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wjmaggos

@wjmaggos@liberal.city

Host of https://culturewar.radio. An open conversation about the news and views that capture our attention every week. Taking calls live on Sundays at 9pm Central.

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wjmaggos, to random
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Still want to replace liberal.city with a server name and network of users that could be much bigger and stand for a fedi culture that wants everyone here, as long as they don't harass people. Unpopular opinions and facts not currently widely accepted welcome. Not otherwise branded with any specific ideology or community. Anybody else interested?

wjmaggos, to random
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Expect your media to fairly and publicly engage with their critics. Otherwise it's just entertainment. You're not gonna learn anything except what they think (or want you to).

wjmaggos, to random
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@nam

I'm insincere for asking why people who believe the election was stolen don't do more, yet you go around making images to piss people off. at least you're transparent about this hypocrisy.

wjmaggos, to fediverse
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right now I love #ActivityPub. but something like a Personal Data Server that I can keep at home or pay somebody to manage, move whenever I want and connect to any new service that somebody develops, seems like the inevitable way forward. a blob with all my stuff as safe as I am willing pay for, where these companies are competing to be the most trustworthy and reliable. instead of having it spread out everywhere or with Google or Apple. and them pushing me to use their services. #SocialWeb

wjmaggos, to random
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So dropped this today...
https://pca.st/episode/67ee4b66-8e07-4207-abb4-5862606da3c8

wjmaggos, to random
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I don't like the idea of the Stars and Stripes touching the ground. Or not being the highest flag flown. Or being incorporated in the fabric of clothing to a lesser degree. It feels wrong. But I also love the idea of flying it upside down, kneeling during the anthem or burning it if you really have a reason for doing so. Family that served but also love the 1A. I like people to be serious about it I guess.

wjmaggos, to random
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I don't get how someone could serve as president from jail but it might be kinda cool to see.

wjmaggos, (edited ) to random
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points out that a lot of our angry politics is directed at a "meritocracy" that thru wealth/connections, thinks itself better than the rest of us and keeps successfully trying to get further ahead. Absolutely. But then for his media recs, he rattles off elite after elite who entertain heterodox views. Yea, no. Critical thinking isn't reserved for elites. It has to be non elites who truly challenge the power of the Ivy League, big banks and mainstream media.
https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/334-the-low-trust-society

wjmaggos, to bluesky
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Has any company seemed cool but also took VC money and didn't eventually enshitify? #BlueSky

wjmaggos, to fediverse
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How many people read but never post on social media? I think it's pretty high. You need an account to track who you are following for that, but that's it. Isn't this kinda like the podcast experience, where people have an app and an account there but nothing is public? Or consider how most people use YouTube.

Perhaps the could learn from this. First get people on an app. Setting up their app account gives them an ID on the developer's default server. Move on from there.

wjmaggos, to random
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@stefan @MostFollowed

FYI barackobama@threads.net turned off federation but is still listed on the top of Mastodon Most Followed.

https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/

wjmaggos, to fediverse
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We need a default server, right?

wjmaggos, to random
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Fuck the military industrial complex.

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damn icq.social is taken.

wjmaggos, to random
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When thinking about Elon and X, please also consider this. If a place for speech gets accepted as the most open and popular, then what's popular there will be claimed as speaking for the general public. Winning in the public square matters.

But of course X is not a public square. It's a place where lefties increasingly feel unwelcome cause of harassment. But its use by big names keeps telling the world that it matters. We must displace it, by limiting harassment but not speech here.

wjmaggos, (edited ) to random
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For a little while, was my favorite podcast. They'd talk more about the news than joking about their personal lives in elite circles, cared about more than just bashing the left and regularly had on people they disagreed with (even regarding stuff they are passionate about like Israel and Ukraine). Now they are like libertarian neo cons. It's not supposed to be possible yet here we are. Still worth listening to but I'm sorry to the people I recommended the show to.

wjmaggos, to random
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Could we collectively create a database of all songs somewhere?

wjmaggos, to GenX
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Back in my day (class of 96), you kinda had to choose. Most kids liked them all but was your favorite band Nirvana, Soundgarden or Pearl Jam? I wouldn't have said it then but Nirvana wanted you to think they were cool. Edgy. Soundgarden just wanted to make good music. Pearl Jam was about community and purpose. Fuck Ticketmaster.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4977330/live-nation-ticketmaster-sued

wjmaggos, to random
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what is a CEO doing that makes them worth paying millions of dollars per year? don't they usually have lots of other people also paid very well helping them make every decision?

wjmaggos, (edited ) to TheMatrix
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Watching with my daughter. The 90s were the peak of our civilization.

edit: I get that the kung-fu bullet time scenes are fun but before they go back in to save Morpheus, I thought we were supposed to care about the other people living their lives (even as cops, not agents).

wjmaggos, to random
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I strongly support switching from standard property taxes (where improving your property costs you more money over time) to a that encourages density and less vacant lots. Where public investment does less to reward the insiders who know what land will be much more valuable tomorrow. But in most areas, it should be phased in slowly.
https://www.vox.com/24025379/detroit-land-value-tax-lvt-property-tax-housing-vacant-blight

wjmaggos, to random
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"Get rid of zoning laws that protect the property values of those couples you mention, rich liberal doctors married to each other, who make it illegal to build a duplex in their neighborhood. You could immediately build a million units in one year and solve our housing crisis in a decade."

But it's not just standard Dems or the rich. It's everybody whose wealth is tied to their home. Our system has working people desperately at odds with each other in many ways. Cheap goods vs pay/benefits.

wjmaggos, to random
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It's not just economic desperation, xenophobia or religious fundamentalism. It's about losing hope. It makes people willing to do anything.

wjmaggos, to threads
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Have any government folks enabled fedi sharing on ? Or official news org accounts? Looking at journalists and pundits etc, it feels completely random (and strangely limited). I see no pattern.

wjmaggos, to mastodon
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I'm less interested in getting to connect seamlessly with than with . Anybody working on this?

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