I wish I could ask trump if that means I can assassinate him to save America. And do so live on television, unprompted.
Maybe it's already too late for that to stem the tide.
funny, this seems similar to how Gordon Ramsey demonstrates "perfect scrambled eggs" in a youtube video I once saw. He basically just pulls the eggs off of the fire every 15 seconds or so.
"possibilité de finaliser votre accès au portail sécurisé" alors que les places sont limitées ?! Doit bien avoir un contexte qui rend ça pas étonnant, mais non ça me terrifie quand même de lire ça et imaginer le service d'administration cantonale des impôts être géré de fond en comble de la sorte...
Bernhardt tweeted in January 2025: “The dead internet theory is coming to fruition.” And he’s doing his part.
.... we live in a farce
Yeah, federation really is the killer feature for this compared to all of these centralized private services.
Sadly, I expect federation won't be foolproof/enough on its own. The fascists control more and more of the USA government. If/when they come after the fediverse it will be through whichever mechanism suffices to neuter it, including:
- A "great American firewall" to cut off instances hosted outside the country
- mandatory registration for any citizen leasing a domain name or a static IP address
- forced rootkits on all citizen devices
and all they'll have to say is "China/Russia/Europe/Iran/etc is infiltrating our glorious social media and making it unpatriotic" to justify it.
They don't really need to truly "kill" the fediverse, they just need to make using it enough of a pain in the ass and/or dangerous that not enough people use it for it to matter.
Anyways, the point of my comment is to encourage everyone who cares about this to try spending a little thought towards fail-safes for when federation won't be enough, and/or things we could be doing now to further protect our capacity to form these independent online communities.
If they do crack down on Reddit, it'll be one of the few opportunities we will have to "get ahead" on public sentiment and help people get accustomed to federated social media. Each additional person that is participating in the fediverse raises its resilience - from instance operating to moderation to sharing and cross posting.
Ideally we would see x new instances crop up for every y new participants. With a more reactive approach of spinning up instances as existing ones get taken down, I fear we would set ourselves up for a slow fragmentation into obscurity.
The last thing I want to do is to make some flippant remark, but holy hell. I saw his release picture before fully parsing the title, and thought he was a Holocaust / concentration camp survivor.
Artificial Intelligence Image
For some reason it's hilarious to me that the person who made this flyer felt the need to specify that the ClipArt-level illustration, placed next to 3-4 pictures of the kid the flyer is complaining about, is not, in fact, an actual image of the kid.
Thank you both (@NinjaFox@lemmy.blahaj.zone, @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org) for taking the time to make this post not just more accessible but somewhat more bit-/link-rot-resilient by duplicating the image's info as a text comment.
We don't talk about it as much as authoritarian censorship, ip & copyright related takedowns, and their ilk, but image macros/memes often have regrettably small lifetimes as publicly accessible data in my experience. It might be for any number of reasons, including:
- because many of them are created on free generator websites that can't afford to store every generated image forever,
- because people often share screenshots of things instead of a link to it,
- because for-profit social media websites are increasingly requiring account creation to view previously accessible content,
or (more probably) a combination of all three and more.
In any case as silly as image memes are, they're also an important vector for keeping culture and communities alive (at least here on the fediverse). In 5-10 years, this transcription has a much higher chance of still hanging around in some instance's backups than the image it is transcribing.
P.S.: sure, knowyourmeme is a thing, but they're still only 1 website and ~~I'm not sure if~~ there's not much recent fediverse stuff there ~~yet~~. The mastodon page last updated in 2017 and conflates the software project with the mastodon.social instance (likely through a poor reading of it's first source, a The Verge article that's decent but was written in 2017).
P.P.S.: ideally, OP (@cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world) could add this transcription directly to the post's alt text, but I don't know if they use a client that makes that easy for them...
To suggest some things not directly related to the workplace:
These are all ways to increase the resilience of your community and reduce their dependency on their paychecks. These will also increase trust and reflexive solidarity between community members. This in turn starts making unions and strikes feasible.