Some context:

Rachel Anne Accurso (née Griffin; born November 30, 1982), better known as Ms. Rachel, is an American YouTuber, social media personality, singer, songwriter, and educator. She is best known for creating the YouTube series Songs for Littles, a children’s music series focused on language development for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

Mad respect for her standing up and fighting for what’s right. Bravery is a rare trait in America these days.

on many communities and instances

Bingo!

We have no ambition of being more lenient than Reddit, it’s just less centralized. If people want to be bigots they can find themselves an instance and a community for that, and other people can choose not to be exposed to their bullshit. That’s the whole point.

Also, the UKSC judgment is a pseudo-scientific piece of junk. Agreeing with it is a big-ass red flag.

What is it like?

For me, it’s my favourite thing in the world. I feel more at home when I’m in the middle of the mountains not having seen people for days than when I’m in any building I’ve ever lived in. We evolved for these conditions, and at least for some of us it resonates with our souls - much like the ocean calls to others.

The experience of hiking is a bit like running, just dragged out over days. In the beginning you have energy. At some point you get tired, and you might want to stop for a while and you’re worried if you’re going to make it. And then you push through, and suddenly your body is in walking mode. So don’t get too worried if you start feeling tired early in the hike.

As for the tent, the experience varies a lot. Is it raining? Are there lots of mosquitoes or midges? Is it cold? Are you walking until sunset, or do you have time at the camp site? What is the terrain you put your tent on?

You generally don’t have the answer to those questions. I have had a wide variety of experiences in tents - crazy tent pole-breaking winds, thunderstorms beyond anything I believed was possible, floods, cows trying to graze underneath the tent in the middle of the night. Most of the time though the biggest event is waking up to the view, or going out to take a leak at night and enjoying the night sky.

The important thing is to always be flexible and open to improvise. When you’re in up there you’re at the mercy of the mountain, and you adjust your plans accordingly. Many mountain folks believe that the mountain has a will of its own that needs to be respected, and I don’t hink it’s too far from reality. Following from that is that the experience is never completely predictable, which is part of what makes its appeal infinite.

Enjoy!

Is this federated, so that people can participate from other platforms? Doesn’t it run the risk of unnecessary fragmentation of the debate?

If downvotes are the problem I believe they can be disabled in Lemmy. :)

That said, I do like the format, and it seems like a cozy corner. :)

Also looking at the projects he has created, saying that he has not delivered anything seems a bit… Imprecise.

Every project I know of on the Fediverse is a work in progress, and it’s always a question of prioritization. But Dansup has created, and continues to create, some amazing stuff. Even if he sometimes gets a bit ahead of himself in advertising stuff.

I guess a less extreme solution is the one we’re all currently looking at. I’m posting from PieFed which more or less works from freaking Lynx.

I’m trying to stop using the bloated web entirely, and it’s easier than I thought it would be.

I’d love to get into Gemini, but I’ve found the challenges of hosting a Gemini site too great to overcome. It’s a fun space to look around in some times.

It, uhm, predicts tokens?

If calling it a word predictor is oversimplifying, I mean.

I think any such action should be kept entirely separate from 50501, as this is a protest movement and it is in its interest to maintain an appeal that is as wide as possible.

Discussion of sabotage in open forums is of course also not a good idea, as it attracts bad agents like moths to fire.

There’s clearly some interest out there - the declassified CIA sabotage guide went viral. It’s just rarely a good idea to discuss this in public forums, even anonymously.

For discussion of resistance more broadly beyond the scope of 50501, but nevertheless in a public forum, !resist@fedia.io is a good option.

That said, looking for ways to hinder the efficiency of the federal government in certain functions borders on a moral obligation at this point. Even small acts can make a big difference.

I’m not an insider, so I don’t know anything that hasn’t been posted.
But I’m invested in the movement; I’ve been protesting at 50501 events since the first one on 2/5.

