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Outside the Default Path: A Pagan Reading of the Federal “Anti-Christian Bias” Report

https://pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/outside-the-default-path-a-pagan-reading-of-the-federal-anti-christian-bias-report/

‘Managerial’ secularism becoming commonplace across Europe, says rights group

The Stiftskirche church in Stuttgart, Germany. (Photo: Getty/iStock) Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) says that governmental restrictions on religions…
#Europe #EU #European #FoRB #freedomofreligionandbelief #HumanRightsWithoutFrontiers #Islam #publicsquare #religiousminorities #religious-freedom #secularism
https://www.europesays.com/europe/34032/

"On #openprotocols, individual providers may address threats within their own systems, but lack the network-wide capacity to address coordinated activity across infrastructures or protocols. This is a gap that commercial actors have little incentive to address…
This points to the safety and integrity of the #publicsquare being coordinated as a critical #publicfunction, backed by #publicfunding. The practical implication is a core of publicly provisioned infrastructure."
https://openfuture.eu/blog/public-money-public-platforms/

"On #openprotocols, individual providers may address threats within their own systems, but lack the network-wide capacity to address coordinated activity across infrastructures or protocols. This is a gap that commercial actors have little incentive to address…
This points to the safety and integrity of the #publicsquare being coordinated as a critical #publicfunction, backed by #publicfunding. The practical implication is a core of publicly provisioned infrastructure."
https://openfuture.eu/blog/public-money-public-platforms/

"On #openprotocols, individual providers may address threats within their own systems, but lack the network-wide capacity to address coordinated activity across infrastructures or protocols. This is a gap that commercial actors have little incentive to address…
This points to the safety and integrity of the #publicsquare being coordinated as a critical #publicfunction, backed by #publicfunding. The practical implication is a core of publicly provisioned infrastructure."
https://openfuture.eu/blog/public-money-public-platforms/

"On #openprotocols, individual providers may address threats within their own systems, but lack the network-wide capacity to address coordinated activity across infrastructures or protocols. This is a gap that commercial actors have little incentive to address…
This points to the safety and integrity of the #publicsquare being coordinated as a critical #publicfunction, backed by #publicfunding. The practical implication is a core of publicly provisioned infrastructure."
https://openfuture.eu/blog/public-money-public-platforms/

"On #openprotocols, individual providers may address threats within their own systems, but lack the network-wide capacity to address coordinated activity across infrastructures or protocols. This is a gap that commercial actors have little incentive to address…
This points to the safety and integrity of the #publicsquare being coordinated as a critical #publicfunction, backed by #publicfunding. The practical implication is a core of publicly provisioned infrastructure."
https://openfuture.eu/blog/public-money-public-platforms/

If you didn't know, the #NationalCivilRightsMuseum has a podcast. I really enjoyed this interview with #DrCornelWest. Give it a listen.

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/imagineanamerica/episodes/The-Courage-to-Love-Building-the-Beloved-Community-with-Dr--Cornel-West-e3594l9

#civilrights #podcast #imagine #cornelwest #publicsquare #courage #love #MLK

If you didn't know, the #NationalCivilRightsMuseum has a podcast. I really enjoyed this interview with #DrCornelWest. Give it a listen.

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/imagineanamerica/episodes/The-Courage-to-Love-Building-the-Beloved-Community-with-Dr--Cornel-West-e3594l9

#civilrights #podcast #imagine #cornelwest #publicsquare #courage #love #MLK

If you didn't know, the #NationalCivilRightsMuseum has a podcast. I really enjoyed this interview with #DrCornelWest. Give it a listen.

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/imagineanamerica/episodes/The-Courage-to-Love-Building-the-Beloved-Community-with-Dr--Cornel-West-e3594l9

#civilrights #podcast #imagine #cornelwest #publicsquare #courage #love #MLK

If you didn't know, the #NationalCivilRightsMuseum has a podcast. I really enjoyed this interview with #DrCornelWest. Give it a listen.

