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John Abbe (aka Slow)

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Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@slowenough, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h
The Streisand Effect is made of people, committed to guaranteeing that attempts at censorship backfire. The people who source, write, edit, and publish stories like this. The people who share about stories like this online. And the people who share it on to others. (And see the film of course […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Nooo one expects the Squirrel Inquisition! #comedy #life #photography www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery…
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
TIL China had a southern Great Wall. And was reminded that walls work to keep people out and to make it harder to leave. (about 23:15 in) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNH0fB9lVOs Stay for the new Zomias, and let me know what you think if you do.
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Disney-Exxon fossil fuel propaganda being even worse than Savannah (from SciShow, started own channel) remembered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctFruKAuozY #climate #science #communication #Disney #FossilFuels
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
The November election this fall in the US will be compromised, as the Supreme Court okays the creation of a new, error-ridden database allowing the federal government to purge voters […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
If we're not going back to "machine intelligence" which still seems fine to me, we can do much better than "super intelligence." Just spitballing here, feel free to join in: Stupour Intelligence Snafu Intelligence Semi Intelligence Pseudo Intelligence ~1980s humor on selling computers still […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
RE: universeodon.com/@Edmonds_Scanner/1… #mosstodon #monsterdon #crossover #halloween #metamorphosis #audio #community
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
RE: mastodon.world/@OpenSexism/11684807… Even things that are quite terrible, such as AI, can be ruined even further by patriarchy. (One has to wonder as well if the dominant AIs, all trained with vast quantites of patriarchal content, simply do a worse job when working on a […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
The US federal government has wasted a ton of money trying to violate our first amendment rights here in Eugene, which I'm sure is multiplied across many other parts of the country. Here, private actors managed to fight back and win, no thanks to our city government which rolled over for it […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
The best time to end the genocide would have been decades ago. The second-best time would be now, today. Every day, Israel has the opportunity to change course. Every day, the US, the Arab oligarchies, and Iran, could each/all shift gears take up in earnest opportunities they are missing to […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
Apple won't say tata to Tata over this, but it is for sure a Big Deal. The info revealed will aid their competitors. And their suppliers in negotiating better deals. For those of us who care about society, and good computer design, it's an open question what kind of political economy might […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
KoyanisqatZzzzz... #SweetDreamsABookOrPlay #HashTagGames
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
Only way I've managed to survive context collapse so far has been to actively construct and maintain an infrastructure of understanding rich enough so whatever context I find myself in or switch to (there are still many, even though they also so often […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Photograph focused on a small flower and some of the Bindweed plant's leaves. The flower is a light pink sort-of cone with five sides, opening upwards from where it emerges from the stem.
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
Huzzah, the new Dissonant Times is out! dissonanttimes.org #Eugene #journalism #arts #opinion #local #indigenous #education #learning #pride #weather #climate #fence #fascism #relationships #abolition #pinkwashing #CarCulture #death #disability #forests #ForestDefense #ecology […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@slowenough/1103526… Now it's 2026, and this work is more important than ever.
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
Finally cracked AI, long write in process but for now: AI began life as a marketing term, and I assert remained that until 2026. LLMs like the original ChatGPT are not AI, or at best they are very, very, bad AI. It took a few years of inflicting LLMs-as-AI on the rest of us for tech broligarchs […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
I remember when corporations were too smart to try shit like this. How much longer will this Gilded Age keep spiraling before we smack it down? www.commondreams.org/news/corporati…
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'Logical Conclusion' of Citizens United as Delaware Judge Lets Corporations Vote in Local Elections | Common Dreams
Delaware is home to more corporations than people. Human people, that is, as under longstanding state law and the US Supreme Court's infamous 2010 ruling, corporations are people, too.
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
The official local Pride march was canceled by its organizers, but an independent march got organized almost immediately. The community had been through a lot with the police this year and did not want to work as closely with them as they had in recent years. One of several issues: Bodycam […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
Discovery pointing to many new tools for addressing antibiotic resistance! arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/anti… #GoodNews #science
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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
In response to Trump's 2025 "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order, the NOAA shut down the Climate.gov website. Former staffers have now set up a nonprofit to provide reliable climate information in its stead. Here's more. flip.it/mNCHRu #TrumpAdministration #Climate #Science
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Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information
Built by members of the team behind NOAA’s Climate.gov, the new nonprofit resource is supported in part by more than 2,500 small donations from people who want reliable climate science information to remain accessible. Climate.us today launched the full version of its new independent, nonprofit climate information website, creating a public-backed home for trusted climate science at a time when access to federal climate resources has become increasingly vulnerable to disruption.
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116… This could be a big deal if it sticks! Especially if it messes up Trump's effort to use the US Postal Service to force states to turn over voter data for their national voter database.
