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@mekkaokereke in the end, though, the goal is working – it’s to make teaching impossible so there are no more teachers

then they win, school “choice” will be the only option because private schools don’t have to follow these regulations. state universities and community colleges will collapse but private schools and for-profit scam technical colleges will flourish because again, they aren’t state funded. no rules.

so all kids will be forced into a Christian education that’s shown to reinforce the myth of Black exceptionalism putting up about three students while crushing the rest of the class alongside staff that according to basically every study on charter schools are shown to create incredibly toxic racist environments through “positive” racism. schools that aren’t required to accommodate students with disabilities and have been seen to get away with just only accepting white students.

maybe we need to shove the reality of the reason for all this in people’s faces to take it seriously

—@deilann

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The argument that resonated the most with me is that high-quality software needs living, breathing human developers with a mental model of how the software works. If you’re taking huge code blocks spit out by an AI and injecting it into your code unread (or largely unread, as the tool encourages you to do), then you’re effectively taking on a dependency – one that’s not understood by anyone on your team, of dubious quality, and frozen in time with no security updates or bugfixes ever.

—@nolan

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#AudioMo
On March 12, 2011, I was (virtually) introduced to a sugar glider through a Twitter follower. The “crabbing” sound it made got me thinking about how it would sound if a mutant sugar glider went on a destructive rampage. Since I didn’t have a mutant sugar glider on-hand, I did the next best thing, and this happened.
Meet Killer Sidney, the godzilla of formerly small creatures… or something like that.

—@BorrisInABox

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We shipped a bunch of improvements to https://fedidb.org!

⚡ Fresher stats
⚡ New graphs
⚡ Top 20 lists updated more often
⚡ 14d server graphs
⚡ Server instance.json
⚡ Stats updated more often
⚡ Sus subdomain detection
⚡ Improved mobile layout
⚡ New favicon

One more thing, we also improved the #threadiverse page https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

Feedback + boosts appreciated! We have lot’s more in store, stay tuned 🚀

—@pixelfed

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The next phase of the #ThreadiverseMigration is helping relocate and build #kbin and #Lemmy communities by mapping old subreddits to new communities.

yoasif @yoasif, who has been a #Reddit moderator on r/firefox, has taken up the challenge:

Unofficial Subreddit Migration List (#Lemmy, #Kbin) >>> https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html

“Here’s a quick and dirty list that you can contribute to (https://github.com/yoasif/yoasif.github.io/blob/main/_posts/2023-06-15-unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.markdown). Put new entries in alphabetical order. Pull requests welcome!”

#RedditMigration

—@mastodonmigration

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What a lot of people who sign up here looking for a like for like replacement for something else then getting upset when we rigidly refuse to change to into it don’t seem to get is that we simply don’t have to care.

You can suggest it’s a failure all you like but we’ve been here for years happily. We’ll be here happily if you decide to go.

It doesn’t hinge on it being a typical corporate ‘success’. It’s out there in the world where anyone can make a new server exist. It’s already a success.

—@doot

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Many people have been talking about deleting their #Reddit account and posts because they hate what the Reddit CEO does.

While I welcome a major #RedditExodus (I never posted on Reddit because it’s #proprietary), I urge people to #backup their high-quality posts (those that have helped a large number of people) before they delete their account for good.

And then repost your high-quality stuff somewhere else for archival purposes.

Just a suggestion.

—@Wuzzy

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Advice for new folks from #reddit –

Hello and welcome. Please note that we don’t yet have a robust Reddit replacement because the two we have (#lemmy and #kbin) are still in really rough betas with features being hammered out by volunteers. Reddit had the gall to implode when these projects are at most some months old, but it isn’t as if current Reddit is into doing anyone any favors, huh?

So please have patience as you re-orient yourself. Unlike Reddit, nobody in the Fediverse made a deal with the devils known as Venture Capitalism. This means we don’t have to pay the piper when interest rates make the bottom fall out of our funding, but also means we don’t have the speed of development that funding can sometimes yield.

I recommend taking some time to decompress and experiment with how things work on Kbin and Lemmy. If you have feedback, give it to the devs.

And don’t feel bound to these networks. You are the captain of your ship.

Smooth sailing and good winds to you.

—@avajarvis

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A friend of mine recently burned out on maintaining open-source software and communities, and had been half-joking for a while that they wanted a sassy license to the effect of “I release this code for free, take it or leave it, or go do it yourself”.

Tonight I wrote that license for and with him. Please enjoy the “Fork Off” Public License, v0.9: https://github.com/klardotsh/fork-off-public-license

(I’ll tag a v1.0 after any feedback y’all might have to clarify things or make it funnier. Forking it is also of course ok.)

—@klardotsh

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Here’s what people on the outside looking in, don’t get, Mastodon isn’t an alternative to other social media, it is its own thing entirely.

That’s what struck me about it, and why I’m still there. People on Mastodon didn’t care how many people were on it or if their favorite celebrity or journalist was here. They want to build communities with real people.

All these kinds of articles are basically stating, “This wasn’t for me, therefore these things are failures.” How absolutely ridiculous.

—@RickiTarr

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Your weekly Sunday reminder:
Religions: “we don’t pay tax because we’re not for profit corporations”
Also religions: own for profit schools, for profit hospitals, for profit aged care facilities, for profit kindergartens, for profit colleges, for profit universities as well as millions worth of real estate, which, you guessed it, generate profit.
Tax. The. Fuck. Out. Of. Churches.
#TaxTheChurches

—@BrisVegas

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Ricki Tarr (@RickiTarr@beige.party) (beige.party)
Attached: 1 image Here's what people on the outside looking in, don't get, Mastodon isn't an alternative to other social media, it is its own thing entirely. That's what struck me about it, and why I'm still there. People on Mastodon didn't care how many people were on it or if their favorite celebrity or journalist was here. They want to build communities with real people. All these kinds of articles are basically stating, "This wasn't for me, therefore these things are failures." How absolutely ridiculous.