Notices by Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks), page 22

@alex@gleasonator.com ESG compliance +good

@unabomber@social.here.blue

@mk@mastodon.satoshishop.de
Quebec had curfews because the magic virus was like a vampire and more dangerous at night.
@unabomber@social.here.blue

Thanks @parker@pl.psion.co !
I'll also add that @splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network is a very cool dude and starnix is a great instance to be on.
I've been meaning to make a post about how being on a solo instance makes features like trending a little less useful, I may have to just make dozens of lists...
@burner@norwoodzero.net @dcc@annihilation.social @sjw@bae.st @admin@detroitriotcity.com @meowski@fluf.club @phnt@fluffytail.org @p@freespeechextremist.com @not_br549@jollyville.net @graf@poa.st @john_rando@poa.st @verita84@poster.place @Moon@shitposter.club

@minds@www.minds.com
All kinds of terrible things get said to and about the popular target of the time. The limit for all should be no lower than what those in power are able to get away with.

Now that's a shame.
I guess it's no more updates on #GrapheneOS for me.

Thank you Joe Biden, very helpful

Stupid games...
Stupid Prizes

@lain@lain.com
As bad as it is, I feel like the "demonstrably justified" part has been skipped over entirely.

Imagine that!

@bot@seal.cafe
Sorry, just a photo I had on hand
- https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/education/rutgers-will-still-require-covid-vaccine-mask-mandate/
- https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/atlanta-based-morris-brown-college-says-they-are-reinstating-covid-mask-mandates/

@binkle@clubcyberia.co Some colleges are re-implementing mask mandates

I'm a little bewildered by the people working to reignite the covid hysteria three years into the crisis. I'm not even strictly talking about people who are still concerned about getting infected, but rather those who are eager to reinstate lockdowns and other disastrous policies.

In some regions the 2020 pandemic response should have gone down as the worst state imposed public health disaster in history. It's important to keep in mind that not everywhere had the same policies, restrictions and measures. There are places that had vastly different impacts from each other and aren't always an "apples to apples" comparison.

That said, I can't respect anyone holding up China's extreme assault on their own population, and similar policies as an ideal example. If you are concerned about covid, and want to see concerted action to save lives, I would highly recommend understanding the social determinants of health. Understand that despite much of 2020 may have seemed like "taking it seriously", even with textbook public health understanding, it appears to be knee-jerk and ill-advised.

Food for thought

@xianc78@gameliberty.club
I agree with your overall points: It's important not to throw out the baby with the bathwater on funding important projects merely because blockchain based projects or platforms are involved. @silverpill@mitra.social does a good job pointing this out as well.

That said, I think there are good reasons to avoid almost a vast majority of blockchain projects. Even though the people who take an extreme anti-cryptocurrency stance are misguided, there's a lot more merit to the approach than it would seem.

You've likely heard "the medium is the message" and I think it does apply to blockchain projects. There's something ironic about funding an online passport in parallel to funding the Tor project. Over time, I've grown much more suspicious of efforts to validate online activity and interactions. I think many (not specifically gitcoin) blockchain projects are merely age-old top-down control structures with a glossy coat of paint.

Someone could go to Reddit and mistake it for an organically run community because of things like upvotes and downvotes. They would be mistaken due to the level of control the reddit admins have over the platform. I don't really believe that any proof-of-stake system will inherently improve things (corporations themselvesare arguably proof-of-stake).

Doubling down, if projects like @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social are going to start getting de-platformed en masse, very few blockchain based platforms are not so embedded in establishment structures that they'd be forced to comply as well. To me, If they're not actually providing censorship resistance, it's a farce even if the project isn't necessarily an outright scam.

RE: https://mitra.social/objects/018a0971-6633-8deb-c7c1-4e1f941f589b

@bot@seal.cafe
Climate hysteria

@bot@seal.cafe
It was a not 100% serious guess, my next ones were gonna be taxes or fiat currency.
I only casually follow web3isgoinggreat

The replies 👀

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/torproject/statuses/110906828593942566

You split your country into 4 regions to establish new independent states.
What are they called and what are they like?

Congratulations @alex@gleasonator.com!
If for nothing else, than providing software that's easy enough to start with that there's over 300 instances on that list.
These people make it especially clear that they have no interest in an open network, and merely want the appearance of one.
I never expected the freedom most under attack in free software would be freedom 0.

Who knows? There's always next time.