vibrantdragon

@vibrantdragon@blahaj.zone

bisexual, panromantic, agender person from Aotearoa, super into insects, ecology, and astronomy. general purveyor of progressive causes, from climate action to queer rights. I love retro gaming, photography, and listening to infosec podcasts that go way over my head

"One of those goddamn they/thems what's ruining our great nation"

#aotearoa #otautahi #transrights #queerrights #solarpunk #climateaction

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jsit, to random
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Something else great about alt text on Mastodon is that it’s useful if the image or video doesn’t load because of the fragility of federation.

RadicalGraffiti, to random
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"This is your police.. we serve and protect the ruling class!"
Spotted in Camp Crame (National Police Camp) in Quezon City, Philippines

jo, (edited ) to mastodon

It's interesting sitting here on an old version of seeing someone on server telling their fellow user that posting to unlisted will opt-out of when I can see Unlisted posts in my antennas quite easily though I believe this has been rightly rectified in the newest versions of [ / but need to confirm]. Being hidden from the Explore tab on Mastodon is not the same as being unsearchable across the fediverse. Frankly, there's little understanding even among admins across the about what's a Mastodon / Mastodon API function that is federated to other Mastodon servers but doesn't translate well outside of Mastodon on other connected platforms like and it's forks, and , or rapidly growing platforms like and . Kbin also scrapes posts from across the fediverse and puts them into its own magazines.

Unfortunately simple, up-to-date documentation doesn't really exist to explain the realities of federation vs what your admin said was the reality. AP was not built with privacy in mind, and 'security through obscurity' was mostly a Mastodon thing from when folks thought either the Mastoverse was almost the dark web, or the whole fediverse [which has never been the case], and Google et al weren't interested in scraping it.

Unfortunately we have a cadre of devs across all fedi platforms who'll give glowing lip-service to both the fedi and ActivityPub histories of being built by queer or other minority identities but still won't work on giving folks the granular and controls that weren't included in those protocols, and whose feature roadmaps now just look like bird site 2.0 funded by the milquetoast liberals in political tech who provide their seed money.

Beyond Mastodon and GoToSocial, every other fediverse project treats posting to public as opting in to search and indexing. Indeed, this is pretty much how the ActivityPub protocol handles such too.

popey, to random
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'"Our analysis shows that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers are incorrect and 77 percent are verbose," the team's paper concluded. "Nonetheless, ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language style." Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were wrong.'

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

runoutgroover, to random
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Make Aotearoa suck for transphobes challenge. 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏼🤘🏼

xinicit, to random
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Radicalize your friends by playing good music when they’re around.

flargh, to random
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“Foundation” vs “Dune”

Isaac Asimov: we’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from using math we haven’t discovered yet

Frank Herbert: we’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from tripping on drugs we haven’t discovered yet

HaruEb, to random

I would like to have some more First Nations Australians voices on my feed, if anyone has any recommendations I would love to hear them, particularly queer folks, academics and artists ​:shinx_happy:​

grumpysmiffy, to random
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Nurses fucking rock, that is all.

Affekt, to Cats
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Kicking it off right with Scooby's chompers.

Bwee, to random
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In honor of being close to 2000 followers, I am doing a WORLDWIDE giveaway! The winner will be shipped a BWEEBOX with a ton of little goodies inside!

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aral, to marketing
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Diversity without social justice is just public relations.

aral,
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Angela Davis says it best:

“Virtually every institution seized upon that term, ‘diversity.’ And I always ask, ‘Well, where is justice here?’ Are you simply going to ask those who have been marginalized or subjugated to come inside of the institution and participate in the same process that led precisely to their marginalization? Diversity and inclusion without substantive change, without radical change, accomplishes nothing.”

https://jezebel.com/angela-davis-on-racial-reckoning-diversity-and-inclusi-1844853369

QasimRashid, to random
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Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago today. This remains as one of my favorite pieces of wisdom he shared. And now, they're making it illegal to even claim the knife is there.

"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there." — Malcolm X

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