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People want to be wealthy so they can afford to get what they want. But how much wealthier would you be if everyone always just wanted to give you what you want? People want to be wealthy so they won't ever run out of money. But what if your accounts depleted and your credit dwindled and you […]

If you elect me president I promise to rename Texas to ‘Mexico’ by EO on day one.

Today's Good News A daredevil cat soared through the skies on a parachute-skiing adventure, sporting his very own tiny helmet. #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Auregoodnews #Caturday […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

New comic strip found: Daddy Daze by John Kovaleski for Sun, 02 Mar 2025 https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/daddydaze/s-3611975 #comic #comicstrips #daddydaze

What's your favorite #muppets fanfic?

Weird sensation. I never thought much about reincarnation, but when I just learned that Bruce Goff died the year I was born, I was suddenly struck with how familiar his patterns of thought seem to me. I don't care to dwell on it, for lacking practical implications, just a #TFW. I had been […]

Those who let zeroes rule their lives are zeroes. Do you respect the quest for zeroes? Do you respect someone with a zero more than you?

What is the state of latest collective self-moderation theory and practice? What would a configurable opt-in algorithmic #fediblock look like? #collectiveSelfModeration

if the #GPL is free as in freedom (#Libre) then maybe #Apache license is free as in #capitalism.

BRAVO! "Mr. President, guess what? Russia invaded Ukraine. Can we at least agree on that one? Facts MATTER. Is there anybody in here that has enough courage to say RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE?" - Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

Are there any User Experience / User Interface people who read this? ... and have opinions on how the Fediverse could work better for normal people if a bit more of their expertise were applied? If so, consider coming to FediForum April 1-2 to hang out with others who care about the Fediverse […]

On the road for democracy and justice -- Bernie Sanders I will be doing town meetings in Omaha, Nebraska, this Friday night and Iowa City, Iowa, on Saturday morning. Further, in the coming weeks and months, I and other progressives will be holding grassroots events from coast to coast. Why, at […]

Laying the groundwork to give the US military illegal orders, including using troops against US citizens. The JAG firings are not getting enough attention! Fired: Joint Chiefs Chairman, Top Navy Leader, Air Force Vice Chief, Service Judge Advocates General […]

#semanticCurrency is * who fills * whose needs * for what purpose, and * how that's all anyone needs to find work, start a business, get into supportive networks of people, manage community resources, live sustainably, support the oligopoly less, have *real* security instead of forever trying […]

What depressed and burned out Europe also needs: Safe Access to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies. If you are an European citizen you can support this initiative proposed by #EU citizens and supported by almost 40 organisations incl. #CzechPsychedelicSociety. ✅ signed today […]

In #spoonieTown people don't look away. People don't tell you you'll be fine. People don't tell you to take care. People don't move up, quit, lay off, or anything that hurts others for the sake of numbers on a screen. Doctors don't prescribe meds with shit NNT without telling you the chances it […]

wishing I had time and energy to work on my big world-changing socio-political p2p software projects

I took a striking text-generated image of a pale portrait of a "porcelain" female model in thick flowing braids, and I'm trying to see what tweaks will make her black. Deleting "pale" obviously, but I'm leaving in "porcelain" because white girls don't deserve a monopoly on the metaphor. Gold […]

Lox just makes me want *real* smoked salmon like I used to get in Alaska. #foodsThatAreInherentlyInferior

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for *meaningful* opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

Is there a #DWeb or #SocialWeb book club, or papers club, or discussion of various things we read up on together club?

Happy "I love free software" day to all who celebrate. In particular to all the lonely random developers in Nebraska thanklessly maintaining their critical open source project. Thank you! #ilovefs #opensource #xkcd

Happy Superb Owl Day! - - - Bonne journée de l’hibou superbe! #SuperbOwl #HibouSuperbe

Python is nice but SQL involves so much less spaghetti. I wonder if Jupyter connects to Postgres.

My son. Has devised a way. To eat a banana. That is superior in EVERY WAY. To all other ways you know of to eat a banana.

#today second day of #FOSDEM, in the #Energy stream. A speaker dropped out so I filled in the slot with the lighting talk I had to hand. Still zinging with adrenaline! https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html and […]

if the #GPL is free as in freedom (#Libre) then maybe #Apache license is free as in #capitalism.

“Standards don’t expire, but their champions die.” #socialwebFosdem #fosdem

I'm going to offer some definitions of #BigTech the way people use it with a negative connotation under the hashtag #DefineBigTech. Please participate! #SmallTech clearly is a term used to name the opposite of big tech, but, why? …

Also #Caturday

In #spoonietown, being unaware of the latest news is preferential to being unaware of the best contemporary authors.

I want a #geoHashtag that does not distort near the poles (no longitude), allows specifying very large regions (like whole countries or geographic features, and ideally, is not rectangular.

Open science people: @willingc is building a "curated list of organizations and resources that foster inclusive collaboration in open science". If you can help out with active pages or Wayback Machine archives, add some links to: https://github.com/willingc/awesome-inclusion-open-science […]

The Geosocial Task Force was started at a FediForum, too! We did not expect that FediForum would spawn so many projects, but wow! The current list is here: https://fediforum.org/projects/ Let us know if we missed something. What project will you start with your fellow attendees at FediForum […]

"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the DEI party" is admittedly not where I expected this to go. https://journa.host/@w7voa/113874906663165409

#AmazonPrime #canceled.