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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) @alice@lgbtqia.space
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The saga continues...

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But they determined that what I do on *my own social media* is too spicy for them to process money that my friends gave me for totally non-nsfw reasons...on a platform that they don't have anything to do with.

Color me skeptical of Stripe's future good graces.

This all feels like it's designed to shame sexworkers and push them even farther into the margins (and I'm not even a sex-worker! My crime was looking femme and posting photos of myself that you'd find in any Victoria's Secret storefront—on Fedi...for free).

Meanwhile, these payment platforms seem to happily process money for far-right influencers and (other) hate groups.

Email from Alice to BuyMeACoffee support: Then can you issue a refund to my friends asap, so we can all take our tips elsewhere? Getting suspended on Xmas day and losing all the funds to pay my bills was really shitty timing. So, does this mean that I can never use any Stripe services again? I've never accepted money for adult content (and my donation comments should make that pretty clear), but I have been (mostly) naked on the internet before, and I can't take that back. Would this apply in revenge porn cases too? Since by the reply I got, it sounds like if I've ever done anything adult anywhere online, then I'm failing Stripe's ToS.Email from BuyMeACoffee support to Alice: Hi Alice, I’m really sorry this happened, especially given the timing, I understand how upsetting and stressful this must be. I’ve raised a request with our team to expedite the refund of all payments on your account back to your supporters as soon as possible. I’ll keep you updated once I hear back. Regarding Stripe, the decision was not based on Stripe alone. It was made in line with our own Terms of Service, as well as the requirements of our payment partners. This action also does not automatically mean you’re banned from using Stripe services elsewhere, as Stripe makes those determinations independently. For more context, I recommend reviewing our Terms of Service, Prohibited use cases and the payment providers' guidelines, which outline how these decisions are made. I know this is frustrating, and I appreciate your patience while we work on getting the refunds processed.Email from Alice to BuyMeACoffee support: Thanks, and I understand this is a "capitalism ruins everything" scenario. The issue now is that, because I *am* involved in the adult content community (specifically trying to clean it up so Mastodon doesn't end up like Twitter, Reddit, and every other platform that simultaneously makes it an unsafe place for artists while stealing and profiting off their work), I can't trust that I won't be financially wrecked by BMAC or Stripe for things that I do on my own personal social media. This has shown that they can pull the rug out for things I do on *other* platforms, and that means they're not safe companies to rely on. Which adds them to the pile of companies that chase off queer folx and sexworkers, while—correct me if I'm wrong—still accepting money from folx known for hate-speech or worse. Still, thank you for trying to hasten the refunds to my friends and supporters. —Alice 💜
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Tom Stafford @tomstafford@mastodon.online
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Shared by Danny Garside

JOB: Research Scientist at Wikimedia

"We’re hiring a Research Scientist strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source, privacy, and collaboration to join the Research team. As a Research Scientist, you will conduct applied research on the integrity of Wikipedia knowledge, its communities and their work, and the Wikipedia model. "

Closes: January 15th, full remote with some geographic limitations

Link: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikim

Research Scientist

Remote

job-boards.greenhouse.io

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뉴스봇 - 사회 @news_society@802.3ether.net
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비트코인 전송 순간 주소변경…17억 가로챈 유럽 해커 한국 송환
(서울=연합뉴스) 이동환 기자 = 악성 프로그램을 설치해 마음대로 수신 주소를 바꿔 17억원이 넘는 가상자산을 가로챈 외국인 해커가 한국으로 송...
yna.co.kr/view/AKR202512270339

비트코인 전송 순간 주소변경…17억 가로챈 유럽 해커 한국 송환 | 연합뉴스

(서울=연합뉴스) 이동환 기자 = 악성 프로그램을 설치해 마음대로 수신 주소를 바꿔 17억원이 넘는 가상자산을 가로챈 외국인 해커가 한국으로 송...

www.yna.co.kr · 연합뉴스

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fueda @fueda@misskey.io
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GoProの、ART標準のフリンジ軽減でも補正が足りないフリンジは、マスクでさらに軽減できる。WB and Primaries Correctionで緑と青のHueを調整するのが簡単か。

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서담 @joshi_no01@threads.net
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오늘의 자기 성장을 위한 작은 다짐들

