#arseholes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arseholes, aggregated by home.social.
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THE FEDIVERSE CERTAINLY HASN'T
ABOLISHED ARSEHOLES 💎I spent part of this morning answering a fairly large pile of comments on my posts. And somewhere between my breathwork, lighting the fire and drinking my coffee, I noticed something.
NOBODY WAS BEING HORRIBLE.
People disagreed with me. People corrected things I said. People brought different experiences and different political views. There were jokes, arguments, questions and tangents. But almost none of that peculiar tension I became accustomed to on the big closed social platforms.
YOU KNOW THE FEELING.
Someone says something mildly contentious, and suddenly twelve strangers are preparing for the next Battle of Facebook. I haven't experienced much of that here. Perhaps I've simply been lucky. The Fediverse certainly hasn't abolished arseholes. Give humanity sufficient time, and I'm confident we'll manage to decentralise those too.
But I wonder whether something structural is happening? The giant platforms discovered that anger, fear and outrage are extraordinarily good at keeping human beings engaged. Conflict isn't necessarily an unfortunate side effect of the system. It can be profitable.
Here, there isn't one enormous corporation deciding what billions of people should see next in order to keep them scrolling. And perhaps that changes the temperature of the room.
THERE'S ANOTHER POSSIBILITY TOO.
Maybe our communities become partly what we practise in them. If disagreement is treated as conversation rather than combat, people begin behaving accordingly. I don't need everyone here to agree with me.
IN FACT, THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLY BORING.
I just rather like being somewhere where disagreement doesn't automatically require a body to reach for a flamethrower. So far, the Fediverse feels less like an audience being managed... and more like people talking.
I hadn't realised how much I'd missed that.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #OpenWeb #Community #flamethrower #ARSEHOLES
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Google is LLM horny.
All of a sudden I saw summarize this in Gmail.
Without my consent Google enabled LLM slop in Gmail.They call it smart features you have to turn it off per account, and need to check after every patch of Gmail if they turned it back on
This is only important on a simple tight spaced Android of mine. All others have open source clients
#LLM #slop #hallucinations #AI #programming #coding #Google #arseholes #gmail #smart #features
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CW: Too boring for words.
I am drafting a "rules of association". It is partly an exercise, and partly an guess at of something that may become real.
Starting with the standard rules for an "unincorporated association": (https://www.acnc.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021-07/download_template_rules_for_unincorporated_associations_with_notes_pdf_639kb_.pdf)
But I am tired of organisations infiltrated by arseholes, and I wonder if it is possible to put standards of behaviour front and centre.
I am inspired by Mastodon's "No Nazis", but I am not sure it is either specific, nor general enough.Please help. Does your group have something-like this? What have I missed, and, in the interests of sanity, what has been double-defined?
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17. Membership hurdles.
17.1 The association insists on the following psychological characteristics and standards of behaviour from all members.
17.2 No member will be accepted, and existing members will be expelled if they fail any of these hurdles.
17.3 The psychological characteristics. Members must not be:
i. psychopaths,
ii. sociopaths,
iii. narcissists,
iv. liars,
v. egomaniacs.
17.4 The standards of behaviour. Members must never indulge in :
i. crime,
ii. racism,
iii. misogyny,
iv. criticism of person,
v. aggression, threats, shaming,
vi. coercive control,
vii.prejudice, bigotry.
17.5 The association explicitly rejects the notion that a person’s ability can replace or diminish their need to clear these hurdles. The most able and talented member will be expelled if they fail.#rules #DarkTriad #constitution #legalese #IANAL #arseholes #governance
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I dunno who Matt Forney is, but either he's an idiot, or knows full well that the "Reichstag Fire playbook" is when a crisis is used as a pretext to ban parties, mass-arrest opponents, censor the press, and centralise power.
#USA #Politics #CharlieKirk #Nazis #CivilWar #Arseholes #4thReich #MAGA #GOP #Twitter #Bad #History
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I'm not sure they have a lot to choose from, given that Reform politicians typically seem to have all the intellectual capacity of a six-year-old.
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Agree with the old adage:
"opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one, and they all stink."
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CW: Swearing
Thank you to Queensland’s last LNP Premier, Campbell Newman The Supremely Fucking Ignorant, for cutting the funding to the eradication programme just before it succeeded in ridding Australia of these pests at their point of entry.
The “CanDo” man, who has now gone on to work in agricultural robotics and campaign for fascists - sorry “libertarians” - deemed that 80% eradicated was enough…
What an utter twat.
