william.maggos
@wjmaggos.liberal.city.ap.brid.gy
Advocate for #DemocracyOfReach
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"Taking the oil" is not a thing. What does happen:
Get access w/o having to pay the people of that nation most of the profits and deal with labor and environmental standards cause the new govt is compliant to US interests. This profits the US corporations doing the work (political donors) and […]
Get access w/o having to pay the people of that nation most of the profits and deal with labor and environmental standards cause the new govt is compliant to US interests. This profits the US corporations doing the work (political donors) and […]
Original post on liberal.city
liberal.city
December 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Taking the oil" is not a thing. What does happen:
Get access w/o having to pay the people of that nation most of the profits and deal with labor and environmental standards cause the new govt is compliant to US interests. This profits the US corporations doing the work (political donors) and […]
Get access w/o having to pay the people of that nation most of the profits and deal with labor and environmental standards cause the new govt is compliant to US interests. This profits the US corporations doing the work (political donors) and […]
So many problems go away when there's no central corporate platform. There's no ad model that creates an incentive to spend all our time with them, make us think a certain way or trigger us to keep us engaged. The accounts become like websites in that they are not vouched for and we have to […]
Original post on liberal.city
liberal.city
December 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
So many problems go away when there's no central corporate platform. There's no ad model that creates an incentive to spend all our time with them, make us think a certain way or trigger us to keep us engaged. The accounts become like websites in that they are not vouched for and we have to […]
Just using the #owncast app on Roku on my TV feels like a revolutionary act. Like the first time you put up a website or got your podcast to work. Connected to an indy online radio stream via URL. Or understood ActivityPub. It kinda forces me to imagine a world where all video is available this […]
Original post on liberal.city
liberal.city
December 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Just using the #owncast app on Roku on my TV feels like a revolutionary act. Like the first time you put up a website or got your podcast to work. Connected to an indy online radio stream via URL. Or understood ActivityPub. It kinda forces me to imagine a world where all video is available this […]
I'm watching this on my TV via Roku and the #owncast app. It's part of what I want for the #CCMusicClub. That we could help every online radio DJ do this. That we could help musicians broadcast their show. No corporate crap involved.
CC @ryno @musicman @bsots @Cheesetruck @lorenzosmusic […]
CC @ryno @musicman @bsots @Cheesetruck @lorenzosmusic […]
Original post on liberal.city
liberal.city
December 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I'm watching this on my TV via Roku and the #owncast app. It's part of what I want for the #CCMusicClub. That we could help every online radio DJ do this. That we could help musicians broadcast their show. No corporate crap involved.
CC @ryno @musicman @bsots @Cheesetruck @lorenzosmusic […]
CC @ryno @musicman @bsots @Cheesetruck @lorenzosmusic […]
Thinking checks and balances and transparency are cool, it seems to me like we should want agency directors chosen by the president and confirmed by Congress for four years and only removed for cause. The director should be able to replace staff if they refuse to follow their legal orders quite […]
Original post on liberal.city
liberal.city
December 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Thinking checks and balances and transparency are cool, it seems to me like we should want agency directors chosen by the president and confirmed by Congress for four years and only removed for cause. The director should be able to replace staff if they refuse to follow their legal orders quite […]
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Chris Rufo makes a passionate plea for Americans to confine themselves to fact-based bigotry and fear and ignorance.
*Chris Rufo* warns X is making the right too conspiratorial:
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Chris Rufo makes a passionate plea for Americans to confine themselves to fact-based bigotry and fear and ignorance.
We need to somehow rebrand the corporate platform algo as a Faustian deal with the devil. They are getting a boost only to be locked in and make it harder for all their followers to leave too. Which then makes it harder for those people's friends to leave also.
Got a good hashtag?
Got a good hashtag?
December 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We need to somehow rebrand the corporate platform algo as a Faustian deal with the devil. They are getting a boost only to be locked in and make it harder for all their followers to leave too. Which then makes it harder for those people's friends to leave also.
Got a good hashtag?
Got a good hashtag?
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attention-driven platformism is a suicide pact. every influence grifter eventually faces the truth that they don’t have the control they imagine; that malign structural forces erected for chaos answer to no one.
*Chris Rufo* warns X is making the right too conspiratorial:
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
attention-driven platformism is a suicide pact. every influence grifter eventually faces the truth that they don’t have the control they imagine; that malign structural forces erected for chaos answer to no one.
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I am begging, begging, begging cool people making cool things to please have any presence on the web other than Instagram.
December 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I am begging, begging, begging cool people making cool things to please have any presence on the web other than Instagram.
#affordability will happen when the government efficiently provides the services that the people demand that the market can't do well and we prevent the concentration of corporations beyond what's necessary to provide goods/services at a reasonable price.
December 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
#affordability will happen when the government efficiently provides the services that the people demand that the market can't do well and we prevent the concentration of corporations beyond what's necessary to provide goods/services at a reasonable price.
Reposted by william.maggos
Reposted by william.maggos
Zero intelligence secrets, sources, or methods are put at risk by showing a video of a boat exploding, or of shipwrecked people clinging to boat pieces hit by a missile and exploding.
Such a video reveals absolutely nothing about how the US identified that boat, located it, or chose to attack it.
Such a video reveals absolutely nothing about how the US identified that boat, located it, or chose to attack it.
Hegseth on the second Sept 2 strike: "Of course we're not going to release a top secret full unedited of that to the general public"
December 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Zero intelligence secrets, sources, or methods are put at risk by showing a video of a boat exploding, or of shipwrecked people clinging to boat pieces hit by a missile and exploding.
