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"...But stewards of Japanese American history, including the children and grandchildren of those who were held in detention, are criticizing the use of Fort Bliss and the plans to expand immigrant detention on American military bases...."
My server is getting absolutely obliterated by AI scrapers today. Load is 140+ and I just manually banned 58,000 IP addresses. Top ten user agents: 8984 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.
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We know that any potus deploying military willy nilly is illegal, but until the courts actually say so out loud, we are here in the practical reality of he is in fact doing things outside the law.
And whether or not those things can actually, operationally, happen as he intends I am not entirely convinced is clear, yet.
Heβs broken laws, but he also may be over reaching in practical senses too.
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My mother is having a party right now. I tried the old βAttention, everybody, this is a new carpet, so please take off all of your clothesβ thing, but it didnβt work.
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Out of respect for reality and our wellbeing, we probably need way less talk about what βDemocratsβ should do and way more talk about what βweβ can do. Weβre not going to look back and wish we complained about Democratic leadership more, especially when weβre clear enough to get why theyβre stunted.
So what should we do, Sir Posts-A-Lot? Good question! Pretty much anything that shows non-cooperation with the regime! A movement to build community around opposing ICE in your neighborhoods seems like one of the very best uses of time.
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Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
Technically, you're probably also breaking laws in Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea and so on. The question is, do you care? I'm not a lawyer, so I can't answer that for you specifically, but 10.000+ fediverse operators across the world get to make that decision for themselves.
with respect, you are a CEO that operates a subsidiary organisation in the US, caring about laws in the country your organisation operates in seems like a pretty good idea to me
With respect, I'm not the CEO of the fediverse. My reach extends over mastodon.social only. And that is the point. There is no gatekeeper for the fediverse as a whole.
There is no gatekeeper for how you tap into the ATProto network as well. Here's a short list of just some of the ways Bsky PBC can't block a user's access today: bsky.app/profile/jackvalinsky.β¦
And there's even more options than that out there.
A PDS is not the same as a GoToSocial or Mastodon server. The latter give you complete autonomy. You connect directly to whoever you want to follow or broadcast messages to. A PDS is only the data layer. It has to be indexed by a cooperating relay, and ingested by a cooperating app view, before you can actually reach anybody. Those are controlled by Bluesky PBC.
I have seen the link you sent. The only client on there that doesn't send me to bsky.app if I want to sign up is blacksky.community, though it requires an invite code.
Red Dwarf doesn't use Bsky if you're not on their PDSs as well. Blacksky is early and is already the biggest non-Bsky non-bot PDS hoster and has built the whole ATProto stack from scratch in Rust. And there's more. This goes way deeper than you think it does.
Red Dwarf doesn't have a sign up link and nothing loads on the site. But you're right, it is early. Everything is new, shiny, and full of venture-capital funded marketing right now. We'll see how all of this architecture turns out in a few years, when the investors come calling.
So are we agreeing that ATProto is decentralized? Because that's different than the fear of what funding will potentially lead to one day in the future.
And if you fear that, then shouldn't we triple down on making sure that the PBC doesn't hold all the power before that happens, do adversarial interop, and make sure it's in it's ideal decentralized state asap?
Strictly speaking, the question is if Bluesky is decentralized, not if AT Proto is decentralized. Second of all, I am not sure why I should "triple down on making sure" anything about Bluesky or AT Proto. I work on improving the fediverse. The place that is already built with adversarial interoperability.
I personally believe that if you are a founder and lead programmer of a decentralized social media platform, you should be absolutely sure what you are talking about before you start comparing the protocol that you use with others, because you are effectively representing your own project and have a lot of responsibilities and eyes on you as a result. If someone believes that you are misinformed and says so, then it would make sense to check so that you are sure that you are not using your platform to spread misinformation.
the essential problem with #bluesky is that it promises a lot, but delivers little in the realm of #decentralization (reality, not technical potential)
This is an update to a Summer 2024 blog post. At the time, atproto relays required a cache of the full network on local disk to validate data structures. With the Sync v1.1 updates, relays don't need all that disk I/O.
yeah, it's a similar thing I say about civil rights. The most interesting cases pit 2 rights against each other.
