Amanda Unvarnished

Wishing an easy fast to those who are fasting. (Remember, for the rest of us it’s a mitzvah to eat.)

#chag #holiday #greeting

#MedinatAmerica

—@jewwhohasitall

Very simply, the response about Threads from @Gargron is impossibly naive. It assumes good faith interactions with a company that routinely demonstrates, and often flaunts it’s lack of ethics. There is no universe in which Mastodon gets Threads content for free. Either they’re going to find a way to monetize Mastodons userbase or they’re not going to implement interoperability.

You don’t build a milk empire by letting everyone have free access to the cows.

—@GrayGooGirl

Me: ChatGPT, explain – in the style of a Musk Mini-Me techbro “edgelord” – how if I don’t see something it doesn’t actually exist.
ChatGPT: Check your mentions

—@OutOnTheMoors

I’m a cranky old-web person but I’m just genuinely fucking mystified that the reaction to either Jack’s or Zuck’s new corporate social media landgrab isn’t a loud unanimous laughing “no, get fucked”. Twitter and Facebook were a warning, not an instruction manual.

—@joshmillard

Threads doesn’t load in Firefox (or the EU, for that matter) and is mostly app-only because it maximises privacy invasion. The algorithmic timeline and lack of accessibility exemplify that it puts profit over people. Why trust the company that made Facebook?

—@hdv

facebook threads is gonna be amazing. imagine twitter like it used to be, and also your uncle is there!

—@jbigham

“What if an AI got hyper-focused on making paperclips and destroyed us all?” asked the insufferable nerd, as corporations whose only directive is “make stock price go up” utterly destroyed the conditions favourable for human life

—@researchfairy

Yeah. That’ll stop ‘em. If they can’t read about sex, they won’t have any.

Orange schools target classics, popular novels to keep sex out of class

#bookbans #books
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/03/orange-schools-target-classics-popular-novels-to-keep-sex-out-of-class/

—@WarnerCrocker

i like how “illegal in the EU” means it probably violated a human right and “illegal in florida” means it probably is a human right

—@chrisisgr8

Whatever kind of day you are having, I am pretty sure this 19s clip of: “Man sneezes into his trombone during concert” will improve it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vh8l0x9uF-Y&feature=share

—@vlrny

For decades, right-wingers told us same-sex marriage would lead to a war on Christianity.

7 years after marriage equality, the consequences have been so boring that Republicans literally had to make up a case where they imagined they were victimized to justify more bigotry.

—@lolgop