š³ļøāš software person, writer, podcaster, former content marketer. Some posts are crossposted from my Micro.blog website and may look nicer there.
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Last Notes npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex The idea that there was a monoculture (driven mostly by TV) that then fragmented with the internet is super wrong. There are now like 3-4 platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Metaās various properties, Netflix) that suck up a majority of all attention. Itās only superficially different than the old broadcast TV setup. There is a monoculture and itās even more centralized than what came before. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @nprofileā¦664s Right, I agree that negative polarization against tariffs could provide cover for reversion to strident (and destabilizing) āfree tradeā policies. Plus, SCOTUS potentially invalidating some tariffs could have the added effect of restoring its legitimacy with some liberals. At the same time, I think it may be hard for the U.S. to give up on tariffs completely. The politics of a Democratic president lifting a bunch of tariffs to provide relief to Chinaās exporters are terrible. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @nprofileā¦664s Iām OK with the China tariffs, which even Biden supported to an extent, because at least theyāve moved the U.S. beyond just hoping for the best from āfree trade.ā Theyāre not enough on their ownāand who knows, they might be gone soon and then weāll be back to the āgood old daysā of a growing trade deficit. Maybe Japan can provide a test case of the deficit-country military buildup theory, but the early returns from its relations with China arenāt promising. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @nprofileā¦664s Hasnāt the United States sort of done that military build-up thing? Although itās also the one providing all the demand. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @nprofileā¦u25l I agree. Hereās what I think are the pivotal Golumbia passages on this topic: npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex #Bluesky users will be like āalas, fair Link, wherefore art thou now, thanks #fuckaas mods four dousing thy inimitable flameš,ā as if a banned shitposting account had been one of the nine Muses. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex So youāre telling me that _The Wizard of Oz_ had a hyped-up god machine that turned out to be just a bunch of humans off-screen?? #movies npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Itās called _Andor_ because itās an adaption of SĆøren Kierkegaardās 1843 classic _Either/Or_, with a pun-y title (sans front slash) to indicate that itās playing fast and loose with the source material while still tipping its cap in its general direction. #StarWars #Andor npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @nprofileā¦9wrc Going to need a lot of coal and oil to make those EVs and solar panels (monster trucks I agree are nostalgic stupidity) npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex The cynical reason Chicagoans love summer is that school being out means traffic goes from ādaily existential crisisā to āmere grinding painā for a few months. #chicago npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Itās amusing to see people who regard themselves as eternally on the cutting-edge log hours a day on #Bluesky or #Threads, which are now the social media equivalents of sports talk radioāyeah, thereās still a core devoted audience there, but itās not where the action is anymore. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex When the narrator in _The Big Lebowski_ says āway out west,ā heās actually referring to the Nick Warren-Jody Wisternoff deep house duo of the same name. #movies npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Guy who thinks that when people talk about aspect ratios in #movies theyāre talking about the size of the tires in the cars on screen npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex The irreconcilable differences between the DVD and Blu-ray versions of _Empire Records_ is the #movies-era equivalent of the quarto vs folio texts of _King Lear_ dilemma. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Sam Harris becoming a āCan we really stop artificial general intelligence? And if we did, at what cost?ā lunatic is great proof that New Atheism was mostly an aesthetic movement against GW Bush-era Protestantism and not any sort of commitment to levelheadedness. Thinking that a computer god will do 100% of your radiology is at least as insane as taking the Book of Genesis literally. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @nprofileā¦k0f6 Absolutely. āThe league-leading Bucks are actually terribly managed, but this one weird trick I found will fix everythingā was a potent combo of contrarianism and self-helpism designed to thrive on Twitter and YouTube. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Niche, but the Twitter fandom around the Milwaukee Bucksāwith the influential tech blogger Ben Thompson as a prominent memberāwas a breakthrough for me in realizing that consuming news and analysis via social media can actually make you less informed. These online Bucks fans never stopped talking about how stupid Horst and Budenholzer were, and what they themselves would do instead to ensure the Bucks dominated the #NBA. Indistinguishable from UFO conspiracy theories https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45109801/sources-giannis-antetokounmpo-explore-best-fits-milwaukee npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Trying a non-traditional/sacrilegious method of sourdough this time, made in a bread machine. The starter only sat for 2 hours and change, but is turbocharged with apple cider vinegar and lemon juice. #food #baking #bread npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Weāre approaching a big milestone: Thatās right, soon Barack Obamaās first election victory will have happened closer to the fall of the USSR than the present day. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex _The White Lotus_ is a cautionary tale about taking time off from work. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Weāve lost sight of the true meaning of Liberation Day. Itās so crass and commercial now. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Cornbread (I made this in a bread machine; itās not an official #Jollibee product š) #baking #cooking npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex This was an all-timer. A perfect rebuttal of Effective Altruism and Rokoās basilisk npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Low-hanging fruit but if the Dems ever get rid of the filibuster they should repeal all the ancient boobytrap legislation like the Insurrection Act, the Alien Enemies Act, the Comstock Act, and so on. Iām so tired of every election cycle being like āGOP candidate threatens to enforce the Torment Nexus Act of 1797 against student protesters.