Justin Tracey @tga@mastodon.xyz

you can tell your software is situationist if it refers to parsing text as a "derive"

also btw cars are bad. for the record

The president of the university just issued a statement that university campuses need to provide a space for open expression and that we must hear and understand opposing viewpoints.

This was, yep you guessed it, in support of a white supremacist speaking on campus.

Someone who advocates ethno-states. Someone who calls for gunning down refugee boats.

Universities serve to support existing systems, not their students or communities.

i feel like reading caliban and the witch is a good idea for folks of witches.town and beyond. witch-hunting and the subjugation of women's bodies was essential to proletarianizing the west.

https://www.gitbook.com/book/anarchivists/caliban/details

hi! #introductions

I work on Internet freedom tools, love plants/herbs/foraging, linguistics/languages, storytelling, anarchism, and art.

This account will probably be weird and joyful combinations of all of these things 😍

Wesley, crushed https://mastodon.xyz/media/alk7KWC-oLaZc5XUHGg

Phone numbers are to Signal as social security numbers are to credit applications: a unique ID that was designed for a specific purpose but coopted for other identification needs, to the point that now people think the two purposes are related.

Wow, my favorite Birdsite client, Twidere, now supports Mastodon. Excellent! https://twitter.com/TwidereProject/status/855861538405482496 @Gargron

The final remaining patent on the MP3 format — "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DIGITAL SIGNALS EMPLOYING BIT ALLOCATION USING COMBINATIONS OF DIFFERENT THRESHOLD MODELS TO ACHIEVE DESIRED BIT RATES" — has expired today.

Here's the Debian Project's statement about the arrest of Dmitry Bogatov, a Debian Maintainer who worked in the Debian Haskell group and currently maintains several packages for command line and system tools. He was arrested by Russian authorities, and Debian has removed his keys from their servers in case they're compromised. https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170417

my favourite thing about people complaining about mastodon not being architected in a manner that's friendly to marketers/brands/analytics, is that the people don't realise mastodon might have been designed that way for a reason