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jrm4

@jrm4@mastodon.social

John R. Marks, IV, Technically an attorney; practically I teach IT at FSU for a living.
I run a nonprofit that teaches stem; for a while my company Vivergent managed the official website for the Black News Channel, RIP.

Huge FOSS/Linux/Free Software guy as well. Harvard undergrad, Columbia law.

Also I like the old school rappity rap.

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jrm4, to mastodon
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I'm calling it

Threads is the actually evil thing you imagine Twitter is

Twitter's actually still doing okay

jrm4, to mastodon
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know what, this is probably worth some other hashtags as well

Someone wrote more about it and I'm glad.

I respect if you decided to leave twitter.

But entirely too many of YOU need to
fucking learn to respect those of us who are staying

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-post-elon-musk-x/

jrm4, to random
@jrm4@mastodon.social avatar

Someone wrote more about it and I'm glad.

I respect if you decided to leave twitter.

But entirely too many of YOU need to
fucking learn to respect those of us who are staying

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-post-elon-musk-x/


jrm4,
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lol I was in the middle of editing the profanity when the boosts and reposts started coming in so I guess I'll keep it :)

mikey, to random
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I need to know the history behind why America decided to go with a different form of measurement compared to the rest of the world. What was the reason?

Time to search for a documentary.

jrm4,
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@mikey

The world was a bunch of nerds who decided that everything should scale over the number of hand nubbins

and Americans decided to keep the old thing thats much better for actually CREATING SHIT

fight meeeeeeeeee

maegul, (edited ) to threads
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Perhaps a useful thought on the question:

What if were federating?

Cuz threads may not be any better, and it might be worse: https://mastodon.social/@jrm4/111639191086603650 ( @jrm4 )

jrm4,
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@scotttiger @maegul

I (and others) absolutely want the twitter world in the Fediverse.

Unironically. IMHO the world "wants" a big universal microblog thing and will scale toward it; I think we either get everyone on a thing like this, or simply continue to get worse pockets of boring and/or garbage.

jrm4,
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@scotttiger @maegul

Presently, and perhaps for the future, the fediverse and Twitter are roughly equally trashy.

More to the point, though: The entire point of the fediverses technical DESIGN makes it likely that the billionaires couldn't run the website.

jrm4, to fediverse
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Calling it

Threads is the hellhole that we thought Twitter was going to be.

it's SO bad yall

jrm4, to mastodon
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On threads:

Right now, it sucks and it's aggresively stupid.

The biggest question on the table here: How much do we believe in the power of the idea and practice of federation.

I'm optmistic and believe it's entirely possible that the best thing happens: Meta doesn't take over, but the opposite, "federation" infects threads and the like and we win this thing.

(again, I'm a fediverse maximalist, I want it to be the new twitter)

jrm4, to mastodon
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Let me double down on a thing.

The vast majority of "reading" snobbery is 100% justified; reading lots of books far outpaces ANYTHING in terms of growing smarter.

(It's POSSIBLE video is beginning to catch up but we're still VERY much at the beginning of that)

jrm4, to mastodon
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RIGHT NOW

Twitter is dumb, but not boring
Mastodon is boring, but not dumb
Threads and bluesky are both

jrm4,
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@weirdwriter

I heard this, I definitely hope it happens. Again, I've also heard this to some extent from literally every other Mastodon competitor, so we'll see?

jrm4, to random
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The difference between the racism on Twitter and Mastodon is exactly like the difference between the racism in the North vs the South

jrm4, to HipHop
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Love me some Andre 3000, but the first "genuine-contender-for-literally-greatest-rapper-ever-goes-on-to-do-not-rap-but-some-very-artistic-weird-stuff-that-ill-try-to-get-into-but-i-dont-know-about-all-that" would be Jean Grae

jrm4, to random
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I know, so many want the Marvels to be good or popular or whatever, and yeah, maybe there's some sexism going on there too but, real talk, the whole thing MCU thing 100% crapped out when they chose not to recast T'Challa.

