So, genuine question -- how does that happen here?

isn't the point of the bluesky for things like that not to happen here?

okay, so I hate Vanilla Sky the most.

But I think I'm either choosing Ultraviolet, or better yet Valerian because they SHOULD have been good based on previous work and this would be a good chance for a do-over

(equilibrium and 5th element would be the predecessors there)

Y'all, I work in an otherwise VERY COOL college innovation lab thing

So you have to swipe your card, but for a while they were testing/experimenting with a face recognition thing (that I always called creepy)

it got people WRONG (as in, IDENTIFIED INCORRECTLY) twice

just GUESS their race

Fair, and also this was true about 20 years ago when it was called e.g. an iphone

Y'all, so sorry, but I gotta go full Hotep here.

The return of Kanye ain't being pushed by US, it's being pushed by THEM.

My most favorite quasi example of this, Black experience in a PWI college. There were two people in my freshman class, a Keisha and a Wakeisha

except no, as some discovered, that's wrong. There were two Keishas and one of them happened to be Caucasian

Ay, Black people, did y'all have doubles in your neighborhoods...? Like, multiple people with the same name? And if SO, how did y'all differentiate...? For example, in my hood, we had two Alans, two Danas, two Ebonys, & two Crystals. One was "Alan w/ the big head"....? Dana with the big head...?!?

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Bluesky/ATProto is the most dangerous model -- even more dangerous than twitter -- if you believe that there is value in "deleting your data"

Not just this piece; like most all "political conversations" imagine this sort of free fishbowl where Dems could literally just do whatever they want and choose not to

Today, tech people discovering what black voters already knew about Bernie Sanders

Never has "rejecting the career politicians" ever been a winning strategy.

Love new blood, but too many of you have to *grow up*

FWIWTwitter is presently absolutely the home of some amazing and difficult and definitely necessary discourse on the tension between

"Epstein proves that all men are potential predators"

and

"All men are predators is extremely adjacent to, if not overlapping with, what killed Emmitt Till"

It's not a "failure"

It's representative of the fact that Black folks are the most savvy group when it comes to politics and power -- for example, we generally collectively understood that "Abolish the Police" is a stupid-ass slogan that will NEVER play well enough to accomplish anything real.

Exactly. Once was very interesting and useful. I could see maybe even once every few months

A whole ass club feels like hyper-overkill

Hmmm. I do remember forcing myself to listen to Rush Limbaugh for an hour, and one part that *really struck me hard* wasn't the obvious stuff -- but the EXTREME intellectual inconsistency on *not* hot button stuff. Like "Taxes are always bad" and then 10 min later "well, of course you need taxes!"

Make it viral.

And I'm sorry you're so comfortable throwing a label like "alleged abuser" at a Black man in this country, but hey

I am. It seemed weird but not disqualifying.

ehh I wish too

but like, the guy has nuclear codes and who knows what else

Now perhaps might be a good time for the reminder of a truth always obscured:

Black People (not Black "women" -- ALL BLACK PEOPLE - ) are the practical always-voting correctly BASE of the Democratic party -- which in turn makes them the moral center of voting in America.

Right?

I'm starting to realize you can save time by just counting the number of times people use the word "I" when you ask the question

No it isn't.

If you are aware and able to vote in an election, and you can percieve *any* difference in potential harm between the two candidates...

Then not voting is a choice to NOT engage in harm reduction and thus, to cause harm.

You who do this should feel bad about yourselves.

Op may be right and *you're definitely wrong that it is impossible*

Sorry if you're weak or whatever, but folks like myself (Black, it may matter) are well used to living, existing, being in hostile spaces and keeping our heads, strategically if we think there may be value.

As a Black person familiar with also his own parents' struggles and stories politically

frankly...the entirety of this discussion is *very weird to me.*

Y'all, ATProto is pointless and it just hit me why.

It's too complicated. Ok, so then your response will be "then we can educate and hold hands and explain and gain trust"

You do THAT and *boom* you ALREADY just solved the problem with humans that you were just trying to solve with complex tech.

Facts. The related idea that I've been working with is -- we shouldn't focus on being *nice* to the opposition, which kind of implies *being mean* -- but I've been reframing that into - "they want a drill sergeant/ mean father" type. The "meanness" needs to be there regardless of like or dislike

So true, and the Masto people -- well meaning -- mostly DID NOT HELP by "overcorrecting" WAY hard.

(sadly, in my experience, **especially** the Black people)

whoo don't get me started.

Honestly, I think Masto missed its moment by not going hard *with big companies* after the eli lilly thing, but of course that's the opposite of most of the masto ethos

Um -- so I like the theory and vibes

But an *ID* is the literal opposite of anonymity.

This really doesn't make any sense.