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  • “I used to have support for the Native Americans, but then a tribe massacred an outpost on the land that was slowly being carved from them by colonizers. Now I’ve lost all goodwill for their struggle”

    The indigenous, oppressed peoples proceed to get wiped out and the colonizing states take over the entire land mass

    This type of violence does not need to celebrated. It should be mourned as tragic. Its perpetrators condemned.

    But so many are applying fairness or rules to a conflict that has neither.

    If you create the conditions for war and terrorism, do not be surprised when war and terrorism come.


  • I flirted with journalism before getting my degree in CS.

    It’s not an exaggeration to say that the faculty and many of the students were almost proudly “bad at math” and basically bad with tech too, other than learning the basics of a Macbook.

    Doesn’t have to be that way and many journalists are smart, great people, but there’s a weird self fulfilling culture when it comes to tech. Not totally sure about how tech focused writers would be similar or different.

    Edit: Just googling “journalists bad at math” and got this from the Columbia Journalism Review:

    “In many cases, they got into journalism to stay away from math.” Journalists love to joke about how we suck at math.

    Edit 2: I guess I was bringing up my experience to be an example of how many journalists do not have a strong grasp of technical concepts and sometimes are almost proud of that. So it doesn’t surprise me that many may have struggled with Mastodon.

    That being said, that attitude is far closer to the average user than, say, the user base of this platform, which is likely far more tech savvy. Streamlined user experience is not a bad thing if you desire mainstream use and is something that could be improved, though Mastodon has been making strides in that regard.