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It's already up and running. I follow several Bluesky users in my Mastodon, some Bluesky people follow me as well.

It has to be manually enabled on both sides though.

Be careful about the things one does in response to being insecure. Some people react to the prospect of rejection by giving people a reason to reject them, so that the blow will be softer. That's obviously not a great idea.

It's alright to not be super talkative all the time. Reading up on social norms is probably a good idea if your have autism and find them challenging.

Think about first impression. Keep a good personal hygiene, try to wear clothes that make some sense, try to keep a good posture while not being too "stiff" - let your arms swing while walking and all that. There's a bunch of these tiny things we do that change our perception of each other, and it can be good to be aware.

Keep in mind that you're probably not dealing with a unitary group of people. You're probably not the only person who doesn't have friends yet. And some people will always not like you no matter what - if you have too many friends or are too charismatic, some people will dislike you for that as well. It doesn't matter that some people don't like you, what matters is to find some people one can get along with. Chances are there are people out there with a lot in common with you.

You should see old folks scrolling Facebook. They're lost.

* and earlier generations. Especially earlier generations.

I have no doubt it'll be very important for people to see.

The hardcore Sonic fanbase is a... Special bunch.

It's not really that different from what has already happened - we need fewer workers in the economy due to technological advancements, and jobs that were common 50 or 100 years ago don't exist any more or are much more rare.

It's a problem of distribution. Capitalists used to depend on buying capital, which gave workers some share of their money by default. In countries where capitalism worked better, the proletariat successfully organized, giving workers a position of power vis-a-vis the capitalists and improved their conditions. Hell, in some countries the situation even got bearable for a little while, helped along by the exploitation of foreign work forces.

As the capitalists replace more and more workers by machines, money stops flowing, and the position of the proletariat is relatively weakened.

In theory, it's not a difficult problem at all. In democracies, the proletariat can simply vote to tax the rich, making money flow downwards and ensuring their rights and welfare in the same way as when they had to sell their labour.

One could also go full on communist, remove private incentives in form of capital gains, and collectivise the means of production. This would require massive political organisation and a lot of goodwill from humans put in power, for which mankind has a terrible track record.

Taxing the means of production and the capitalists, however, is not particularly difficult. It's been done with great success on many occasions.

The problem is that the capitalists have a lot of influence, and they're not interested in letting go of their money bag. Disproving the point that they got wealthy by having any form of heightened intelligence, they're too dumb to realize that if they leave behind nothing but a destroyed hellscape for the rest of humanity, their lives aren't going to be very pleasant either. Humans tend to be happier in more egalitarian societies, yet the capitalists are hell bent on gathering more for themselves, buying media channels and politicians in the pursuit of effectively just making everyone else poorer relative to themselves.

So we're fucked, not because of the distributive effect of technological advancements per se, but because we're collectively incapable of successfully organising for continued wealth distribution. And all the technologies used to replace workers comes at a high environmental cost, making our time horizon to find solutions increasingly limited.

It's funny how Israel is routinely interfering in US elections, considering that they're just a well trained US overseas territory according to folks over at the .ml instances.

The rich were getting richer, and there were anonymous opinion pieces in the New York Times about adults being in the house, but we must remember the pre-Covid Trump years very differently.

I kind of like the idea of just using pentagram. ⛥

Close enough to the current logo in appearance, scales well, not used by other social media, satanic undertones.

And in white, for the dark mode folks:

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But it's hardly a fair comparison, especially because it seems I cannot upload SVG files to Mbin. I also didn't make the lines thinner or any other adjustments that might be a good idea at this scale. Still, might be better than noting.