I see people getting het up about this every now and then, but I think it’s a manufactured concern. This isn’t, like, who gets to call themselves real Macedonia, it isn’t a piece of real heritage or tradition, it’s a single Italian guy’s name that got slapped on nearly an entire hemisphere. “The Americas” were never a coherent thing before colonialism made them that as the Other. Respecting actual regional and cultural identity is important, and Amerigo Vespucci and his adjectival formation is just… not relevant to that actual concern.
I find it interesting that IME it’s Europeans who mostly seem to bring up the name overlap as a problem? Which I guess is from the impression you get of names and borders when your national names and borders weren’t, like, drawn on maps in straight lines by the East India Trading Co.
The best part of the overlap though is that if you are thinking of ⚽ and “America”, that’s 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇲🇽 all the way baby!! As it should be
It’s very interesting to me how neatly this matches up to my generation’s dreams about all living in a forest together. It boils down to a pretty harsh indictment of America’s suburban design, doesn’t it? Like… houses that aren’t bigger than people need. Enough garde…
This is not a ‘publisher’, in the sense that a newspaper or radio station are publishers - or if it is, then we’ve stretched the word ‘publisher’ so far as to become meaningless. A human editor chooses ten stories for the front page of a newspaper, and ten stories for the 9 o’clock news, but there…
This is intensely cool and I am slightly sad I do not have the right kinds of friends to do it with. Well, maybe I do? But I don’t feel like I can ask that much time of people. So many episodes! And reading!! …
That feels a bit unfair as a headline since it’s only a part of why the post is fun to read. …
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I bought some prestamped postcards on a lark when ordering stamps one time. They looked cute. I didn’t know why they existed, but I’m always down for weird postal stuff. …
Does anyone else find that their ability to tackle a to-do list scales inversely to the size of the to-do list? …
I wish I could use this term at work now, but I’m not sure if “freak” as a noun has too much of an ableist past in its human applications. EFO! …
Honestly, I’ve always loved that you see people from different generations showing up to the club and doing their own things. Not Old Guy Coming To Hit On Women Half His Age–people coming to see their own friends, with their own stuff going on. Seems good for everybody. …
Even small damage to potatoes speeds their rot, so there is an implausible aspect–but I suppose if you’re only harvesting small quantities for short-term personal consumption it might be okay? …
A riot is the language of the unheard and a mashup is the language of the culturally overexposed…
Requires a good deal of trust in your sandal-wearer, but nothing a bit of crypto couldn’t fix. …
This is such a fascinating transformation of how we’re accustomed to dealing with the web and the news. …
Do you know any specifics about the byproducts? Totally agreed on the best thing being reducing petroleum use.
It’s very hard to know what things would be like without / with less plastic because right now plastic’s sucking the air out of the room when it comes to developing alternatives, and no one’s incentivized to make reducing packaging convenient.
He made me in his image. He claims that it was only because his perfectly hemispherical skull was a convenient shape for manufacture, but that doesn’t explain the thousands of man-hours developing my skin analogue. …
Intended hitpiece from people trying to get an alternate protocol to stick (via the CC0 attribution at the bottom).
I haven’t read it in detail but even skimming through it’s making some pretty questionable claims. “well, you have to join a public room, so it’s not really public”, and “they said their GDPR tools were ‘hacky’ which means they must not be good enough” and “a system administrator could configure STUN/TURN in such a way that IP metadata gets sent to Google”
I’d be very willing to believe Matrix had fucked some stuff up, leaked data, etc. but I don’t see enough to buy the accusations of bad faith.
You can’t call somebody expendable and essential; that’s just not possible. So we should give them all green cards to be here. …
This has been open in a browser tab for ages while I stew over it. …
https://github.com/zerok/webmentiond/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy (public domain) https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/LICENSE
Dunno how much purer you want it
Anecdotally, I feel like there were independent e.g. illustrators who were game to try Mastodon and left when they saw tiny fractions of the engagement they get on ordinary social media. This is a big bummer to me. For visual art, we need the equivalents of the IG accounts that repost art with permission and link backs. For other stuff, I don’t know the answers.
I’m now gonna go to sleep pondering the division of “Europe” and its political constitution