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Here is a detailed explanation of how and why I use Mastodon, how to follow me and other thread posters by configuring your own filters, where to get my material on other services or in machine readable form, Etc. if you don't like threads, I encourage you to unfollow me and get my work in some other way. pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how…
"Constructive feedback" isn't "I would prefer that you do things in a different way because that is my preference," however.
I'm fully aware that other people have preferences that are different from mine.
That's why I do 2-3/hours per day of unpaid administrative work to ensure that everything I post is available in other formats (including machine-readable ones) under the most permissive CC license.
If you don't like my feed, but you want to see the things in it that are not threads, why wouldn't you write a bot that ingests my feed, discards the threads, and republishes the rest? The feed is both labeled *and* licensed to permit this.
Surely this is as valid a response to "I have different preference from you" as "therefore you should work in a way I prefer, rather than the way you prefer."
@pluralistic I don't know that this will work for you, Jeff, but I additionally subscribed to @pluralistic.net which only has one post per thread and then added a filter for "Long thread" to my account preferences.
So, I get all of the pluralistic interactions and are unique to Mastodon (retoots, replies, etc.) and I also still get notified on his longer form content. Long thread from pluralistic are not seen due to the filter, but the bot posts a link and summary that is seen.
@BoydStephenSmithJr @pluralistic @pluralistic.net I subscribe to some arxiv summarizing bots, which have taken the annoyance I used to have of long threads. I don't know if I had to do something, but each post is hidden for me behind a content warning, so I only have to parse it if I decide I have the energy.
@jayalane @BoydStephenSmithJr @pluralistic.net if you click on any post in the thread, and then on the little eye icon, it should put all the posts in order and also unroll them
@pluralistic this is indeed a hilariously valid response. But also, I have come to really appreciate the CW labels you've added for your long threads. ❤️
@pluralistic I liked some of the suggestions to make the first post in the thread regular public and the rest of the thread “public quiet”, as well as mastodon clients that will collapse long threads automatically (or to your preference). I apologize for initiating the conversation in this semi-provocative way, but I assure you my goal, as always, is to improve the fediverse experience / open source software for everyone. I’m here to help, have fun, and find allies.
I only know "unlisted" which does nothing to decrease the likelihood that the subsequent posts will appear in TLs but DOES make those posts unsearchable, which sucks - it's all downside, no benefit... to anyone.
this is an excellent explanation but "Threading an essay requires the author to compose it in stanzas, each of which is a standalone, complete thought — and that means that readers can engage with each though separately, by replying to just that stanza." Why not post a brief summary of the blog entry with a hyperlink to the full blog post on Mastodon (this I 💯agree with and support) .. and let the users decide for themselves which parts of the blog post they want to reply to? Why duplicate every single sentence / paragraph of the blog post on mastodon? Surely your audience is smart and sophisticated enough to quote the bits they want to talk about in the replies?
I don't follow @pluralistic because I don't want the huge threads in my feed. But it feels like I'm missing out from seeing Cory's writing at all - as well as any interesting boosts, replies, or other posts. I always thought that a reasonable tradeoff would be to post the long threads to a separate Mastodon account, and boost the first post from the "main" account. That seems like a benefit for everyone.
@pluralistic do you have code or some kind of plugin which automates posting the threads? Can you share it with me? Depending on the complexity of the existing solution, I can probably pull something together if that would be a benefit for you and your readers. My suggestion would be moving the long threads to a different account, and then boosting the initial post of each thread on your existing account.
@pluralistic Example. Hey, everyone, I posted a blog entry here. blog.codinghorror.com/the-road… .. summary: "Should the obscenely wealthy in the second gilded age share their money with desperately poor people in rural areas, and generate scientific data on the results of GMI studies, that is, a manual redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poorest among us, in areas where money goes the furthest, to unlock their untapped potential?" reply with any questions or clarifications.
@pluralistic but if you truly believe I need to post my ENTIRE blog entry here on mastodon, line by line, if you truly believe that is the ONLY way to get people to engage and discuss a blog entry, I will do it. Reply to me here and let me know. I'll do as you say.
From this and other posts, it's becoming clear that you think that the way I use digital publishing tools is organized around maximizing engagement or selling books or some other idea.
You are laboring under a misapprehension.
I publish the feed, newsletter and blog I would like to read. I do it for free, to the tune of many hours, every day, under an open license, so that you can alter and republish it the way you would want to see it.
@pluralistic I read Cory's posts in a feed reader, and I have a related UX improvement suggestion. Could you wrap the long thread of footer info after each post in a block like this: <details open><summary>Hide footer</summary>[long thread of footer stuff]</details> so I can close it and read the next post without scrolling past it for ages? That would be nice.
@pluralistic I don't know how you do it in WP, that's a standard HTML way to make sections collapsible. Are your sections separate plugins? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…
The element. HTML element creates a disclosure widget in which information is visible only when the widget is toggled into an open state. A summary or label must be provided using the
@pluralistic ah, then you can edit the html to wrap the footer in <details> like I said above. You can nest them, or do one after each <hr> if you want to present the different sections. It's like collapsing an outline in an outliner, but as native HTML.
