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blogdiva

@blogdiva@mastodon.social

am liza sabater, the og blogdiva & resident afroboricua #antifa #dyslexic #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD tití.

surviving breast #cancer is my F/T job; but #dogs, #cats, #sports, #sewing, #cooking and #Monsterdon give me the energy to continue chronicling American fascism.

so #fuckCancer & #COVID19, join a #union & fight for #UBI & #Medicare4All

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patrickworld, to random
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Subtitles in movie theatres NOW. I will not back down on this

blogdiva,
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@patrickworld LOL move to Puerto Rico (but you'll have to learn Spanish for that). there used to be a theater here in nyc that would show movies subtitled in English. i can't remember the name right now.

blogdiva, to Israel
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THE HEADLINE OF THE CENTURY:

"Blinken says more civilians in Gaza have been killed than terrorist"

i officially hate Anthony Blinken. he's a genocide triangulating sociopath.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

cstross, to random
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Deeply telling about how far the Overton Window has shifted in 40 years that Ronald Reagan took a harder line with Israel than Joe Biden, never mind Mitt Romney.

(But then, per wikipedia Romney was best buds with Benjamin Netanyahu at university. So this tracks.)

blogdiva,
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@cstross i don't think Biden has ever found a fascist he hasn't liked¹. maybe Putin... maybe. he's the kind of machiavellian that thinks he's outsmarting them with his 3rd-way magic. triangulation is a cult, right up there with tech optimism and whatever the fuck that cult behind AI is called. it's the Clintonian attempt at "kindler, gentler" fascist realpolitik. the older i get, the more i hate Bill Clinton for successfully selling fascism-lite to the masses.

¹ Sturm Thurmond was his mentor.

blogdiva, to Eurovision
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THANK YOU EUROPEANS FOR EMBRACING THE FEDIVERSE 👍🏾
don't believe the hype about Twitter blowing up thanks to mainstream media journalism.

NOPE.

Twitter exploded in 2010 due to the #WorldCup #Olympics and #Eurovision. that year alone it broke signup records thanks to Brasil, Argentina & Venezuela.

natural events like the #Eclipse #Aurora show the power of distributed social media. with #Eurovision and the #Olympics this summer, the #fediverse is on its way to make techbro sites irrelevant.

blogdiva,
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BTW i love that #Mastodon has a translation option but why is it not on all posts? what triggers the translation link?

  1. the translatable post comes from a different localized instance? so the translation is happening on the instance i am at.

or

  1. the post comes from an instance with a translation plugin? so, it's their instance doing the translation not my instance.

i use the deck on Librewolf. had to install a translation add-on. my 5½ languages aren't enough for #Eurovision 😋

blogdiva, to nyc
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the #Aurora struggle is real here in #NYC. the fog makes the light #pollution worse 😔

#astrodon #NorthernLights

jwz, to random
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Blockchain Rasputin over here is mad that moderation exists.

It has been obvious to anyone paying attention that the reason Dorsey founded and funded Bluesky was with the end goal of enabling Twitter to go [Spider-Man Pointing dot GIF] any time an...
https://jwz.org/b/ykQM

blogdiva,
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BLOCKCHAIN RASPUTIN 🤣 💀 ⚰️ 👻

@jwz

GIF of the old guy Muppets laughing

psoul, to SanFrancisco
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I just want the sun to set to see the #aurora in #SanFrancisco

blogdiva,
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@psoul SAME! it's still too bright here in NYC and it's 7:50PM. supposedly we should see something between 10PM and 2AM. good thing am an insomniac.

blogdiva, to random
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will we be able to see the #aurora here in NYC 🥺

blogdiva,
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OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG we might get to see the #aurora light show after all. this is the latest 30-minute forecast from #NOAA

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast

#NYC #astrodon

blogdiva,
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@Meyerweb 😟 am in Manhattan; but saw pics people took from Paris, Berlin and London, so we'll see 🙏🏾

blogdiva, to Israel
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Chris Van Hollen can go fuck himself. he was handpicked by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi for his MIC street cred. FFS Netanyahu has a minister that we don't even know if he is still in the USA terrorist list Israeli media says he's been in since, at the very list, 2007.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4657419-chris-van-hollen-us-report-israel-war-conduct-woefully-inadequate/?utm_source=press.coop