ā npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex The instant that Valentineās Day was over, every store had knives in stock. The crass commercialization of the Ides of March starts earlier every year š npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @nprofileā¦9wrc President Grassley is something Iāve thought about a lot for some reason. It just feels like a Chekovās Gun thing at this point, the gerontocrat to end all gerontocrats. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex _Secret of Evermore_ played from an original NTSC cart via an #Analogue Super NT on a Samsung S90D #OLED TV. This is the rare 90s #SNES RPG whose original script is in English because it was developed by Squareās USA team #Nintendo #SquareEnix #RetroGames #RetroGaming #VideoGames #VideoGaming #16Bit npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @nprofileā¦9wrc āEven Elon Musk can do this š ā instead of āEven Musk is getting into this š¤Æ ā npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Rednote, a meme-app for #TikTok ārefugeesā (ugh), had at its brief peak more daily active US users than BSky has users of any kind http://www.techmeme.com/250124/p21#a250124p21 npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex #SCOTUS endorsing a #TikTok ban but Biden saying he wonāt enforce it should be the moment Democrats realize that the court on its own is powerless and they donāt have to abide its decisions. But theyāll probably just go on complying with every 5-4 ruling stating like āthe 14th amendment is unconstitutionalā or ā**not** advertising on Facebook violates the Commerce Clauseā npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex I think the most galaxy-brained take of 2025 is that #TikTok is being banned because itās too effective at teaching people empathy lol. This is related to other wild takes such as āyou canāt/shouldnāt curtail <insert literally any massive exploitative online service> because <someone somewhere uses it for left-adjacent purposes>.ā Multiple things can be true at once: A platform can be _generally_ harmful while being _particularly_ beneficial. The latter doesnāt negate or even lessen the former. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @nprofileā¦vz0p Yes. This is why I think retrospectives of Twitter are too rosy; the site was a misery machine even before Musk took over. Checking it from like 2016-2020 was a slot machine for the ADHD masses in particular: It might deliver some relief but more likely itād devastate you. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @nprofileā¦vz0p The fact that it offers to summarize weekly LinkedIn summaries/roundups is pretty good comedy too npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex āTwitter was a hellhole that predictably collapsed under a combination of an underwhelming business model, rage-inducing incentives, and a neurotic user base, and I for one am glad we finally have a successor to itā <- a lot of people right now npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Democrats still bringing out Hillary Clinton in prime time to conventions is like if Apple trotted out Gil Amelio each year at WWDC npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Feels like something this guy would publish npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Meta (pun intended) comment: Iāve used this platform a lot more than the others recently npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Not a fan of āBREAKING: Sam Alitoā¦ā alerts unless the second part is āā¦unexpectedly resigns.ā npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex People who otherwise donāt care about affordable housing (note: I donāt think a lot of YIMBYs really care about it either) then spin up an entire ideology thatās just whatever will rile self-styled YIMBYs, but itās not NIMBYism per se. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Itās too bad āaccelerationistā already means something elseā¦ npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Trump has undershot all his primary polls while Dems have overperformed for 2 years, but yeah sure Iāll buy your āBiden is already doomedā narrative npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex āNeuralink means you can move a mouse with your mindā lol, I already do that every fucking day npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk I think of the Mac as like āart, design, creation, not really into online gaming, etc.ā though its dominance in certain types of development gives it some right valence, but not that much. The Watch feels fashion-y to me so that leans left. I guess the right coded case for the Watch is like āobsessive self-described ābio hackerā who reads lots of self-helpā lol npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex I think the Vision Pro is Appleās first right (as in politics) coded device. Witness all the āepic guy driving a cyber truck with one onā videos. The Mac and the Watch are left coded, the iPhone, iPad, and everything else are centrist/neutral. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Shocked at the enduring popularity of the 2006 Mogwai album _Mr Beast_ on YouTube after all these yearsā¦ npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk The prevailing wisdom on crypto always seemed backward to me: Many people said that yes Bitcoin et al. were silly but the ārealā and āseriousā applications were in the underlying blockchain tech. In reality, Bitcoin is as useful as the blockchain gets (not very lol), way more practical than using a blockchain for logistics or whatever. āAIā could be similarāmaybe ChatGPT is as good as it gets. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex When people say āObamacare was good,ā I assume theyāre talking about the Medicaid and regulatory bits rather than the marketplace, which is both convoluted, expensive, and kind of a tax nightmare: https://www.eschatonblog.com/2023/12/obamacare.html npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Like how Alexander Pope conflated the King Lear manuscripts? npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Itās not hyperbole to say that the United States would be a much stabler country if OāConnor had ruled for Gore in 2000. He probably wins and she has to retire while heās president. Alito never gets a sniff. Rehnquist dies and gets a liberal replacement. https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/12/oconnor-2 npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Bluesky feels like an attempt to replicate the pre-Elon Twitter hierarchy. But the really big celebrity and corporate accounts arenāt there and neither are the Not So Online people. So itās mostly the old Twitter petite bourgeoisie who lost a chunk of their audiences and are now replying to random reply-guys a lot of the time. Feels sad, to be honest. I havenāt thought about Threads in a while. Iām skeptical any new social network can break through post-2016, for many reasons npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Itās a real āwhoās youāre audience/whoās this for?