@KevinMarks Hrm, just tried this and I really don't like it. Makes it very hard to e.g. load an edition in browser and then search the full text (because sections are collapsed).
@pluralistic the 'open' part is important there - that defaults it to not collapsed, so it looks the same as now. I agree that find should search closed <details> and open them, but browsers disagree. Maybe I should file an issue for that.
I think there are very good arguments to be made for both "just link to the blog" and "post each separate thought as a separate threaded message". There's also the third option: "post the whole thing as a single, long post", which twitter and some Mastodons don't support, but Friendica and other Mastodons do, but let's leave that out.
I think the advantage of the thread is that you can keep the entire discussion here, and people can discuss each paragraph separately. With the blog, people have to go there to read it, and then come back here to discuss it. Or discuss it in the comments section of the blog platform (if it has that), which fractures the discussion.
So I think for discussion, Cory's approach might be superior. But Mastodon doesn't make it very readable, and it does require writing in separate thoughts, which isn't how most writers write.
Maybe we need a better platform to support open discussion of long articles.
Because that's how *I* prefer to read other people's posts.
Again, this is the feed, newsletter and blog I would like to read, and it's open licensed and machine readable, so you can transform it into the feed you would like to read.
I'm curious about why you're so invested in changing how I publish, rather than changing how you read? You could write a bot that publishes my work in the form you prefer in an hour. Why wouldn't you?
@pluralistic As my dad often said to me, "take my advice and do as you please". This is a short-form space, not a long form space. But it's also far from the end of the world, more of a minor party foul. We can push it over to the clients to suppress behind a click-to-expand after, say, 5 rapid-fire sequential threaded replies from anyone, and that's a net benefit for the whole ecosystem anyway. (Reddit already kinda does a form of this. It's a good design pattern to adopt for the safety of Everyday People.)
@pluralistic Just want to say that I consistently appreciate reading what both of you have to say On Here about topics du jour, or I had until you began this seemingly-interminable dialogue about how messages are formatted. 🥱
@pluralistic well, it's clearly a clone of the Twitter model, which was 140 then 280. You can, in theory, override and set it to ONE BAZILLION CHARACTERS but that's kind of a different thing. Give George Lucas an infinite number of characters to type and you end up with Jar Jar Binks. Ain't nobody want no Jar Jar Binks.
@pluralistic I mean, Omit Needless Words and all that. I think it's fine for individual sites to have higher limits to taste, but here on infosec it's some ridiculously large character limit of 11000 or something and you almost never see people post anything remotely close to that long. We did not come here to read your friggin' novella, buddy roe. (also, I supported twitter's move from 140 to 280 in the pre-hellsite days, though there was ENDLESS bitching about that, too, of COURSE, because, well, people.)
@pluralistic well, Activity Streams has Article as well as Note, but Mastodon skipped that part of the spec, so here we are. Use phanpy.social to get better thread handling.
@KevinMarks @pluralistic phanpy.social is amazing. I support Chee Aun (thanks for the fab phanpy) with a wee 😀 spot of cash monthly. Thanks Chee Aun! @davew 's wordland -> wordpress-> Activity Pub is amazing and basically supports everything AFAICT. Unlimited characters, links, bold text, the whole textcasting thing we lost from blogging!!!!!!! Thanks yet again to you too Dave! <-- All of you know this probably. Just letting the many folks who will read this thread know!
@pluralistic The only objective truth is that the tooling can be squished into any number of ways to get stuff done and people will go along with it or not.
Top posting or inline replies for email? Yes, people will have opinions. 😀
@pluralistic Just keep doing what you're doing in the way you're doing it!
I subscribe to your RSS feed, but also follow you here. I've got a filter in place to filter out your long threads, but am able to see the comments folks post here in response to your posts. Seeing the replies others post often piques my interest enough to open up my RSS feedreader and read your blog post in its entirety.
Thanks for your generosity in sharing your insights so freely in this way.
@pluralistic I have avoided following you because of the long threads but if there's one thing this conversation has shown me it's how to configure my filters to not have that problem.
Another thought although it may be more complicated: what if you have a second account that posts only the long thread blog posts in response to the header from your main account and gets boosted by the main account? Muting an account is a lot more discoverable and easy than configuring a filter
@gbargoud It's a nice idea for someone else to implement! I'm already doing a stupendous amount of administrative work just to post to all the platforms I keep up with. The point of publishing a machine-readable, open-licensed version of everything is to let other people do those remixes, to their taste.
We're at a place now where that isn't the case, and a different software could be used (like a truly federated forum!!) or at minimum just a server that sends more than 500 characters at a time.
@pluralistic @julian Thanks for (re-)sharing the explanation on why you're on that particular server; I wondered about that.
Though I primarily read your blog posts on @medium, I'm glad to follow you on Mastodon because unlike many popular writers, you frequently engage with people in your comments and share posts by others, even randos like myself.
@pluralistic @jorgecandeias I really don't get his problem. I almost *never* read blogs anymore but I love coming across one of your threads and then choosing to read it or skip it. Actually, I dont think I've ever gone to the long-form link you provide, and just stick to my phones mastodon client.
And... "considered blogging?" Is he that clueless?
