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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12h

These fake videos aren't even attempting to depict anything other than peaceful protest (depicted in one of the AI videos as a ridiculous chant). The emotional payoff is the violent state response.

This isn't an attempt at generating fake news, it's AI-generated cruelty porn. The desire for […]

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Micr0byte @micr0.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Bubbles!!

and bubbles pop

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15h

At this rate it's honestly surprising that none of the major #ai players have issued an "AICoin" yet (aside from Altman's aspirational spycoin). Maybe that's the final step after institutional investment dries up.

(Graphic from Bloomberg: https://archive.is/Pagn7)

A bubble chart from the article illustrating the complex network of often circular investments between Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Oracle, xAI and various smaller startups.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Credit to /u/Im_so_little/ for this light edit showing the war zone outside the Portland ICE facility.

A small crowd standing peacefully outside a building at night, lightly edited with MS Paint style drawings of a tank, a helicopter, bullets, and fires.

Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 2d

If you're still on speaking terms with friends or relatives who have gone MAGA, this may be a good article to send them on the 0.1% chance it opens an eye by a degree or two.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/portland-not-war-ravaged-trump-1235438405/

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Spo0000opybirb :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Pritzker pointing out that ICE lies first and immediately, knowing journalists will catch up later if at all.

Coming from a sitting US governor, that’s an amazing breakthrough […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Vox dot com, explained in one image

Vox headline "Democrats are doing more to resist Trump than their voters think", with a photo showing Chuck Schumer raising his index finger (as he is wont to do), standing at a podium, surrounded by other Democratic Senators

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404 Media @feed.www.404media.co.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Tim Bray @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5d

The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface.

#uspolitics

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 5d

In the end, Bluesky serves as another example for decentralization as a technological fetish. It is meaningless babble: neither decentralized in practice, nor offering the kinds of protections the rhetoric promises.

A social network worthy of its name must be grounded in community norms and […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 5d

It's pretty clear from the #bluesky CEO's shitposting that she really would rather not have all those uppity trans folks and their friends on the platform. Instead she'd prefer to proudly talk to investors about how even J.D. Vance has an account.

It's the digital town square! Everyone is […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Mario Guevara is being punished for speech by deportation to a country he fled decades ago: El Salvador, a dictatorship that operates horrific gulags the US has previously made use of.

You can read Guevara's letter from detention in English here […]

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Photograph of Guevara's handwritten letter from detention, before he was deported.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 5d

For many years, activists and the annoying free software people in your area have warned that the power of app stores enables turnkey censorship. And of course there have been many examples of this, especially with repressive non-US governments getting apps removed from app stores.

This is why […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Apple: And you'll see why 2025 will finally be like 1984.

Think ... identically.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/apple-iceblock-app-store-trump.html

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Incidentally, that ELIZA test-server you see in the video has been indispensable for interactive testing across terminals,so I've cleaned it up a bit:

https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau-server

It's easily extensible with various test sequences and may be useful to others building similar […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Permacommons devlog 2025-10-02

Finally released Chabeau 0.4.0. If you're looking for a non-agentic chatbot UI that runs in the terminal, do check it out.

https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau

It now has interactive dialogs for theme, provider and model […]

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Renewed Resistance @renewedresistance.channel.org · 6d

“No Kings has already surpassed the June event total and we are still more than two weeks out. That means that with over 2,100 events, nearly no matter where you are, no matter where your family lives, there is a No Kings event close by -- now we need your help to make No Kings Day the biggest […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Any reporter covering the US Supreme Court should take notes from this Slate summary. (Most will instead cover it with legitimizing, normalizing "analysis".)

"The challenge will be to seek out that which the court is obscuring in this performance of business as usual this term, and to […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Jane Fonda, with a large coalition of celebrities, revives the Committee for the First Amendment - a key group from the McCarthy era.

Fonda: "I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked – time and time again – is […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Set your name and username, but we'll focus you on the password field.

If you try to select the username field before you set a password, we'll bounce you right back to the password field, reminding you it can't be empty.

"This is great. Ship it."

Apple's account setup, bafflingly trapping me on the password entry field

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Total number of times I had to enter the same password to reset an Apple ID: three. Such attention to user experience, much wow.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Oh wow, the "Forgot password" flow is amazing as well.

- "We locked your account for security reasons. Follow the link in your email to reset your password."
- Email: "Click this link to reset your password.:"
- Webpage: Please enter your password to continue. [tiny link: Forgot password?] […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 8d

And that's without even getting into all the weird macOS-isms that have been around for decades, like the "drag this icon to this other icon to install the app".

I'd love to see a more thorough analysis of UX papercuts and mental model assumptions between macOS vs. Ubuntu or another Linux […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Apple has built this mythology of a user-friendly OS. But as I'm setting up a test Mac for development builds, I'm struck by the many tiny UX papercuts.

Case in point:
1) Erase Mac -> connect to WiFi and enter password.
2) Install: select WiFi again, enter password you just typed again (!); no […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@eloquence I think this is a really good framing. Any path forward needs to acknowledge that the systems we had, which have been or are being dismantled, were not producing democracy. We need to be asking and envisioning what actually will.

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