A kind reminder that the internet, the world wide web, and TCP/IP were all invented by a public-civic partnership, not the private sector.

[quote][i]“Now we stand outcast and starving 'midst the wonders we have made…”[/i][/quote]

Maybe the Fediverse should just be for social media, and leave DMs to like, XMPP or something? I dunno, just a thought. Feel like we're reinventing the wheel here.

Good. At least now he'd realise the harm he's causing.

My response to "don't mistake incompetence for malice" is usually "that applies to regular people. When it comes to governments, I think both malice and incompetence should be a disqualifying factor."

"No way to stop this" says the person actively making this happen.

Did they earn their driver's license from a lottery?

Hm… Bad person, mid system. Pass.

Intrusive thoughts happens to the best to us, mate. You still realise it's harmful, so you shouldn't be so hard on yourself. 🫂

Genuine question from someone equally amateurish. What use is reverse proxy in this setup? What necessitated it instead of just a direct connection?

Ah, cognate to the German „Fach“ and the English “fact”. That makes sense.

To be honest, I prefer 4:3. I like how square-ish it felt. /srs

So um, as a sociology student, there [i]is indeed no such thing as neutral technology or tool[/i]. Everything is created within systems of power, and its production will always require externalisation of some costs. Artefacts do have politics, because we live in a social world, use social language, etc.

[b]However[/b], this does not mean that it is a moral failing, cuz otherwise everybody existing in society would be evil. We live in an imperfect world, and our own position in it, legible through the symbolic order, is continually accepted, rejected, naturalised, de-naturalised, interpreted, re-interpreted, and negotiated.

Call out harm where you can, accept some difficulties to avoid stuff you find especially egregious if you can, but ultimately, don't moralise it against yourself if you can't.

TL;DR There is no neutral tool or technology, but that doesn't mean you're morally complicit by not resisting everything. Try to minimise harm where you can, but don't beat yourself up if you can't either.

Say /s rn

Okay, how are bike lanes intrinsically either (a) diverse, (b) equitable, or (c) diverse, in any way, shape, or form? Like, what logic are they even using here? It's like saying sidewalks are somehow partisan. (They [i]are[/i] political though, as they concern with legitimacy, normative behaviour, and intersubjective identity formation.)

I am genuinely so tired with this administration, and I'm not even a US American.

Agreed. And as @noxypaws@pawb.social have said, it is important to realise and remain vigilant that humans can be capable of great harm, and that we ourselves are not immune if we're not carefully with ourselves. Otherwise we might ourselves becomes grown complacent and reproduce those harms on others in some form or another.

Quite. I think that's also why we're on the Fediverse, right? While so many of our tech is captured by corporates, we still have room to not accept it all laying down. That's what negotiation means, drawing your own boundaries, and as much as I hate saying it, picking your own battles, while realising not many will be willing or able to fight the same ones you do.

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I just wish they'd realise sooner. Imho nobody is born an arsehole, they have that instilled upon them. If only we could break that cycle…

I don't think so. While I do agree it could cause some misunderstandings, I do not believe that being a girl is a necessary and sufficient condition for using the label sapphic.

Gender is complex, and it is my position that labels can describe in part, but can never exhaust, the human condition.