@pluralistic @jorgecandeias actually that might be a key point. Gen-Z is heavily phone-centric, and let's not even with Gen-alpha... My 20-something's laptop goes almost complelty untouched in favor of his phone.
People who don't account for changes in information consumption are just dinosaurs
@pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias *** RED ALERT*** Cory Doctorow, Jeff Atwood and Randall Monroe in one thread - we're dangerously close to the critical mass of cool!
Luckily my appearance in the thread should act like cool-absorbing control rods.
@pluralistic @jorgecandeias yeah, thats what i did. Im really pleased when someone boosts part of your threads, and i click through and read the long post 😀 but when i came in to dip my spoon and have a sip of fedi, and my 20 post allowance was almost all the one post in many parts from you… that made me sad. Much better like this! But please do continue writing - you are fighting the good fight!
@leadegroot @pluralistic @jorgecandeias Always continue writing! Just don't SEO us (I will post my entire blog entry here, line by line) into oblivion please.
@leadegroot @jorgecandeias Again, you're laboring under the severe, total, complete misapprehension that I care about - much less gather - quantifiable and measured engagement.
I.
Do.
Not.
I believe that doing so is a kind of sickness that reduces the quality and authenticity of one's work, and leads to audience capture and other horrors.
@cavyherd @pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias no, it was an XKCD joke first, then the EFF made it real at etech 2007 This thread was fun at the time xkcd.com/341/ and even funnier when Randall came to Google and Knuth asked him for the O(n log ( log n) ) proof
Oh yes! Okay! I dimly remember seeing those comics on the first round, & having vague awareness of Doctorow's part in it. But that was a •very• long time ago, & I didn't yet have a full appreciation of the personalities involved.
@pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias I actually dressed up this way for Halloween that year and tied a helium balloon to my belt as part of the costume. When I arrived at the party, dozens of people looked at me in confusion and then one guy at the back of the room shouted, "Hah! You're Cory Doctorow!" We became the best of friends instantly. #TrueStory
I remember a Hugo award (or Nebula?) ceremony some years ago where Doctorow was tasked with accepting an award on behalf of an author who couldn't be there—& was asked to do so "in uniform." Which he cheerfully obliged 😂 👍
@KevinMarks @cavyherd @pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias Munroe and the EFF issued a special donation tier reward t-shirt with a custom comic strip that year as well. It's in the back of my closet somewhere.
On August 17, 2014, "Time" won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story at the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) in London. More information about the Hugo Awards is available on the official website.
11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America
"The newly uncovered village site of Âsowanânihk, which means "a place to cross" in the Cree language, is one of the oldest archaeological sites found on the continent and suggests that an organized society existed in central Canada far earlier than experts previously thought."
"This discovery is a powerful reminder that our ancestors were here, building, thriving, and shaping the land long before history books acknowledged us," said Chief Christine Longjohn. "For too long, our voices have been silenced, but this site speaks for us, proving that our roots run deep and unbroken. It carries the footsteps of our ancestors, their struggles, their triumphs, and their wisdom. Every stone, every artifact is a testament to their strength. We are not just reclaiming history—we are reclaiming our rightful place in it."
Archaeologists including Dr. Glenn Stuart (PhD) of the USask Department of Anthropology worked with the community to study one of the oldest known Indigenous sites on the continent
A shadowy Russian political elite hires three American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's reelection campaign when his approval rating drops to sin...
what the fuck are you even talking about what the fuck does that mean wired headphones are wired because the fucking wire transmits the fucking sound fucker
Des années 1940 jusqu’à la décennie 1960, des centaines de milliers de Juifs du monde musulman, dits « orientaux », arrivent en Israël. Ils subissent le traumatisme d’un départ forcé de territoires où ils vivaient depuis des siècles et doivent participer, du point de vue sioniste, à parachever la fin du « Juif diasporique ». En guise d’accueil, ces populations juives orientales ont connu le mépris et le racisme d’un pouvoir israélien décidé à redéfinir le contour d’une judéité ne pouvant être que nationaliste et sioniste, expurgée de toute trace d’arabité, perçue comme antinomique. Elles deviennent les « victimes juives du sionisme », pour paraphraser le titre d’un essai majeur (1) de l’universitaire Ella Shohat, qui explique combien « l’antiarabisme fait partie intégrante de la pratique et de l’idéologie sioniste ». Pour la première fois de leur histoire, ces populations subissent un racisme, non du fait de leur religion, mais de leur culture et de leur couleur de peau.
La prétendue antinomie entre arabité et judéité se trouve au cœur des travaux de Shohat, dont de nouveaux textes viennent d’être traduits et publiés (2). En 2021 déjà, une sélection de ses écrits (3) permettait de saisir la profondeur de la pensée de cette intellectuelle singulière. Enseignante à l’université de New York, figure majeure du renouveau des études juives-arabes, Shohat s’inscrit dans une lignée de penseurs qui revisitent l’identité juive dans sa complexité, en mettant le sionisme « sur le divan », pour plaider en faveur d’un renouvellement du regard sur les diasporas juives.
