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  1. New updates to the US 3rd party idea...
    Made some changes considering that creating a party that just focuses as narrowly as this does might be counter-productive to adoption, so it's more of a broad platform plank or a type of caucus.
    #uspolitics #3rdparty #reform

    wadestewart.com/2026/03/21/the

  2. Dream Color Plus - Dreamcast Controller Can Emulate Your Favourite Retro Games (and a 2nd joystick)

    The Dream Color Plus really is the gift that keeps on giving. Fans of the Dreamcast have been rejoicing over the fact that Angelo Pontes, aka Nai Adventure, has shown off the new Dreamcast controller with two joysticks, finally righting a 28-year wrong. It always amazed me that it only came with one stick when the other consoles of the time were boasting two, and perhaps that’s one of the reasons why it didn’t succeed as well as the competition.

  3. "Waiting for Tonight" is a song written by Maria Christensen, Michael Garvin and Phil Temple. It was originally recorded by Christensen's #girlGroup #3rdParty for their debut studio album, #Alive (1997). Two years after the group disbanded, American singer #JenniferLopez recorded her own version of the song for her debut studio album, #OnThe6 (1999). #RicWake and Richie Jones produced Lopez's Hispanic #house version of "Waiting for Tonight".
    youtube.com/watch?v=_66jPJVS4JE

  4. CW: #Politics 3rd Party Idea

    Warning: Politics!

    I've been noodling around an idea for a 3rd party. I think it's kind of unique in the sense that is has a fairly limited scope as I conceived it.

    I lack the time, money, and frankly motivation to make something like this a reality but I recognize change never happens if an idea isn't shared.

    wadestewart.com/2026/03/21/the

    #politics #3rdparty

  5. "Waiting for Tonight" is a song written by Maria Christensen, Michael Garvin, and Phil Temple. It was originally recorded by Christensen's #girlGroup #3rdParty for their debut studio album, #Alive (1997). Two years after the group disbanded, American singer #JenniferLopez recorded her own version of the song for her debut studio album, #OnThe6 (1999). #RicWake and Richie Jones produced Lopez's Hispanic #house version of "Waiting for Tonight".
    youtube.com/watch?v=_66jPJVS4JE

  6. "Waiting for Tonight" is a song written by Maria Christensen, Michael Garvin, and Phil Temple. It was originally recorded by Christensen's #girlGroup #3rdParty for their debut studio album, #Alive (1997). Two years after the group disbanded, American singer #JenniferLopez recorded her own version of the song for her debut studio album, #OnThe6 (1999). #RicWake and Richie Jones produced Lopez's Hispanic #house version of "Waiting for Tonight".
    youtube.com/watch?v=_66jPJVS4JE

  7. With the source(s) offline, there's no way to confirm anything against the originals or even alert the author that there are issues.

    So... if you are using updatable #blocklists collected from #3rdParty sources and you're seeing issues that may be associated with DNS validation, it would be a good time to verify your sources... and that they haven't been compromised.

    /fin

  8. "It is not true that an #archivingsolution properly preserves the security offered by an end-to-end encrypted messaging app like #Signal. Ordinarily, only someone sending a Signal message and their intended recipient will be able to read the contents of the message. #TeleMessage essentially adds a #3rdparty to that conversation by sending copies of those messages somewhere else for storage. If not stored securely, those copies could in turn be susceptible to monitoring…"

    404media.co/the-signal-clone-t

  9. #Knockoff #3rdParty #Thinkpad #batteries, I tell ya.

    Who feels my pain? ;)

    2025-03-28 13:48 Battery 0: Not charging, 97%; Battery 1: Discharging, 73%, 08:18:18 remaining; 3.46108 W; uptime: 21 days, 16:14
        <system is in S3 suspend during this period>
    2025-03-29 20:24 Battery 0: Discharging, 78%, 01:53:07 remaining; Battery 1: Not charging, 0%; 3.339 W; uptime: 22 days, 22:50
    

    stuff-lined-up-prettily version:

    2025-03-28 13:48 Battery 0: Not charging, 97%;                     Battery 1: Discharging, 73%, 08:18:18 remaining; 3.46108 W; uptime: 21 days, 16:14
    2025-03-29 20:24 Battery 0: Discharging,  78%, 01:53:07 remaining; Battery 1: Not charging, 0%;                     3.339 W;   uptime: 22 days, 22:50
    

    compact version:

