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tobi, 4 days ago to random

I just saw someone use the word "degens" casually. Like "sure this community has its fair share of degens but...".

So I looked it up to see if it has another meaning other than being short for the word "degenerates" and no. It doesn't.

It looks like crypto grift enthusiasts picked up the term and it's used a lot in those circles to refer to people who make bad, misinformed purchases. No surprise it got picked up by them, really, given that the venn diagram between crypto tossers and fash/eugenicists is almost a circle at this point.

But can we, people who are not involved in shitty fash-aligned subcultures, please engage our fucking brains and use them to think about the origins of a term before we go around normalizing it by throwing it around casually? It is not a very difficult or big ask, imo.

tobi, 10 days ago to random

going to hire a design team for GoToSocial to maximize suffering; people are suffering when using the software, yes, but in obvious and predictable ways, and where's the fun in that? we want you to suffer in ways that surprise you, and cause you sleepless nights of tossing and turning and wondering "why? Why?"

tobi, 12 days ago to random

my cat biscuit: meows repeatedly to go outside

me, from the sofa, not moving a muscle: "I am listening and learning, thank you for sharing your lived experiences 🙏 I will continue to try to do better"

tobi, 18 days ago to random

you ever experience a moment of visceral, bodily disgust while thinking about capitalism?

tobi, 20 days ago to random

reading the comments on an official mastodon announcement is a great place to harvest eternally tormented souls who can know no rest #Necromancy #SoulTips

tobi, 29 days ago to random

#fediblock tooters.org

Admin considers (and publicly declares) Black-led queer instance for Black folks to be "snake in the grass".

That's a fucking "yikes!" from me.

https://tooters.org/@victorwynne/112242505085130074

tobi, 1 month ago to random

"getting railed" is slang for being late to a meeting because your train was delayed; it's informal but suitable for a professional setting :the_more_you_know:

tobi, 2 months ago to random

:muppets_statler_: sex work? I sure hope it does! :muppets_waldorf_:

tobi, 2 months ago to random

It's pretty satisfying to open a thread that you expect has lots of replies, and watch the logs while your GtS instance goes and fetches them all. Pretty neato gang :danny_devito:

tobi, 2 months ago to random

there's really a fundamental disjoint #OnHere between what people want from a social media space

on the one hand there's the normal people having gay sex and/or gender, with names like "powerbottom5000", who want to hang out with their mates mostly, while poking their head out with the occasional public post; they block and defed often and want to choose how their data is federated while keeping usability of the site, and are intensely hostile to people encroaching on their safety

and on the other hand there's the weird little firstname lastname freaks with profile pics depicting men with varying levels of divorced energy, who want to give up all their dry infosec posts to daddy bluesky in the name of a god that they worship named "reach and discoverability", and who tout the shibboleth of the "open web" as though it actually means anything

one fun "gotcha" that the latter group like to pull on the first group is to pull their data and hoard it for search engines, or push it to some corpo platform, while impishly asking "well what did you think federation means?", knowing damn well that's not what the first group wants

when interrogated as to why they're doing this, and told to stop doing it, the divorced firstname lastname people will be like "well show me where it said, when you signed up, how your data would be used", as though they can rules-lawyer their way out of being creepy dickheads, but their act isn't fooling anyone except other firstname lastname divorcees

so powerbottom5000 and his ilk use the only tools they have at their disposal to curtail their data from being nicked, defederation; and at this point the "open web" folks cry foul because apparently openness precludes being able to make meaningful choices about your own boundaries; and because "the data is already out there anyway" then nobody should take any steps to try to make it a little bit less out there (remember, these are very divorced men, so they are used to making the excuse "I'm only going to get dirty again anyway" when told to take a bath)

now the thing is that this situation could be more or less fixed if only the firstname lastname posters respected consent and made their tools opt-in, but the thing about that is that if they did, nobody would fucking use them, because they're not very good; and they know this, which is why they keep pushing and pushing and pushing the boundaries of what they think they can get away with

and so we end up in this situation where vulnerable folks in group A, who are trying to build community with each other, are constantly trying to push back encroachment from the howling, unhappy ghosts of group B, who are presumably trying to farm enough clout to convert into tesla/apple goggles money

so there you go; obviously it's a lot more complicated than the manichean picture I've just sketched; things can't actually be divided into two camps, but you get the idea :skull_smoking_:

tobi, 2 months ago to random

I won't post a take, I won't post a take..

posts a take

Fuck! :skull_explode:

tobi, 2 months ago to random

pleased to hear that white men don't have any problems on the fedi with reply guys and harassment; that must mean there's no issue then, not sure what everyone else keeps going on about :terminator_awkward_smile_:

tobi, 2 months ago to random

I should start selling "read the room" services where--for a reasonable fee--I read the room on behalf of FOSS men with divorced energy, and politely inform them the ways in which their planned input into a discussion would be annoying, unhelpful, unwelcome, etc. Think I could survive on that if I can find myself a couple of German software developers to put me on retainer.

tobi, 3 months ago to random

alright i'm ready to do some programming

tobi, 3 months ago to random

The biggest problem with the fediverse right now is people writing poorly-researched articles about it containing sentences like "the biggest problem with the fediverse right now is..."