I'm happy BS (my name for them haha) is slowly getting to some de-centralization capability...but how that will play with their monied backers will be an interesting thing to watch.
jumping into this branch of replies to say that Bluesky did anticipate this and specifically built atproto to allow you to move off of their servers and onto an independently operated one in case the shareholders come knocking. the only issue is that most people aren't really aware of this
oh no trust me I believe they absolutely will. that's the point here, they let you migrate to a level that mastodon doesn't support (you can't move your posts between instances for example)
twitter never had interop, they just had an API that you already had to pay for before they forced Musk to buy it. it's already possible to migrate your user data right now, and there are other servers that you can migrate said data to running, not to mention that people have independently hosted their own version of every part of bluesky's infrastructure.
I'm not saying that bluesky is perfect or better than mastodon though. they don't really expose any of this to users and you can't move back to bluesky last I heard. I just don't think that being dismissive of innovations from other places, even if they come from a VC-backed company, is very productive. don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, as they say
I always knew that bluesky was never meant to leverage anything open. It was always meant to be a closed-loop system. However, it cannot and never will control the fediverse.
You seem to, from what I'm seeing, have a basic understanding of how the AT protocol works but not how it is decentralized in practice, and I think you might be confusing it with ActivityPub's model of distribution, but I could be wrong. A lot of us in this thread have been trying to explain this but you seem to be dismissive about it instead of understanding. I totally understand as someone who was also like this but it helps to read up about the subject from those who currently work with the protocol itself.
I also feel that you believe that Mastodon is above the law because it doesn't have any official presence in areas where age-verification laws exist, however the Mississippi law that Bluesky is protesting, for example, applies nondiscriminately to all platforms, regardless of where they are based.
I really don't want to come off as saying that Bluesky is a better platform, rather that I want to hold you accountable for any "not invented here" biases that you might have.
Two separate discussions here. I'll start with the second one. This isn't about Mastodon the organization. Mastodon gGmbH is certainly not above the law. But even if Mastodon gGmbH was legally forced to block users from Mississippi, the only thing we could do is block them from mastodon.social. The fediverse does not have an owner that can make this call. Every operator decides this individually.
Yep, there's nothing really incorrect here (outside of that Mastodon is also responsible for mastodon.online). I should mention that this is also what Bluesky is essentially doing; they've blocked off access to the frontend that they control, while leaving the user data and relays that they host accessible. Anything built on their protocol can still communicate with it, and they do not have to implement geo-blocking because Bluesky does not control them.
I do understand your concern, however; there's nothing stopping them from outright blocking anything independently operated from pulling from their relays or directly from their PDSes themselves. But the same could be said about Mastodon instances through the practice of defederation.
Bluesky technically has the upper hand here because they architected their protocol in a way where each user is identified by a decentralized ID instead of a URI tied to a specific hostname, and full data portability i
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Yep, there's nothing really incorrect here (outside of that Mastodon is also responsible for mastodon.online). I should mention that this is also what Bluesky is essentially doing; they've blocked off access to the frontend that they control, while leaving the user data and relays that they host accessible. Anything built on their protocol can still communicate with it, and they do not have to implement geo-blocking because Bluesky does not control them.
I do understand your concern, however; there's nothing stopping them from outright blocking anything independently operated from pulling from their relays or directly from their PDSes themselves. But the same could be said about Mastodon instances through the practice of defederation.
Bluesky technically has the upper hand here because they architected their protocol in a way where each user is identified by a decentralized ID instead of a URI tied to a specific hostname, and full data portability is strictly specified, something that Mastodon only partially has an analog to, however it still remains a social issue because most people don't really want to move off of Bluesky servers at this time, or are even aware that it's an option.
The major difference between AT Proto and ActivityPub is that in ActivityPub, nodes communicate directly with each other, without relying on a third party. Mastodon (as an organization) could disappear along with mastodon.social overnight, and the fediverse would continue to function flawlessly (although you'd stop getting cool new software updates from us, until someone else stepped in).
In AT Proto, and Bluesky specifically, technically all components can be hosted by other parties, but the interdependency of these components favours control by Bluesky PBC. For example, if Bluesky PBC decides to ban your account from their relay, you could get indexed by another relay, but unless all your friends switched to an app view that uses that relay, it would be of little use to you.
Not to mention that the decentralized ID ledger is currently another central piece of infrastructure controlled by Bluesky PBC, so they could stop you from registering an account or moving it if they wanted to. Sure, DIDs have some advantages in terms of data portability, but at least usernames in the fediverse don't rely on a single authority.