Cette quête de mémoire, mais aussi de langue, réhabilite l’identité « judéo-arabe » en se réappropriant une histoire qui a été détournée et niée par les nationalismes arabe et juif. L’omniprésence de l’idée d’une « unité du peuple juif », explique Shohat, enfin réalisée dans l’« ancienne patrie » tend à empêcher le développement d’une « mémoire affective positive de la vie avant Israël ».
L’injonction au rejet de l’arabité doit par ailleurs se lire en parallèle avec la construction d’une prétendue « civilisation judéo-chrétienne », mise sur le devant de la scène depuis une quarantaine d’années. C’est à cette « imposture » que la journaliste et historienne Sophie Bessis consacre un ouvrage (4), en démontrant la mécanique qui la sous-tend : exclusion de l’islam, et par ce biais de l’arabité, non seulement de l’histoire occidentale mais aussi du triptyque monothéiste. L’idée d’un « judéo-christianisme » chercherait à disculper l’Occident d’un antisémitisme passé comme présent, restaurant une innocence qui aurait été perdue par le judéocide nazi, tout en faisant porter à un Orient arabo-musulman caricaturé la responsabilité de la haine antijuive.
Ces travaux, chacun à leur manière, servent de manuel de résistance intellectuelle contre les partisans d’une lecture des conflictualités par le prisme du « choc des civilisations » où, sous couvert de « lutte contre l’intégrisme et le terrorisme islamiste », l’Occident incarnerait un monde libre et protecteur des Juifs. C’est parce que ce supposé philosémitisme se fonde, dans le même temps, sur une islamo-arabophobie patente dans certains médias et courants intellectuels que l’extrême droite peut si facilement se normaliser au sein d’un champ politique où ses idées sont largement reprises. Du renouveau récent d’un judaïsme antisioniste européen aux appels pour renouer avec le « diasporisme », une convergence s’opère pour redéfinir des identités politiques en rupture avec le colonialisme, passé ou présent, du Maghreb jusqu’au Proche-Orient.
(1) Ella Shohat, Le Sionisme du point de vue de ses victimes juives. Les juifs orientaux en Israël, La Fabrique, Paris, 2006.
(2) Ella Shohat, Langues et mémoires juives-arabes. Politique du trait d’union, traduit de l’anglais par Joëlle Marelli, Éditions de l’EHESS, Paris, 2025, 189 pages, 15 euros.
(3) Ella Shohat, Colonialité et ruptures. Écrits sur les figures juives arabes, traduit de l’anglais par Joëlle Marelli, Lux, Montréal, 2021.
(4) Sophie Bessis, La Civilisation judéo-chrétienne. Anatomie d’une imposture, Les Liens qui libèrent, Paris, 2025, 124 pages, 10 euros.
(1) Ella Shohat, Le Sionisme du point de vue de ses victimes juives. Les juifs orientaux en Israël, La Fabrique, Paris, 2006.
(2) Ella Shohat, Langues et mémoires juives-arabes. Politique du trait d’union, traduit de l’anglais par Joëlle Marelli, Éditions de l’EHESS, Paris, 2025, 189 pages, 15 euros.
(3) Ella Shohat, Colonialité et ruptures. Écrits sur les figures juives arabes, traduit de l’anglais par Joëlle Marelli, Lux, Montréal, 2021.
(4) Sophie Bessis, La Civilisation judéo-chrétienne. Anatomie d’une imposture, Les Liens qui libèrent, Paris, 2025, 124 pages, 10 euros.
Des années 1940 jusqu’à la décennie 1960, des centaines de milliers de Juifs du monde musulman, dits « orientaux », arrivent en Israël. Ils subissent le (...)
This week, I faced trial for opposing genocide, Zionism, and for challenging Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. The state prosecuting me may have legal authority, but its moral authority has collapsed as it again participates in a genocide.
Special Thanks to Victor Davis Hanson: https://www.hoover.org/profiles/victor-davis-hansonThe Democrats have no center, no leader, and no plan—just noise. Vi...
His name is Ferdinand. I know this came before Bonnie & Clyde and yet strangely it seems to be parodying it. Almost slapstick in its surreal French New Wave way. I laughed frequently. Those attempting to follow the plot will be prosecuted.
Corpses (are they dead? the blood appears to be red cloth) and guns scattered around in a seemingly random and completely casual way that will never be explained or even remarked upon. I'll never get sick of that.
Die "Luftbrücke" hat über #Gaza bisher Material mit dem Gesamtgewicht von dreieinhalb (!) LKW-Ladungen abgeworfen.
Das ist das einzig Konkrete, zu dem sich die @Bundesregierung bisher durchringen konnte, ansonsten nur Floskeln und "Forderungen" ohne jedwede Sanktionen.
»Seit vergangener Woche kommen nach Angaben aus deutschen Sicherheitskreisen täglich 220 Lastwagen mit Hilfsgütern in das Gebiet. […]
Der Mehlpreis liege bei horrenden 80 Euro pro Kilogramm. Aus der Luft seien bisher 73 Tonnen an Hilfsgütern abgeworfen worden.