tobi, 3 months ago to random

i don't have a car or, indeed, a driver's license, so for me whipping shitties basically means running around in a circle really quickly until i fall over; that's the best i can do

tobi, 3 months ago to random

when will LinkedIn federate so we can start sending piss memes to CEOs

tobi, 3 months ago to random

what on god's green earth is a "post", i only write "publishes"

tobi, 3 months ago to random

what the fuck is x.com, it sounds like a malware website you'd get redirected to over and over trying to find free porn in the 00's

tobi, 3 months ago to random

comrades on here will be like "I committed a crime haha!" and post about the crime they committed, and then half a year later you'll notice they haven't posted in a long time

tobi, 3 months ago to random

there's literally a thing in super Mario world called a "pee switch"... mods???

tobi, 3 months ago to random

[I]n recent years, Germany’s laudable apparatus for public cultural funding has been used as a tool for enacting a 2019 Bundestag resolution declaring that the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel is antisemitic. Although the resolution is technically nonbinding, its passage has led to an unending stream of firings and event cancellations, and to the effective blacklisting of distinguished academics, cultural workers, artists, and journalists for offenses like inviting a renowned scholar of postcolonialism to speak, tweeting criticism of the Bundestag resolution, or having attended a Palestinian solidarity rally in one’s youth. A network of antisemitism commissioners [...] has been deputized to monitor such offenses. These commissioners are typically white, Christian Germans, who speak in the name of the Jews and often playact Jewishness on a public stage, posing for photo ops in yarmulkes, performing Jewish music, wearing the uniform of the Israeli police, and issuing decrees on who is next in the pillory. When they tangle with left-wing Jews in Germany, canceling their events and attacking them as antisemites in the pages of various newspapers, they suggest what Germany’s antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein has said directly: That the Jews are not being sensitive enough to what antisemitism means to the Germans—that, in fact, these Jews do not understand antisemitism at all. In a perverse twist, the fact that the Germans were the most successful antisemites in history has here become a credential. By becoming the Jews’ consummate protectors, Germans have so thoroughly absorbed the moral lessons bestowed by Jewish martyrdom that they have no more need for the Jew except as symbol; by the logic of this strange supersessionism, Germans have become the new Jews. This is not only a matter of rhetorical authority on Jewish matters but is also often literal, as this self-reflexive philosemitism has led to a wave of German converts to Judaism. According to Tzuberi, “The Jewish revival is desired precisely because it is a German revival.”

[...]

Germany is not the only place where anti-antisemitism efforts have gone utterly awry. In fact, Jewish communal organizations across the globe have pursued similar measures with similarly illiberal results. For the philosopher Elad Lapidot, author of Jews Out of the Question: A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism, such campaigns are inherently limiting. Lapidot argues that the well-intentioned desire to combat the idea of Jews as a distinct race with inherent biological characteristics has resulted in a taboo on discussing Jews as sharing any characteristics at all, whether religiously, culturally, politically, or otherwise. “The Jewish collective posited by anti-antisemitic discourse constitutes existence without essence, community without qualities,” he wrote in Tablet in 2021. “Anti-antisemitism tries to fight antisemitism by denying that Judaism exists.” It is only fair to acknowledge that, globally, it is Jews who are most often the drivers of this self-effacing work, as well as of the pro-Israel politics that almost always accompany it; if the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, the largest federation of Jews in Germany, were the primary agents of anti-antisemitism policy in Germany, things would likely be no better. But there is something worth examining in the particular fervor with which Germans have taken to the task, an annihilative echo in how the substance of Jewishness and Palestinianness is being actively drained through the pageant of anti-antisemitism. Only Germans—their guilt, their shame, their overcoming, their secret pride—are three-dimensional figures in this schema.

German philosemitism is thus revealed as another vehicle for supremacy, preferable precisely because of its anti-racist veneer. Germany’s crushing embrace of the Jewish community within its borders, with or without the participation of Jews, secures the German self-image as a moral arbiter while casting the country’s guilt onto Arabs and Muslims. This works similarly on an international level, where Germany’s Staatsraison is linked to protection of the Jewish state. Not for nothing did Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the media and technology company Axel Springer, recently synthesize, without a hint of irony, the phrase “Zionismus über alles”—Zionism above all. These words allude to the erstwhile first line of the German national anthem, “Deutschland Über Alles,” now officially stricken from the song due to its association with Nazi Germany. We might refer to this form of displaced nationalism—in which Germans enact their national aspirations via Jews and the State of Israel—as replacement supremacy: a process by which national supremacy is preserved through its projection onto a surrogate state.

• https://jewishcurrents.org/bad-memory-2

tobi, 3 months ago to random

apropos of nothing, i would like to nudge programmers to accept the truth that you can be technically correct about something, but be so teeth-grindingly smug and insufferable that nobody will care enough about your technical correctness to "fix" the "problem"

believe it or not, "soft skills" like not being a complete and total cunt are actually useful in a highly social and collaborative occupation like programming

tobi, 3 months ago to random

kenny loggins? some of you need to kenny loggout

tobi, 3 months ago to random

under communism it will be Bald-OURS Gate, comrade!