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Born at 337ppm CO₂
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Joined January 19, 2023

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 1w ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117345830006269910 "Take note, whenever women point out all men need to do more to stop the abuse of women, inevitably some men respond 'NOT ALL MEN!' Let me be clear—those men are confessing and should be treated accordingly. Men who center themselves over the women suffering abuse are telling on themselves. Believe them."

Quoting

Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social

This is an article for men. Women already know this. A few months ago I wrote an article titled “Women are not safe around men” and I got 100s of messages from angry men chewing me out. This week a woman filed a civil suit against 7 men at Cornell University for drugging, trafficking, and raping her. Zero have faced any criminal charges. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men. And the data is devastating. https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/cornell-university-systemic-sexual

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.: "This is an article for men. Women already know th…" - Mastodon

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

I don't know where those behind the "thin scrollbar" trend got their computing education, but they need to go back there and do the HCI course again. Then they need to spend at least a week using glasses that distort their eyesight while they work, so they can learn what people with vision challenges experience while trying to use what they built.

Same for the "small text" trend. And the "it doesn't matter how much you zoom or unzoom this page nothing changes" trend.

#accessibility #inclusion

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@jonny@neuromatch.social I've heard there are IPOs in the pipeline for Perplexity, Anthropic and OpenAI, and a stock sale planned by Alphabet. I believe this is described as "dumping on retail" (so the VCs can get their money out before people see the snake oil for what it is and stop buying it).

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work "We don't have the standards" has also been the stock excuse for half a decade. Meanwhile, other protocols have been able to do this all along. @jonny@neuromatch.social is one of the few people who have stood up and contributed something that can move the fediverse forward on this.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 4mo ago

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@Hex@kolektiva.social Very interesting. I disconnected my "smart" TV from my wireless router years ago when I noticed it had been sending gigabytes of data without any good reason.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca I was moved to track down the Guardian story mentioned at the start of the video https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/israel-bans-radio-advert-listing-names-children-killed-gaza

theguardian.com

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca @su_liam@mas.to @mason@partychickens.net Still curious about the legal basis for the arrest. Reading aloud is not a crime.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work @jonny@neuromatch.social I don't think we need to worry about everyone jumping in at once on this one.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world @AndreaPitzer@journa.host "Dr. Dean, a co-researcher, said the findings left no doubt in his mind that many German citizens, despite the frequent claims of ignorance after the war, must have known about the widespread existence of the Nazi camps at the time." This is why accountability must reach all the way down into the roots. If people had learned they would face consequences for what they enable, support, amplify and empower, perhaps we wouldn't be facing the same hazard now.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 4mo ago

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@kaliranya@vtuber.house @jokeyrhyme@aus.social @Hex@kolektiva.social In general it is a moral failure, and it is even for police and military in a lot of cases (which is also often forgotten). There are just exceptions.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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I shouldn't have to pay anything. It's a 13-year-old unit, and I have cleaned it, but everyone I speak with has gone to great lengths to tell me that if it's found that the failure was due to me, I will have to pay. He keeps taking calls with the management company out of my earshot, which seems suspicious.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work What kind of bizarre straw man is this? @jonny@neuromatch.social

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@jonny@neuromatch.social (I have a "days since AI has lied to me" thread, but I'm not even logging all of them now as there are too many examples 😅) https://mas.to/@tokyo_0/116724394371364515

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm): "days since AI has lied to me: back to zero (At t…" - mas.to

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@davidaugust I was surprised last night when I saw that he was even holding the dinner. It didn't make sense.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work What you're saying here doesn't seem to make much sense. What exactly is it that you're trying to say? @jonny@neuromatch.social

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@bweller@mstdn.social @Quasit@beige.party See also: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-reject-war-powers-resolution-trump-cassidy-clash-rcna351703 The power is right there in the Senate and Congress to stop this. The "war" started on Feb. 28. Now it's June 28. How long is it going to take senators and congresspeople to fulfil their responsibility to the American people?

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot I was stunned there wasn't a result for independence the last time there was a vote.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Not having a great day. Then I went to YouTube to try to find a film trailer and had Japan xenophobia rage bait shoved in my face by the algorithm.

I'm starting to think the reason the world is going to hell in a handcart is so many people have it good. They have it so easy they think it is easy, and that it's easy for everyone, when the only reason it's easy for them is other people's unacknowledged labour. Maybe the collapse of civilisation is what we need.

(So yeah, not a great day.)

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@fst@mstdn.io @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social I'm not willing to pay anything to a vendor that charges me twice as much as the person stood next to me for the same item. The market sets the price at what people *collectively* are willing to pay. There are reasons people ended up shopping more in stores with price labels than markets where everything was haggled for. A retail experience dark age fueled by technology intended to erase community power holds zero appeal.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 4mo ago

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@chu@climatejustice.social You're not the bad parent, they are. They've just been given the right soundbites to justify to themselves the easiest choices they could make in the face of everyday pressures and commercially incentivised persuasion.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 4mo ago

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@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social @gatesvp@mstdn.ca And StackExchange. The right Fediverse solution could replace both.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot Wow, that's mindblowing. I wouldn't have thought enough non-Scotland born people would've moved there to have been able to sway the whole vote.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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(Right now it seems to me far more likely that the "escort" operation was actually always a pretext to put U.S. vessels closer to the Iranian coast than they would have been otherwise.)