    2025-03-28 13:48 Battery 0: Not charging, 97%; Battery 1: Discharging, 73%
    2025-03-29 20:24 Battery 0: Discharging,  78%; Battery 1: Not charging, 0%
    

    Battery 0: internal genuine thinkpad battery
    Battery 1: knockoff LexCorp-procured battery

  10. I get the need to assign blame. I'm sorry, but if you're pointing at 3rd party voters, your blame is misdirected. *Especially* after this election, where they had zero influence in the outcome.
    #uspol #greenparty #3rdParty

  11. CW: US election

    @AndiPopp the election is all about stopping #trump and his #maga… and a reorganization of the #gop from #christifascism and back to fiscal responsibility

    So a vote for a third party candidate is a vote for #trump, #maga, and #christifascists

    I regret voting for Anderson back in 1980. That turned out to be a vote for #reagan

    You will regret voting #3rdparty

    Maybe someday we’ll have #rankchoicevoting, and we can vote our conscience as well as the lesser of two evils

  12. To the #leftists out there. You don't owe #liberals your vote, you don't owe them a damned thing, but you do owe #trans people, #disabled people, #LGBT people, #women, and disenfranchised people your vote. If you think Not #voting or voting #3rdparty will protect them then go ahead but if you have been paying attention to the election and the past presidency at all, you know that anything but a #Vote for #Harris will mean actively hurting all of these people. Both sides are complicit in genocide, but Trump will be even worse & everything I mentioned AND we will blow past 2C. this is not about voting FOR anyone. Its about making a chess move to protect as many people as possible. #Project2025 has people ready to hit the ground running to immediately start actively hurting these people. Also have fun losing all overtime pay, suckers.
  13. Arab-American and Muslim voters angry at US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza are shunning Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race to back third-party candidate Jill Stein in numbers that could deny Harris victories in battleground states that will decide the Nov. 5 election.

    #ArabAmerican #MuslimAmericans
    #Nov5
    #JillStein
    #genocide
    #Gaza
    #KamalaHarris
    #3rdParty
    #BattlegroundState

    khaleejtimes.com/world/muslim-

  14. Arab-American and Muslim voters angry at US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza are shunning Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race to back third-party candidate Jill Stein in numbers that could deny Harris victories in battleground states that will decide the Nov. 5 election.








    khaleejtimes.com/world/muslim-

  15. Arab-American and Muslim voters angry at US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza are shunning Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race to back third-party candidate Jill Stein in numbers that could deny Harris victories in battleground states that will decide the Nov. 5 election.

    #ArabAmerican #MuslimAmericans
    #Nov5
    #JillStein
    #genocide
    #Gaza
    #KamalaHarris
    #3rdParty
    #BattlegroundState

    khaleejtimes.com/world/muslim-

  16. Arab-American and Muslim voters angry at US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza are shunning Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race to back third-party candidate Jill Stein in numbers that could deny Harris victories in battleground states that will decide the Nov. 5 election.

    #ArabAmerican #MuslimAmericans
    #Nov5
    #JillStein
    #genocide
    #Gaza
    #KamalaHarris
    #3rdParty
    #BattlegroundState

    khaleejtimes.com/world/muslim-

  17. Arab-American and Muslim voters angry at US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza are shunning Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race to back third-party candidate Jill Stein in numbers that could deny Harris victories in battleground states that will decide the Nov. 5 election.

    #ArabAmerican #MuslimAmericans
    #Nov5
    #JillStein
    #genocide
    #Gaza
    #KamalaHarris
    #3rdParty
    #BattlegroundState

    khaleejtimes.com/world/muslim-

  18. There’s a lot of “Vote for xyz or zyx might win!” going on already in social media, with more than 5 months before an election.

    It’s a sign that people are used to a system so broken that they demand crutches.

    Personally, I detest that sort of fearmongering. With so much time left before an election, the candidates can and should be working harder to get the votes. Potential voters shouldn’t be smeared by their supporters for not settling so early.

    Every election is a negotiation between candidates and voters.

    I didn’t want to write about the crappy choices we have for President of the United States in 2024, but recent conversations on Mastodon just irk me a bit.