Literally the worst movie superhero decision ever; the exact OPPOSITE point of what superhero movies are supposed to be about.

and now they're paying for it

Are0h, to random

Psst.

Saying one is 'anti-blocklist' is a dog whistle.

jrm4,
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@Are0h

Not necessarily. and putting a link to a dictionary doesn't change that.

I am generally "anti-blocklist" precisely because I think in the long run that is better for black folks.

jrm4, to random
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Ugh. The fake black people bots on twitter are ramping up HARD lately, and it really feels like there's no place to go.

So again, I'll keep repeating:

The biggest barrier to black folks being here isn't "lack of safety" or even something like "exposure to racism"

It's obscurity and boringness.

People REALLY need to stop seeking sterility here.

jrm4, to HipHop
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I mean, I'm probably not gonna cop a ticket, but paying money to try to see Lauryn Hill even if she might no-show still makes a hell of a lot more sense than paying money to definitely see, I don't know, just about any top 10 chart rapper after her

jrm4,
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@morecowbell

THATS WHAT I'M SAYING

she 100% has EASILY earned the right to be this much of a diva

whynothugo, to random
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It’s often very hard to make good metaphors about modern business practices in the tech industry. Imagine a stove that won’t heat your pots and pans if they are not from the same manufacturer as the stove. Imagine a pens and pencils that don’t write if you try to use it from paper that’s not from one of the pen manufacturers’ partners. These ideas are so absurdly inconceivable in other industries that metaphors don’t make sense, but these sort of practice are the norm in tech nowadays.

jrm4,
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@whynothugo

I teach in higher ed, and absolutely this, especially trying to critciize, e.g. Canvas.

Why would you require / expect high quality from forcing your blackboards and chairs and pencils and calculators and chalk and gradebooks and bluebooks ALL BE FROM THE SAME COMPANY?

It seems obvious to me, but I'm a tech geek. People just seem cool rolling along with this.

BigAngBlack, to blackmastodon
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It's a police culture problem, not just a few bad apples. But you knew that already

Black Met officers urged by colleagues to donate to fund for sacked PCs | Metropolitan police | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/30/black-metropolitan-police-colleagues-donate-fund-sacked-officers

> Exclusive: officers complain of collection for men who lied about the stop and search of black athletes

@blackmastodon
@BlackMastodon

jrm4,
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@DryBird227 @NoFlexZone @bageera @BigAngBlack @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

for the record, no? Ro never said or implied that at all? I do want to have the record be accurate.

He did what you're doing, but a little worse, reposted something I said and pointed to it along the lines of "hey, everyone, look at this sellout." Childish stuff, yes --but no, he never directly questioned my blackness.

jrm4,
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@DryBird227 @bageera @NoFlexZone @BigAngBlack @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

every last black person, lol

all seven of us

For real, there are like statistically no black people here, and I'm quite certain it's not the presence of evil racism scaring us away

it's because mastodon is presently boring and no one knows about it

tagging this, because this is probably the only real important point I have to make

jrm4,
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@BigAngBlack @majorlinux @DryBird227 @bageera @NoFlexZone @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

Fascinating to see "Free Speech" go to "right-wingy" in my lifetime.

I don't stand by it as a forever rule; it's definitely a commentary on "what should be different about Mastodon today"

jrm4,
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@kkarhan @bageera @BigAngBlack @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

black lawyer here who thinks is nearly entirely bullshit

and you just said some sweet beautiful words to me.

QUALITY CONTROL
and even better

APPEALS PROCESSES

thats wtf i'm TALMBOUT

they need to learn to BE GROWNUPS

jrm4,
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@kkarhan @bageera @BigAngBlack

Yeah, and honestly the only reason I'm comfortable even just talking about all this publicly is that -- I want Mastodon to be thing thing, including, and perhaps especially for black folks, and if you're a public-ish face of blackness here, I have to call it out.

(Had a bad feeling about him when he did a real childish thing when we were discussing something else; he did a "hey everyone, look at the sellout!")

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