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Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al) (Aral’s Mastodon)
Dear tech bros, Have you licked the boots of your favourite billionaire and/or trillion-dollar corporation yet today? Remember to nitpick and challenge every word of those trying to warn folks away from them and creating alternatives that don’t exploit people for profit (fucking commies, amirite?) while giving them every benefit of the doubt (let’s be frank, who hasn’t caused the occasional genocide?) Silicon Valley thanks you for your service. #SiliconValley #techBros #BigTech #bootLickers
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An awful farting clown (@guffo@topspicy.social) (Top Spicy Crew)
I've seen that people are complaining about certain instances wanting to block out Facebook/Meta and that we should consider the "normal users" and embrace the possibility of mainstream adoption. We have considered this and decided that certain demographics have decades of experience of being abused and harassed by Mainstream, Normal Users and having a safe haven away from that is more important than allowing Johnnie Randomnumbers to have the ability to debate their existence at them.
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a web designer who had never actually designed a website, for a man who was not LGBTQ and didn’t even know his name was involved in a Supreme Court case, for a wedding that never existed, and a solicitation that was completely manufactured by a group of far right lawyers, I guess so they could make discrimination legal. A very legitimate court.

ETA link to story.

https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court

—@jencmars

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For all the jokes about queer wrath month following queer pride month (tbh it’s summer, I was hoping for queer sloth month!), really I think we’re still at the stage of disability wrath more than we are at disability pride.

Maybe it’s hard to access pride when there’s still so much lacking, so much failing, so many people isolated and believing the worst of themselves because they get that message everywhere every day. Wrath feels like an earlier stage than pride!

—@bright_helpings

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I grew up in a very Conservative Fundamentalist Household. I remember my Dad giving these Apocalyptic style warnings about what would happen if Liberals, Queers, and Feminists were allowed to run things. Now I spend a lot of time in a space run by Liberals, Queers, and Feminists and I have to say, It’s pretty freaking nice here.

That being said, no place is a Utopia, people are people. The cost of keeping safe spaces safe is vigilance.

I could make a list here, and tell you my opinion about what makes this place, a good place, but I would like to hear from all of you. What do you love about Fedi? What do we need to do to keep it a nice place? What could we do better? What do you think the future holds for the Fediverse?

—@RickiTarr

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SCOTUS, like all branches of govt, is a tool of the wealthy, exploited to maintain and build their wealth and power.

Friday’s 6-3 decision against Biden’s limited student loan bailout is a case in point: SCOTUS essentially rescued wealthy banks by forcing struggling youth, saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of usurious debt that could keep them in poverty well into their middle age years, to remain impoverished and tied to miserable, low-paying jobs in order to pay back every penny of their student loans, plus interest worth far more than the original debt itself.

This is yet another assault by the Ruling Class in their war against the working and middle classes.

#SCOTUS #StudentLoans #StudentDebt #college #banks #ClassWar

—@MikeDunnAuthor

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I should probably post this here too for good measure, since I think this is very, very important.

We’re all happy that we finally have AI to help us describe images, but please, please keep in mind that this tech is the same tech that can’t tell you accurate information using ChatGPT. This thing will lie to you. It will happily tell you incorrect information, and it won’t know it did it. This is not a magic bullet! Please be careful! Do not trust it with your life, for example in regards to medication, or other high risk situations! Please keep this in mind!

—@talon

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So lemme get this straight.

1. Lorie Smith, owner of 303 Creative, doesn’t actually design websites. Her company doesn’t actually provide that service.
2. Stewart (last name withheld) didn’t ask for a wedding site for him and his husband from her.
3. Stewart isn’t gay. He’s married to a woman and they have a kid together.
4. AND what could possibly be the most ironic occupation for Stewart to have? He’s a web designer.

You can’t make this shit up. Or I guess you can. Because Lorie and the Supreme Court did.

—@brockpenner

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It makes me so sad that so many #disabled people take on society’s view of them as deficient, shameful, and deprived. We internalize and individualize systemic #ableism and then blame ourselves for our misery.

It just shows how badly a #DisabilityPrideMonth is needed…

I’m sad for my younger self because I grew up thinking the same way. And indeed even my current self: I’m not totally free of internalized ableism, probably never will be. But at least now I have a better chance of spotting it.

—@bright_helpings