Testing upload

Nobody on the Fediverse seems to have families.

Sometimes if you read their profiles they claim to have families but then that claim is almost never reflected in what they post.

Likewise, nobody seems to exist in political units at levels lower than the national.

I believe that the Fediverse has become a waystation on our way to turning ourselves into bots, a way of rendering us ineffective in what we, with increasing derision, call "the real world".

#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity​

Sk8er boi, what a banger

Of course pulling that under the rug to strenghten an authoritarian narrative can only strenghten or legitimize the oppressions happening on capitalistic social media, between mostly abused people, because of this mechanism. It also undeniably exposes these people to real-life abuse. But the authoritarian politicians serving this narrative also happen to be predators and rapists – maybe the smartest, relatively speaking, and probably the most successful ones.

I.e. knowing that political struggles exist without knowing between which group and resorting to a brainless rage that either becomes oppressive, or completely sterile against oppressors. White I was in the closet I'd feel attacked in my masculinity but only in that I was disabled; it was culturally my autism that was wrong and to be fixed, not my behaviour as a "man". Similarly it's probably made me stay in the closet as a trans woman for an unknown number of years, because I had to carry the burden of my disability-"masculinity".

I don't know if speech should be regulated (I don't think so, e.g. calling out a public servant's racism is illegal in France) but a specific form of so-called "hate speech" is the only form that an agonistic perspective on communications and information deprived of cognitive resources (because the marketing competences that make capitalistic social media successful are used to typify both the public and the people who've signed their TOS and target... woopsie, marginalized teenagers) can take, so I'm writing that down in my list of bullshit excuses to control our interactions.

Can I try any of that yet? If so, how and where? If not, when?

Bonfire doesn't merely make me want to interact with people instead of with a user interface, it makes me want to organize my life.

Sorry for the poor phrasing, I’m tired; it’s not you, it’s me.

Babellian myth because there God directly represents the asymptotical concept of a man being truly social, living above society because he is the concept of a society to which people belong.

Can I complain about toxic masculinity being a by-product of the urban/babellian myth of concentration of economic, social, political, military power? That the need to be successful in this social context is asserted on young boys, who then tend to neglect domestic life, communication, their families, empathy, in favour of economical success and physical coercion? Pretty please?

Hi @Antonela, sorry it was a "me" problem because I could just (and have) completed the survey from a Windows computer at my university. But it’s also the problem that the Framasoft servers are de facto kinda large and well-known and thus are targeted by criminals through spam bots, who use the Tor network to stay anonymous, so Framasoft have to block Tor exit nodes.

But I’ve never been assaulted verbally or physically, I haven’t experienced real transphobia, I’m surrounded by safe, inclusive people so I’m probably being picky here and this isn’t nice towards either other trans people or these allies who are doing their best. Questions of economic and demographic privilege (being white) play a role here, so umm, I’m not trans people’s voice or anything, it’s much more complex than I could account for at the moment, in my humble opinion

The issue with free speech online isn’t that it’s too broad but that online platforms don’t respect it when they encourage their users to shorten their messages (e.g. Twitter characters limit for merely sending a message or the Facebook one to display larger text on a silly background).

The teacher has said a lot of interesting stuff e.g. that users constructed their own bubble filters (which IMHO is due to both trolling and more generally the appearance of conflicting values, which I don’t perceive either as a trans woman or while tracting – we can always discuss a bit – and leads to total institutions, which means that in order to spare marginalized people we need to foster actual conversation and to positively show that we don’t advocate for conflicting values, to listen to our correspondants’) but this "solutions" part was really fucked up; I’ve literally mentioned Lessig’s four cardinal points for activism and he comes up with a sort of GDPR on free speech (which was, on personal data, bullshit, btw, except for the spam because the problem was that it was unexpensive, Hashcoin was meant to solve this and has lead to Bitcoin unfortunately).

I’ve been to an interesting lecture on digital capitalism and in the end the teacher offered solutions, which I had done earlier by mentioning Gemini, and he suggested institutional regulations on online speech and I was like, "bro, cut this bullshit"

Hi @oceane, I didn't know Tails. And the French-speaking instance says "Not found" perhaps is a "me" problem. About the characters, we didn't want to make it so extend to encourage more responses

Oh btw the male artist in the second couple (Anthony) had moved to Paris because he had more opportunities than his partner (Sandy) who was struggling in Lergnes, mostly thanks to the field’s homophilia and to the contacts he had made in Paris. He was living with a US artist by the time the article was published. I think he’s a total jerk but anyway, the two couples on which the author had focused had tried to establish a local artistic NPO/gallery in which they’d invite other artists and show the wives’ own artworks; in the Sandy/Anthony couple the husband was the one contacting other artists because he had, case in point, a better social network "thanks" to the field’s homophilia, but in both cases the NPO had closed due to a lack of public funding (which is a general trend, the author says, in French middle-sized declining towns), which had led to (a) Alice and Sébastien buying the windmill, thanks to Sébastien’s own economic capital and him being a decent, loving, committed husband, and (b) Sandy and Anthony breaking up.

Ok, sorry it took me a while, but I needed to post from a computer, my phone screen is partially broken, it looks like a stain, and I didn’t want it to touch my vocation for sociology.

The article is really bad, and predictively it doesn’t show the most basic respect to the people who’ve accepted his presence and invited him in various events. It’s honest about its meagre results but doesn’t account for any kind of possible improvement because there’s so much to say and I’m not even sure the author is aware of it; I’m really wondering how it even got accepted through peer-review. I’m using an old pair of glasses because it looks more feminine and it was stupid because now I struggle to focus, but I recall:

• Beaux-Arts students from the working class tend to fail to make a successful career in contemporary art because they fail to convert their cultural capital into social capital;
• the author has focused on two couples, the first one was living in a windmill when the article was published, they bought it thanks to the husbands’ economic capital and emotionally invested in it a "consolation universe"; they were accounting for environmental interests and more generally an artistic habitus (the author doesn’t talk about this common concept so I’m a bit embroidering on his article here) by showing the beams, etc.;
• the second couple had broken up; the husband had managed to work in a prestigious museum in Paris thanks to the cooptation of an artist he had contacted earlier, so he had made more social capital; the author mentions a strong "homophilia" (male artists coopting other male artists).

This article was mostly useful to outline a couple of properties from the contemporary art field, but hopefully freelance artists e.g. on Instagram don’t share the same constraints (maybe they’re on Instagram partly because they want to avoid them).

Btw, congrats on your last update – it fixed all my composition issues on mobile. xD