ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

@ufoi I've updated my server Magpie's rules to reflect the #UFoI Code of Ethics. Because it's such a small instance and I have a personal IRL relationship with all its users, I hadn't bothered to post official server rules before. It feels good to have the UFoI code there now.

Several Mastodon instances (including Newsie) have come under cyber-attack recently by state-level actors.

If you are the admin of a Mastodon Instance that overlaps arts, human rights, civil society, journalism, or democracy and would like FREE cyber security protection from Cloudflare as part of Project Galileo please reach out as Fourth Estate is a long-time Project Galileo partner

See: https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/

There are few of us now left alive
It’s what elders wistfully speak to as we become
Looking at photos of faces freeze framed in a hazy star dust of time
Nostalgia is not what rises to mind
I dance to music when no one’s around
I raze again secrets buried deep in the ground
Oh we who remain breathe with grace of privilege
We are free to step into our grey denouement
No tears for friends marked forever young
Hush gratitude no regrets for the wild days we shared

#Poem

Loved this New Yorker interview with Cory @Doctorow / @pluralistic , ranging from the topics of cyberbunk to big tech regulation to how he manages to be so absurdly productive.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/cory-doctorow-wants-you-to-know-what-computers-can-and-cant-do
Two things, though. One, GTD is a super system but it doesn't, by itself, ensure Doctorow levels of productivity. For that you also need to be a demigod.
Also, the FT got the interview first, back in the day. A good lunch!
https://timharford.com/2013/07/cory-doctorow-has-lunch-with-the-ft/

"Woke" literally means anti-racist

"Antifa" literally means anti-fascist

If someone is "against" these what does it say about them?

#antifa #woke #racists #fascism

On Ching-t’ing Mountain
 
The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.
 
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
 
--Li Bai

#Garfield

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel grew up in #Apartheid, South Africa. This is a good article about the historic and modern relationship between South Africa, Apartheid and the Nazis.

At a certain point, it can’t be denied that the Nazis never went away at all. In fact, they just burrowed into certain families and found their way back to the highest levels of the elite.
https://www.newframe.com/a-history-of-south-african-nazis/

https://www.defendkidstx.com/

Is a hate site for people to report drag shows. It's currently being flooded with leftist reports in an attempt to overwhelm them.

I sent them a few myself for fun. Only I gave the addresses of RNC headquarters in various Texas cities. Send some if you wish.

#ACAB #anarchist #antifascist #LGBTQ

So. . . the people who lied to obtain their spots on the Supreme Court . . what the fuck are we going to do about them?

Also, what are we going to do about the justice who tells jokes demonstrating his unfitness for the position he holds?

every night when the lights go out there is a war between the forks and the spoons. the knives - the most formidable of all - are, ironically, pacifistic.

JOB: Randolph-Macon College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of English specializing in African American Literature to begin September 1, 2023. https://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=178208271&utm_source=12_07_22&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JobAgentEmail

The pixie's parasol mushroom (Mycena interrupta), found in Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.

Photo Credit: Steve Sargent
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sargimuss/26650626112

#nature #photography #fungi

My sister’s cat gets into the holiday spirit. #catsofmastodon

I've had to delay this a few days due to work and finals, but here we are.

Mastodon has a huge racism problem. My girlfriend pointed it out and I started looking into it and realizing just how bad it was here. It was stupid of me to hope that a decentralized network would somehow not still reflect the white supremacy ever-present in our world.

So, with the small power I have, I'm trying to raise awareness. I added a section on content moderation (specifically the second paragraph) to Mastodon's #wikipedia article, to make sure the issue is a matter of public record and the ways it can be addressed are as well.

If you can talk about killing Nazis and stomping out racists and fascists, you should not be afraid to #fediblock them online. Protection of the most marginalized is as important in the digital commons as it is in the physical one and if this space isn't to devolve further into a white circle-jerk then protection of BIPOC comrades should be the first priority. Report and block fascists and racists.

Don't look to me for any answers, I get some racism and islamaphobia but I still only pass the brown paper bag test if the bag is one of the slightly lighter ones. Follow hashtags such as #BlackMastodonHistory, #BlackMastodon, and #BlackFedi, shut up, and listen. Not just hear, but listen and take action. Don't argue, don't ask questions requiring labor when you could just google the answers ffs, don't prize whiteness and civility over action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)#Content_moderation

This week on the Dirty Sexy History podcast, we talk to Dr Anne Linton, author of the groundbreaking new book Unmaking Sex.

The book focuses on #intersex and gender-nonconformity in 19th century French life and literature, and we also discuss marriage laws, medical erotica, popular fiction, and permits for pants!

Streaming now across all major platforms!

#histodon @histodons #podcast #19thcentury #lgbtqia #sexinhistory #genderstudies

A quick thing — can you please boost?

I'm looking for an an artist to commission a character design piece for noncommercial public use. Since this piece would depict an agender character, I would love if a trans or nonbinary artist could be the one I commission!

If you know of anyone who has commissions open that seems a good fit for this, please let me know!

"The biggest danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening, when in fact almost nothing is being done — apart from clever accounting and creative PR." - Greta Thunberg at #COP25, 2019