Oh cool. Does that mean there's a BlueSky server someone from the state of Mississippi can join and actually see content on? @Gargron @jack @laurenshof @jsit @benroyce
That's not how ATProto works, but yes - there are ATProto constructs that enable folks from Mississippi to continue interacting with the network in the same way an ActivityPub server can.
jack and anuj are doing the doing the hand waving thing:
"yes bluesky is not decentralized, but like you can view twitter without being logged in, from anywhere, at any age, in this way someday bluesky can be decentralized, because there is a protocol to view something that bluesky users have nothing to do with"
it's about quasireligious devotion to a promise over reality with these types
So there is a *BlueSky* server someone from MS can sign up on now so they can see content on it, if not the rest of the *BlueSky* network? @quillmatiq @Gargron @laurenshof @jsit
I think you either don't understand how people sign up for the service and interact with it, or you're dancing (with jazz hands!). Either way, I've had enough. @jack @Gargron @laurenshof @jsit @benroyce
Not *anybody*, there are multiple third party relays and appviews in operation - look at microcosm.blue/
and you could argue that mastodon.social connects a lot of the fediverse. this morning I finished setting up this instance and when I boosted it from my old acc on mastodon.social the instances that federated with this GTS instance went up by over 100β¦ if you started blocking many instances, or had to shutdown, the fediverse would be very broken
I think what people need to understand is that using the Fediverse instead of Bluesky doesn't mean you aren't subject to these laws. It just means that the people who run your instance are more free to flaunt them if they choose.
I think what people are trying to say to you Eugen is that it might be advisable to tell Fediverse instance operators that this is something they should be aware of and make an informed decision about.
Presumably US (and EU, UK, etc.) residents do actually care about opening themselves up to potentially life ruining legal liability, as should board members of the Mastodon non-profitsβ¦
@jsit @bsky.app Sure. But there are fediverse servers that are operated from Japan, China, Switzerland, anywhere really. We have seen this when FOSTA/SESTA was passed in the US. The fediverse provided a refuge for sex workers through services in Austria and so on.
I think people are framing this as #Bluesky being self-serving or (cringe) "enshittifying," but what they're doing would also be a reasonable thing for a Fediverse instance owner to do.
@bsky.app@bsky.brid.gy does the law specific any way how to decide it a user is from MS? If not, why not just ask users "are you from MS?" and it they answer yes forward them to a specific page with information about why they can't user BSKY. And if the answer no you can just let them go about their business.
With legal challenges to this law pending, we cannot justify building the expensive required infrastructure. For now, we have made the difficult decision to block access in Mississippi. To learn more, read our blog post:
A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this lawβs implementation.
Oooh, ran into the manager of apparently the last Radio Shack in California (which is run by a ham radio operator, and all the employees are hams). It's in San Luis Obispo. Sounds like it's worth the trip and a stop if you ever are going through that area...
Here's their info... apparently they have tried to make this a *real* Radio Shack of the ham radio / electronics age, not the sad remnant that was the end of the giant chain...
@AI6YR Ben @Matt Blaze @run_atalanta π·π― If they have a ton of components AND their supplier is Allied, by golly Radio Shack will have come 'round full circle. Back to the future.
@mattblaze If you wait long enough, all your wishes for componentry will be satisfied by the staff working at Counter B, at least at the HQ store in Syosset. Were there also other branches? Can't recall.
Thrilled to see the name San Luis Obispo, as it recalls fond memories of ordering my stereo system from Warehouse Sound Company in the early 1970s.
Remember when hi-fi was kind of a big deal? Hinterlandia remembers.
"Mail-order stereo sounds at first like a legalized form of the old traveling medicine show; I mean, for many people a sound system is going to be the third most expensive item theyβll purchase in their lifetimes (after a house and a car) and is not the sort of purchase to be made sight unseen (or more to the point, hearing unheard). Still, if your alternatives are severely limited by geography, mail order is all thatβs left to you, and the unquestioned leader in mail order is Warehouse Sound of San Luis Obispo, California." rollingstone.com/music/music-nβ¦
I took this in 2021. Don't know if it's an actual Radio Shack or they just never took the sign down. It was Sunday AM so the store was closed, but it looked like an operating retail store.
@deewani @COD @AI6YR Ben I went to that website and discovered that Radio Shack was acquired by a global marketing group in El Salvador, so here's your advanced warning about tariff trouble, possibly. Since they're also providing jail service to Trump, could be they're exempt...for now...
@claralistensprechen5th @chrisod Itβs like Bed Bath and Beyond name being bought by Overstock to rebrand after their association with the orange one.
Miss "Lydia" shows us her screen with a temp of 97Β° at 11am while she works packing grapes in Bakersfield CA. The area is under an extreme heat warning meaning a high risk for heat illness especially among the elderly like herself, but she works out of necessity. #WeFeedYou #calor
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If the founding fathers witnessed the corruption and treason and fascism of the current President, they would not have impeached him. They would have hanged him.
