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james@social.coop

<p>a jaded software worker</p>

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    Digital Zion is a #platformcoop project to keep an eye on https://digitalzion.online/about

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    @J12t Yeah, I don&amp;#39;t know if I&amp;#39;m a believer in Mastodon itself, but this instance&amp;#39;s values I think are in the right direction for future internet platforms. I can see it transforming itself into something other than a Mastodon instance if the collective decides that&amp;#39;s the way to go.

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    More people should know about #FoundationDB and #mvSQLite https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite

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    In all of this Twitter turmoil, I&amp;#39;m reminded of TRU LUV&amp;#39;s social media project that rejects the &amp;quot;gamification and extraction models&amp;quot; of today&amp;#39;s platforms, instead designing under a framework they call &amp;quot;Beneficence&amp;quot;. https://www.briecode.com/journal/2022/6/25/beneficence

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    @lash Full agree, though our built environment in the US has car dependency so deeply embedded I can&amp;#39;t help but be pessimistic. 😩

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    @levy &amp;quot;the left&amp;quot; is so unspecific it&amp;#39;s hard to know what you mean, but in my view the left has been crying wolf about kanye, and rising fascism in general, for some time. kanye&amp;#39;s words today are only slightly more explicit than what he&amp;#39;s said before. i would like to hear more about what you mean about support being couched as intersectional.

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    @levy which progressive groups are you wanting to hear from?

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    @J12t I would note that this is an extrapolation and not tested cases, which is a very different statistic which you can&amp;#39;t just compare to typical case numbers. Similar estimates were made early on in the pandemic in the west.

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    local news doing MLK Jr. segments and crime segments in the same breath is always something

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    it is cool that these latest AI products, that essentially capture social goods into private databases and sell it back, have coincided with the increasing pressure to commodify every aspect of our lives by producing more social goods to then be captured again and then again and again in yet to be imagined ways