Diese Mengen reichen nach Einschätzung von Hilfsorganisationen bei Weitem nicht aus. Vor dem 7. Oktober 2023 kamen nach Angaben der Organisation Medico International zwischen 500 bis 600 Lastwagen täglich in den Gazastreifen. Eine Lkw-Ladung habe meist etwa 20 Tonnen Hilfsgüter umfasst. Der Bedarf dürfte durch die massive Zerstörung der Infrastruktur und landwirtschaftlichen Flächen nun deutlich höher liegen.«
Erneut hat die Bundeswehr Hilfsgüter über dem Gazastreifen abgeworfen. Für Kanzler Merz ist das "ein kleiner Beitrag" zur Linderung der Not. Die Bundesregierung sieht insgesamt leichte Fortschritte bei der humanitären Hilfe.
"nach Angaben aus deutschen Sicherheitskreisen" ist wohl eher "was wir so von Cogat gesagt bekommen". Ich habe das zitiert, weil selbst das nicht einmal die Hälfte des Vorkriegsniveaus ist.
What is the motivation here? Do they not like the potential anonymity of crypto? China's financial sector is on the verge of complete implosion. Probably connected. x.com/rawsalerts/status/195183…
Disappearances, torture rampant in IOF prisons, harrowing figures show
A UN-accredited group has submitted damning evidence of systematic torture, forced starvation, and sexual violence against Palestinians in secret Israeli detention camps.
Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA
That's what the polls said last time, too, which is why, along with the supposedly non-binding nature of the referendum, is why so many didn't turn up to vote.
Elle est certainement la doyenne des plasticiens palestiniens. Elle a connu la Nakba et a dû quitter Jaffa. Installée aux États-Unis depuis plus de soixante ans, elle n’a jamais oublié les lumières et les couleurs de sa Palestine.#artistes #palestine #peinture
The Kafkaesque proscription of Palestine Action continues to catch protestors in its claws... here a an ex-magistrate.
Yvette Cooper may (or may not) have thought she was pushing through a focussed limitation, but police forces across the country have decided to interpret it much more widely & thereby make a concerted attack on peaceful protest.
Cooper cannot just throw up her hands, she's to blame & could stop it!
Ένας φίλος πρόσφατα μετακόμισε σε νέα πόλη αγόρασε σπίτι και έβαλε φωτοβολταϊκό αυτόνομο σύστημα για τις ανάγκες του σπιτιού αξίας 10000 ευρώ Του επέστρεψαν τα 8500 ευρώ από το υπουργείο περιβάλλοντος και 1000 ευρώ από τον δήμο, οπότε ξόδεψε μόνο 500 ευρώ για όλη την εγκατάσταση, με κόστος για ρεύμα ούτε 10 ευρώ τον μήνα Που όλα αυτά? Όχι φυσικά στην Ελλάδα 2.0 της καταπληκτικής κυβέρνησης αλλά στην Ισπανία και για την ακρίβεια στην περιοχή της Ανδαλουσίας
αυτό συνδυασμένο με αντλία θερμότητας ζητάνε πολλοί δημοτικοί σύμβουλοι στα Γιάννενα για να τελειώσουμε με την μόλυνση τον χειμώνα από καυσόξυλα, παλέτες κλπ.. Μόλυνση, που κάποιες μέρες ξεπερνά και το παλιό Πεκίνο, αλλά όλοι κωφεύουν.
sur la TCR, pour le moment, Martin Moritz est passé devant Nicolas Chatelet, et Laël Wilcox est 3e chez les femmes, derrière Jana Kesenheimer et Cynthia Carson.
La tête de course est en Italie et doit prendre les bons ferrys dans les bons timings pour rejoindre l’Albanie. Ça risque de changer sérieusement le classement.
je dis souvent que j’aime pas le Gravel, mais là ça me donne envie ! En fait j’aime bien les petites singles en forêt, j’aime pas les trucs engagés ou plein de gros cailloux! (Bon et j’aime pas quand ça vibre trop mais ça je pense que ça vient de mes soucis de fourmis qu’il faut que j’arrive à régler)
(Some people may find the image disturbing and rather not see and ignore the ongoing genocide).
It is not AI, it is not genetic dsorder, it is not from Yemen, it is yet another Palestinian child fading away because of the Israeli imposed famine in Gaza.
Maryam Abdel Aziz Dawas (9 years old), loses her ability to walk; crowns. Awareness and acute malnutrition
Trump is making a strong case that he's eligible to run for President in 2028 due to the series of attempted coups by Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama hijacking his first term. Trump 2028!
but... He was president for two terms. You could make the case he was already elected 3 times, which would be in violation of the 22nd amendment.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
by all means, traitors should be prosecuted. Crimes were committed and criminals should be brought to justice.
But there is not a loophole in the 22nd Amendment for that. He was elected twice. He is not eligible to be elected again, even if people interfered illegally with his first term.
Technically, he won three elections. One could argue that he's already in violation of the 22nd Amendment. But if they want to prosecute him for that, they have to admit they certified fraudulent results and inaugurated the wrong person.
For #Gaza’s 2.2 million residents, the UN-backed confirmation that famine is now a reality came not as a revelation but as a cruel validation of what they have lived for months: a slow, visible collapse into starvation.
