney Money.

    They cannot just “decide” to not enshittify the community you mistakenly believed was yours. No appeal to justice or fairness will work, unless accompanied by a donor kidney or two.

    KimSJ,
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    @GreyAreaUK @cstross @stevendbrewer @Unixbigot Musk and Trump both!

    SaintSluggo, to random

    Brb just informing the sheriffs at my door trying to evict me that me not paying rent is merely a “radical cost cutting measure” and they need to chill tf out https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/elon-musk-twitter-rent-payment-commercial-real-estate-goldman-sachs-2023-6

    KimSJ,
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    @SaintSluggo It's going to be funny when the landlords turn off Twitter's electricity. 😉

    KimSJ, (edited ) to random
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    It is high time we stopped misusing the word 'elite' to describe the cancer at the apex of our society. Elite should be reserved for top athletes and brilliant minds, people who deserve our respect.

    Call the super-rich what they are: PARASITES.

    Edit: some have suggested PREDATORS as a better term. They are both!

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