ā moment. The right-wing already hates higher ed. and yet universities are now trying hard as they can to alienate the left, too npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Has he made any serious moves toward running yet? Feels like itās getting very late for him to jump in. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Quinnipiac poll has npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex I think my second Bluesky experiment is about at an end. Reply guydom and aggressive blocking are so ingrained there npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1nltā¦t44t Same š npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk @npub1z5yā¦f33y @npub1sqzā¦0qtd āIt is Siversten Constance!ā is the defintive answer to that old āfour words every girl wants whispered in her earā meme npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk I see it for sure npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Great article on how depaving is essential to controlling heat and flooding in #Chicago https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/asphalt-pavement-climate-cities/ npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Enshittification is a robust theory but I donāt know how applicable it is to social media providers in particular. Many of them were never good to begin with. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Iām on a Kentucky farm about to sleep and itās dead silent except for the sounds of š¦ outside and also I attracted a š a š¦ and a š¦ earlier and Iām surrounded by so much š½ hereās some pics from earlier npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Iām in a similar boat. I havenāt used one in a while and just havenāt gotten back to it. Maybe switching to #Kagi for search inadvertently solved a lot of my ad issues because now I never see any search ads. Most of my time on my Mac is also now within non-Safari apps š¤· . But if you find one that works out let me know. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk I do think people are way too credulous toward āThe Body Keeps the Scoreā in particular. But yeah Twitter absolutely ran these terms into the ground and so people get annoyed hearing them all the time, even if theyāre somewhat useful. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk so true npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk āThis is the nature of technological progress,ā lol, thereās a lot of weird assumptions and ideology there npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk I think this is the majority experience tbh. Quasi hot take but I donāt think it was worth leaving X completely unless one or more of the following applied : npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk āāWhereās Gene?ā Weāre looking at the 1920 electoral map and weāre saying āWhereās Gene, Whereās Gene?ā Heās not winning Indianaāvery unfair to himāheās not winning Tennessee, heās not winning O-hi-o. Itās red and blue, but you know whatās happeningāitās a RED WAVE, a huge huge wave for Warren G. but no commie wave for Gene. [mockingly] Oh itās James M. Cox and Franklin DeSanctus Roosevelt, they won Kentuckyā$2.4 million, $2 million, they spent just to keep Gene in third. [crowd boos]ā npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub189nā¦satx Congrats! npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk I feel like COVID cautiousness was good actually? Surprised thatās being framed as bad from what I can tell npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Yeah thatās fair. Admittedly Iāve kinda lost track of what YIMBYism has evolved intoāit feels nebulous and often kinda contradictory. One of the most prominent YIMBYs I followed on Twitter had some great points about cars but was simultaneously aligning himself with people (eg libertarians) and ideas (eg conservatives actually like literal conservation) diametrically opposed to the idea of more housing or transit. š¤· Maybe itād all make more sense if I lived in California npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk The NIMBYs of yesteryear who didnāt want, like, big urban highways running through their neighborhoods would be YIMBYs today, which seems to indicate that the distinction isnāt a very good one for understanding how cities really work. But seems like now we canāt escape it. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Almost every story about Chicagoās pension crisis doesnāt mention that the cityās public sector workers arenāt enrolled in Social Security. npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Yeah same. The less abstract the better, Iād imagine? Coding boot camps really ran with growth mindset and unfortunately it seemed too abstract and not repeated enough to have value, if there was in fact value to be realized. Totally random theory but I think if does have value itād have the most in an area such as visual art where there arenāt hard rights/wrongs like in programming npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex āGrowth mindsetā was inescapable in like 2014 as the proposed cure-all to learning new stuff. Turns out it doesnāt make any difference for students https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-14088-001 npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1nltā¦t44t Real and spectacular š npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk 10xā¦.as many bullet points š npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex @npub1mdkā¦aptk Yeah I think Google can cool its boots about this overtaking it. Chatbots are shelfwareāinteresting to use a few times but most people wonāt stick with them npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex Basket of free hot takes, use by 7/4/23: npub1gped3k9muth8dg3py9e05amq5hs0qcnz4v3khzf3msc54ph6kfgqtl4jp6 Alex A good post from @npub13rwā¦nfd8 that touches upon something that really sets #Mastodon apart from #Twitter and #Bluesky (or even Substack): itās _very_ left-wing and simply doesnāt have the critical mass of TERFs and other right-wingers whoād hatefully pile on to announcements like this one if theyād been made on those sites. https://lisamelton.net/2023/06/26/the-reaction-from-mastodon/