#Israel #WarCrimes #genocide

blogdiva, to random
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🤣 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/barron-trump-florida-delegate-rnc
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣

🗣️ WE'RE ROOTING FOR YOU, BARRON! YOU GOT THIS! 👍🏾

#Trump #GOP #USpol

blogdiva, to HipHop
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if you had told me there was a woman trying to make harps happen with #hiphop flavored #jazz in this 21st century i would have given you the side-eye; yet here i am listening to a piece by Alina Bzhezhinska, and her Hip Harp Collective and am pleasantly surprised.

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=1Xhi3ZfDwjA

#music

mbonsma, to random
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The pedal bike clicked for my 4-year-old this week. His grin, his squeals of laughter, his "I'm going really fast! This is fun!" while we ride beside him - one of the best feelings I've ever had as a parent.

blogdiva,
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@mbonsma it's so lovely, isn't it? i miss those squeals of delight. my guys are in their 20s now. they're still biking though 👍🏾

blogdiva, to random
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fuck Thomas Friedman

blogdiva,
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@JoscelynTransient it's the utter contempt for anybody to the left of Mussolinicrats.

i resent that this fuckwad gets paid to air his hatred for whatever Left boogeyman he's concocted for the delight of the fascistocracy.

i hate his fake objectivity. he's just as corrupt as Trump for selling himself to normalize violence with his brand of 'white moderate'.

fuck that guy.

lzg, to random
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hell yeah i found The Dress of Many Requirements (it only needs some light alterations!)

blogdiva,
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@lzg a little fitting in the back and you're ready to go. you look lovely.

lzg, to random
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taking a tiny shredder to meetings and a print out of your bad ideas

blogdiva,
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@lzg that has to be the most idiotic if not ridiculous display of state-sanctioned despondency i have ever witnessed in my life. they really out here throwing social contracts into tiny paper shredders, LMAO

blogdiva, to music
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in today's MY PEOPLE ARE SO SPECIAL i just listened to a woman (sorry, didn't get her name) singing about how when you finally get to taste her guayaba, you'll never forget the experience 🧐

#music #PuertoRico #Cuba #RepDominicana #Haití #afroLatinos

blogdiva, to climate
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"Oil companies may soon have to pay for Vermont’s climate recovery | Ars Technica"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/vermont-close-to-becoming-first-state-to-charge-big-oil-for-climate-damage/

blogdiva, to Palestine
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PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA PALESTINA

https://elpais.com/internacional/2024-05-10/la-onu-aprueba-por-mayoria-ampliar-los-derechos-de-palestina-como-estado-observador.html

#Palestine

blogdiva, to music
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am listening to Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico and i just reckoned that, with some interruptions, i've been listening to this station for almost 50 years.

here's the link to their stream
http://streaming.radiouniversidad.pr:8062/;

KathyReid, to stackoverflow
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Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their code wasn't working, or assist with a bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train models, like , without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's .

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of , it's also a salient lesson for folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

blogdiva,
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@DoesntExist @astrojuanlu @j3j5 @KathyReid does derivative include closing off access to the content behind a paywall? has that been turned into an interpretation of the license?

dangillmor, to random
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Not the Onion (though if it was on that site we'd all have a good laugh at the fine satire).

Sadly, but predictably, it's in the New York Times.

"Stormy Daniels as We Had Never Seen Her

During her time on the stand in former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial, the adult entertainer dressed for history — and a jury."

h/t @jeffjarvis

blogdiva,
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@dangillmor @jeffjarvis disgusting.

the thing about fascism is that their adherents need to corrupt everything in sight to justify not just their worldview but their politics. and because they need a hierarchy of corruption, their servants become part of a kakistocracy.

NY Times may have seemed to have never been part of that kakistocracy but it's clear it has always been. it's just that as with anything to do with dark tetrads at a social scale, the mask is now off.

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