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Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)
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Hello everyone! I just set up this new account? Things seem pretty cool here on this "fediverse". What does that mean though, the "fediverse"? I hear it's using ActivityPub. Could anyone explain to me what that means? Thanks!
on Thu, 10PM
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Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)
1 1
Tell Congress Not To Weaponize The Treasury Department Against Nonprofits https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-not-to-weaponize-the-treasury-department-against-nonprofits
14h ago
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Erik Moeller (@eloquence@social.coop)
1 1
If you're in the US, please use this tool to call your Senator's office and tell them to pass the PRESS Act in the lame duck session. It's super-easy. Barely an inconvenience. "Journalists should be able to do their jobs without facing jail time or being surveilled by the...
14h ago
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Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)
1 1
This one guy was very helpful in explaining bluesky vs the mastodon network, he made diagrams https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3lawyht5b422k
20h ago
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Eliot Lash (@Eliot_L@social.coop)
1 1
#OpenSource Software Is in Crisis - #IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-source-crisis
21h ago
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Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון (@raph@social.coop)
1 4
My mother, who lived on a kibbutz in the 70s and goes to Israel every few months to be with family, just texted me "Israel will disappear". She's realizing that Bibi and the far-right aren't, after all, an anomaly. And she's right, Israel is dying. This is one thing people don't realize...
on Fri, 1AM
From social.coop
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I've seen a lot of excitement about that @404mediaco@mastodon.social piece on #FourThievesvinegarCollective's instructions for home synthesis of patented pharmaceuticals, and I get that everyone's excited that it's all cool and cyberpunk but what I feel is missing from the fediverse discussion...
on Sep 5
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Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)
0 1
@immibis@social.immibis.com I see, why didn't they just use email then
on Fri, 4AM
From social.coop
0 1
"In order to make the bid [for InfoWars] work, a lawyer representing the [Sandyhook] families told CNN that the families 'agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of the Onion’s bid, enabling its success'." This is just breathtaking. After all these families...
on Fri, 1AM
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Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)
0 1
Attached: 1 image Time for an #introduction... again! My name is Christine Lemmer-Webber, I'm co-author/co-editor of the ActivityPub standard which connects together the fediverse (Mastodon, Peertube, Sharkey, GotoSocial, etc). In other words, I'm one of several people who worked on the...
on Fri, 1AM
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Artisans Cooperative (@coopartisans@social.coop)
0 1
Attached: 1 image Why the chicken? What began as a joke inspired by the commonality between the words “coop” and “co-op” turned into a serious discussion about chickens. The organizers were animated by the idea of a visual mascot representing the diversity, range, and quirkiness of artisans....
on Thu, 5PM
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Ray Gulick, he/him/🥥 (@rgulick@social.coop)
0 1
Yes, let's be honest: simple, memorable lies designed to appeal to fear and hate (ie, GOP messaging) will always capture attention more than an honest discussion of complex issues designed to appeal to intellect and people's better angels. A left-wing media apparatus combating right-wing lies is...
on Thu, 2AM
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Luis Villa (@luis_in_brief@social.coop)
0 2
“Many have claimed that training large language models requires copyrighted data, making truly open AI development impossible.” Shots fired. https://huggingface.co/blog/Pclanglais/two-trillion-tokens-open
on Wed, 9PM
From social.coop
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Attached: 1 video Journalist: Do you believe that Israel has a right to exist? UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese: #Israel #Palestine #Gaza
on Wed, 9PM
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Jonobie (@jonobie@social.coop)
0 1
Hi friends—my therapy practice is open across Washington State for "weirdos and nerds" in the arts, LGBTQIA+, poly, pagan, or kinky communities. In-network with Premera and Lifewise. Please share with friends who might be interested. They can reach me at jonobie@selfwitte.com or...
on Wed, 8PM
From social.coop
0 1
Anyone want to start a webring of personal blogs and websites? We could pick a connecting topic (ie. all members of a specific group, or all co-op folks, or just all single-person personal blogs, etc.) or just allow random sites. I'm trying to think of a better way to find good stuff than...
on Wed, 5PM
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Dr. Matt Lee 🎃 (@mattl@social.coop)
0 2
3.47K Posts, 163 Following, 2.82K Followers · Public figure/idiot. He/him. American/British. New England/cyberspace. Co-founder of the #fediverse, GNU social, Libre.fm, ex-cult member (FSF). Web standards person. Please don’t DM me if I’m not following you. Send an email instead. Send...
