It’s astounding how many Linux users engage with tools founded in left-leaning ideas while insisting politics aren’t brought into their fav.s.

I hate the conclusions Libertarian Linux users draw but at least they see the parallels.

Incident on 57th Street by Bruce Springsteen, live at the Main Point '75

It’s always hard to gauge, with Bruce (obviously not an unknown but, also, lots of people who’ve only casually listened to him, if even that), but this one’s a live performance for a track that doesn’t get a lot of radio play.

Also a great example of his early storytelling work and great use of violins, to boot. The whole original album is a classic but this one’s great as a one-shot.

I think the weirdest thing I ever saw him do was discuss meeting with Meta when they were working on Threads, get called out for it so he made a post somehow distancing himself from it and saying something along the lines of, “C’mon, guys; I’d never cozy up to Meta,” and then, when Threads started federating, posted a screenshot of being able to see a post from a Threads account from PixelFed and gushing about how incredible this was.

Dude is suspect, for real; glad to see I’m not the only one getting that.

EDIT: just read through what you linked to and wow; that’s so much worse than I originally thought. That’s an inane degree of unprofessionalism.

I hadn’t; any source, by chance (or summarization, if not)?

I dunno why but this comment was the one that made me burst out laughing.

Props for linking to that video; it’s so good.

They really love using

Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me

in the context of abortion.

We were out of spinach (admittedly, I hate lettuce so I usually use spinach, instead) so I subbed in kale for my lunch sandwich, one time. I thought it worked alright, though.

Please put something like this behind a spoiler or something; there are those of us who’ve had that word hurled enough in our daily life that it suddenly appearing while browsing social media is alarm-inducing.

Yeah; exactly. You’re seeing what I’m seeing. Reaffirming (to me) that this idea of ours is a good one.

I doubt I’d have the skill to write it but I’ve long thought something like Etsy could be interesting.

I think the federated nature of the Fediverse could do well to stave off the worst of any spamming.

But the thing I notice the most with independent sellers is that the bulk of what they’re doing is networking, generally amongst friends. Which, really, is the ideal environment for goods and services to be sold.

But, since capitalism always demands the line goes up, places like Etsy inevitably abandon them and making their sites encouraging of that kind of interpersonal connecting in favor of entities which can mass churn products out.

Setting up shops in the fediverse would allow people to easily host their own shops (and not be reliant on the infrastructure of, say, Etsy) and boosting would organically encourage a web of trust since their friend is essentially saying, “I know this person; they’re good.” You could even have the code autotag listings with a hashtag so people can filter out those types of posts, if they don’t want to.

Not sure how you’d handle federation when you first spin up an instance but, still, more alternatives are better than less, I expect.

I dunno; I think it’d be interesting.

Jerry already caught me up.

To those who haven’t heard it before, it sounds like a way to note that Threads can interope with the Fediverse, now (I can see people who were super excited about Meta joining doing that).

Maybe it being capitalized also made it the first thing my brain jumped to.

In any case, I was mistaken and just hadn’t heard of the term before; just ignore my original comments, basically: they’re wrong.

Ah; I rescind my comments and apologize. I can see the reasoning.

What the Hell is a Threadiverse? Maybe we don’t give a corporate entity branding and credit for a network we built well before they ever came along.

Preach.

Definitely could be; the husband’s autistic (and was very surly the first time Musk said as much) but it didn’t feel like that. In any case, just a theory, more than anything.

Oh, of course. Like I said, the consequences are the same.

Honestly, most of his turn to the far right had felt like he’s largely LARPing and sort of just trying it out (not that it doesn’t have real consequences, of course, but it’s felt more like someone trying to join a clique than a serious ideological conviction).

I don’t know how to describe why but it has a certain trying-out-a-new-hobby approach to it. Maybe it’s the way he goes to the very extreme, immediately. His endorsement of the Alternative for Germany party felt like pushing boundaries or, “Let me see how far I can get (in terms of influencing things, like he did with America).” His Nazi salute felt like he’d been rehearsing it because he thought it’d look so cool or he wanted to try it out for the first time (again, to test boundaries).

I could be wrong but it’s all felt…unserious (in terms of his intentions; definitely not the consequences).