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I thought this was slightly funny.

Mark Zuckerberg is known these days for wearing t-shirts with Latin phrases on them, especially ones where he compares himself to Julius Caesar.

Bluesky made a shirt in the same style, but theirs says "a world without Caesars" in Latin.

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 199 points 1 week ago

Where’s Brutus when you need him?

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago
[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 week ago

Stop trying to make fetch happen

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[-] gcheliotis@lemmy.world 187 points 1 week ago

Zuckerberg wears t-shirts comparing himself to Julius Caesar? Why is that every time I think I’m up-to-date on the latest weirdness there’s more of it?

[-] SirDankbud@lemmy.ca 87 points 1 week ago

If you think thats weird you haven't even scratched the surface on Zuck. He actually idolizes Emperor Augustus Caesar so much that he copied the guys haircut for most of his career. Behind the Bastards does a good job of highlighting it. If you want a quick readable version, here's the first non paywalled article I could find. https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-fascinated-by-augustus-future-of-facebook-2018-9

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 week ago

So... Zuck stans the guy who ended the Republic and turned it into a monarchy that pretended to still be a republic?

Well, that's not concerning at all.

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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 week ago

Here you go:

At Meta’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif., Zuckerberg wore a custom T-shirt with the Latin phrase “aut Zuck aut nihil,” or “all Zuck or all nothing,” as he revealed the first working prototype of Meta’s augmented-reality glasses.

The phrase was a play on “aut Caesar aut nihil,” which means “either a Caesar or nothing,” or more simply “all or nothing.”

Zuckerberg has long been interested in the Roman Empire. He spent his honeymoon in Rome and two of his children, August and Aurelia, are named after emperors Augustus and Marcus Aurelius.

Incidentally, fascists tend to have a hard-on for ancient Rome, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

[-] gcheliotis@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Zuck puts out this weird “pick me” or “me too” energy lately, trying to fashion himself as one compatible with Trump’s world. His interest in Rome may precede Trump’s ascension to power, but his coming out is not a coincidence in my view. And yes, a fascination with Rome started as so many other things as an “innocent” meme and became a fascist dog-whistle.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think fascists idolizing the Roman Empire goes back as far as Mussolini. The fasces, after which fascism is named, was a Roman symbol.

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[-] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 38 points 1 week ago

Roman empire, like the nordic pagan BS is also a (extreme) right-wing fetish.
So glad to see our new PM celebrating his election win like this:

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[-] StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk 19 points 1 week ago

He's not doing those roman salutes in public yet, though.

But it's kinda funny that the oligarchs are so obsessed with Rome, famous for baking a fallen empire, while enabling the fall of the US.

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[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

I wonder why all these high profile people are so fascinated with a dictator that oversaw the transformation of a republic into an empire. Just like fascists were/are. Must be just a coincidence! Just like that Musk salute from the heart.

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[-] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago

The reason behind his weird android haircut is that he thought it looked Caesar-esque.

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[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago

This is my kind of monetization.

Feels way better than getting features pulled and put behind an increasingly higher paywall.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Give it time.

[-] MuteDog@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

So is lemmy or mastodon selling shirts yet? if not, why not?

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 47 points 1 week ago

I was on Reddit for 12 years with nearly a million Karma, and I got permabanned soon after the Inauguration for repeating an anti-MAGA opinion I had posted numerous times before he was elected.

I came over to Lemmy, and discovered that I was only one victim of a bloodbath, demonstrating that Reddit had decided to forego their free speech mission, and grovel for their new masters. Pathetic punk ass corporation.

I never wore a Reddit shirt, but I'd happily wear a Lemmy shirt.

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

No one's taken my lunch money in awhile wearing Linux t-shirts. I need to up my game - I'd buy a Lemmy shirt.

[-] MuteDog@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

TBF they'd probably take your lunch money for wearing a shirt with some latin words on it too

[-] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago

The Mastodon project put a lot of energy into a high quality plushy.