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/imagineanamerica/episodes/The-Courage-to-Love-Building-the-Beloved-Community-with-Dr--Cornel-West-e3594l9

#civilrights #podcast #imagine #cornelwest #publicsquare #courage #love #MLK

If you didn't know, the #NationalCivilRightsMuseum has a podcast. I really enjoyed this interview with #DrCornelWest. Give it a listen.

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/imagineanamerica/episodes/The-Courage-to-Love-Building-the-Beloved-Community-with-Dr--Cornel-West-e3594l9

#civilrights #podcast #imagine #cornelwest #publicsquare #courage #love #MLK

“ #Mastodon and #Bluesky are not in competition anymore with the platform #X, because X has changed. It changed from being a #platform to the #power structure for the #neo-royalty, with the #publicsquare shambling along as a zombie … ” connectedplaces.online/reports/a-po...

X Is a Power Problem, Not a Pl...

For years, #SocialMedia giants have been fighting #regulation as #media, saying that they are not producing content, that they are simply the #PublicSquare, facilitating discourse. This is total bullshit. They curate what you see, and skew it to manipulate you, not just to keep you engaged, but also to inflame our differences and to influence whether and how we #vote.

A Monkey Attraction

A man walks through Jemaa el-Fnaa in Marrakesh with a monkey on a chain, looking for tourists who will have their photo taken with his companion.

We humans don’t treat animals well.

#Animals #culture #everydayMoments #JemaaElFnaa #Marrakesh #monkey #Morocco #Photo #Photography #publicSquare #StreetPhotography #travel #urbanLife

A Monkey Attraction

A man walks through Jemaa el-Fnaa in Marrakesh with a monkey on a chain, looking for tourists who will have their photo taken with his companion.

We humans don’t treat animals well.

#Animals #culture #everydayMoments #JemaaElFnaa #Marrakesh #monkey #Morocco #Photo #Photography #publicSquare #StreetPhotography #travel #urbanLife

A Monkey Attraction

A man walks through Jemaa el-Fnaa in Marrakesh with a monkey on a chain, looking for tourists who will have their photo taken with his companion.

We humans don’t treat animals well.

#Animals #culture #everydayMoments #JemaaElFnaa #Marrakesh #monkey #Morocco #Photo #Photography #publicSquare #StreetPhotography #travel #urbanLife

A Monkey Attraction

A man walks through Jemaa el-Fnaa in Marrakesh with a monkey on a chain, looking for tourists who will have their photo taken with his companion.

We humans don’t treat animals well.

#Animals #culture #everydayMoments #JemaaElFnaa #Marrakesh #monkey #Morocco #Photo #Photography #publicSquare #StreetPhotography #travel #urbanLife

@Tengrain They should be assumed to be disease vectors, and interacted with accordingly!

Fortunately, the #PublicSquare website helps #Normies do just that! https://www.huffpost.com/entry/publicsquare-trump-critics-boycott-businesses_n_680900d2e4b00850c6839b0b

@demerara #PublicSquare is a handy tool for people that live and/or work in the #UnitedStates and want to #resist #fascism in #USpol. #ElbowsUp https://www.huffpost.com/entry/publicsquare-trump-critics-boycott-businesses_n_680900d2e4b00850c6839b0b

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/03/25/79983467/publicsquare-is-an-inadvertent-gift-to-people-who-dont-want-to-fund-fascism

#TheStranger 26 March 2025

#PublicSquare is an inadvertent gift to #antifascists :antifa:

Neat, #publicsquare let's me see MAGA businesses I should avoid in #VancouverWA https://www.publicsquare.com/search/business?value=vancouver

Was perusing Public 卐quare and I am kinda sort of disappointed there are so few places to boycott near me.

OTOH: Good.