A man who shared posts on his Facebook page backing Palestine Action has told how he was hauled from his bed by police and arrested on suspicion of breaking terror laws in a terrifying dawn raid.
Mat Cobb, 52, a part-time cleaner, is now facing potentially life-changing criminal charges after becoming the latest member of the public to fall foul of the controversial decision to ban the direct-action group.
Exclusive: Baroness Chakrabarti said the latest arrest demonstrates the dangers of the ongoing proscription of Palestine Action, which is being challenged in the courts
@futurebird This is the road to Stasi-style repression: watch what you say to who and when, you could arrested for your opinions.
The groundwork for the current wave of fascist style government isnβt a novelty invented by Trump, the groundwork for it was laid in βAnti-terrorismβ acts already underway and then amped up in 2001 in the UK, Canada, and the Homeland Security Act in 2002 in the US. People protested them then because they saw the potential for misuse.
@futurebird People protested: but of course in the grand scheme of things, most people just shrugged, and said, βyeah, things are broken, but the alternative is just as bad probably, and fighting is hard, and it wonβt really be used against me,β and then just got on with life. While others made jokes about βtowel-headsβ and learned better to weaponize hate, and to get others to accept more violence and oppression.
@futurebird The UK government can't fix the country's actual problems, so it's trying to fix made-up problems instead in the hope that people get confused between the two.
@passenger The UK government could fix the problems if the people who benefit from those problems not being fixed could just take the hit to their bank accounts and power.
@futurebird Honestly I'm not sure they could. The more I live here the more I think that the problems could have been fixed decades ago, but now they've become deepened to the point where the damage is now hurting the bank accounts of the wealthy instead of augmenting them, and even then they're powerless to fix it.
Like, even if you somehow gave me Stalin-level powers and a completely compliant population, I'm not sure I could fix things. I could turn the clock back a while on the collapse, but the problem persists. (That level of power would definitely corrupt me and make me a far worse person though.) Britain is a crowded island with an aging population accustomed to an unsustainably high standard of living, with decaying and incrementally-built infrastructure, with many of its natural resources exhausted and many others strained to the limit.
At most, all the government can do - whatever party is in power - is to pick scapegoats and punish them to distract peop
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@futurebird Honestly I'm not sure they could. The more I live here the more I think that the problems could have been fixed decades ago, but now they've become deepened to the point where the damage is now hurting the bank accounts of the wealthy instead of augmenting them, and even then they're powerless to fix it.
Like, even if you somehow gave me Stalin-level powers and a completely compliant population, I'm not sure I could fix things. I could turn the clock back a while on the collapse, but the problem persists. (That level of power would definitely corrupt me and make me a far worse person though.) Britain is a crowded island with an aging population accustomed to an unsustainably high standard of living, with decaying and incrementally-built infrastructure, with many of its natural resources exhausted and many others strained to the limit.
At most, all the government can do - whatever party is in power - is to pick scapegoats and punish them to distract people. More often, they let the Right-wing media pick the scapegoats for them, and just do the punishing bit. Socialists can't make it better, and there's a limit to how much worse fascists can make it.
Like many countries, I think collapse is coming, and I think it'll come sooner than people expect.
As Tolkien put it, "[I bring you] the doom of choice... none may live now as they have lived, and few shall keep what they call their own." The old world will die, but that doesn't mean we can't build a better one.
@passenger @futurebird Agreed. Short of an ecological event that wipes out human advancement; i.e. a solar storm that irradiates the planet, a meteor causing another Dryas event, or some other global catastrophe, I believe in humanity's innate goodness, hardiness, and ingenuity.
We can create a fair and equitable financial system. It is possible. The maths are right there. We just have to get rid of a few hundred people first. (And by get rid, of course I mean, convince them by rational argument, and not, for example by guillotine or firing squads. I would never suggest such a thing!)
@myrmepropagandist @Jules Facebook has been on a downward spiral for a long, long time though. Many FB people have left and the ones that remain have social groups to maintain, by and large.
If they even _name_ it after Alcatraz... Alcatraz was a _prison_, not a _jail_. You can't _detain_ someone in a _prison_. Detention is defined to be a short-term procedure. Usually limited to 72 hours.
They're really using the word _detain_ to mean _arrest_...
Does this mean Cosplay Kunty Noem must take off her MAGA political hat while serving in a federal "position"? Yea, I know she leaves it on for the cowboy position.
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