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Cake day: February 14th, 2025

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  • Congrats to the new admins!

    As regards instant recall, I’m new here (but not new to lemmy and the broader fediverse) and don’t feel I have much of a voice regarding how things are run. I also don’t have much experience with the concepts of anarchism and the idea of instant recall is new to me, but I do have a lot of experience in governance for large organisations.

    That said, I have some concerns.

    Primarily, I can’t see how including yourself can work in practice. Even if 70% of voters decide that your actions are contrary to the desires of the instance, you will be confident that your own actions are necessary and justified (otherwise you wouldn’t have taken those actions). You’ve already acknowledged that you’re a foul play failsafe. So I guess I’m saying, from your perspective any motion to recall your mandate is very likely to appear to be foul play.

    Sadly, I’m conditioned to suggest having a robust code of conduct and a committee to refer breaches to, but I suspect that is not the way of anarchism.

    Regardless, I’m very happy to support this instance and look forward to seeing where you take it.


  • For sure there are plenty of people that don’t produce any real value in their work, but that’s been the case since forever and they’re hard to weed out because in some ways their full time job is to ensure their ongoing employment.

    As in most things, it’s a question of extent.

    The most accurate statement you can make is that AI will make “most” office employees “more” efficient.

    The thing is, this has been happening with every technological advance for hundreds of years.





  • It has been determined that the tourist had attempted to engage with the animal from the shallows in an attempt to take photographs

    The information is pretty scant but it sounds like maybe she was splashing around trying to get its attention.

    It’s really sad honestly. She’s a double amputee now, and later in life so not likely to get a fancy new prosthetic.

    Bull sharks are no joke. They’re not as huge and scary as great whites but they’re aggressive, and can operate in fresh water as well as salt water. Jeremy Wade did an episode on them in river monsters. Artificial canal estates tend to be infested with them.

    I think the local authorities have some culpability in this. If you have sharks literally prowling around beaches full of clueless tourists then you have to close the beach. That’s what we do at popular beaches in Australia when a shark is spotted.


  • I’m deep in phase 2, just building up to phase 3 I think.

    ADHD memes do seem to resonate with me, but I’m not sure I experience the deleterious effects to a severe enough extent to really have diagnosable ADHD.

    Even if I am, I’m not sure stimulants would be the right way to go, and I’m already doing my best with ADHD style interventions to support productivity et cetera.