#PublicSquare

Go to publicsquare.com > For Shoppers > Near me for a handy guide to local MAGA businesses to avoid!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/website-maga-friendly-businesses-backfires-100029564.html

#PublicSquare #MAGA

A heart-warming story of unintended consequences and People Power ✊

We Brits should trick some ReformUK clowns into doing this!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/publicsquare-trump-critics-boycott-businesses_n_680900d2e4b00850c6839b0b

#USPOL #PublicSquare

Maggots self-identify, making it easier for you to boycott them! It's a win/win!

Boycott merchants at America's MAGA marketplace!
https://www.publicsquare.com/

#PublicSquare #MAGACrap #BoycottTheseMerchants #USPol

Want to #boycott businesses that self-identify as #MAGA? Check out #PublicSquare, an opt-in collection helpfully broken down by category, such health, food, and apparel. You can even search by zip code to see the ones in your area.
https://www.publicsquare.com/c/4/personal-care

Article about it.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/publicsquare-trump-critics-boycott-businesses_n_680900d2e4b00850c6839b0b

#Trump #USPol #USPolitics

If you want to make sure your spending doesn’t inadvertently help advance #fascism in the #UnitedStates a website that identifies companies to #boycott is here, thanks 🙏 to (checks notes) the #MAGA businesses themselves! 😂
👀 👉 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/publicsquare-trump-critics-boycott-businesses_n_680900d2e4b00850c6839b0b

#Resist via #PublicSquare. ✅

@astoriadave @Nichelle @evoterra Forgot to share screenshots of some of the “featured” #PhoenixArizona businesses are in #PublicSquare. There are an unreal number of hair stylists, media companies and chiropractors on this MAGA site. Here’s a few I don’t really want to know more about. In particular the Russia company? And the very porno-adjacent tattoo artist. 😬

@astoriadave @Nichelle Hadda go look and without enabling their cookies did a search for #PhoenixArizona and got 289 businesses first result. One surprise @evoterra is Barb’s Bakery! Omg! Never going back there. #PublicSquare is quite a service if you want to find other places to spend your money.

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts

#SocialMedia posts about #PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies NOT to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/publicsquare-trump-critics-boycott-businesses_n_680900d2e4b00850c6839b0b

"PublicSquare’s website... pulls up businesses near you that want to be publicly associated with #Trump... Its board of directors includes Donald Trump Jr., who also is an investor."

#DonaldTrump #Boycott #Protest #Resist #News #USA

Finally got around to reading a really good article from @curtispf / @curtispf titled "Engineers don't make public squares. People do."

https://cpf.sh/blog/2025/01/25/engineers-dont-make-public-squares-people-do

Some choice comments:

>The bigger sociotechnical challenge, though, that would absolutely be necessary to solve to make this viable in practice would be making this kind of setup not only possible but absolutely trivial - trivial to set up, trivial to use, trivial to manage, and trivial to back up and restore. For this kind of setup to ever take off, it has to be the kind of thing you could give to your grandparents and have them be able to use at least as easily as an iPhone.

I really like the idea of giving everyone an "Internet Box" of sorts; plug it into your network and power, and off it goes. And I don't think we necessarily need to make it trivial to manage. I believe we can delegate that responsibility to more technically inclined people that the owner trusts. It feels an awful lot like the BOINC project: install the software, and let other clever people write the code that does socially useful computation on top of your device. Only, for the Internet Box, it is instead "choose which entities you want to give shell access to."

>Bluesky users may not know or understand what ATproto is, or what PDS they’re on, or how their messages are federated - but, they are on federated social media, and they are (at least moderately) happy about it.

[Not really](https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/):

>However, I stand by my assertions that Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and that it is certainly not federated according to any technical definition of federation we have had in a decentralized social network context previously. To claim that Bluesky is decentralized or federated in its current form moves the goalposts of both of those terms, which I find unacceptable.

Moving on...

