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mick

@mick@cosocial.ca

Average middle-aged guy from various places in Ontario.

Collector of various nerdly interests.

Into #running, #books, #chess, #videogames.

At least a little bit #buddhist. Trying to lead an examined life.

I believe that we have the right to safe digital spaces where we can build communities free from corrosive capitalist influence.

Working to build a sustainable, non-corporate web as a volunteer with #CoSocialCa

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mick, to random
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“Another hospital in Gaza has become caught up in the fighting, with twelve people killed” says the BBC podcast host, demonstrating the use of passive voice to normalize genocidal violence.

mick,
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@hananc this violence is also directed by a government which has made genocide a state policy for years, and who’s leadership has called for the expulsion and murder of of the Palestinian people.

So to answer your question - it is not a term I use lightly, but I feel that Israel’s current behavior meets any reasonable definition of the term.

As a Canadian, I am familiar with apologists for the application of state violence equivocating over the meaning of the term.

Is that why you ask?

chris, to random
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@mick cool thanks for the help. ill check it out. In time perhaps some sort of garbage collection will be added within the system to do this automatically.

mick,
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@chris 🤞

mike, to random
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Do any other Gen X'ers find themselves using the word totally, totally too often?

mick,
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@mike mine is “cool”

mick, to random
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Even among all the craziness and chaos of the Trump administration, this story stands out as particularly bonkers.

"Q: Is it typical for the Presidential Personnel Office to draft orders concerning troop withdrawal?

McEntee: Probably not typical, no.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/the-inside-story-of-how-trumps-body-guy-tried-to-order-a-massive-military-withdrawal

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you might think I’m a shill for Big Leaf, but autumn in Oregon really does look this amazing

Multnomah Falls in full Fall color
Multnomah Falls in full Fall color
Multnomah Falls in full Fall color

mick,
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@mathowie gorge-eous

mick, to climate
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TIL: The IPCC integrated assessment models are based on an economic model that seems fatally flawed.

Response to the is based on the assumption that we can overshoot the 1.5 - 2 C warming limit and ride out 2.7 to 3.5 C of warming while the global economy "optimizes.”

The model assumes (among other incredibly daft things) that about 90% of GDP will be unaffected by climate change - because it happens indoors. 🤯

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/29/william-nordhaus-climate-economics/

rolle, to random
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Birthday coffee. 🎈

mick,
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@rolle

Happy Birthday GIF by MOODMAN

MeanwhileinCanada, to random
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Winter is coming

mick,
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@MeanwhileinCanada This one is ready for it.

mick, to animals
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Snuggly.

roland, to random
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"Conservative leader says Canadians should decide for themselves what they put in their bodies" omg just shut up and go back to the middle ages pp :-)

mick,
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@roland I would like to choose for myself to not inhale the pathogens from unvaccinated lungs when I’m in public, but this will require some co-operation. :)

mick, to random
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It’s not just me, right?

A photo of a smirking Pierre Polievre

alkatandan, to random
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While this review is almost as juvenile as the it expresses well my reaction when I read the manifesto.

https://technovia.co.uk/2023/10/16/marc-andreessens-manifesto.html

What are people reading for their or

mick,
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@alkatandan on the techno-progressivism (or, perhaps, techno-pragmatism?) front I took a lot away from @pluralistic ‘s new book “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.”

Cory does a good job analyzing the current, dismal state of the tech landscape and correctly (I think) diagnoses the causes of - and solutions to - big tech as largely regulatory.

He would definitely land on Andressen’s “enemies list” for this one. 😅

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So our Kenmore dishwasher of 20 years has finally given up the appliance ghost. Considering the lifetime of these things is around 12-15 years, we had a great run.

Now begins the arduous process of finding a replacement. If anyone has any serious recommendations about a reliable dishwasher brand / model I should look at, I would welcome the advice. Thx!

Thanks Thank You GIF by BLKBOK

mick,
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@gedeonm I am also home-improvements useless, but have done this many times - this does not need an electrician. You can do it!

georgetakei, to random

There’s something quite delicious and funny watching Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders try to respond to a GOP-led audit of her alleged false records, including a $19K lectern, and failure to respond to FOIA requests, by blaming “left wing activists” for the controversy.

Keep flailing, Governor. It’s your own party’s audit panel investigating your office.

mick,
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@georgetakei that is one fancy lectern.

mick, to random
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Etsy used to be a place where you could reliably find one-of-kind items and directly support the artists that created them.

As it has traversed the classic cycle, Etsy has become more “buyer-focused,” and less useful to artisans, who are being crowded out by mass-produced goods and paying higher fees.

As elsewhere, (ahem, ) dissatisfaction with the corporatization of this space is prompting people to try something new:

https://artisans.coop/pages/about-us

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Roughly 1/3 of all sites on the Internet just entered the fediverse. You can’t stop an idea whose time has come. https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/wordpress-com-blogs-can-now-be-followed-on-mastodon-and-other-federated-platforms/

mick,
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@amy I was searching the comments going “WHY EAT?” I’m glad you said something I was beginning to wonder if it was real. 😂

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ok, i'm outside the time window, i can disclose that i just got the otp 666999

mick,
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@ryan @Binder nice

mick, to fediverse
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This, from @pluralistic, is absolutely on point.

This is why I’m here, and why I am helping to build

evan, to random
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Wow! We just finished the first annual general meeting .

We had about 1/3 of the full CoSocial membership on the call. We managed to get through reports from working groups, elections of board members, and resolutions on strategic direction.

Thanks to everyone who came. And welcome to our three new board members: @boris @mick and @Django !

mick,
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@evan @jai @alkatandan Great turn-out! Thanks for chairing the meeting and stepping up for another year on the board!

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mick,
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@MikeDunnAuthor Lives were probably saved…

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    mick,
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    @GeekSusie same vibes.

    timbray, to random
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    Are there any Fedi clients that have something like the Twitter Web client thread constructor, where you can compose a bunch of posts and then post them all at once? I used to use that a lot.

    mick,
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    @timbray +1

    Sort-of the opposite of this: someone has implemented the unroll app for Mastodon, bless them: https://mastoreader.io/

    mick, to ai
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    PSA: Talk to your olds about the dangers of scams.

    A couple weeks back we got a call that sounded like a call from our bank looking for my son.

    I am suspicious of these things by nature but the call was very consistent with other contact I’ve had with the bank when I've had a card compromised in the past.

    They had his name and number, and everything about it sounded just like the bank's automated system. "Please contact us at 1-800-number as soon as possible.”

    So he called.

    mick,
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    Fast forward to today, when my dad got a call that sounded like it was from my son, saying that he was in trouble and needed help.

    My dad is pretty sharp, and has heard me going on about AI tricks for a while now.

    Though he described the voice as “a perfect match,” he immediately got the sense that this was not my boy and dumped the call.

    A+ for dad.

    mick,
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    So these scammers:

    • gathered my son’s name and phone number.
    • possibly they figured out what bank he was with, though they could have just been playing the field.
    • harvested his voice with a pretty sophisticated scam
    • figured out who his grandfather is; and
    • attempted to use my son’s voice to trick money out of him.

    Things are getting kinda weird out there.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ai-vocal-cloning-grandparent-scam-1.6777106

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