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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-02-03 at 13:09

Over $1T of stock value was destroyed overnight as a result of recent actions by the US. More is likely to come.

I feel not for the investors, but for the millions of people who work in farming, shipping, retail, and manufacturing worldwide whose livelihoods will be negatively affected by these pointless and destructive actions.

The only silver lining is that, having read Piketty, I understand that a lot of capital just needs to be burned if we are to have a chance to preserve democracy.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-29 at 15:55

Apropos of nothing, every time I see "ducking" (in the sense of dropping audio levels briefly to ensure the user hears a sound) my brain immediately assumes it's an autocorrect error and I have to convince it otherwise.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-28 at 12:49

Add to this list:

• being able to talk to a pharmacist or banker and not having it be through two solid inches of bulletproof plexiglass

• kids have to be in booster seats until they are actually tall enough that the seatbelt won't injure them

It's the little things, you know?

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-28 at 12:45

I just paid rent. It was free, through my bank app, and got to my landlord basically instantly. All I needed was my property manager's email address.

I could send money to a friend the same way.

This doesn't sound much different than ACH or PayPal but I assure you it is 1000% nicer.

One of the many things you don't realize living in the US is how much friction is added to basically everything you do to ensure some middleman or service provider can profit off of it.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-27 at 13:00

Hot take: yeah, it's dumb that we now accuse any doctored or strange image of being "AI" but honestly I'd rather we lumped generated and shooped images together as a separate class from real photos than the other way around.

Manipulation is manipulation.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-24 at 21:33

Whoever created the playlist for this Starbucks was a high school theater kid in a Very Specific Year and... wow

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-24 at 18:22

Watching yet another DS1 challenge run and thinking about how #DarkSouls and #EldenRing bosses would make such great #FFXIV bosses and vice-versa.

I really wanna see that crossover event.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-24 at 00:45

Just deleted my insta.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-22 at 14:30

One of the rare days where thing I really wanna be working on and thing I'm supposed to be working on align perfectly.

Sometimes, I love my job.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-20 at 16:49

Yo

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-leonard-peltier-clemency_n_67608b04e4b0d06419ec6367?ds

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-18 at 17:36

Huh, pixey mentions Canada in its TOS but I'd based in Europe. Weird.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-18 at 16:38

Leaning towards pixey.org since it's local, but will keep the NL and DE servers in my back pocket if that doesn't work out (the real advantage of federation!)

Does pixelfed server migration include content, or do you have to repost everything?

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-18 at 16:16

Considering signing up for a pixelfed account to replace insta for posting random pics (not that I normally do but...)

I would prefer to pick a server based outside the US. Is pixelfed.de a good choice, or do people recommend something else?

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-18 at 15:32

Do communities and experiences require good protocols? Yes! Good apps? Yes!

But the protocol or the app isn't the end product; it's a way to get to the thing you want, which is people having a positive, constructive experience together.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-18 at 15:31

Small brain: ooh, cool app!

Expanding brain: protocols, not apps

Galaxy brain: communities and experiences (the rest is just details)

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-16 at 13:30

"Switch 2 is just Switch but faster" is about the best news we could have gotten, honestly.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-12 at 18:32

There is personal stuff I wanna talk about and Discourse I want to engage in but hell if I'm gonna post it to the Whole Fucking Internet.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-12 at 18:30

I know there are specific fedi projects that are working towards this, and that at least makes me happy.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-12 at 18:28

How many times I wish for G+ style circles or even muts-only posts. There's shitposting I want to do that is 100% not appropriate or safe for broad consumption.

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Written by Dana Fried on 2025-01-10 at 17:04

v tired sorta-canadian

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