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
With just a few hundred more signatures, this expression of solidarity with the Wikipedia union will become the most supported proposal or petition ever on the English-language Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik… Jake Orlowitz has been writing about […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
Israel has killed over 1,000 Gazans since the ceasefire started. A few days ago, one of the ten Gazans killed on Saturday by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) was a journalist with Al Jazeera, but even that did not make the news in many outlets […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
There is no such thing as a Zoom call, it's a video call. A for-profiit company has a brand name Zoom, which they use for their video calling service. Similarly, there is no such thing as a Substack. A for-profiit company has a brand name Substack, which they use for their blogging service […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@CLDC/1167971620123… Less than 36 hours to go! #Eugene #FreeSpeech
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
Here's the list of those with proposals in the piece: Youmna ElSayed | Sharif Abdel Kouddous | Arwa Damon | Fadi Quran | Omar Shakir | Shrouq Aila | Mohammed El-Kurd | Nader Ihmoud | Kenneth Roth | Trevor Timm | Assal Rad | Hind Hassan | Lila Hassan | Jonathan Dagher | Nick Turse | Laila […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
Israeli government censorship remains well above the average from before the genocide began. So much fear about what even their own people would do if they had a clearer window onto what is happening. www.972mag.com/15-articles-israeli-… What can we do about it? I […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@warandpeas/1167772… #DeathCafe
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026
July's Dissonant Times' submissions due tomorrow: Friday, June 19. 💭 No time to write a news piece? We take events, comics, action reports, reviews, poetry, incarceration experiences, fiction, columnist questions… More info: dissonanttimes.org/submit @sunumbral @naceugene […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@JakeOrlowitz/11674… Yah, after reading this again it's definitely the article to spread around. Segues from Wikipedia's famous "neutral point of view" to the Foundation's opportunity to declare their neutrality in any union election. We still can't tell […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
Next Monday night, June 22, come on down to Sladden Park from 6–9pm for a Community Quiz Night, with Special Guest Quizmeister Hank! Answer questions about anarchist history here in Eugene, and around the world, and win fabulous t-shirts! Enjoy snacks! 🫐 🥜 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Against a black background, a white silhouette of a person holds up a megaphone out of which a thought balloon grows with the words: Prizes Snacks Theory History Fun facts.

Above, "Community Quiz night!!!" is spelled out in letters apparently clipped from magazines. The rest repeats what is in the post, and adds the address for Sladden Park: 325 Cheshire Ave, Eugene, 97402.
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
The AI Wars are pretty much over, and the winners are (everybody look surprised!) Apple and Google. (womp womp) Yes, Google won because they invested profits to develop a frontier model, rather than taking on 🤯 quantities of debt, and their AI is good enough that Apple pays for it for their […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
If you know someone (or know someone who might know someone) who's close to leaving MAGA who maybe just needs somewhere to land, send them this interview with the founder of Leaving MAGA […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 16/06/2026
Solidarity not sovereignty is what I am saying
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026
== == == == AI for Development == == == == Simon Willison: simonwillison.net This article...: www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/… ...and this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zCsfe57tpU == == == == Commentary/analysis == […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
RE: sunny.garden/@divya/116749453984743… Not enough people know that World Central Kitchen is reducing their services in Gaza, recently letting go half of their employees there. More details below. That means fewer jobs for folks in Gaza, as well as less food aid. That will leave […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@slowenough/1167453… Quote-boosting for Jake's article and this whole thread. Tagging some folks who I know care about Wikipedia and are, or are not yet following this. Please chime in if you are so moved, and/or share forward to others! @claudinec […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026
For some events, one is so happy to see the old website or blog or whatever still available, more or less as it was. storyfieldconversations.wordpress.c… At the same time, it's long past time for me to move everything off of WordPress.com! Happy to hear any advice/opinions/options […]
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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
You’re welcome
File menu on Tahoe with an icon for each menu itemFile menu on Golden Gate has only 4 icons
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026
Appreciate what I read/heard early about "neurodivergent." I just read the person who coined the term, intends it to be inclusive, and names specifically meaning much more than autism and/or learning disabilities […]
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
Been a big fan of Wikipedia for a while. (I had initial skepticism, very similar to my doubts re TBL's announcement of the World Wide Web itself! So ambitious! Much hubris! Very happy to be proven wrong.) I support the union. wikiworkersunited.org And I'm grateful to Jake Orlowitz for […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
For reasons, I finally got a Bluesky (aka bloosky) account. I had a question about how alt text worked, so I posted it with the LazyWeb hashtag. bsky.app/profile/notbloosky.bsky.so… Then I checked the hashtag, and folks? They don't use it! I was seeing posts from […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@emmohamed123456/11… Umm Muhamma is trying to feed his children, and pay tuition fees. If you are moved to help, thank you. If you even read this far, thank you. Too many people turn away. Maybe you could follow his account here on Mastodon, and […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
[CW: Child murder] Sam died, seven months old. His family was driving along, saw some army soldiers who told them to stop. So they stopped. Then soldiers opened fire on the car, injuring several of them and killing Sam. Please remember his name, and that this happened in early June 2026. I […]
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John Abbe (aka Slow) @slowenough.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
A collection of spring flower photos: #BloomScrolling
A big globe of little purple flowers on a single green stalk, with a lawn behind it.A poppy (or looks like one, anyway) with mostly pink petals, and a black center — extending into the petals.Dozens of small, hanging white bell flowers, branching from red stalks.Several bunches, emerging out of the same base of stalks, of classic white daffodils with yellow bells in the center.
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