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@tripplehelix You're confident she didn't? @katemorley

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@renwillis If I casually compared a war I started to Vietnam in front of a press pack, I shouldn't be in government.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@stalbaum@mastodon.social As much as I'm a regular critic of the times we live in, this one in particular rests firmly on the White House — which walked away from negotiations in Pakistan and now wants to pick them up again.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@justbob @keepandroidopen What do I need to be running by September 2026, instead of Android, to be able to continue to use F-Droid?

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@solitha@mastodon.social The slicing is a valid concern. I guess you could wrap it in some kind of cloth before squeezing 🤔 @Rainmaker1973@zpravobot.news

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@the_wub@mastodon.social There I was, hoping this stuff wouldn't be waiting for me on Linux (haven't had time to do my installs yet, just bought the drives so far).

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work @jonny@neuromatch.social Oh, when you said "without Everyone jumping in all at once" you meant all the maintainers of different Fediverse platforms? That wasn't clear. But addressing it, now that it is clear, it would work the same way as every other new functionality works that affects the various platforms. It's not right that Mastodon has such an outsize dominance on how the protocols work, but given that it does, it can be used for good in this case to introduce true mobility within Mastodon at least. Others can choose when they follow, just as they do with other functionality.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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Nearly done airing the room. If this works I'm so having pizza tonight, even though it's ¥3,000

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@h_tejas@newsie.social Do you think the electoral rolls were the main factor?

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@rbreich@masto.ai Still no alt text, Mr Reich?

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@terribletowelie @j_bertolotti It changes a bit through the day.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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Job done. It seems to be fixed. I'm glad he opened it up a second time because there was a little piece of hard plastic covering where the electronics were and he didn't fit it back properly into the case the first time 😬 The management company pays everything (as they should) 🙏

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot (I can appreciate a small number of people might have reasons like family or moving there for work, but in general... ) It's like moving to a place then saying you don't want it to be what it is.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@technomancy If you're going to say something, you should probably just say it. If you can't bring yourself to say it, perhaps it's something that shouldn't be said. "I don't want to be seen as saying the thing I'm about to vaguely insinuate so I can't be held accountable for it" doesn't really help. @glyph

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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Also, it's already 32°C in the room at 10:54 a.m. And if the engineer does show up, he's probably going to leave the window open for ages staring at the air conditioner compressor which I already told Daikin three days ago isn't working, to make sure it isn't working. Why do they bother building machines with error codes if they're still going to insist on sending out an engineer to assess the error?

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 4mo ago

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@Tristan@catnest.net @stux@mstdn.social What is the basis of their objection?

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot It's a cheek, as well. Because even as someone who wasn't born in Scotland and isn't Scottish, to me if you want to be ruled by Westminster, live in the country that is under the sole rule of Westminster. "I want to live in the U.K. but I also want to live in Scotland, and I also want to make sure Scotland doesn't leave the U.K." is a mindset that doesn't make sense to me. Like some kind of fundamentalist settler mindset. It's not as though the independence movement is a surprise.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 4mo ago

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@stefani@kolektiva.social The language tag on this post is English. @karlauerbach@sfba.social

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 4mo ago

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@ketan@climatejustice.social If only people worldwide were similarly angry, and prepared to act on it, about the rest of Starbucks' bad practices.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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If it gets to noon I'm calling Daikin. This is 🐂 💩

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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He finally called, at 12:15 p.m. Said he was at the front door. I told him I'd asked for a call first and made him wait five minutes. He waited 10. Now he seems to think he can fix it with a part, so he's on the balcony taking it apart. Didn't isolate it at the fuse box, just pulled the inner unit's plug out of the socket. But if this fixes it and I don't have to pay anything, all will be well.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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I turned it off to open up the windows and blast air through as he didn't wear a mask, but in a few minutes I'm turning it back on and running it at 18°C in afternoon heat for half an hour to make sure it's really fixed. And then I might go back to sleep again 🫠 Man this has been an ordeal. I can't actually believe right now that it's over.

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@ohir@social.vivaldi.net @denzilferreira@techhub.social Resistance is a tool of the well-paid?

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@robho@mastodon.social Glad you were clear about where that responsibility rests. @jbjrkng@hachyderm.io

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) @tokyo_0@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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オーマイゴッド. He replaced the circuit board. Must've taken 20 to 25 minutes. Closed the case back up again. Came inside. Powered the indoor unit back on, while clutching a little laptop. "It looks like I got something wrong. I'll have to do it again." He's outside now, opening up the case again.

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