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jesus christ

i just randomly started looking up info on how visas work in NL from when you're outside of the EU, and i'm slowly realising how much we're just taking freedom of movement for granted in the EU, and how much more we should really be treasuring the ability to move between countries

the idea that we're interacting and in the same social sphere as people half across the globe is radical, we're all assuming this is the default state of things, because we're so used to the internet

but the truth is... that state of things *is* radical, and the idea of countries are more solid in the fact that we cant just arbitrarily move across the globe, and those countries have the power to enforce that

and imo we should maybe be more active in asking for more global-spanning freedom of movement treaties, political understandings, etc.

jesus christ

i just randomly started looking up info on how visas work in NL from when you're outside of the EU, and i'm slowly realising how much we're just taking freedom of movement for granted in the EU, and how much more we should really be treasuring the ability to move between countries

the idea that we're interacting and in the same social sphere as people half across the globe is radical, we're all assuming this is the default state of things, because we're so used to the internet

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the fact that we - not just on fedi, but everywhere online - can communicate with eachother as if we'd communicate to the person next to us, is radical, in today's world

sure, its normalised, but its not normalised when you consider real-world laws and other social situations, tensions, etc.

compared to that, being able to communicate with them online as equals, was previously only paralleled by *mail*, the relative universality of mail was the previous holdfast of unfettered socialisation without borders, and now the internet has replaced that, and yet the world's institutions hasn't moved closer, not really

the fact that we - not just on fedi, but everywhere online - can communicate with eachother as if we'd communicate to the person next to us, is radical, in today's world

sure, its normalised, but its not normalised when you consider real-world laws and other social situations, tensions, etc.

compared to that, being able to communicate with them online as equals, was previously only paralleled by *mail*, the relative universality of mail was the previous holdfast of unfettered socialisation without...

halva
@ShadowJonathan @rysiek i have to say that despite half this blog post being about dorsey, he has quit with a hissy fit because he didn't like the existence of moderation and deleted his account

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/jack-dorsey-quits-bluesky-board-urges-users-stay-elon-musk-x-twitter

so aside from giving the project some money early on, he has rendered his existence kinda moot lol
@ShadowJonathan @rysiek i have to say that despite half this blog post being about dorsey, he has quit with a hissy fit because he didn't like the existence of moderation and deleted his account

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/jack-dorsey-quits-bluesky-board-urges-users-stay-elon-musk-x-twitter
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Apple did the research; LLMs cannot do formal reasoning. Results change by as much as 10% if something as basic as the names change.

garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms

Extinction Studies

@ShadowJonathan

Orbs don't have off switches. All you can do is cover them up. In that way, they're like RFID chips and cell phone speakers. If Sauron or Big Bro takes them over, you're toast.

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Flandere

@ShadowJonathan well, *someone* has to do it, so here goes:

>ONE SOCIAL MEDIA
>ONE
>MEDIA

[Clippy voice]: Hey, listen! Did you know? The plural of medium is media!

Bat Triple Seven

@ShadowJonathan whoever composed this clearly hasnโ€™t been to a truck stop urinal in the last decade or two.

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btw this unblockable auto-update behaviour is exactly why i despise snapd with the passion of a thousand suns

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I must not :neocat:. :neocat: is the mind-killer. :neocat: is the :neocat_pat: that brings :neocat_floof:. I will face my :neocat:. I will permit :neocat: to pass over me and through me. And when :neocat: has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see :neocat:'s path. Where the :neocat: has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

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Can you believe it guys?

:neocat_floof_explode:, just a week away. :neocat_floof_explode: is in a week!

Woohoo! I am so happy about this information. :neocat_floof_explode:! Just a week away, oh wow.

Can you believe it? :neocat_floof_explode:! Just in a week! It got here so fast! :neocat_floof_explode:! Just a week away!

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normalise having your own static small website tbh

we need to normalise just Making Websites as a 'low-tech' skill that anyone can get into

not all of these fucking site generators that just lock you into a specific way of making them

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Edan Osborne ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

@ShadowJonathan I'm proud of my latest site (hellfirehost.uk.eu.org/). Entirely hand-written HTML with no scripting and a design that will look correct in anything capable of viewing webpages.

Jex

@ShadowJonathan There's a whole movement toward that in the Small Web projects. This is one of my favorite resources for exactly that.
discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resourc

Platforms like Neocities.org and the Tildeverse tilde.wiki/wiki/Known_tildes are top notch communities for building and hosting personal sites.

Aral Balkan is hard at work creating server tools for making personal web site hosting possible and really pushing the Small Web into ubiquity.

Why the Small Web? Because web surfing is way healthier than doomscrolling.

@ShadowJonathan There's a whole movement toward that in the Small Web projects. This is one of my favorite resources for exactly that.
discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resourc

Platforms like Neocities.org and the Tildeverse tilde.wiki/wiki/Known_tildes are top notch communities for building and hosting personal sites.

approxamatrix :spinny_cat_trans:

@ShadowJonathan wait by site generators, are you talking about SSG's ? I haven't used one yet so I'm a bit confused.

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