“All my children have lost nearly half of their body weight,” Jamil Mughari, 38, from Maghazi in central Gaza, told The Guardian. “My daughter, who is five years old, now weighs only 11kg. My son Mohammad has become just skin and bones. All my children are like this.”
Catalogue of horror from head of office at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), who says speaking out is becoming increasingly difficult due to Israeli pressure.
Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA
I'm not a fan of ID cards but with some provisos they could be better than a phone app. 1. They are issued free, unlike phones 2. There is no need for one big centralised database, though govt and Palentir would probably insist on one. They could be issued at local govt offices where you appear in person to be verified.
@pthane I think a lot of countries have these since longtime - like Germany. But they are not issued for free, btw., and much to my chagrin they started to include fingerprints and other not so safe features. The old ID cards were quite ok and accepted everywhere (although nothing is without problems). Germany has also big databases since ever - like, you are required to register where you live and this is easily researchable. @ChrisMayLA6
Για να αποκτήσεις ταυτότητα, ως έθνος, λαός, επαγγελματική ομάδα, άτομο ή τόπος, ακόμα και σαν προϊόν, πρέπει να έχεις μια χώρα ισχυρή με σωστό προσανατολισμό και σχέδιο. Και με αξιοκρατία και πρωτοτυπία. Εδώ, όλα έχουν καταπατηθεί, στρεβλωθεί, ξεφτιλιστεί. Εδώ, ο τόπος, άνθρωποι και φύση, υφίσταται ακατάσχετη υποβάθμιση και λεηλασία. #ephimerida #ανασυγκρότηση edromos.gr/o-ellinas-anazitei-…
Είναι πολλοί αυτοί που συμφωνούν ότι το κράτος και οι κυβερνήσεις δεν έχουν κανένα σχέδιο για την Ελλάδα, ούτε προστασίας ούτε προόδου. Άγονται και Κρήτη, Στέλιος Ελληνιάδης, Τουρισμός, Φύλλο 739 περίπτερο ιδεών
180 IDF soldiers illegally and without notifying authorities, tried to invade #Auschwitz with israeli flags, to organize an "event"... Luckily the guard stopped them before they desecrate the memorial
These genocidal beasts have nothing in common with #Holocaust survivors and the Jews of that time. They should be banned from entering any memorial, if not arrested for #Gaza #Genocide war crimes, rapings, shooting, looting, famine
Benjamin Franklin, brutal et maladroit dans sa jeunesse, devint, par la suite, un si fin psychologue, il apprit si bien l’art d’influencer les hommes, qu’il fut nommé ambassadeur des Etats-Unis en France.
Quand vous vous adressez à un homme, rappelez vous que vous ne parlez pas à un être logique; vous parlez à un être d’émotion, à une créature tout hérissée de préventions, mue par son orgueil et par son amour-propre.
Si vous voulez demain faire naître des rancunes qui brûleront pendant des lustres et persisteront peut-être jusqu’à la mort, adressez à ceux qui vous entourent quelques cinglantes critiques. Vous verrez le résultat, même si ces critiques sont parfaitement justifiées à vos yeux!
Commençons par nous corriger nous-mêmes. Confucius disait : « Ne te plains pas de la neige qui se trouve sur le toit du voisin quand ton seuil est malpropre. »
I know I've asked before but did not find what I was searching for: a not too small Fedi instance that allows longer posts - like, 5000 characters? - and is friendly to content about Gaza, Palestine and other subjects some admins are famously averse to. Any advice? #fediverse #Fedihelp
disroot.org provides a few services, including Akkoma, which is a server that is fully compatible with Mastodon (I am using it to send this message to you). The character limit on their Akkoma is indeed 5000 characters. And as far as I know, they are not opposed to anti-holocaust protests.
They also provide you an e-mail address, XMPP chat, D-Scribe (Lemmy), NextCloud, and PasteBin.
@ramin_hal9001 Sounds very interesting, I'll sure check this out. Maybe it is more than I am asking for - some of the things you mention I don't even know about (I am a not so technical aware old lady).
"His Latest Flame" by Elvis Presley (Remix) with Hot girls dancing the shuffle. Try my other shuffle videos list below.#2 ELO - Don't Bring Me Down - https...
NASA won't publish key climate change report online, citing 'no legal obligation' to do so. The decision will make it harder for the general public to access critical climate data.
Sachons bien que la critique est comme le pigeon voyageur: elle revient toujours à son point de départ. Disons-nous que la personne que nous désirons blâmer et corriger fera tout pour se justifier et nous condamnera en retour. Ou bien, comme tant d’autres, elle s’exclamera: «Je ne vois pas comment j’aurais pu agir autrement»
Les quatre principaux journaux israéliens publient en première page la photo d’un prisonnier israélien affamé à Gaza ! Nous, le peuple de Gaza, avons faim et nous sommes devenus des squelettes, tout comme ce prisonnier israélien ! Nous mangeons les lentilles dont parle le prisonnier israélien dans la vidéo. Le gouvernement israélien est le principal responsable de notre faim et de celle des prisonniers israéliens.
»Logical question: Israel says it created this perfect GHF system to prevent Hamas from getting a single grain of food, right?
