Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org

@andrew IANAL, and had already seen headlines about each of those, but still feel like the four minutes was worthwhile. Well done!

@mekkaokereke Thank you! This is so important to understand! Once the ball gets rolling, we can end up (and have ended up) with systemic racism even if somehow everybody individually is "not racist." (As if!) The effects of historic racism are still being felt today in nearly every area of life, even before adding in the fresh new racial horrors that never end.

I used to say "wake up, wypipo," but I guess that label has been co-opted, so... open your eyes, wypipo! A cop doesn't have to be a neo-nazi to be part of a system that has never quite moved past its history as "slave patrols." On top of that, many cops are actively neo-nazis too, so not only do we not make progress, we move backwards.

And all the while, people with their eyes still closed claim we've moved past racism because we elected a Black president.

🙄

@josephholsten @dave I guess I'd make a distinction between things that are irreducibly complex and things that are arbitrarily complex.

I don't think anybody can credibly claim that ActivityPub is irreducibly complex. It's really hard to make arbitrarily complex things simple, but that's key to widespread adoption.

Which is why Mastodon is what most people know of the fediverse. It's simpler.

@carnage4life I don’t think I’m buying it. That might explain Spotify, which will never be profitable, but it doesn’t explain the majority of layoffs, which are coming from companies with billions of dollars in the bank and billions of dollars of quarterly profits.

@dangillmor Texas state law prohibits this for plans that are vetted by the Texas Department of Insurance. Federal law applies more recently, too:

https://www.texmed.org/surprise/

If you work for an out-of-state company remotely, as I do, not so much.

@AshleyMarineP Gosh, yes! You nailed it! I kept thinking: would a woman director have ended this film this way? Why aren't women directors given the opportunity to make films like this, but with coherent endings?

Garland's endings have never been his strength, and his self-indulgence may be getting out of hand.

@malwaretech I think there's an objective benefit to living in the country you're born in and have citizenship in. Immigrating anywhere is pretty hard in ways that people born in that place don't have to deal with.

Whether that benefit outweighs the trouble of the specific country in question is a harder question.

For those who decide to leave the US, you should know that you still have to pay income taxes to the US no matter where you live, forever!

So that kinda sucks. I don't think the UK does the same thing.

@jasontucker @buzz Ideally, ultra popular websites and media sources would have their own instances, and could embed the post from their own instance's infrastructure.

For example, here's your post, but on @buzz's server: https://andersen.social/@jasontucker@simian.rodeo/109780507360319744

For now, everything I try to send to friends and family has my giant anime mugshot as the preview. It's horrible.

@zhivi @BlackMastodon Proud, though?

In theory, I don't think it's wrong to be proud of who or what you are, in addition to your accomplishments. Proud to be Black? Proud to be queer? Fine with me! Just "being" can be an accomplishment when an entire culture wants to erase you.

In practice, I'm not sure "white" people have much to be proud of on balance. There's so much to be ashamed of, and so much taking credit for the results of stolen labor and lives. If I start the game halfway between bases, how proud should I be that I managed to make it all the way there?

I'm proud to be an American sometimes, although not in a way that suggests I'd be any less proud if I were from any other country. More proud of what it aspires to be than what it is.

@zhivi @BlackMastodon What I like about being considered "white:" I don't fear much of anything.

I'm a "white" straight cisgender Christian man, so inasmuch as this broken country tries to do right by anybody, it tries to do right by me. I think that's probably nice, but it's the reality I've known since birth, so I don't *really* *truly* know what any alternative feels like.

@dave Gosh, yes. Even the simplest documentation I've found seems overly complex. When I've mentioned this, defenders say they don't want people implementing ActivityPub without thinking everything through. Which eliminates busy developers!

@bryantd those are some great movies! And also some good ones. I don’t think Jackie Chan has made a bad one.