Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

#seattle! a few of us are already here at rachel’s!! eeeeee 🥳🥳

#seattle! today is the day for our toot up! let’s start at *rachel’s ginger beer on 12th at 330pm* because of weather!

based on favs & boosts it should be between 10 to 50 people (lol) SO EXCITE 🥳 i’ll be wearing a Maryland flag mask (it’s my home state!) see you soon?

@ojensen @adamshostack I am completely blown away by this.

mastodon tip for newbies: you can make your own posts on here, you dont have to just screenshot other peoples posts from twitter and tumblr

"Building a Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT"

This article is the most fun AI related content I have read all year.

https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/

What worries me a bit here is that in trying to preserve some of these systems, there'll probably be a lot of folks pushing tech designed to *prove* humanness to combat it. And politicos and regulators are less likely to hear that and think "guess they should use creative CAPTCHAs" and more likely to think "oh, people should upload passports", and that's gonna be a whole new shitshow

pivot to video

PIRATE 1: *folding up map* with any luck, the treasure will soon be ours

PIRATE 2: i hope at the end it turns out that the real treasure was the friendships we made along the way

PIRATE 1: *rubbing bridge of nose* larry, i swear to god...

As we watch Elon Musk slide into rightwing radicalization in real time, I’m reminded of this 1941 piece by Dorothy Thompson.
“Who goes Nazi?”

In short: it is the people who love money and status and power that are at risk.
Those who resist the urge are the people who have a solid family life; a job they love for the work, not the money; a moral framework based on pluralism and equal access to opportunity.
Worth a read. #nazi #Twitter #liberal

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

mining old KNZK posts out of other peoples' boosts like copies of scrolls lost in the burning of the library of alexandria

What we’re seeing with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes is the beginnings of what could become a multi-racial Christianist coalition organized around antisemitism.

While we might want to dismiss what we’re seeing as “crazy,” I suggest we take it seriously and monitor it closely.

As we saw with Trumpism, people—by which I mean human beings regardless of political views—are drawn to spectacle.

What’s happening is very, very dangerous.

#antisemitism
#KanyeWest
#NickFuentes

“I know you think you’re being funny, but honestly Dave, it’s just hurtful.”

I was thinking about what @SlaytheSystem said today about rail workers deserving to have their lives back, to have some time with their family.

The longest my dad was away from us (in the early 80s, Navy) was 11 months. It was supposed to be 6 months but got extended. I was in kindergarten, I think? When we picked him up at the ship, I didn't even recognize him, and actually asked him where my dad was. 😢

I don't want #rail workers' kids to have that kind of experience. The workers aren't even asking for much! And if people think a #strike would "ruin Christmas," then I think their priorities around #Christmas are a wee bit misplaced.

#RailWorkers #RailStrike #LaborRights

if you're a crypto lobbyist trying to convince me to become pro-crypto because it would be good for my "career", please at least have the self-respect to not also try to take the "woman to woman" angle

I notice this happening on multiple social media sites, and it always contributes to the death of social networks:

1. Progressives tend to be early adopters because they usually create culture
2. Reactionaries tend to be late adopters because they usually consume culture
3. Reactionaries then try to seize power because the culture isn't to their liking
4. Progressives leave because they want to create culture
5. Then reactionaries leave because no culture is being created

Ex: see screenshot.

this ChatGPT thing is pretty good