Then why are they now surprised the Israelis in Hamas' captivity are starving? Did they expect them to live of photosynthesis? or is GHF a scam?« Muhammad Shehada
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •Cory Doctorow
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •I love constructive feedback.
"Constructive feedback" isn't "I would prefer that you do things in a different way because that is my preference," however.
I'm fully aware that other people have preferences that are different from mine.
That's why I do 2-3/hours per day of unpaid administrative work to ensure that everything I post is available in other formats (including machine-readable ones) under the most permissive CC license.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •As I've said here before, I:
* post to scratch my itch, and
* believe foursquare in your right to both read and post in ways that scratch your itch, and
* provide the legal and technological means for you to scratch your itch with my posts, but
* I draw the line at not scratching my itch in order to scratch yours.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •If you don't like my feed, but you want to see the things in it that are not threads, why wouldn't you write a bot that ingests my feed, discards the threads, and republishes the rest? The feed is both labeled *and* licensed to permit this.
Surely this is as valid a response to "I have different preference from you" as "therefore you should work in a way I prefer, rather than the way you prefer."
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic I don't know that this will work for you, Jeff, but I additionally subscribed to @pluralistic.net which only has one post per thread and then added a filter for "Long thread" to my account preferences.
So, I get all of the pluralistic interactions and are unique to Mastodon (retoots, replies, etc.) and I also still get notified on his longer form content. Long thread from pluralistic are not seen due to the filter, but the bot posts a link and summary that is seen.
Chris L
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in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •What's "public quiet?"
I only know "unlisted" which does nothing to decrease the likelihood that the subsequent posts will appear in TLs but DOES make those posts unsearchable, which sucks - it's all downside, no benefit... to anyone.
pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how…
How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Re: Look, Cory, I love you man, but have you considered blogging?
pluralistic@mamot.fr "public quiet" == "unlisted".
The Mastodon team renamed it because people kept incorrectly assuming that unlisted posts were private (they very much are not.)
Cory Doctorow
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No, it's 100% manual labor, and it is very, very labor-intensive.
Josh Kingsley 🍋
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in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income
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in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •Cory Doctorow
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •From this and other posts, it's becoming clear that you think that the way I use digital publishing tools is organized around maximizing engagement or selling books or some other idea.
You are laboring under a misapprehension.
I publish the feed, newsletter and blog I would like to read. I do it for free, to the tune of many hours, every day, under an open license, so that you can alter and republish it the way you would want to see it.
Philip Theus
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •Kevin Marks
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •<details open><summary>Hide footer</summary>[long thread of footer stuff]</details>
so I can close it and read the next post without scrolling past it for ages? That would be nice.
Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •: The Details disclosure element - HTML | MDN
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in reply to Kevin Marks • • •No. I have an HTML file that I paste into a new window every morning, with some tokens that are replaced by a custom python script.
Kevin Marks
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in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •@Jeff Atwood @Cory Doctorow
I think there are very good arguments to be made for both "just link to the blog" and "post each separate thought as a separate threaded message". There's also the third option: "post the whole thing as a single, long post", which twitter and some Mastodons don't support, but Friendica and other Mastodons do, but let's leave that out.
I think the advantage of the thread is that you can keep the entire discussion here, and people can discuss each paragraph separately. With the blog, people have to go there to read it, and then come back here to discuss it. Or discuss it in the comments section of the blog platform (if it has that), which fractures the discussion.
So I think for discussion, Cory's approach might be superior. But Mastodon doesn't make it very readable, and it does require writing in separate thoughts, which isn't how most writers write.
Maybe we need a better platform to support open discussion of long articles.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •Because that's how *I* prefer to read other people's posts.
Again, this is the feed, newsletter and blog I would like to read, and it's open licensed and machine readable, so you can transform it into the feed you would like to read.
I'm curious about why you're so invested in changing how I publish, rather than changing how you read? You could write a bot that publishes my work in the form you prefer in an hour. Why wouldn't you?
Jeff Atwood
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Cory Doctorow
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •> This is a short-form space
[Citation needed]
Is this your preference, or an objective truth?
The internet was created by Darpa as a military project. Does that make the internet a "military space?"
Do users get to decide what a technology is, or does the dead hand of the designer sit on our shoulder forever, dictating our uses?
I assert that this is a long-form space. I assert that this is incontrovertibly true, because I use it to publish long-form work.
QED.
jgys
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Just want to say that I consistently appreciate reading what both of you have to say On Here about topics du jour, or I had until you began this seemingly-interminable dialogue about how messages are formatted. 🥱
Jeff Atwood
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic The only objective truth is that the tooling can be squished into any number of ways to get stuff done and people will go along with it or not.
Top posting or inline replies for email? Yes, people will have opinions. 😀
Where's our threaded Mastodon readers?
JuliesBits 🇺🇲 🍑
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic
Just keep doing what you're doing in the way you're doing it!
I subscribe to your RSS feed, but also follow you here. I've got a filter in place to filter out your long threads, but am able to see the comments folks post here in response to your posts. Seeing the replies others post often piques my interest enough to open up my RSS feedreader and read your blog post in its entirety.
Thanks for your generosity in sharing your insights so freely in this way.