>That being said, I think we’re overlooking that these people do exist. I’d actually really like to see organisations like Mastodon gGmbH use some funding not just on development, DevOps and DevRel, but what I’d like to call CitRel: citizen relationships. We should be focus grouping onboarding strategies to get people to choose their communities; we should be designing communications toolkits for people to talk about federated social media; hell, we should be producing memes on centralised social media that push people over!

I like the concept of CitRel. Part of me suspects that the computer education I received as a child -- what is a file, what is a filesystem, what is a network connection, what is a program, etc -- is no longer given, instead relying on "intuitiveness" from major players. Perhaps starting User Groups back up is an option for establishing a more "competent computation baseline" for citizens.

#fediverse #fedi #PublicSquare #UserGroups

Finally got around to reading a really good article from @curtispf / @curtispf titled "Engineers don't make public squares. People do."

https://cpf.sh/blog/2025/01/25/engineers-dont-make-public-squares-people-do

Some choice comments:

>The bigger sociotechnical challenge, though, that would absolutely be necessary to solve to make this viable in practice would be making this kind of setup not only possible but absolutely trivial - trivial to set up, trivial to use, trivial to manage, and trivial to back up and restore. For this kind of setup to ever take off, it has to be the kind of thing you could give to your grandparents and have them be able to use at least as easily as an iPhone.

I really like the idea of giving everyone an "Internet Box" of sorts; plug it into your network and power, and off it goes. And I don't think we necessarily need to make it trivial to manage. I believe we can delegate that responsibility to more technically inclined people that the owner trusts. It feels an awful lot like the BOINC project: install the software, and let other clever people write the code that does socially useful computation on top of your device. Only, for the Internet Box, it is instead "choose which entities you want to give shell access to."

>Bluesky users may not know or understand what ATproto is, or what PDS they’re on, or how their messages are federated - but, they are on federated social media, and they are (at least moderately) happy about it.

[Not really](https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/):

>However, I stand by my assertions that Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and that it is certainly not federated according to any technical definition of federation we have had in a decentralized social network context previously. To claim that Bluesky is decentralized or federated in its current form moves the goalposts of both of those terms, which I find unacceptable.

Moving on...

>That being said, I think we’re overlooking that these people do exist. I’d actually really like to see organisations like Mastodon gGmbH use some funding not just on development, DevOps and DevRel, but what I’d like to call CitRel: citizen relationships. We should be focus grouping onboarding strategies to get people to choose their communities; we should be designing communications toolkits for people to talk about federated social media; hell, we should be producing memes on centralised social media that push people over!

I like the concept of CitRel. Part of me suspects that the computer education I received as a child -- what is a file, what is a filesystem, what is a network connection, what is a program, etc -- is no longer given, instead relying on "intuitiveness" from major players. Perhaps starting User Groups back up is an option for establishing a more "competent computation baseline" for citizens.

#fediverse #fedi #PublicSquare #UserGroups

Finally got around to reading a really good article from @curtispf / @curtispf titled "Engineers don't make public squares. People do."

https://cpf.sh/blog/2025/01/25/engineers-dont-make-public-squares-people-do

Some choice comments:

>The bigger sociotechnical challenge, though, that would absolutely be necessary to solve to make this viable in practice would be making this kind of setup not only possible but absolutely trivial - trivial to set up, trivial to use, trivial to manage, and trivial to back up and restore. For this kind of setup to ever take off, it has to be the kind of thing you could give to your grandparents and have them be able to use at least as easily as an iPhone.

I really like the idea of giving everyone an "Internet Box" of sorts; plug it into your network and power, and off it goes. And I don't think we necessarily need to make it trivial to manage. I believe we can delegate that responsibility to more technically inclined people that the owner trusts. It feels an awful lot like the BOINC project: install the software, and let other clever people write the code that does socially useful computation on top of your device. Only, for the Internet Box, it is instead "choose which entities you want to give shell access to."