Such a video reveals absolutely nothing about how the US identified that boat, located it, or chose to attack it.
Such a video reveals absolutely nothing about how the US identified that boat, located it, or chose to attack it.
I argued with so many back then. That maybe it would end up bad but that at that moment, the people they were believing were clearly lying or spinning. That the evidence didn't say what they said it did. That they were clearly biased or their logic was faulty. And I explained why I thought that […]
Original post on liberal.city
liberal.city
December 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I argued with so many back then. That maybe it would end up bad but that at that moment, the people they were believing were clearly lying or spinning. That the evidence didn't say what they said it did. That they were clearly biased or their logic was faulty. And I explained why I thought that […]
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Hello everyone!
If anyone has any content that is installing/configuring Fediverse services and you only have it on Youtube, please consider also hosting it on the Fediverse!
I'm working on getting someone on boarded to #owncast , hi @JenJen , and I was looking for a tutorial on Owncast […]
If anyone has any content that is installing/configuring Fediverse services and you only have it on Youtube, please consider also hosting it on the Fediverse!
I'm working on getting someone on boarded to #owncast , hi @JenJen , and I was looking for a tutorial on Owncast […]
Original post on social.btfree.org
social.btfree.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The vast majority of people were not rude re Charlie Kirk's death. Same now with Rob Reiner.
The exceptions choose to use tragedy to get attention for themselves, knowing the algos tuned for profit would oblige them. They are engaged in propaganda just as much as the big media they complain about.
The exceptions choose to use tragedy to get attention for themselves, knowing the algos tuned for profit would oblige them. They are engaged in propaganda just as much as the big media they complain about.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The vast majority of people were not rude re Charlie Kirk's death. Same now with Rob Reiner.
The exceptions choose to use tragedy to get attention for themselves, knowing the algos tuned for profit would oblige them. They are engaged in propaganda just as much as the big media they complain about.
The exceptions choose to use tragedy to get attention for themselves, knowing the algos tuned for profit would oblige them. They are engaged in propaganda just as much as the big media they complain about.
The vision of #ActivityPub AFAIK is that social media servers would be as ubiquitous as websites and email servers and just as independent. That's not the model of #bluesky relays or any other social media model I'm aware of.
Am I wrong to think that matters in regards to free speech and […]
Am I wrong to think that matters in regards to free speech and […]
Original post on liberal.city
liberal.city
December 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The vision of #ActivityPub AFAIK is that social media servers would be as ubiquitous as websites and email servers and just as independent. That's not the model of #bluesky relays or any other social media model I'm aware of.
Am I wrong to think that matters in regards to free speech and […]
Am I wrong to think that matters in regards to free speech and […]
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I'll be presenting @fedify at @fosdem 2026! My talk _Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain_ was accepted for the Social Web Devroom. See you in Brussels on January 31–February 1!
FOSDEM 2026 - Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain
fosdem.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'll be presenting @fedify at @fosdem 2026! My talk _Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain_ was accepted for the Social Web Devroom. See you in Brussels on January 31–February 1!
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RE: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@paige/115718239051943653
Echoing this critical advice, especially to #science organizations. If you are a science organization on Bluesky and you want to expand your audience to the open, federated social web, just follow this bridge account. Then I --- an […]
Echoing this critical advice, especially to #science organizations. If you are a science organization on Bluesky and you want to expand your audience to the open, federated social web, just follow this bridge account. Then I --- an […]
December 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
RE: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@paige/115718239051943653
Echoing this critical advice, especially to #science organizations. If you are a science organization on Bluesky and you want to expand your audience to the open, federated social web, just follow this bridge account. Then I --- an […]
Echoing this critical advice, especially to #science organizations. If you are a science organization on Bluesky and you want to expand your audience to the open, federated social web, just follow this bridge account. Then I --- an […]
I thought they were pretty sure they found the right guy because of the guns he had. Has that been explained yet? #brownuniversity #ProvidenceRI
December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I thought they were pretty sure they found the right guy because of the guns he had. Has that been explained yet? #brownuniversity #ProvidenceRI
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Oof. Providence police have released the person arrested Sunday morning for the Brown shooting, saying he is no longer considered of interest. So the shooter is still at large.
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Oof. Providence police have released the person arrested Sunday morning for the Brown shooting, saying he is no longer considered of interest. So the shooter is still at large.
December 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I can't really blame Trump for posting that the suspect was caught prematurely when that had been reported. I just wish everybody was here and governments and media were running their own social media servers and big accounts could/would just boost the people best in the position to know, via […]
Original post on liberal.city
liberal.city
December 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I can't really blame Trump for posting that the suspect was caught prematurely when that had been reported. I just wish everybody was here and governments and media were running their own social media servers and big accounts could/would just boost the people best in the position to know, via […]
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This is an area I think we could improve on the Fediverse —
Nested Comments
This (in the attached screen-shot) is from someone on Twitter who is also on Mastodon and Bluesky.
He seems to be a fan of the nested comments UI on Bluesky.
We have some great […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Nested Comments
This (in the attached screen-shot) is from someone on Twitter who is also on Mastodon and Bluesky.
He seems to be a fan of the nested comments UI on Bluesky.
We have some great […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is an area I think we could improve on the Fediverse —
Nested Comments
This (in the attached screen-shot) is from someone on Twitter who is also on Mastodon and Bluesky.
He seems to be a fan of the nested comments UI on Bluesky.
We have some great […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Nested Comments
This (in the attached screen-shot) is from someone on Twitter who is also on Mastodon and Bluesky.
He seems to be a fan of the nested comments UI on Bluesky.
We have some great […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]