I’ve heard someone refer to current capitalism as emergent paperclipers and I’m fucking terrified

you also do your best to divest responsibilities from those potentially powerful entities one of the reasons it’s so important to have community driven curation and moderation is so that doesn’t get done by these powerful aggregators, because that becomes the mechanism of control over people

now let’s talk about his thing about the BGS — the aggregators in the network — and whether those are sufficiently decentralized I agree: aggregator nodes have power. not a small amount.

HOW CAN CAT BE SO FLOOFY?!

if not friend why friend shaped

They're just big kitties

Fun fact, Twitter pre Elno had a bot that detected Nazis fairly accurately. It was deployed in Germany to comply with their laws. Why did they not deploy it in the US? Because it kept flagging republican politicians. Hmmmm

My grandfather was stationed in Germany, well after World War II and during a time without battle, and was kicked out of the army. I never knew this, so I asked why they kicked him out. He said "fighting nazis" We asked "where were you fighting nazis?" He said "the bar" Anyways, RIP grandpa

Chefs kiss? d-do they really??