on Wed, 4AM
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In #Flancia we'll meet (@flancian@social.coop)
0 1
[[Osama Vinladen]] - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_Vinladen
on Wed, 3AM
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Robin DeRosa (@actualham@social.coop)
0 1
I am hiring right now! Two university librarian positions and three staff positions (one entry level and two big positions for exceptional library folks). I am amazing! The rest of our team is amazing! Plymouth State is persisting! New Hampshire is doing its very best! The mountains are lovely!...
on Tue, 6PM
From social.coop
0 1
Attached: 1 image Ofer Cassif is the only Jewish member of the Knesset to vote against the bills to ban UNRWA. He has been handed a near total parliamentary ban by the Israeli Knesset's Ethics Committee for supporting the South African genocide case at the ICJ & for statements supporting the...
on Tue, 9AM
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Juanlu (@astrojuanlu@social.coop)
0 1
Attached: 2 images The main feature of a social network is the people who use it. The people use it because of the affordances of the software used to interact with the network. Nascent products must listen to their users to succeed. It's not that hard.
on Tue, 7AM
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Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr@social.coop)
0 1
Attached: 1 image This Wednesday, come to the online release event for CHANGE IS IN THE CARDS, a new zine on the mysticism of governance transitions in online communities. Come for the zine, stay for the tarot reading....
on Tue, 2AM
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Literally (@Literally@social.coop)
0 1
hope and change #uspol #AOC https://www.comicsands.com/aoc-instagram-voters-reason-trump-2669764337.html
on Tue, 2AM
From social.coop
0 1
Given the current volatile situation – the heavy presence of Zionist Israelis in the city with the intent of continuing acts of violence, we cannot in good faith, guarantee the minimum safety of our speakers and attendees, particularly those most vulnerable in our communities. It is deeply...
on Mon, 5AM
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Shauna GM (@shauna@social.coop)
0 2
Started off today with the first chapter Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, which I'd been meaning to read for a while. My favorite quote so far: "In a world where we are steadily being splintered apart, where so much of our social lives have been reduced to commercial...
on Sun, 1AM
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Julie Goldberg (@Julie@social.coop)
0 1
”When #tarriffs/#Project2025/taxes/#inflation bite them in the ass, then they’ll turn on #Trump!” Do you really think so? Right-wingers get their news mostly from propaganda sources. When Trump’s policies directly harm them, they’ll blame anyone but Trump. Biden! China! The Deep State! Liberal...
on Sat, 6PM
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Christopher Neugebauer (@chrisjrn@social.coop)
0 0
It is @SeaGL@mastodon.social keynote morning! I'll be on around 9:40am Pacific Time (2 hours from post time). Free to attend in-person (Seattle), or you can live stream via this internet (https://seagl.org). See you there? #foss #linux #SeaGL #SeaGL2024
on Nov 8
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Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr@social.coop)
0 0
Neighborhood assemblies, not one-day marches. Durable networks, not ephemeral signals. Governable spaces, not viral moments.
on Nov 8
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Robin DeRosa (@actualham@social.coop)
0 1
Do you know a recent college grad in New Hampshire (or who would like to relocate) who wants a lovely full-time, benefited entry-level job in a university library? This position is on my team at Plymouth State, and focuses on caring for and maintaining our physical collections:...
on Nov 7
From social.coop
Luis Villa (@luis_in_brief@social.coop)
0 0
Someone here pointed me at a #Wordpress plugin that essentially shows you all your posts in a very spreadsheet-like interface, so that you can mass-delete, sort by stats, etc. But now I can’t find it. Any pointers?
on Nov 7
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Jeff Forcier (@bitprophet@social.coop)
0 0
tag urself, I’m “Chill Request” https://fedi.computernewb.com/@vncresolver/113440167393435681
on Nov 7
From social.coop
Christopher Neugebauer (@chrisjrn@social.coop)
0 0
I've forgotten to post about this one given ALL THE OTHER THINGS, but it turns out @SeaGL@mastodon.social is this Friday and Saturday and I will be keynoting! Friday, 9:40am Pacific Time. Free to attend in-person (Seattle), or remotely (https://seagl.org). See you there? #foss #linux #SeaGL #SeaGL2024
on Nov 7
From social.coop
0 0
I don't have anything practical to offer yet, but one thing I have learned over four decades on this planet is that people deal with awful things in two different ways and each group's strategy is unhelpful to the other. One type of people need to focus on the positives to avoid despair, to look...
