Notices by simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net), page 15
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Nov-2022 02:37:48 JST 
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#Halloween is not a tradition in my country, at least not yet. But it has been growing over the past years. I don't know how it is done in the U.S. but here parents or other adults accompany the kids, disguised too (probably to have an eye on them so nobody gets harmed).
It's a festivity I enjoy (in contrast to, say, Christmas), in fact, I'm eager and prepare for the little ghosts and monsters to pass by. As adult I put effort in it to entice the little folk to arrive so we can exchange goods and well-wishes.
Today I bought a lot of candies and lit several candles (from the main window of my flat and the entrance of the apartment building to my apartment door) so that the ghost find their way.
What better way to ask for our house to be protected from harm and evil spirits to spare it than answering the "Trick or treat" of the little monsters. And should only a few come by, I have a whole bowl of sweets to munch on for myself. What better deal could I make? -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 09:19:01 JST
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/da-silva-wins-brazil-presidential-election-ends-bolsonaro-era-rcna54650 -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 09:18:52 JST
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins in Brazil! Wonderful! -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Oct-2022 09:30:15 JST
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I guess I will take a break from the #fediverse for a little while until the newest influx of "Twitter refugees" has passed. They'll be back to Twitter anyway, they always are. No need to participate in fruitless hand-holding. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 29-Oct-2022 16:18:06 JST
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The main hurdle in explaining the #fediverse to people coming from Twitter is that they're accustomed to a singular, self-contained instance in which their posts are disseminated across the whole instance. They are thus far more statement-focused. In the #fediverse with its multitude of instances, relations of dissemination are conversation-based. (Follower relations make instances and accounts seen by other instances.) The differences in technological setup explain the difference between "scream media" (Twitter) and "social media" (Fediverse). We'll see how newcomers will handle that. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 29-Oct-2022 16:09:38 JST
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Trying to explain the #fediverse to people on Twitter and defending it against their condescension (based on ignorance). Of all people me defending the fediverse, that's a lovely irony. But it makes clear to me what I appreciate about the fediverse. And that's a good thing -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 17:43:03 JST
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You think Musk's Twitter purchase is a problem? Wait until Jack Dorsey and the fired executives from Twitter invest in the fediverse. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 11:24:13 JST
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I don't think that Musk will develop new strategies for ads in Twitter. On Twitter ads don't work (user can block them). On the other hand, Google was forced in 2019 to pay publishers for the snippets they use in their search results. Why should Twitter do that? No, it will rather force publishers to pay for the snippets that are displayed on Twitter, or, even more drastic, for the URL of their content to work inside Twitter at all. Here lies the money. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 11:13:51 JST
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The main change I see coming with Musk buying Twitter is that in a short period of time all webpages outside Twitter linked to in posts inside Twitter will have to pay a fee to be displayed inside Twitter.
(The problem with walled garden is not that people cannot get in, but that they cannot get out. In that sense, Twitter and Mastodon are not that different.) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 11:07:42 JST
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/27/twitter-elon-musk/
Deal is done, Musk got Twitter, top CEOs been escorted from the headquarters... Now, where are the hordes of Twitter refugees inundating struggling Mastodon servers? And honestly, I hope they do, because I find the dominance of Mastodon.social and instances running Mastodon software in the #fediverse pretty annoying. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Oct-2022 19:28:51 JST
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Alexander Bolton, "Progressive push to end Ukraine war risks backlash" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3705631-progressive-push-to-end-ukraine-war-risks-backlash/
« Ohio and Pennsylvania in particular have large populations of Ukrainian American voters, strategists in both parties say.
A Senate Democratic strategist pointed out that Eastern European and Ukrainian voters are important to winning counties in Northeastern Ohio.
The source said voters in that part of the state had shifted away from Republicans recently because of eroding Republican support for the war in Ukraine, which was reflected by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) vow that Republicans will not write a “blank check” for Ukraine if they win the House majority. »
And then came the Progressive Caucus (Jayapal, AOC, Omar, et al.). Unbelievable. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Oct-2022 19:19:56 JST
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And Progressives do it again. First Bernie Sanders and his people in 2016 blew it for Hillary Clinton; now Progressive Caucus members under Rep. Pramila Jayapal with their letter on "talks" with Russia are about to harm the Senate races. Why are Progressives always such idiots? -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Oct-2022 12:17:20 JST
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This was a difficult day at work and partly due to my co-workers I felt quite depressed. Hours later and deep at night I feel better. Again I think about #hope. The more exhausted and cornered I feel, the more hope I sense, which, in one way, makes no sense, but in another, tells quite a lot about how baseless and without reason hope is. It's a mistake to think that one needs reasons, even good reasons, in order for hope to arise (as with the correlate mistake that without reasons at hand hope cannot rise). Hope is primarily without reason, base, or connection to some "antecedent conditions". Which is pretty obvious because hope is not an opinion, belief, or statement, but rather a sense organ, more or less clouded by the situation one is in. But that hope is baseless and unfounded is a relief. We can feel connected to the future of our surrounding reality without being stuck in the misery we sense in it. Both are not connected. (I guess the younger people need time to understand this.)
#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Oct-2022 11:43:45 JST
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true that :-) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Oct-2022 09:57:51 JST
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indeed. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 22:53:04 JST
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Today is a lucky day. Beside the road I found two books in good condition: Shunryu Suzuku's "Zen Mind Beginner's Mind" (1970) and a textbook on economic mathematics. Lovely. The pairing in particular suits my taste. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 21:19:32 JST
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important, precious, outstanding, valuable, interesting...? Pick one instead. :-) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 12:43:17 JST
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Geir Moulson, "Germany, EU launch work on ‘new Marshall Plan’ for Ukraine" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-germany-berlin-western-europe-business-50fa5ca7ee97eab5bfde1869d78f19ad
The EU ponders a "Marshall Plan" for #Ukraine and doesn't even take into account reparation payments by the Russian Federation. Some member states think about "confiscating" Russian assets (which is "parked" outside Russia) but that is not reparation payments proper, and a straightforward legal way towards "confiscation" of Russian assets is not in sight yet.
(My point is that only reparation payments, i.e., Russia making amends for its war, can be a basis for a lasting re-integration of Russia into Europe. "Confiscating assets" may provide short-term financial means but will be seen by Russia as theft, with all the acrimony and rejection that follows.) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 11:10:20 JST
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Not that I understand much Spanish (I used to understand it better a few years back), but I must say that I cherish the fact that gnusocial.net is primarily inhabited by Spanish speaking people. A major #fediverse instance (to my knowledge) whose lingua franca is not English. ¡Adelante! -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 09:23:00 JST
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People just don't understand that the worse the Russian war in Ukraine gets, the better for Putin, the fortification of the regime, the alignment and identification of regime and populace. That doesn't make Russia win this war (it will probably lose it), but it will make Russia turn out a streamlined dictatorship with overt fascist ideology. For the next 30 years, Russia will be a poor but belligerent country.
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