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Wow who would have thunk it would be NIMBY boomers stopping low cost housing
🙄
#News #Australia #Housing #HousingCrisis #boomers #NIMBY #Arseholes
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Great.. there's about 20 drunk football / afd supporters in the train. They are more and more aggressively loud as time moves on and beer (they have a beer tap) intake increases.
#bahn staff is invisible. A man with a teenage girl tried to find them but figured moving to the other side of the train was easier.
Does #DB actually have a telephone number to call or text for this?
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The Lunatics have taken over the Asylum…
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/18/24324142/nj-drone-sightings-politicians-wrong -
Can someone tell Tanya that correlation is not causation… please…
Yes you coal- and lead-addled berk, older kids have been getting a bit down lately, this might be because of the future that fossil fools like you are leaving them.
What a shame we can’t have a selective extinction that only affects climate change deniers…
#AusPol #ClimateCrisis #ArseHoles https://aus.social/@Spoon/113517817631548072
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Translation: Homophobic and transphobic bigots fear for their privileged lifestyle.
As is traditional the oppressors cloak their violent rhetoric in terms of their own - deeply perverted - fantasies of being oppressed.
#Christianity #Bigotry #AusPol #ArseHoles
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/labors-thought-hate-speech-laws-will-turn-nation-into-police-state-australian-christian-lobby-says-ntwnfb -
"vaccine skeptic" makes him seem ... well, like the kind of person that antivaxxers like to think they are: serious, flinty-eyed question-askers, rather than stubborn assholes stamping their feet and refusing to learn what can be fully known because they want some special hidden truth of their own.
Bravo!
#USPol #ArseHoles
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In nature it’s quite encouraging when you get a parasite that parasitises a different parasite - it shows your ecosystem is becoming more complex.
Aside from the schadenfreude seeing a known snake oil scammer get parasitised by other scammers this ecosystem complexity is not nearly so good…
#ai #scammer #antivaxxer #arseholes #australia #snakeoil https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/25/barbara-oneill-cancer-cure-promotion-ban-ai-ads-ntwnfb
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What Bill? You mean that the rapist and war criminal supporting hacks at Channel7 might go to the wall without being pumped up by money from the promoters of domestic violence in the gambling “industry”…?
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
#AusPol #Gambling #arseholes
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/13/gambling-ad-ban-labor-bill-shorten-tv-media-advertising-revenue -
Australian governments (and their contractors) are all truly deeply madly shitty at cybersecurity.
Scrub that, they suck at computers full stop. They all want to know where the “any” key is on a keyboard while cheerfully handing our data to any company that smiles and offers a political donation…
#auspol #australia #databreach #arseholes
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-18/medisecure-data-cyber-hack-12-million/104112736 -
Photos of Bassem Tamimi show stark contrast between Israeli and Palestinian treatment of captives – SKWAWKBOX
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/06/10/photos-of-bassem-tamimi-show-stark-contrast-between-israeli-and-palestinian-treatment-of-captives/ -
Kansas and the soldiers sent to the trenches of WWI gave us the 20th Century’s nastiest flu pandemic.
This time it’s going to be Texas and Twattery…
Make sure your flu jabs are up to date.
#antivax #arseholes #flu #milk #avianflu https://mastodon.energy/@jgkoomey/112442298986781804
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@theconversationau so the ghouls of the ALP have accepted that the Great Barrier Reef is already dead and are acting accordingly.
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Paranoid London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZi-WGh55M
#youtube_arteconcert #Paranoid_london_nuits_sonores #paranoid_london #paranoid_london_arte #paranoid_london_arte_concert #paranoid #london #nuits_sonores #nuits_sonores_2024 #nuits_sonores_arte #nuits_sonores_arte_concert #arte #concert #arte_concert #paranoid_london_nuits_sonores #live #music #electro #Arseholes #Liars_and_Electronic_Pioneers #acid_house #acid_house_music #2024 -
I small dent in this self-serving philosophy through which billionaires simply seek to justify and legitimize their wealth. #philosophy #arseholes
Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher | Elon Musk | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes?CMP=fb_a-technology_b-gdntech -
CW: Cynical post about appalling destruction of ancient structures #juukangorge
In Ireland I shall get to touch irreplaceable neolithic structures that haven't been blown up by multinational mining companies. #JuukanGorge #riotinto #arseholes
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No-one's talking about #LinkedIn in all the social media hubbub of the day but in case you were wondering, it's still full of #arseholes