>Bluesky users may not know or understand what ATproto is, or what PDS they’re on, or how their messages are federated - but, they are on federated social media, and they are (at least moderately) happy about it.

[Not really](https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/):

>However, I stand by my assertions that Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and that it is certainly not federated according to any technical definition of federation we have had in a decentralized social network context previously. To claim that Bluesky is decentralized or federated in its current form moves the goalposts of both of those terms, which I find unacceptable.

Moving on...

>That being said, I think we’re overlooking that these people do exist. I’d actually really like to see organisations like Mastodon gGmbH use some funding not just on development, DevOps and DevRel, but what I’d like to call CitRel: citizen relationships. We should be focus grouping onboarding strategies to get people to choose their communities; we should be designing communications toolkits for people to talk about federated social media; hell, we should be producing memes on centralised social media that push people over!

I like the concept of CitRel. Part of me suspects that the computer education I received as a child -- what is a file, what is a filesystem, what is a network connection, what is a program, etc -- is no longer given, instead relying on "intuitiveness" from major players. Perhaps starting User Groups back up is an option for establishing a more "competent computation baseline" for citizens.

#fediverse #fedi #PublicSquare #UserGroups

Finally got around to reading a really good article from @curtispf / @curtispf titled "Engineers don't make public squares. People do."

https://cpf.sh/blog/2025/01/25/engineers-dont-make-public-squares-people-do

Some choice comments:

>The bigger sociotechnical challenge, though, that would absolutely be necessary to solve to make this viable in practice would be making this kind of setup not only possible but absolutely trivial - trivial to set up, trivial to use, trivial to manage, and trivial to back up and restore. For this kind of setup to ever take off, it has to be the kind of thing you could give to your grandparents and have them be able to use at least as easily as an iPhone.

I really like the idea of giving everyone an "Internet Box" of sorts; plug it into your network and power, and off it goes. And I don't think we necessarily need to make it trivial to manage. I believe we can delegate that responsibility to more technically inclined people that the owner trusts. It feels an awful lot like the BOINC project: install the software, and let other clever people write the code that does socially useful computation on top of your device. Only, for the Internet Box, it is instead "choose which entities you want to give shell access to."

>Bluesky users may not know or understand what ATproto is, or what PDS they’re on, or how their messages are federated - but, they are on federated social media, and they are (at least moderately) happy about it.

[Not really](https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/):

>However, I stand by my assertions that Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and that it is certainly not federated according to any technical definition of federation we have had in a decentralized social network context previously. To claim that Bluesky is decentralized or federated in its current form moves the goalposts of both of those terms, which I find unacceptable.

Moving on...

>That being said, I think we’re overlooking that these people do exist. I’d actually really like to see organisations like Mastodon gGmbH use some funding not just on development, DevOps and DevRel, but what I’d like to call CitRel: citizen relationships. We should be focus grouping onboarding strategies to get people to choose their communities; we should be designing communications toolkits for people to talk about federated social media; hell, we should be producing memes on centralised social media that push people over!

I like the concept of CitRel. Part of me suspects that the computer education I received as a child -- what is a file, what is a filesystem, what is a network connection, what is a program, etc -- is no longer given, instead relying on "intuitiveness" from major players. Perhaps starting User Groups back up is an option for establishing a more "competent computation baseline" for citizens.

#fediverse #fedi #PublicSquare #UserGroups

Don Jr and Omeed Malik were key in facilitating the president-elect’s ties with RFK Jr, and both invested in PublicSquare which went public last year at a valuation of $200 million (compared to $475,000 the prior year) and the share price has dropped more than 90% since

#DonaldTrumpJr #DonJr #Trump #OmeedMalik #1789Capital #PublicSquare #AntiWoke

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/donald-trump-jr-goes-all-in-on-the-anti-woke-economy-e25beb11

Donald Trump Jr. Goes All-In on the Anti-Woke Economy

The MAGA surrogate and Trump adviser is joining venture-capital firm 1789 (w/Omeed Malik, Rebekah Mercer, Chris Buskirk) to invest in companies espousing conservative values, bringing attention to a financial movement that hasn’t taken off (yet)

#DonaldTrumpJr #DonJr #Trump #OmeedMalik #1789Capital #PublicSquare #AntiWoke

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/donald-trump-jr-goes-all-in-on-the-anti-woke-economy-e25beb11

Maga Inc: how Trump’s allies may gain from ‘anti-woke’ resurgence.