    To get votes, candidates have to convince voters that they’ll work on issues that are important to the voters. These should not be cults. These should be people with open eyes and realistic expectations, which is as hard to find these days as a technology announcement that doesn’t have ‘AI’ in it.

    The Negotiation.

    Everyone gets so stuck on votes, but the implicit issue is not the votes but what the votes are for. Votes are for ideals and issues, and we vote for candidates because of ideals and issues – and fear. Fear strips the power away from us. It makes us victims of our choices.

    To settle for a candidate 5 months and some weeks before an election when one could be demanding more of them seems like bad negotiation to me. It also seems like bad democracy. Candidates should be encouraged to be better candidates. As it happens, the United States is pretty polarized right now because of Trump, and the supporters of Trump will say it’s because of everyone who disagrees with them. There’s no middle ground when we look back at January 6th and the attack on the Capitol, we see just how divided we are – and how easily manipulated some are. It is something to worry about.

    That does not mean we shouldn’t negotiate. I wouldn’t go on record for voting for anyone this early into an election because it’s bad negotiation. We certainly don’t have all that we want. We also can’t get all that we want, but we can certainly negotiate better than, “OK, you have my vote, I’ll hope for the best Mr. Politician making campaign promises.” When you have one candidate farting up a storm in court, the other candidate has every opportunity to do better with 5 months+.

    The worst thing for democracy are elections so polarized that both sides vote out of fear. Everyone loses. There are no Trump supporters interested in changing the minds of Biden supporters, and vice versa. The fact that neither group of voters feels that their candidate is good enough is reflected in the fear mongering. It also shows a lack of confidence in their candidate. A candidate should be able to stand on their own two feet and attract votes. Any time you have to market a product so viciously, you have a shitty product.

    I’ll say this: there’s no way I’ll vote for Trump. That does not automatically mean that Biden gets my vote. Biden has to earn a vote, just like any other candidate, and while he may be the better candidate in my eyes, that does not yet make him a good candidate.

    People who are already saying that they’ll vote for their candidate are doing themselves a disservice in my eyes, which is always the problem when decisions seem so clear: The candidate doesn’t feel uncomfortable, the candidate doesn’t have to work as hard, and who suffers? The people, of course. When the President spoke at Morehouse and people were showing unity with Palestinians (not Hamas, as some like to color it), they were doing their jobs as members of a democracy, signaling to a candidate an issue that they care about enough to protest. The candidate may realize that they should do more, if they’re paying attention. That’s the point. That’s negotiating.

    What’s interesting is how campaign funding balances on issues like this. We’re seeing it play out with protests over what Israel is doing in Gazah. The unflinching support of the United States in killing civilians is not popular by any poll. How much is that campaign funding changing that?

    The Third Parties.

    Third party candidates are often judged based on how the two main political parties do.

    “So and so stole votes…” No, to steal something it had to have belonged to someone in the first place. The presumption alone that they belonged to the candidate in the first place is the height of disrespect. Had the candidate that lost spoke to the issues those people voted for, they probably wouldn’t have lost.

    Putting that on people who didn’t vote for the candidate effectively dismisses the issues that they feel are important, and it’s condescending. No one asks, “Hey, why didn’t you vote for my candidate?”

    The truth is that we do need stronger third parties because the parties we have aren’t too concerned about the voters. They dictate and manipulate issues because they always get to pull out the trump card , “But that other person might win and it will be the end of the world!”. I’ve heard that since… the days of Jimmy Carter, though I imagine I heard it much younger during the Nixon years.

    Third parties, in my eyes, demonstrate issues that the other parties aren’t concerned about. Young people should get involved with them or start their own, not because they have a chance of winning a presidential candidacy but because you nurture a seed to grow a tree, and the trees we have are old and rotten. Do I suggest spending a vote on them? It is not for me to suggest that, but you can grow a party without voting for them, by supporting them in other ways and making issues you care about get better visibility. Third parties may not win elections, but they certainly can make issues more visible.

    That’s an important function. And should those 3rd parties get votes, then it says that those issues meant something to the people who voted, more so than what the other candidates stood for or against.