It seems the one thing everyone agrees on is that the movement is people like yourself — thinking in terms of insiders is risky and should be avoided. Nobody is a bigger part of this than you are. You’re simply not a Reddit mod, and that might be a good thing.

Moving on:

1. Does it really? I guess some funding is needed for some infrastructure, but I would think funding should be decentralized just like the movement. I don’t think it’s in the interest of the movement that large sums of money are handled centrally. If server costs for sites like https://fiftyfifty.one/ or https://50501.chat/ needs to be covered the people behind them can fundraise directly for that purpose. Beyond that it’s a protest movement, not a political campaign, and money always makes things more complicated. I could be wrong here, but I (of course) think I’m right.
2. If the user’s story holds up I think most people would experience a mental health episode going through it, so I wouldn’t necessarily hold that against them. The lack of transparency along the way is understandable in a way, but much more problematic in my opinion.
3. It’s certainly not a great situation. I love the potential of 50501 paired with the Fediverse, and how the movement can be decentralized in a techincal sense throughout several platforms without hindering communication.

Keep up the good fight! :)

Great job! It’s really nicely made.

I like how it’s focused on more conservative folks, but it still seems a bit strange to me to ignore the stripping of due process for latino men, and stating that “Farmers, educators, veterans, and working families are being hit the hardest”. I think conservatives can be open for the fact that due process is important for everyone in a democracy, as if it’s not available to everyone it is by definition not there for anyone - as you cannot prove yourself outside of a group without due process.

Instead formulating in ways such as “Farmers, educators, veterans, and working families are being hit hard” would make the document more factually correct, and not remove from the message.

But it’s important to reach out to broad layers of the population, and I think this does a good job at that. So well done. :)

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

My bet would be tax evasion and money laundering. ;)

It’s hard to wrap one’s head around just how freaking rich the mega wealthy are. The 1% is not even the enemy at this point, they are closer to most of us than they are to the billionaire class.

I think it must be seen not in light of the monetary blow, but in light of the fact that the EU is pushing hard for these actors to change directions and to end some of their abusive behaviour.

Traffic fines are made to bankrupt drivers or to finance the state, but to encourage people to drive safely.

However, there are things happening recently —including reports of doxxing, online harassment, and organizational issues — so I am putting the subreddit into a short maintenance mode as we all work through these things behind the scenes. We are not going anywhere! We are just taking a moment to tighten up security and make sure everyone in this movement feels safe, included, and empowered. 50501 is still here, and we will be back online soon

I guess they could not keep up with moderation, as there are plenty of bad actors seeking to derail the movement. I’m curious what their plans are to make the Reddit community viable.

How do you do, fellow humans 🤖🛹

I feel like it’s increasingly a test applicable to humans rather than to machines. Are you original enough that you couldn’t be replaced by a language model?

I’m not sure I like to think about it.

Come to think of it, being frequently wrong but nevertheless overly confident is key to passing the Turing test.

We have finally created machines that can replicate human stupidity.

Nice four seconds video, I guess? Very smooth how it cuts off mid-sentence, not weird at all.

I like how we can feel completely confident that no valuable context is lost, and that it allows us to quickly reach our conclusions and move on with our lives. Whoever has an attention span greater than four seconds these days anyway.

The Android keyboard always worked well for me, but I don’t trust them one bit. So I changed my phone keyboard into something that is worse at guessing what I’m trying to say, but I’m somewhat confident I am not being surveilled through it.

I started using it a month or two ago, and ever since I have started making a billion typos when writing on mobile.

Also, I guess the demography of the communities you’re in matters. I think quite a few of us over here are not native speakers. Sometimes I’ll also write with my keyboard set to the wrong language by accident, “leasing to all mines” of freaky autocorrects.

Especially if they don’t take themselves oversly seriously.

Be your goofy self, if people are turned off by that you would never be happy with them anyway.

Edit: That said, this logic only applies if you do it for yourselves because it’s fun. If it’s something you do as a dating strategy it is, indeed, doomed.