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evan

@evan@cosocial.ca

He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.

Director of Open Technology at Open Earth Foundation (OEF).

Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. CTO of Breather, TRU LUV and MTTR.

Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.

Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.

Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.

This network has been my life's work. Thanks for making it.

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nasamuffin, to random
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I just had an entire super-long dream about choosing and arranging my picks for a staff recommendation display at a bookstore

evan,
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@nasamuffin PEAK EXPERIENCE

evan, (edited ) to random
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(I just sent this to the White House.)

Mr. President,

I heard a speech by you at a dinner last night about the War in Gaza where you insisted that "it's not genocide."

Let me first point out that if you have to say that about anything, it's probably really bad. You don't have to say that about a baseball game or a Christmas parade.

evan, (edited )
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But I also note that you are not a scholar of genocide. 800 of them signed a letter saying that there is a plausible chance we are seeing genocide in Gaza.

https://twailr.com/public-statement-scholars-warn-of-potential-genocide-in-gaza/

The International Court of Justice also said the war is a plausible genocide. And of course the International Criminal Court has brought indictments against the prime minister of Israel and the defense minister for crimes against humanity.

evan, (edited )
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These are serious people and experts in their fields. Can you really say you're 100% sure that it's not a genocide? On what grounds?

And if it is, what have you done to America, its reputation, and its soul, by supporting the perpetrators of the genocide with money, weapons, and diplomatic cover?

Your nickname is now Genocide Joe. Aren't you ashamed of that? Even if you think it's untrue, knowing that millions of people associate you with the greatest crime imaginable.

evan, (edited )
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Do you want future generations to remember you, to remember our country, for enabling and collaborating in genocide?

Mr. President, you're gambling with our collective legacy, and the fact that you're so certain of yourself gives me and other Americans pause. We think you don't see what we see; or maybe you see it and you don't care.

I voted for a man who would care.

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@titaniumbiscuit thanks. I should note that it takes committed people giving money, time and energy to win an election. Millions of people are holding back that support because of Gaza.

evan,
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@titaniumbiscuit Genocide is a jus cogens -- an imperative of the highest order. There is no higher priority. We must stop it at all costs. "Let Biden have a little genocide, he's a pretty good guy otherwise" is an unacceptable position. If you'd like to try to change someone's mind, I recommend talking to your own government officials about helping to find a path to peace.

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Hi folks, you may have noticed that we had an outage for a couple of hours this morning on our app, website and instance. We are back online now and hopefully things should be back to normal, but please bear with us if there are any issues for the next while.

#Flipboard

evan,
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@Flipboard thanks for the good work!

evan, (edited ) to random
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When is it OK to change the subject in your reply to a post?

evan,
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If you'd like to make a funny joke by changing the subject in your reply to this post, please go ahead. Maybe you will get to find out its effects on people!

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@promovicz sometimes often, or sometimes rarely?

evan,
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@ch0ccyra1n it's a high-risk gambit.

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So, changing the subject is inherently hostile. You're telling someone that the topic they want to discuss doesn't matter, and you're going to hijack their thread -- and their reach -- to talk about something you care about instead.

I think it makes sense when replying to powerful people who are not paying attention to an urgent crisis -- telling a politician that Black Lives Matter, or telling an oil executive that climate change is real. This is good and necessary work.

evan,
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You can also do it to less powerful people, but realize that it's hostile and you're likely to get negative reactions. When the maintainer of your favourite Open Source software package posts their vacation photos, it's a bad time to try to get them to look at your bug report.

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If you have something you want to talk to a friend about ("this reminds me that I wanted to talk to you about..."), they might understand, but it sure is a lot nicer to just send a DM, or start a new public or followers-only thread.

If you're talking to a stranger, and it's not your goal to be hostile, don't do it.

I'd say: rarely.

evan,
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@JMMaok is a social media post a conversation? I think in some cases it is -- like, to a group. But a lot of time it's an announcement, or a statement. I don't think it's symmetrical.

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@TerryHancock I meant "change the subject" in the common vernacular meaning, that is, introducing a different topic, not in the technical meaning of the Subject: line of an email message.

infinimatt, to random
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The “o” in ChatGPT 4o means its training set was Omni Magazine

evan,
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@infinimatt Hell yeah

atomicpoet, to random
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I’m constantly wearing gym clothes, and it’s about time I dress for the summer.

But also, these shorts and shirt were C$21. That’s the price of a meal. So why not go for it?

Time to embrace the sun!

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@atomicpoet surf's up!

chicating, to random
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@evan My apologies, in that you meant that for a specific crowd, of which I'm not a member. Didn't mean to horn in or take credit for somebody else's things. Just appreciated your thought, as a reflection of a global set of values that I'd like to think I do play a small part. You write well! Hardly think I've ever said this without irony but literally: Thanks for sharing it.

evan,
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@chicating thank you for deleting something you didn't feel good about after! That's such a positive part of building our community.

evan, (edited ) to random
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"International law should apply equally for all people and for all countries."

evan,
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I posted this after listening to the Ezra Klein Show episode about Israel, Palestine, and the UN last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-asli-bali.html

One thing it covered that I found very interesting is that the guest, Professor Aslı Ü. Bâli, pointed out that the current world order optimizes for peace over security.

The UN's structure gives nuclear powers the chance to veto any international process in the security council, rather than having them veto it with bombs on the battlefield.

evan,
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I realize that the veto is part of the legal structure, and thus part of the law, so technically vetoing stuff is still within the law. But in other ways we let powerful countries get their way -- say, by ignoring decisions of the ICJ or ICC -- in order to prevent all-out war.

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I don't see a good alternative to this system right now, so I'm somewhat agree. It would be good if more of the world powers that can ignore the UN took it seriously anyway, and set a good example for the rest of the world.

evan,
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@EcoLogicExplorer how so?

evan, to random
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Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

evan,
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@ugurcan it wasn't.

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