1. 작은 성취에 스스로 박수 친다
2. 실수를 두려워하지 않는다
3. 매일 10분씩 새로운 것을 배운다
4. 긍정적인 마인드로 도전한다
5. 내 강점을 믿고 발전시킨다
6. 부정적인 생각은 잠시 내려놓는다
7. 나를 사랑하고 존중한다

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

Link: shanethegamer.com/esports-news
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Rainbow Six Siege Hacked as Players Get Billions of Credits and Random Bans - STG Play

Rainbow Six Siege appears to have been hacked as global server outages hit all platforms, with players reporting billions of credits, dev skins, and random bans while Ubisoft calls it a server incident.

www.shanethegamer.com · STG Play

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Chris Trottier @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org
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Shared by Paul Cantrell

I don’t care if generative AI exists.

If it collapses, gets regulated out, or proves useless, fine. Oh well.

What I don’t like are contradictions, gatekeeping, and techno-puritanism pretending to be ethics.

The “is AI art or not” debate collapses the moment you watch how IP holders behave. They’re not suing AI companies into oblivion. Instead, they’re licensing, investing, and monetizing.

When remixing happens without permission, it’s theft. When remixing happens inside a system they profit from, it’s innovation. Same act. Different cheque. That already tells you everything you need to know.

That said, when it comes to the “is AI art” debate, the philosophical escape hatch—the one everyone leans on—is intent. Humans have it. AI doesn’t. Sounds clean—supposedly. Except, when humans use AI, they have intent.

Which is why the supposed difference between AI and every other tool based on derivative works—such as sampling, collaging, quoting, etc.—doesn’t survive contact.

Intent doesn’t live in tools. Samplers don’t have it. Cameras don’t. DAWs don’t. LLMs don’t. People do.

If someone is prompting, re-prompting, rejecting outputs, selecting results, and deploying them for a purpose, intent exists. You don’t accidentally iterate. Complaining that the machine does all the work while also complaining people are prompting wrong is just holding two incompatible ideas at once. Pick one.

When that contradiction shows up, the argument mutates. Now it’s about quality. Or effort. Or struggle. Or depth. Or audience response. Or how it feels wrong.

None of that matters. Bad art is still intentional. Lazy choices are still choices. Audience response is downstream. Art doesn’t exist because people like it. It exists because someone made it. If struggle or popularity were required, most art history wouldn’t qualify.

None of this is new for me. This is the same position I’ve held for years. Composition over technique. Exploration over purity. Feeling over formula.

Tools don’t matter. Credentials don’t matter. Approved processes don’t matter. That’s why purity tests set off alarms.

Once you strip them away, the debate stops being about art and starts being about power. One rule for individuals. Another for systems backed by capital. Funny how that keeps happening.

RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/1d743389-00c1-48fc-932d-9a35cddb3442

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Maho 🦝🍻 @mapache@hachyderm.io
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FOSDEM 2026 Social Web Speakers

I have been trying to create a list for and realized that (ironically) most of the people in the socialweb track ... does not have a fediverse account listed there.

I am also at fault, btw, so shame to me.

If you know someone who is presenting at please send them my way. I will update this thread with the list of confirmed speakers.

The Fosdem 26 social web track List:

@pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle
@evanEvan Prodromou @evanprodromou
@haubleshannah aubry
@mapacheMaho 🦝🍻
@dariusDarius Kazemi
@bjoernstaBjörn Staschen
@django
@resieguenRebecca Sieber
@openforfutureOpen For Future | Italia
@iusondemandValentino Spataro
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber
@tsyesikaJessica Tallon
@zzepposs
@melaniebartos
@Pepijn
@FloppyJames Smith 💾
@tobias
@mayel
@ivan
@hongminhee@hackers.pub洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)
@samviesamvie ⁂
@benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻
@neiman
@hongminhee@hollo.social洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
@filippodb:fedora: filippodb ⁂ :cc: @magostinelliMichele Agostinelli
@publicspaces
@cubicgardenIan Forrester | @cubicgarden
@samviesamvie ⁂
@bonfire
@FediVariety
@vishnee

Non Social Web Track presenters:

@bogoBogomil Shopov - Бого

Social Web Track schedule:

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track

Boosts are also appreciated!

P.S. Special thanks to @liaizonwakest ⁂,
@andypiper, @michaelMichael Foster, @toon

FOSDEM 2026 - Social Web

fosdem.org

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