Notices by Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks), page 20

Office scare

https://nitter.net/1stacyphillips/status/1709108006557028629#m

https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=vocesnovae

Imagine that!

He's got you boys covered

@adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl I'll just leave this here:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog-idUSBRE98Q14G20130927

I've stumbled on a very interesting project
Geneva
Video Explanation

👀 Yale vs Dissident economists continues...
https://www.karlstack.com/p/exclusive-every-economist-on-mastodon

@dcc@annihilation.social @theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe
Back in my day we just called ourselves "so random"

@dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
If I understand correctly (been a while since I've used mastodon), you're saying that the federated timeline is using a ton of data and requests?
I'll say I'm not too shocked because if images load by default that adds a ton of traffic just passively moving along.

This leads me to an interesting argument against de-federation.
In terms of pure wasted energy redundant bots, (or even redundant accounts) is a huge waste of everyone's resources...Forcing many large instances to subscribe to a different NY Times bot multiplied by every influencer or institution that people want updates from...would just be madness.

I think you're right that explore feeds and other mechanism encourage bad behavior, but I think it's the behavior that causes the waste not necessarily the way it all works. I'm sure that specific scenario could be mitigated a ton by the server serving a very lossy compressed thumbnail that people can opt in/out of seeing by default.

@dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
I appreciate the heads up! I'll fix it site wide sometime soon!

@thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club
Some people think the state is a ship that you steer when the wind is with you.
It may have worked that way in the past but I'm convinced its no longer true.

@eriner@noagendasocial.com
I wonder if secret societies are an "identifiable group" and therefore could be considered a protected class. 🤔

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Fediverse. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of decentralization most of the jokes will go over a typical user's head. There's also Gleason's vegan outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The shitposters understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike The Fediverse truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Gleason's existencial catchphrase "I'm Vegan" which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as John Mastodon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Pleroma tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

@meowski@fluf.club
This is now an ivermectin meme hellthread

@jeffcliff@shitposter.club

@meowski@fluf.club time to start horsin' around 🐴

CBC isn't a source but here you go anyways
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-indian-government-nijjar-1.6970498

I'm a bit shocked, but it turns out it's Justin Trudeau who ends up escalating the NATO vs BRICS world war.
https://nitter.net/disclosetv/status/1703857933832868132

@Dragon@mstdn.ca
I get what you're saying, but I'd say a head of state saying it out loud is different than that kind of event being handled "diplomatically".
If we're hearing about it, odds are things are even worse behind the scenes.

@xianc78@gameliberty.club
One can hope

Every game sir?
Every game.