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I make small things.

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aral, to SmallWeb
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Just published Kitten’s¹ new database² commands:

  • kitten db [table name] to see info the database/a specific table
  • kitten db delete [table name] to delete the database/a specific table
  • kitten db tail <table name> to follow a specific table

Full docs: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#database-commands

¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
² https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #JavaScriptDatabase #javascript #database #JSDB #web #dev #js #NodeJS #commandLineInterface #CLI

brewsterkahle, to random
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I love Google Docs! Thank you, Google.

Sharable docs, spreadsheets, presentations is magic enough to have changed my world.

Google Drive has made permissions manageable.

Google spreadsheets with extensions for metadata input automation to support digitization-- killer.

Freak'n magic. Thank you Google!

(how do you use these tools?)

aral,
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@brewsterkahle I love their ubiquitous global surveillance network the best.

Truly a beacon of surveillance capitalism.

Thank you, Google!

dansup, to random
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"I don't think Pixelfed needs to exist, use Mastodon"

Pixelfed provides a photo/video focused experience, and offers more features geared towards this (filters, collections, portfolios) than Mastodon does

You can use Mastodon or other platforms to share photos

When content is based around photos/videos, it's a much different experience

"I don't think TikTok or Instagram need to exist. Twitter supports photos & video"

aral,
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@dansup @cendawanita Who said that and, more importantly, were they summarily slapped?

aral, to random
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What’s happening in Turkey today is not some exotic oddity. It’s a forewarning of exactly what can (and is) happening in the West.

Does this timeline seem familiar?

  1. Neoliberals get elected. They fill their coffers while alienating a whole swath of society who they deem too far beneath them to matter.

  2. A religious fundamentalist arises who speaks to those marginalised people, telling them they’ve been wronged (they have) and that he will make it right.

  3. He gets elected.

  4. He stays.

aral,
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…The only point we haven’t seen (yet) in the West with the current rise of fascism across both sides of the Atlantic is the last one.

That’s not because it cannot happen here.

It‘s just because it hasn’t happened yet.

2/3

aral,
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Notice where it starts though – and try not to ignore it or rationalise it away even if your salary depends on it – because this is the bit that’s going to hurt:

Neoliberalism is the slippery slope to fascism.

3/3

aral,
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@pitbuster Ah, interesting. In Turkey the neoliberals were also secularists so that might a factor. (Of course cultures and histories vary) :)

aral,
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@Disputatore How exactly would you characterise the period starting with Özal and ANAP if not neoliberal?

My “analysis” is simply my lived experience as the child of Turkish parents.

aral,
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@alfredo_liberal Oh, no, please, do Westsplain Turkey to me again.

Painting of man explaining something to an exasperated woman overlaid with an animated caption: “let me explain your lived experience to you”

aral,
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@Userd503 It might not. Doesn’t mean we don’t try. What’s giving up going to achieve?

aral,
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@TruthSandwich I take it from your post that you’re a neoliberal 🤷‍♂️

aral,
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@jasper @InayaShujaat Oh I love that she called me an Islamophobe – not a thing; read this: https://ar.al/notes/islam-is-privilege/ – and then blocked me (her account is suspended from my instance now) :)

Guess what? Being secular doesn’t make you an Islamophobe. Defending a religous fundamentalist like Erdoğan, on the other hand…

Love,
Your friendly neighbourhood ex-Muslim whose parents still identify as Muslim.

aral, (edited ) to random
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Westsplaining (apparently already a word) seems to be quite in vogue with the Turkish elections and whatnot. Apparently also leads to instant blocks.

(Don’t presume to explain to me how things are not as bad in Turkey as I might think they are from your comfortable perch in some Western country – wait for it, this shit is heading your way too before too long, by the way – when I can’t even visit the place where I still have family because of the “democratically elected” 20-year autocrat.)

aral,
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@1dalm Oh, make no mistake, the EU stringing Turkey along for however many decades due to its racism and xenophobia was a huge factor in Erdoğan coming to power.

He didn’t need much to make the case the EU would never admit a majority-Muslim country and that they should embrace the Islamic world instead, who were ready to welcome them with open arms.

aral,
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@cjk Well, none that aren‘t now blocked, at least ;)

aral,
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@nellie_m Nah, you’re right, the term should really be Westplaining :)

(I’ll edit the post to update it as it makes more sense. Thanks!)

aral, to random
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In case you’re wondering why the Turkish people “reelected” Erdoğan it’s for the same reason Americans would be “reelecting” President DeSantis after 20 years of rule.

(And in case you’re thinking “term limits”, realise that Turkey has term limits too. He was prime minister first, then president, and then he changed the constitution to make it into a presidential system which he argued reset the clock on the presidential term limit…)

aral,
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@runarcn Yep.

gwensnyder, to random
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Bluesky is less than 100k and its dev team are already struggling in embarrassing ways when it comes to addressing violent threats against Black women.

I've been very curious to see what would happen when the Nazis started to show themselves, and predictably it is not going well.

aral,
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@gwensnyder I art shocketh.

andreasdotorg, to random

This is why we can't have nice things.

aral,
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@andreasdotorg Sounds like capitalism working as designed. No doubt another Silicon Valley success story in the making…

aral, to random
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“Turkey's leader Mr has a bond with his followers…religious …

‘We were blessed by the fact that our president is again leading us,’ said Hatice Duran, 50…smiling broadly beneath her headscarf.

Now he is newly emboldened…and the Kremlin is celebrating…

In his victory speech he insisted ‘only was the winner’—but he lost no time in attacking the opposition and the community…”

Many predict…more and less ”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65743021

aral,
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@MariaLiv Lots of factors: First and foremost, Erdoğan has been in power for 20 years. During that time he’s come to control the police, military and ~90% of the media. He is an authoritarian who has jailed countless members of the opposition both in and out of politics (and took his main rival out of the running with political prosecution). So did the Turkish people really reelect Erdoğan? I don’t know. It was an election, that’s for sure. But was it democracy?

aral,
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@rticks So quite likely the US after the next elections, then?

(See https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110452110101278201)

aral,
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@af Yeah, this is why I rarely, if ever, reveal my background to Turkish people in Germany when I visit. They are overwhelmingly Erdoğan supporters.

aral,
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@rticks So no more Trump? No DeSantis? I mean, I hope so, but I’ll wait to see until after the election.

Don’t underestimate how quickly a democractically-elected autocrat can destroy that democracy.

The US should be looking at Erdoğan as a warning for what can very easily happen there. (If not to Hitler before him, who was also democratically elected.)

The Republicans have been busy dismantling democratic institutions for years now in preparation. When they call it a “war“, believe them.

aral,
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@rticks Yep, fair and square. Just like Erdoğan likes things.

(Please don’t explain the country of my parents to me.)

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