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alyaza ΘΔ

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part time coyote, full time gryphon || 24 || nonbinary. they/she/it || ΘΔ coyote || you could say i'm here under protest || https://alyaza.neocities.org/

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 6d

hey anyways totally unrelated to the current staff meltdown on here, we're in the process of revitalizing Website League (believe it or not it is our 1 year anniversary already; we've been active that whole time) and now is actually a great time to get involved

websiteleague.org

The Website League

The Website League: it's like a confederation of independent websites in here.

websiteleague.org

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 36m

(assuming, of course, everyone currently employed continued to be employed, which is a bad assumption to make because capitalists hate paying people shit)

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 36m

the dumbest part of this plan is that in purely qualitative terms it would be an improvement over the current workweek for nearly everybody *and* probably one of the largest wealth transfers in world history since the minimum possible yearly salary for a worker would be like $72,000/yr

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 41m

it's time for a Democrat to campaign on the 4-20-69 plan: a 4-day, 20-hour workweek with a $69/hr minimum wage plus benefits

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1h

thank you sir, it's a real honor to be acknowledged for our work in this space

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1h

Ubisoft, the extent to which your studio should kill itself cannot be quantified in human language alone; may your studio's ten-fold ancestors be burdened with nothing but indolence and agony of the heart, inshallah

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 18h

ball knowers will also recall that even the threat of something like this happening within the FAA helped end the last big shutdown. we'll see if that repeats

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2...

2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 18h

really good chance that if anything forces the issue and ends the government shutdown, it'll be this. we are generously like two weeks away from having a de facto, country-wide no fly zone right now because there won't be the staffing to safely land planes

CNN @cnn.com · 19h

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

www.cnn.com

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 19h

it's been a busy few days over on Coordination, the place where we coordinate development and organization stuff for the Website League

a window into Coordination, the self-hosted Zulip-based chat platform for Website League development and organization stuff

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 23h

the actual infrastructure needed to make (non-sexual) furry small business viable is here. if you want to produce furry wares in bulk, you can do that for a lot of things now—and that progression and professionalization is not going to slow down, because why would it? it's increasingly profitable

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 23h

take fursuits as the obvious example: there's a real limit on the number of fursuits any one person can make by hand per year, and at some point if demand continues the delta between "profit made from hand-creation" and "profit from semi-industrialized/mass production" will likely drop to nothing

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 23h

i think a lot of furries don't realize this—understandably—but capital-B Brands are inevitable in furry subculture unless explicitly anti-capitalist organizing happens? most furry artists are artisans, but they're not going to be that forever, especially if demand continues to grow for their work

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

it could probably be more "electorally democratic" if you will than it currently is, but in terms of governing structure "guaranteed representation if your node wants it (unless there's some reason we have to remove/block you)" is a fairly easy to administer step that has given us few problems

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

this is (more or less) the model of the Website League yes—better website still incoming i promise, we're on the precipice of the "how do we test deploy this, then deploy it for real" stage—and for the first year we've found this to work pretty well as a structure

Kozu @kozufox.bsky.social · 1d

I've had a whacky idea for a while of a fediverse type environment, but the site admin and moderation are modeled on democratic confederalism.

Each instance would be autonomous, but they wouldn't just be fending for themselves, and they'd have input on the direction of the overall project.

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

the AI stuff i think speaks for itself but purely on a mechanical level, is it... even a good idea to outsource this in the way they seem to be doing

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

thehive.ai

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

i just think a lot of the theorem here is needlessly overcomplicated, when what's happening could also just be summarized as "the same negative, homogenizing, sociotechnical processes that are playing out in other fandoms and subcultures, and on people who use social media as a whole"

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

and a lot of the shallowness, the homogenization, the professionalization is as much a product of external actors as internal ones. improvement in furry commodity production was inevitable, but brandification is also because platforms like Twitter incentivize that from the top-down, algorithmically

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

acts of othering are, similarly, an inevitable consequence of a space in which you are constantly and permanently, by design, being exposed to (almost) everyone presenting the best, least messy, least complicated versions of themselves—particularly when that space primes conflict through its design

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

(this site provides a lot of good examples because, say, "600 followers"—my current count—feels really small but it's still good for what, a 90% percentile account on this site in followers? and moreover that's an extremely non-trivial number of people in literally any other context!)

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

like: most inequality of social status is kind of not real, and exists as a false consciousness driven by (1) how basically all social media works; (2) how it shapes our expectations and view of "normal," often through non-transparent algorithms/metrics; (3) the social connections it reveals, etc.

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

i mean i would also assign the majority of this to the logical, downstream consequences and incentive structures of the platforms most furries use to *be* furries, and how those platforms interact with the broader economic and attention superstructure the subculture exists in/is mediated through

Krum @picnic.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is true but you are definitely missing the broader point, how the structures feed into othering, which makes people constantly at odds with ppl they perceive to be more actualized; we are sowing visual seeds of ourselves because we are afraid of dying without legacy/ loneliness

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

i think—using current social media platforms, and with the current attention economy that exists—it is basically impossible for the subculture to do anything besides internally replicate capitalist class hierarchy, particularly when it (as is currently the case) doesn't fight that hierarchy

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

this then loops into being a problem of capitalism: furry subculture is based around (conspicuous) consumption of luxury commodities, and attention is often proportional to that consumption, which means that you end up with a structure that reifies external class dynamics within the subculture

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

i would say this gets it somewhere around half right but gets lost in the weeds; honestly, i think most negative phenomena you see in furry subculture are just downstream of how the subculture is mediated by online spaces with incentive structures that homogenize and create brands out of people

Krum @picnic.bsky.social · 1d

new blog post! It's about Latex Pawjob Soju raising Canes Twinks, annoying memes, self-cloning, and death! It's a doozy! This took me a second to write! Enjoy! medium.com/@jrbenoit1/d...

Defanged: Furry Cringe, Loneliness, and Memetic Commodity

“..Form and ‘self’ are pretty much identical as well. We are nothing but form-making creatures, each of us a one-off, perpetually knitting…

medium.com

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

Gavin Newsom? No Thank You! i will sooner protest vote than ever vote for this pathetic Kirk-slobbering dweeb who can't even commit to signing popular legislative stuff like this

Newsom neither signed nor vetoed a number of bills passed by the Democratic California House and Senate addressing LGBT+ community concerns.

One bill expanded San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener’s “State of Refuge” law, passed in 2022. The enhanced measure would prevent other states and private entities from subpoenaing private medical records.

At least four bills directly addressed trans protections, including Wiener’s healthcare and patient confidentiality measure; streamlining legal name and gender changes, and enhanced confidentiality requirements for court records; nondiscrimination protections for health insurance plans and an insurance company mandate to offer a 12-month supply of prescription hormones; and a requirement to ensure homelessness programs remain inclusive and nondiscriminatory, combatting federal efforts to force homeless shelters to ban trans people.

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

currently enriching coyotes at the enriched coyotium facility

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