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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
anyway that's what bums me out about twitter. I really like mastodon and the user empowerment it represents but actual uses don't always get replaced. they can just go away
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
don't want to overstate the case but it feels like that vacuum is what the weird tiktok/instagram culture of influencer trending spots stepped into
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
it was great to be able to go into an unfamiliar place and tap into the experience of my friends
then for a while social media was a less efficient way of getting the same info
now I think there's not really an option
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
nothing has ever worked as well as foursquare for both solid social-powered recommendations and facilitating spontaneous meetups
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
A higher score would have been nice, but I'll take it.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/16/this-blessed-day/
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stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:
servals look exactly like if a creature from a medieval bestiary came to life
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
The Apple II was like $6k in today's money despite a lot of cost-cutting measures elsewhere because at the time, being able to fuck it was seen as a premium feature
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Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
I am not, as it turns out, the only one to see the striking parallels between Melville's "Moby Dick" and Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine":
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aaronareed@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Aaron A. Reed") wrote:
Costs for Subcutanean printing keep rising and I've been eating them so far, but they're about to go up significantly again and I'll be forced to either raise the price considerably or take it out of print. :( Either way, if you ever wanted your own unique copy of a queer horror novel that changes for each new reader, the next couple weeks are probably a good time to buy one.
http://subcutanean.textories.com/
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
"Moby Dick" is, as it turns out, a really good book.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:
🌱 My Neighbor Mastodon 3
Thanks, thanks, *thanks* for being more than 25K to follow my art here!
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- A digital painting artwork depicting a giant mastodon playing a sort of ocarina on a branch, under the moon light of the 'teapot' moon (a moon from Pepper&Carrot webcomic). On the branch, also seat Pepper, a young witch and her cat Carrot. They both also play ocarina. The scene is a parody of a still from "My Neighbor Totoro" by Studio Ghibli. License: "My Neighboor Mastodon 25K" by David Revoy, with fair-use parody of "My Neighbor Totoro", ghibli.jp − CC-BY 4.0 ( source: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/misc.html ) (remote)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
one does not have to agree with every part of their argument, and I do not, to find this a useful piece to read and to seriously think about. we have harsh choices we must make, and refusing to see the need & to make the choices consciously is still just making another set of choices.
I think they are correct, in that it is indeed too late to save everything that is precious. triage is what we are driven to… triage, or an uncontrolled disaster loop.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Mr. Kennedy has made his political career on false conspiracy theories about not just Covid-19 and Covid vaccines but disproved links between common childhood vaccines and autism, mass surveillance and 5G cellular phone technology, ill health effects from Wi-Fi and a “stolen” election… But his suggestion that the coronavirus pandemic spared Chinese people and Jews of European descent strayed into new and bigoted territory.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
we must remember our history, so we can learn to make *new* mistakes
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Interesting! Informative! #spiders!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Here is why I don't like when someone says, “I don’t see color.” What are your thoughts?
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @BlackMastodon
#BlackFediverse #BlackFedi > #BlackAcademics #BlackDiaspora #BIPoc #black #blacklivesmatter #diversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #dei #mastodon #racism #antiracist #history #asian #indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #mena #native #Hispanic #NativeMastodon
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- IT ALLOWS YOU TO IGNORE THE COMPLEXITIES OF RACIAL ISSUES YOU CAN'T FIX SOMETHING YOU CAN'T SEE "DON'T SEE COLOR MENTALITY: YOU'RE NOT ACTIVELY DISMANTLING YOUR OWN PREJUDICES (WE ALL HAVE THEM!) IT LIMITS YOUR ABILITY TO APPRECIATE INDIVIDUALISM IT MINIMIZES THE STRUGGLES OF POC IN TODAY'S SOCIETY @ohhapry dant (remote)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
bicyclists in packs can sometimes act like really entitled a$$holes towards pedestrians.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
thanks, I needed that reminder
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
smoke map of North America today, via US EPA
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
an informative thread
https://law-and-politics.online/@Teri_Kanefield/110724099129121781
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
The heat wave scorching the US is a self-perpetuating monster
Record highs in the US are due to a heat dome—and it’s expected to worsen.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:
A friend of mine died this week unexpectedly. We hadn’t talked in a while and I felt awkward about texting, but was reminded to reach out two weeks ago. Stupidly (selfishly), I put it off. I will regret the decision of not letting them know how much I cared about them forever. Don’t be like me. Let the people you care about know while you can.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:
From 1940s-1980, the wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax rates. Zero of them went broke from taxation. Zero of them left the USA. All remained exceedingly wealthy, manufacturing boomed, AND we had the strongest middle class growth in US History.
Let's do that again. #TaxTheRich
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:
There is an increasing number of microservices that power various parts of the @pixelfed ecosystem, and it's pretty neat.
Our mobile app reaches out to a microservice api to get a list of pixelfed instances that are open and meet reqs, it's basically just a cached response of another microservice running on fedidb.
Another example is https://beagle.pixelfed.net, our new discovery and auth service, will be sharing more in a future blog post ✨
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
one of the thing that continually shocks me when reading old computer books is how the guys writing them will mention in the intro or dedication that someone else, often their wives, typed up their manuscript.
Like you were really writing this shit out LONGHAND? These were often written on the cusp of the desktop publishing revolution but typewriters very much did exist in the early 80s
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online ("Teri Kanefield") wrote:
Hi, Mastodon Peeps,
I have this week's blog post ready.
Missouri v. Biden is, at heart, a dispute about content moderation on social media.
It’s also about whether right-wing conspiracy theories about Covid, vaccines, and the election should be allowed to spread unchecked and unchallenged.
This case matters because many (if not most) of the difficulties we are having now in holding on to democracy come from the way people get their information.
https://terikanefield.com/missouri-v-biden-control-for-the-dominance-of-american-media/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:
DeSantis and Florida republicans have wiped hundreds of thousands of vote by mail registrations from the system—mostly democrats
That means people will not be getting the ballots they requested for the upcoming election if they don’t find if it’s them and re-register
When there are no consequences for fascists?
They keep taking rights until they win.
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shrikant@noc.social ("Shrikant Joshi") wrote:
@anderseknert Because there aren't many of us on here. Most clout-chasing Indians seem to have chosen to stick to Twitter. Or move to Threads.
You might want to check the hashtag #MastIndia and the group @mastodonindians to check out some good accounts to follow... :)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Tornado vortex signature on radar north of New Britain, moving NE towards Newington. Take cover!
Edited: At 10:39 ET, just south of Hartford and moving NE.
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Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online ("Teri Kanefield") wrote:
One issue I plan to write about is the very problem of news as entertainment.
Timothy Snyder says when news becomes entertainment, what matters is who puts on the best show. Truth stops mattering. It's all about the us v. them fight.
It's a continuation of what I wrote this weekend. I think it's a serious problem with lots of roots and no easy solution.