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Rant Ninja

@rant@mas.to

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So... don't follow me. It's just too much pressure. I abhor absolutes. In school, teachers would say "never" and I took it literally. But they didn't mean never, they meant mostly never and would chide or punish for not inferring their actual meaning.

I'm that guy.

Nuance, I learned, was vital to true communication of ideas and those who left it out weren't interested in teaching but obedience.

Tribalism follows the same form. I want better than that.

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Joined November 05, 2022

Rants:

Occasional

Jokes:

No

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Yes

Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 47mo ago

Replying to

@brianhough@mastodon.social @MorningDew@mastodon.world @Rairii@haqueers.com @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social @esqueer@mastodon.social Glad that's cleared up! I was genuinely amused by this revelation. I hadn't considered that Google & Apple would serve as a backstop to the Musk's "free speech" pandemonium but it seems obvious in hindsight. Twitter could not survive without being in those stores.

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 45mo ago

@pivoinebleue@mstdn.social he was an overachiever in Fake it Till You Make It.

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 31mo ago

@drgeraint@glasgow.social @JamesGleick@zirk.us Yup.. But also this decision was wrong.

Geraint (@drgeraint@glasgow.social) - Glasgow.social

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 31mo ago

@dhfabian@mstdn.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social "Hang Mike Pence" while in body armor and breaking into the building doesn't come off a little insurrectiony?

Where is the line? You actually have to successfully hang him?

dhfabian (@dhfabian@mstdn.social) - Mastodon 🐘

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 31mo ago

@drahardja@sfba.social Ah, the never ending quest to make company leaders internalize negative externalities.

I'm less worried about SpaceX (under the jurisdictions of FCC, NASA, USSF with considerable expertise) and more worried about other nation mega-constellations. In this case, I believe our best bet is to lead by example (eg set stringent internal regs).

The skies should belong to all humans & if multiple mega-constellations can't co-exist then Starlink may need to be regulated as a public utility.

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 32mo ago

That upside down S is total madness! Why would they do that?

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 47mo ago

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@brianhough@mastodon.social @MorningDew@mastodon.world @Rairii@haqueers.com @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social @esqueer@mastodon.social did I somehow stutter, everyone is responding with the obvious? I was merely saying that if Twitter abandons its own moderation then it will have to adapt to Apple's content policies ergo Apple sets Twitter's content moderation policy. I wasn't commenting on whether this is good or bad just implying that Twitter will be unwilling to lose access to iOS devices.

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 47mo ago

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@brianhough@mastodon.social @Rairii@haqueers.com @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social @esqueer@mastodon.social so now Twitter's content moderation policy is actually set by Apple? Lol.

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 46mo ago

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@Robotbeat @automatid @paulg @Balaji I can certainly see an argument that quote-posts should be limited to people with large followings or a public presence. Being able to quote politicians or celebrities or others who use public goodwill to make a living seems like a no-brainer. Using quoting to harass, intimidate or undermine people not in the public sphere is also completely unacceptable.

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 46mo ago

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@Robotbeat @automatid @paulg @Balaji look at history... Did our forbearers not mock the King and his Lords in our pursuit of freedom? Do you never mock the rich & powerful? Even Jesus wasn't so saintly as to avoid pointed criticism of the powerful. Criticism they, no doubt, considered unfair harassment. So, I wonder where you draw the line?

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 46mo ago

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@paulg If you are testing this idea for sharing on Twitter please don't! 😄 It is almost certainly a function of fewer people who are early adopters than intrinsic function of the network.

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 31mo ago

@gnometsunami@mastodon.social @popcornreel@mas.to Respectfully, that's just not the case. Prohibitions on poll taxes, for example. The feds can set and have set certain standards for federal elections and the court has previously ruled the states cannot make up their own eligibility requirements for Congress, for example.

You can imagine how started might abuse the ability to disqualify candidates -- look at how they gerrymander.

mastodon.social

Gnome Tsunami (@gnometsunami@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 45mo ago

@Bobbin370 what a world to have lived in

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 45mo ago

I'm thinking of a writing experiment. It's really tough right now and I am reminded of friends lost, both those who have left this world and those who don't wish to associate with me. I miss them but I can't really blame them, at least not too terribly much.

Was I there for them in their hours of need?

And yet I can feel it weighing upon me.

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 47mo ago

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@kynyc@mas.to It'll be less than ideal, people's preference for native apps is a given but with browser notifications and a dedicated effort to make it highly functional. You're absolutely right, thanks for the correction.

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 47mo ago

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@smashcutt@mastodon.sdf.org yep. But you know what scares me more than unabashed Nazis who are so blatantly obvious and sometimes just trolling for attention. Alex Jones and his type. Con man liars scare me far more than the pathetic movement of unabashed Nazis. Put another way, I don't want to hear Nazi propaganda but if your forthright in your bigotry then we can intervene. The liars and manipulators. The purveyors of misinformation. They are a far greater danger, they claim innocence while doing evil.

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Rant Ninja @rant@mas.to

· 47mo ago

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@skymtf@tech.lgbt Oh, don't I know it. One of my lesser but still considered reasons for not having an iphone is having to commit to their worldview on what is and isn't acceptable.

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