“All over town, you see people walking around more, going to people’s homes, hanging out and talking,” said Jessica Ieremia, the director of Sitka’s library, which has a satellite unit that’s made it a hub for residents seeking internet. “We've been hearing that constantly from people, how nice it is. They're like, ‘If I could just figure out the finances part.’”

@seachanger both are interesting, but i think i would rather think about whales napping

@seachanger do you have a link to the whales thing?

@laurenshof bluesky has officially taken the “absolutely effing obsessed with twitter and musk” baton, godspeed comrades

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David Graeber: "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently"

@seachanger as my main patron, The former president of the pontifical council of Justice and peace would say... It is worse than a concentration camp

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That Israel have become the Nazi party is something I'll never get my head around.

#PalestinianGenocide

viciously blaming all current problems on hypothetical leftists or nonvoters is a big win for fascists: they really want you sitting at your keyboard enraged at your own base or an abstract left wing. because then you’re not out building community with vulnerable people, you’re not having nuanced and intelligent discussion with folk who have different life experiences, you’re not — to put it bluntly — practicing the kind of solidarity that defeats fascism

@seachanger Agreed! Also, all those things that people actually want? Could be delivered without pouring gasoline on a planet-sized fire!

@seachanger yesterday I used AI to transcribe 80 hours of audio. It's a tool that can be used for good or evil. The cat is out of the bag so there's no going back.

@seachanger Nobody marched in favor of diesel engines.
AI or ML or whatever they call it is, and will be for a long time, just a tool that "might" make solving some problems easier or cheaper.
Food, clothing, housing, transportation and education are endpoints for humans not dependent on the tech required to get them.
Still, techbros gotta techbro: transitions are hard.

i can ship gorgeous wild coho salmon that we've caught aboard our own fishing boat, smoked and preserved by a small independent business, but if i offer you free shipping, i make negative money! its the same for all the people out there selling stuff they've made or grown or harvested...

@seachanger alternately there's products with the cost of shipping already built in, but that's still not free

@seachanger The ability to get stuff the next day, at my door, and not pay a premium for the privilege is a miracle. Deal with it.

@seachanger I agree. It doesn't have to be complicated. Just a set of symbols to reflect moderation practices.Was just recommending a similar thing today..yesterday? whenever Monday was.

@seachanger @fediversereport Doesn’t https://instances.social/ basically do this already? It doesn’t show blocks, but the each server shows that once you pick one.

@seachanger The descriptions under instances is piss poor, making it very hard to choose which to sign up to.

@seachanger if the problem is that those posts can't be seen, how can it also be a problem that those same posts are being amplified?

@seachanger i have linked & shamed the worst of replies and it was effective (it's not a full solution, but just saying that it has been effective for me to link & shame)

@seachanger One way I handle this sometimes is replying and boosting my reply. Then sometimes my followers will also reply to that person. I'm not sure of all the affordances at play but I think it can increase odds both the reply-er and maybe other would-be reply-ers will get the message. (Ironically I'm going to do this now, but not bc I think you need more replies!)

there’s a lotta love here. pay attention to that

@seachanger for sure it's a good time for the fediverse, i truly hope to see healthy and much more huge community in days to come