Some of the companies in this far right parallel economy include:

- PublicSquare backed by Omeed Malik, Don Jr, Kelly Loeffler
- Rumble backed by Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Howard Lutnick
- Vivek Ramaswamy's Strive Asset Management
- Ben Carson's Old Glory Bank

#AntiWoke #ParallelEconomy #Trump #PublicSquare #Rumble

https://www.ft.com/content/daae53d0-3825-4d83-b8fd-a4478ccf3050

Maga Inc: how Trump’s allies may gain from ‘anti-woke’ resurgence.

Some of the companies in this far right parallel economy include:

- PublicSquare backed by Omeed Malik, Don Jr, Kelly Loeffler
- Rumble backed by Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Howard Lutnick
- Vivek Ramaswamy's Strive Asset Management
- Ben Carson's Old Glory Bank

#AntiWoke #ParallelEconomy #Trump #PublicSquare #Rumble

https://www.ft.com/content/daae53d0-3825-4d83-b8fd-a4478ccf3050

Maga Inc: how Trump’s allies may gain from ‘anti-woke’ resurgence.

Some of the companies in this far right parallel economy include:

- PublicSquare backed by Omeed Malik, Don Jr, Kelly Loeffler
- Rumble backed by Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Howard Lutnick
- Vivek Ramaswamy's Strive Asset Management
- Ben Carson's Old Glory Bank

#AntiWoke #ParallelEconomy #Trump #PublicSquare #Rumble

https://www.ft.com/content/daae53d0-3825-4d83-b8fd-a4478ccf3050

Maga Inc: how Trump’s allies may gain from ‘anti-woke’ resurgence.

Some of the companies in this far right parallel economy include:

- PublicSquare backed by Omeed Malik, Don Jr, Kelly Loeffler
- Rumble backed by Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Howard Lutnick
- Vivek Ramaswamy's Strive Asset Management
- Ben Carson's Old Glory Bank

#AntiWoke #ParallelEconomy #Trump #PublicSquare #Rumble

https://www.ft.com/content/daae53d0-3825-4d83-b8fd-a4478ccf3050

Maga Inc: how Trump’s allies may gain from ‘anti-woke’ resurgence.

Some of the companies in this far right parallel economy include:

- PublicSquare backed by Omeed Malik, Don Jr, Kelly Loeffler
- Rumble backed by Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Howard Lutnick
- Vivek Ramaswamy's Strive Asset Management
- Ben Carson's Old Glory Bank

#AntiWoke #ParallelEconomy #Trump #PublicSquare #Rumble

https://www.ft.com/content/daae53d0-3825-4d83-b8fd-a4478ccf3050

Public Square
Cleveland OH
-April 8, 2024
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https://pbase.com/image/174522288/original / https://www.instagram.com/p/C6gb7_Tgfax/
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#cleveland #publicsquare #streetphotography #bw #blackandwhite #chess #april2024

Public Square Panorama
Cleveland OH
-January 27, 2024
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https://pbase.com/image/174367757/original / https://www.instagram.com/p/C3rA7ZzgsMj/
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#cleveland #downtown #publicsquare #euclidavenue #streetphotography #panorama #fog #january2024

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Public Square Panorama
Cleveland OH
-January 27, 2024
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https://pbase.com/image/174367757/original / https://www.instagram.com/p/C3rA7ZzgsMj/
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#cleveland #downtown #publicsquare #euclidavenue #streetphotography #panorama #fog #january2024

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