    Losing votes to a 3rd candidate isn’t the fault of those that voted that way. It’s the fault of the candidate that lost those votes to a 3rd party candidate. Some people try to flip that around and say that voting for a 3rd party candidate is a wasted vote, and to an extent that might be true – but if it were a wasted vote, or a lost vote, it would have no value to the person that takes umbrage with it, and implicitly it dismisses the concerns of a fellow voter without even a fair hearing.

    Why? Because the system seems broken? It does seem that way. Yet if we concede that the system is broken and don’t do anything to fix the system, those 3rd parties may be the only path to fixing it since the two major parties don’t seem interested in doing so.

    Of course, we can just keep doing what we’ve been doing and expecting a different result. For me, any change will likely be beyond the scope of my lifetime; I’m on the downward slope. Yet there are those younger, coming up, who can make things just a bit better, incrementally, and deserve the opportunity to vote their conscience regardless of how others feel about it.

    Their future depends on it.

    https://realityfragments.com/2024/05/20/the-oversimplification-of-democracy/

    #life #perspective #democracy #politics #negotiation #uspolitics #Election2024 #3rdParty #candidate

  19. #AdTech:"Why are we repeating the same mistakes? Today we stand on the dawn of #cookiefree advertising, tasked with reimagining the world. Instead, we are dangerously close to a colossal failure of imagination. Our focus is on identity resolution graphs & hashed emails—the exact kind of tracking we had with #3rdParty cookies. Call it #SurveillanceCapitalism 2.0"
    v. @remixtures
    #CapitalistRealism
    admonsters.com/privacy-signals

  20. ABOUT #3rdparty CANDIDATES

    • Are they on EVERY STATE ballot?

    • It’s hard for #democrats to win electoral votes DESPITE winning the popular vote in every #Election since ‘92 (w/ exception of ’04)

    • 3rd party candidates KNOW this yet still do it. Ask yourself how much they care about #progress #equality #democracy & whether or not they are responsible for allowing a #dictatorship to take over‼️

    • This country has a LONG way to go before a 3rd party can win…
    #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

    #Politics

  21. Jupiter Rowland wrote the following post Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:52:12 +0200

    How to add your Hubzilla channel to Fediverse.info


    If you want to add your Hubzilla channel to the project-independent Fediverse People Directory at Fediverse.info, but you're struggling to get it submitted, here is a how-to which worked at least for me.


    Step 0: Obviously, you have to have PubCrawl activated. Being on Fediverse.info is kind of senseless without PubCrawl because it's mostly for a Mastodon audience. If you don't want to have PubCrawl on, stop right here and rely on Hubzilla's own directories instead.


    Step 1: Prepare your profile. If you've got multiple profiles, prepare your default profile. Edit it. Open the "Miscellaneous" tab.

    There you have to edit the "About me" field. It's the equivalent of the self-description on Mastodon, so it'll be your Fediverse.info profile text. Describe yourself there.

    At the bottom, add hashtags. Fediverse.info reads hashtags, but since it's built against Mastodon, it can't read Hubzilla's keyword field. It can only read hashtags from the "About me" field.

    Most importantly: Add the hashtag #fedi22. Fediverse.info won't add your channel without it.


    Step 2: Let the changes settle. Don't advance to the next step until at least 15 minutes later. Maybe do something else in the meantime. But don't forget what you were doing here.


    Step 3: Go to the Fediverse.info directory page (see the link at the top).. Click on "Add Account". Go on and confirm that you've added #fedi22 to your profile. If you haven't, go back to step 1 and 2 and come back to step 3 later.


    Step 4: Add your full channel URL. Only this works. Your Webfinger ID () does not, neither does your profile URL.


    Step 5: Click Proceed.

    You should get a message that includes the hashtags discovered in the "About me" field except for #fedi22. This means your channel has been added.


    This method might also work with (streams), only that Fediverse.info doesn't know (streams), and most (streams) instances don't identify as "Streams" anyway.


    #Fediverse #FediverseInfo #3rdParty #Directory #HowTo
  22. @njamster @Etheria @jonikorpi @ariel #Lemmy is the new space I'm optimistic about, but I am not certain it will hit critical mass in the same way Threads did. I really dislike the official Reddit android app, I can't share to it everything I could share to the #3rdParty #RedditIsFun app.