George B
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic
I have avoided following you because of the long threads but if there's one thing this conversation has shown me it's how to configure my filters to not have that problem.
Another thought although it may be more complicated: what if you have a second account that posts only the long thread blog posts in response to the header from your main account and gets boosted by the main account? Muting an account is a lot more discoverable and easy than configuring a filter
Cory Doctorow
in reply to George B • • •It's a nice idea for someone else to implement! I'm already doing a stupendous amount of administrative work just to post to all the platforms I keep up with. The point of publishing a machine-readable, open-licensed version of everything is to let other people do those remixes, to their taste.
Theresacityinmymind
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •If you don't mind Threads, read the election influence section here:
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media coverage of the shortcomings of Facebook's market dominance
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)julian
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •Re: Look, Cory, I love you man, but have you considered blogging?
codinghorror@infosec.exchange hey Jeff, to be fair I think pluralistic@mamot.fr has been doing the best with the tooling available at the time.
We're at a place now where that isn't the case, and a different software could be used (like a truly federated forum!!) or at minimum just a server that sends more than 500 characters at a time.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to julian • • •I explain here why I'm on this particular server:
julian
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Re: Look, Cory, I love you man, but have you considered blogging?
pluralistic@mamot.fr well that certainly addressed every single point I was going to make.
Keep on doing what you're doing 👍
P.S. I very much enjoyed your podcast series on CBC!
Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic @julian
Thanks for (re-)sharing the explanation on why you're on that particular server; I wondered about that.
Though I primarily read your blog posts on @medium, I'm glad to follow you on Mastodon because unlike many popular writers, you frequently engage with people in your comments and share posts by others, even randos like myself.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic @jorgecandeias I really don't get his problem. I almost *never* read blogs anymore but I love coming across one of your threads and then choosing to read it or skip it. Actually, I dont think I've ever gone to the long-form link you provide, and just stick to my phones mastodon client.
And... "considered blogging?" Is he that clueless?
Cory Doctorow
Unknown parent • • •@joncruz @jorgecandeias
Visible from where I'm presently sitting (the only art Randall has parted with)
Jeff Atwood
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xkcdJon A. Cruz
in reply to Jon A. Cruz • • •@pluralistic @jorgecandeias actually that might be a key point. Gen-Z is heavily phone-centric, and let's not even with Gen-alpha... My 20-something's laptop goes almost complelty untouched in favor of his phone.
People who don't account for changes in information consumption are just dinosaurs
FoxyLad
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias *** RED ALERT*** Cory Doctorow, Jeff Atwood and Randall Monroe in one thread - we're dangerously close to the critical mass of cool!
Luckily my appearance in the thread should act like cool-absorbing control rods.
Kevin Marks
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Cory Doctorow, caped blogger
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Lea de Groot TZ+10
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Much better like this!
But please do continue writing - you are fighting the good fight!
Cory Doctorow
Unknown parent • • •@leadegroot @jorgecandeias
I have never, and will never, do SEO.
I don't even keep logs.
I don't know how many people "engage" with my work. I don't compare different headlines. I don't get "open rates" from my newsletter.
I publish the newsletter/blog/feed I would want to read, and I open license it so you can turn it into the newsletter you would want to read.
Jeff Atwood
in reply to Lea de Groot TZ+10 • • •Cory Doctorow
in reply to Lea de Groot TZ+10 • • •@leadegroot @jorgecandeias
Again, you're laboring under the severe, total, complete misapprehension that I care about - much less gather - quantifiable and measured engagement.
I.
Do.
Not.
I believe that doing so is a kind of sickness that reduces the quality and authenticity of one's work, and leads to audience capture and other horrors.
You couldn't pay me to do i.
Kevin Marks
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xkcdCavyherd
in reply to Kevin Marks • • •@KevinMarks @pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias
I'd wondered about the genesis of the cape-and-goggles motif. Hah!
So it's all actually the EFF's fault?
Maki
Unknown parent • • •1337: Part 5
xkcdCavyherd
in reply to Kevin Marks • • •@KevinMarks @pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias
Oh yes! Okay! I dimly remember seeing those comics on the first round, & having vague awareness of Doctorow's part in it. But that was a •very• long time ago, & I didn't yet have a full appreciation of the personalities involved.
Mekki
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Unknown parent • • •Cavyherd
Unknown parent • • •@mekki @KevinMarks @pluralistic @joncruz @jorgecandeias
I remember a Hugo award (or Nebula?) ceremony some years ago where Doctorow was tasked with accepting an award on behalf of an author who couldn't be there—& was asked to do so "in uniform." Which he cheerfully obliged 😂 👍
Mekki
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic @mekki @KevinMarks @joncruz @jorgecandeias
Aaaand—it all comes full circle! 😂 👍
(This needs its own emoji)
Marco
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •@pluralistic @cavyherd @mekki @KevinMarks @joncruz @jorgecandeias epic.
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Hugo Award
Contributors to xkcd Time Wiki (Fandom, Inc.)Mekki
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in reply to Maki • • •In 2009 in Portland, my wife and I went on an XKCD-themed bike ride. There was a guy dressed as Cory Doctorow in a red cape.
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