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[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

I imagine selling t-shirts would be against the Marxist/Leninist ideology of Lenny’s devs?

But given the volume of non-tankie instances now up and running, I’m sure some enterprising admins would be willing to give it a go.

..and as long as they’re ethically sourced (no sweatshops), high quality (materials and GSM), and reasonably priced (accounting for the other two factors) - I’m all for it!

[-] bishbosh@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago

If they are ethically made by union labor, there is nothing anti marxist about selling a shirts. 😁

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

Ofcourse they ain’t making shit from custom domains. Anyone who is interested in connecting a domain to their Bsky account and has the skills or patience to learn how to probably already has a domain bought at another registrar to connect to.

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[-] pogmommy@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 week ago

That's cool but I'll check back in to see which fascist technocrat is running bluesky in 8 years

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago

In 8 years, anyone not mainlining Truth Social through their compulsory Neuralink will captured and euthanized.

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[-] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

it’s a fire shirt not gonna lie

[-] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 week ago
[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 week ago
[-] Rookeh@startrek.website 35 points 1 week ago

Oh fuck me, HOW in like 25 years did I not get that pun?!

[-] double_quack@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago
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[-] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago

Best nerdy program name ever.

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[-] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 1 week ago

Who got a link? I wanna buy one

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[-] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not for me, I live in Australia. USD$80 shipped. I'll pass

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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 30 points 1 week ago
[-] cabbage@piefed.social 93 points 1 week ago

As much as I hate to be that guy, it's worth keeping in mind that BlueSky is not really practising what they preach here. The AT protocol formally allows for a kind of decentralization, but it is prohibitively expensive to run an instance, meaning that only rich folks or those who are willing to accept money from venture capitalists will be capable of actually doing so.

ActivityPub already existed when they started BlueSky. They chose to not make their protocol compatible. The reason is simple: They are a company, and they have a profit motive. ActivityPub is too democratic, and therefore hard to monetize. By now they have a bunch of crypto bro investors who want their money back. It's better to leave your money elsewhere.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

I obviously support ActivityPub or I wouldn’t be posting this here but one of the AtProtocol developers bought a Raspberry Pi with 8GB ram and added an NVME drive. He’s trying to prove (or possibly make) this point wrong. https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team

So far, it seems like it’s “working” but he’s found some things that are way too slow and needs to be fixed for it to run on a Raspberry Pi. But that gives me some confidence that the developers, at least, aren’t trying to make it so only people with deep pockets can run an instance. (I don’t know what the investors want but the developers aren’t scheming assholes.)

It’s probably going to ultimately be a situation where anyone with a high end PC (by today’s standards) can run their own instance. It’s definitely not an A.I. situation where you have to reopen Three Mile Island and piss away more water than Nestle to self-host.

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago

That's cool!

I'm also a big fan of what Bridgy Fed is capable of doing towards Bluesky - it does show that there is a lot one can actually do with the protocol.

As I read the situation it's complicated. They are not inherently evil—on the contrary, I think they are trying to do good—but they are locked down by the structural chains around them. The whole thing was initiated by Jack Dorsey, and from the onset they wanted to re-create Twitter while solving what they perceived as "moderation challenges", and with the starting point that they were to create the next Twitter, not a decentralized network of services.

Hell, wasn't the original idea that Twitter itself would become part of the network?

When I see Bluesky today I see Twitter 15+ years ago. A lot of optimism and goodwill, but nevertheless a project that is doomed from the start.

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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago
[-] cabbage@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, most people don't read Latin, so there's a high risk of ending up looking exactly as pretentious as the asshole one seeks to make fun of. That said, taste is individual, each for their own.

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[-] cocolowlander@feddit.nl 26 points 1 week ago

I'm going to state an unpopular opinion. Bluesky should have ads, not a personalized ads that track users, but just simple ones at the very top of the feed. Consumers today are too addicted to free services, and companies need to be financially independent so that they can support a quality product.

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[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

of course the android wears a shirt with latin phrases.

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