paranoid @paranoid@darkest-timeline.com

I think about this tweet a lot:

#showerthoughts #future #past #time

If you want a straightforward, practical project to help contribute to leftist, anticapitalist, and anarchist movements, then learn a new language. It is without a doubt one of the most limiting factors in our movements.

What is happened in Iran earlier this year? If I knew farsi I could maybe tell you, but instead I just know what the NYT said happened.

#anarchist #language #leftist #anticapitalist

- http://language.media.mit.edu/visualizations/books

- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/12/want-influence-world-map-reveals-best-languages-speak

ok, i found this documentation: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/usage/moderation/#blocking-by-ip

and this GH issue that i dont have the energy to read through at the moment: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/10221

seems like the answer to my questions are

1. yes, IP block can (and probably do) have collateral damage

2. if you are actively being targeted, it seems like an IP block is still worth it

3. this isn't a masto/fedi specific problem, it is an issue with IP addresses themselves

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #askmasto #security #netadmin

I think it has something to do with preventing relays and scrapers who are pulling stuff manually (skipping the API/activityPub) but I am not sure...

trying to google but I am pretty bad with computer networking and always worried I will accidentally block everyone and not realize it 😅

With the various blocking efforts (archivers, spammers, gab, etc.) a technique I've seen recommended the last year has been IP-level blocks.

I haven't done this b.c. I am worried about accidentily blocking an IP block that is a cloud host (digital ocean, aws, etc) especially bc with cloud hosting those IPs get recycled

Isn't this the whole idea behind "domain fronting"¹

also what's the gain over domain blocks?

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #askmasto #security #netadmin

1: https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/

I'm not good at Follow Fridays, but if you are in the Pacific Northwest you should give @Moss a follow request

They do great follow-friday threads with PNW locals to fill up your feed with (which I really enjoy, even if it is *very* weird for me to see a fedi person IRL just going about town)

#PNW #FF #Portland #Seattle #followFriday

deleted that previous toot to keep it from propagating

original toot: https://web.archive.org/web/20190816024718/https://darkest-timeline.com/@paranoid/102624321700592249

reason for delete:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190816024903/https://darkest-timeline.com/@paranoid/102624357220528598

video of seattle police arresting a 13 year old kid for a climate change protest

are you kidding me, someone CALLED the police on these kids

it's not like they were planting bombs on a pipeline, this was a very non-action symbolic protest and even that was too much for people in seattle

#seattle #acab #police #climatechange

video: https://twitter.com/350_Seattle/status/1159954383427125248

more info: https://sawant.seattle.gov/stand-with-our-young-climate-justice-activists-dont-arrest-them/

@OCRbot

oh buddy, I didn't know game of thrones went full-on centrist in the last season

Lindsay Ellis has a new video up and I love how she calls these "hot takes" when they are actually the opposite of the trash that comes out of the likes of the atlantic.

A lot of time and research put into actual film/television theory and media critique that can be used as a way to think critically about power and art and how it affects actual humans

"The Last of the Game of Thrones Hot Takes" | by Lindsay Ellis

@OCRbot

#mediaCriticism #television #got #power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGr0NRx3TKU

"On the Media" (a wnyc radio show) goes hard on fox news and the "liberal mainstream media" in the 1st segment in the latest show

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/the-democracy-we-think-we-have-on-the-media

#uspol #pol #media #podcasts #radio #wnyc