on Nov 6
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area51.👽/ (@netopwibby@social.coop)
0 0
I cannot believe that orange dickhead is gonna be president again. What a stupid fucking country this is. Childish Gambino said it best: This Is America
on Nov 6
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Miloš Jovanović (@loshmi@social.coop)
0 0
Neoliberalism lost heavily tonight. It’s up to us to make something new. Let’s not despair, but get some sleep. There’s work to be done tomorrow.
on Nov 6
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Dr. Matt Lee 🎃 (@mattl@social.coop)
0 0
Released a new remix of my movie and you can all watch it here. https://social.coop/@mattl/113428283724661708
on Nov 6
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Pete Ashton (@pete@social.coop)
0 1
I cannot write a witty enough comment to match the astronomical level of joy this video gave me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3QlR98--A
on Nov 6
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. (@MichaelTBacon@social.coop)
0 0
My children are out of school because their school is an election site and that comes with it a non-zero chance of violence. Probably because they're picking up on how anxious we are, they declared today Peace Day and had a feast to remember past conflict between their two imaginary worlds, and...
on Nov 5
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Robin DeRosa (@actualham@social.coop)
0 0
Please SHARE! I AM HIRING! Due to retirements of longtime gems of humans, our university library is hiring FIVE POSITIONS this winter (start dates flexible). Please share with those who will appreciate the kindness and joy with which we work, the fierceness with which we advocate for students...
on Nov 5
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area51.👽/ (@netopwibby@social.coop)
0 0
I've finally updated my blog. It looks and behaves exactly the same. The difference? The code is much simpler and better (Deno instead of Node.js) and the RSS feed works again! Apparently, I was only generating the Atom and JSON feeds. Weird. Anyhoo, I got some posts queued...
on Nov 5
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Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr@social.coop)
0 0
Attached: 1 image What do you know, it comes down in the end to anti-Blackness.
on Nov 4
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Luis Villa (@luis_in_brief@social.coop)
0 0
@kathleenthelaw@mastodon.social ooh, if we’re including space maybe Apollo 13 🤔
on Nov 4
From social.coop
0 0
Passed two young women clearly heading to a Halloween party, one dressed as generic sexy spooky thing but one dressed as a raccoon. Not a sexy raccoon or anything, just a raccoon. I respect that, that's like walking into a party and saying "I'm here to eat all your snacks and hiss at anyone who...
on Nov 3
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Ray Gulick, he/him/🥥 (@rgulick@social.coop)
0 0
I, for one, am grateful Jeff Bezos showed his true colors by refusing to endorse a presidential candidate, thereby verifying his fascist bonafides. He has also kindly demonstrated that fascist acts can be something we fail to do, as well as something we do overtly. #AmericanFascism...
on Nov 3
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Scott Jenson (@scottjenson@social.coop)
0 0
Attached: 1 image Rivian’s chief software officer says in-car buttons are ‘an anomaly’. His basic point is that voice is far better. <sigh> We go through these every few years, you'd think we'd have learned by now: 1. Voice isn't enough Voice is great, and it does have value but it's best...
on Nov 2
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Núria Albet (@nuria@social.coop)
0 1
@fanta@mastodon.green ya, el problema es cuando se vayan los focos... Deberíamos aprender. En La Palma estamos peor ahora que antes del volcán, pero no diría tanto por las pérdidas sino porque no se construyó un relato del bien común y terminó ganando el sálvense quien pueda, la corrupción y la...
on Oct 31
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Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹 (@Anibyl@social.coop)
0 0
@Bryson@mstdn.ca @makr@kind.social Maybe, for me it's just a link. We're using the latest Mastodon.
on Oct 31
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Julie Goldberg (@Julie@social.coop)
0 0
Attached: 1 image I just Googled a term I didn’t know, and Google’s AI Overview informed me that the Second Coming of Christ is a tenet of Judaism. I’m really worried that people are taking Google’s AI Overview at face value. Here’s an example where I happen to have the background knowledge to...
on Oct 28
From social.coop
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Please people who put on events I'm begging you, have a mailing list or a physical website where I can look up dates in advance. Just saw a post on Instagram about a craft workshop I would have liked to go to but didn't see before hand, asked the artist if she had a mailing list and was told "no...
on Oct 27