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Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

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Nostr dev built websites for nazis - and Jack Dorsey gave him $10 million

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Just Stop Oil supporters found not guilty in petrol pump case (juststopoil.org)

On 28 April 2022, Just Stop Oil supporters blocked the entrances to Clacket Lane Services on the M25 by sitting in the road with Just Stop Oil banners. They also decommissioned the petrol pumps by breaking the display glass and covering it with spray paint. This action was taken in support of their demand for the UK government...

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What if the ModLog was a community?

Every mod action would automatically create a new post. Anyone could see what is going on and express their approval / disapproval with votes. Maybe even comment on the post.

It should probably be a local-only community (no federation) to avoid clogging up other instance's "All" feed with mod actions?

What do you think of this idea?

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Yes, that's what I'm considering but only if people think it's a good idea.

In my experience people who have been banned rarely have anything positive or constructive to say about it so most likely each thread would need to be locked upon creation.

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Probably merged from both?

I've just realised that having it as a community would mean there'd be no special filtering options e.g. by account or community. Not ideal.

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Both those guys are banned instance-wide on the instance I run.

Disinfo research was a hobby of mine for a few years so I have zero tolerance for it.

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IMO getting a bit into the psychology of why people want to believe this crap is pretty key. Narcissism, cognitive bias...

Check this out https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon. Go into the 'sources' folder and start clicking around. A lot of the disinfo sites are in separate files but https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/blob/master/sources/default.txt contains most of them in a big disorganized pile.

Also take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/ to understand the human cost at the individual & family level.

Google "Alt-right pipeline" to learn about how they've intentionally crafted a radicalization process. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g.

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Yeah that's pretty much it. Then that gets amplified by recommendation algorithms and toxic social media ecosystems, of course.

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Efficiency??

This is about the total amount of emissions, not the emissions-per-unit-of-compute (or whatever).

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Yeah, but no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

The climate doesn't give a toss how much value for shareholders is generated, all that matters is the total amount of emissions.

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This would be fine if there were no externalities.

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Added many PeerTube channels to PieFed

Thanks to amazing work by @andrew_s, PieFed can now federate with PeerTube - channels from a PeerTube instance show up as communities in PieFed and each video is a post which can be voted on and commented on.

To get things started I've done a bit of crowdsourcing and added all the interesting, active and cool PeerTube channels I could find! Check these out:

Linux

https://piefed.social/c/thelinuxcast_channel@tilvids.com
https://piefed.social/c/linuxuserspace_channel@tilvids.com
https://piefed.social/c/veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube
https://piefed.social/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com
https://piefed.social/c/linuxappsummit@tube.kockatoo.org
https://piefed.social/c/hacker_culture@kolektiva.media

Other

https://piefed.social/c/blitzcitydiy_channel@makertube.net - electronics and music

https://piefed.social/c/simon.caine_channel@tilvids.com - general technology

https://piefed.social/c/thunderbird_channel@tilvids.com - thunderbird email client

https://piefed.social/c/ewen@makertube.net - photography

https://piefed.social/c/icesheets_climate@tilvids.com - climate

https://piefed.social/c/shifter_cycling@video.canadiancivil.com - cycling

https://piefed.social/c/transit@video.canadiancivil.com - transit

https://piefed.social/c/urbanism@video.canadiancivil.com - urbanism

https://piefed.social/c/coreyartusimagery@makertube.net - art

https://piefed.social/c/dot_social@flipboard.video - fediverse podcast

https://piefed.social/c/thegiddystitcher@makertube.net - crafting

https://piefed.social/c/linuxappsummit@tube.kockatoo.org

https://piefed.social/c/submedia_channel@kolektiva.media - anarchy

https://piefed.social/c/solarpunk@kolektiva.media - documentaries

https://piefed.social/c/boilingsteam@peertube.linuxrocks.online - gaming

https://piefed.social/c/justsomeguy@comics.peertube.biz - comics and movies

https://piefed.social/c/comicuno@comics.peertube.biz - comics

https://piefed.social/c/blender_channel@video.blender.org - blender

https://piefed.social/c/4742f338-1ded-4798-bd85-93e8de367476@peertube.touhoppai.moe - krita tutorials

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Like a blog?

Check out Wordpress, Hugo or Ghost.

Armin van Buuren - Communication - 1999 (www.youtube.com)

In the early days, trance rarely had vocals or if it did they were just another instrument among many. The idea of trance was to help the dancer get into a certain mental state which is beyond words and having too many vocals tends to pull things down into the concrete and breaks the spell. As everything became more...

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What are your favourite PeerTube channels??

Any topic!

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Great list, thanks!

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Something wrong with the SSL config on this instance?

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This was an absolute goldmine. Thanks!

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Nice, cheers

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Modern irrationality rooted in cognitive biases

"We are constantly making decisions with our limited time and cognitive resources and memory storage.

"We're not robots, and the fact that you can seemingly Google your way to anything does not make us smarter."

She was plagued by the idea that while we're living in the information age, life seems to be making less sense.

"It certainly doesn't seem to be feeling any better, even though the quality of life is overall actually improving.

"Our innate irrationalities, that have always existed, are being dialled up to 11 because of the culture that we've created."

Cognitive bias is a mental magic trick that we developed in order for us to make sense of the world sufficiently to survive it, she says.

"The natural world was always too much for us to process, if we had to catalogue the precise colour and shape of every twig in order to understand it, that would take more than a lifetime.

"So, we came up with these cognitive biases, dozens upon dozens of them. And they help us make decisions without our even noticing."

Every human has cognitive biases, but when they collide with digital information overload, bad things can happen

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I know an old person in a tropical country. A few months ago she started having blood pressure issues so her doctor put her on about 3 or 4 different medications. They didn't help very much.

Then about a month ago she got air-conditioning in one of the rooms of her house. Boom, blood pressure problems all solved immediately.

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