ActivityPub Viewer

A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a request with the right Accept header to the server to view the underlying object.

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If your water purification system works, everything is fine. It&#39;s only when you get rid of the sanitation system that you discover why it was there in the first place, a realization that might well arrive as you expire in a slick of watery stool with a rectum so prolapsed the survivors can use it as a handle when they drag your corpse to the mass burial pits.</p><p>When Musk and Ramaswamy decry the influence of &quot;unelected bureaucrats&quot; on your life as &quot;undemocratic,&quot; they sound reasonable. If unelected bureaucrats were permitted to set policy without democratic instruction or oversight, that would be autocracy.</p><p>Indeed, it would resemble life on the Tesla factory floor: that most autocratic of institutions, where you are at the mercy of the unelected and unqualified CEO of Tesla, who holds the purely ceremonial title of &quot;Chief Engineer&quot; and who paid the company&#39;s true founders to falsely describe him as its founder.</p><p>But that&#39;s not how it works! At its best, expert regulations turns political choices in to policy that reflects the will of democratically accountable, elected representatives. Sometimes this fails, and when it does, the answer is to fix the system – not abolish it.&quot;</p><p><a href=\"https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/policy-based-evidence/#decisions-decisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/pol</span><span class=\"invisible\">icy-based-evidence/#decisions-decisions</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Science\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ScientificMethod\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Regulation\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Regulation</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AntiScience\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>AntiScience</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Libertarianism\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Libertarianism</span></a></p>", "contentMap": { "pt": "<p>&quot;A regulation that works might well produce no visible sign that it&#39;s working. If your water purification system works, everything is fine. It&#39;s only when you get rid of the sanitation system that you discover why it was there in the first place, a realization that might well arrive as you expire in a slick of watery stool with a rectum so prolapsed the survivors can use it as a handle when they drag your corpse to the mass burial pits.</p><p>When Musk and Ramaswamy decry the influence of &quot;unelected bureaucrats&quot; on your life as &quot;undemocratic,&quot; they sound reasonable. If unelected bureaucrats were permitted to set policy without democratic instruction or oversight, that would be autocracy.</p><p>Indeed, it would resemble life on the Tesla factory floor: that most autocratic of institutions, where you are at the mercy of the unelected and unqualified CEO of Tesla, who holds the purely ceremonial title of &quot;Chief Engineer&quot; and who paid the company&#39;s true founders to falsely describe him as its founder.</p><p>But that&#39;s not how it works! At its best, expert regulations turns political choices in to policy that reflects the will of democratically accountable, elected representatives. Sometimes this fails, and when it does, the answer is to fix the system – not abolish it.&quot;</p><p><a href=\"https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/policy-based-evidence/#decisions-decisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/pol</span><span class=\"invisible\">icy-based-evidence/#decisions-decisions</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Science\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ScientificMethod\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Regulation\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Regulation</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AntiScience\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>AntiScience</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Libertarianism\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Libertarianism</span></a></p>" }, "attachment": [], "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/science", "name": "#science" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/scientificmethod", "name": "#scientificmethod" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/regulation", "name": "#regulation" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/antiscience", "name": "#antiscience" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/libertarianism", "name": "#libertarianism" } ], "replies": { "id": "https://tldr.nettime.org/users/remixtures/statuses/113532293582349034/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "type": "CollectionPage", "next": "https://tldr.nettime.org/users/remixtures/statuses/113532293582349034/replies?only_other_accounts=true&page=true", "partOf": "https://tldr.nettime.org/users/remixtures/statuses/113532293582349034/replies", "items": [] } } }