David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@social.cleverlibre.org

A week after joining Mastodon, I can make some comparisons. #Twitter is driven by outrage, anxiety, attention-seeking, and the fascinating spectacle of mean banters. It’s addictive, high adrenaline, and unhealthy, both at the individual and collective levels. #Mastodon is fueled by curiosity, kindness, and simple wonders. It’s more peaceful, sometimes a little boring, but it can also create real human connections. You don’t feel like you need to take a shower after reading a few posts.

Interesting article, from China, showing transmission of Covid OUTSIDE, from a covid + man jogging. In all, with close contacts, he exposed 48 people who later tested positive, incl family, & 39 of those he exposed outside while jogging. This is China so there was contact tracing, genome testing, & isolation. Moral of the story, #wearyourdamnedmask inside AND outside as variants become even more contagious. #Covid #covid19 #COVIDisAirborne #WearAMask

https://covid.dropcite.com/articles/0bda88cc-8aaf-4de6-94f2-4bd23ee5c036

The longer I work as a historian the more I keep reconfirming that one of the top rules of history should be: "Always look up everybody's mom."

*So much* that doesn't quite make sense makes more sense when you look up mothers and sisters and the connections that get left out! #histodons #histodon #women #genderhistory

I wrote about how political parties are allowed to define journalistic ideas about balance and bias. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-rough-week-and-the-press-bias-avoidance-framework/sharetoken/SnYrinGh2jVE

I have never received something like this. We are experiencing a rise in hate, while many look the other way or seek to profit from it. I refuse to allow this to be the norm and a part of my child’s future. I will fight against hate and extremism and for decency and acceptance.

Role model. This is delightful, for all book people. https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-man-whos-read-every-book-ever-shortlisted-for-the-booker-prize

2005: Rupert Murdoch paid $580m for Myspace.
2009: he sold it in $35m.

2008: Bebo was sold for $850m, to AOL. The founders later bought it back for $1m. It was regarded as one of the worst deals ever made in the dot-com era.

2013: Yahoo paid $1.1bn for Tumblr. 2019: they sold it in $3m.

Elon Musk paid $44bn for Twitter. If history has taught us anything it's that this isn't going to end well… when there wasn't a viable business model in the first place.

#Mastodon #Twitter #TwitterMigration

More and more indications that more people are wearing masks.

Spread the word that this is happening.

Apparently people are getting tired of being sick.

Suggest HEPA purifiers and remote meetings.

#Covid #science

If you’re new to #Mastodon you will encounter words you don’t know.

Here’s the summary:

The #Fediverse : our Mastodon universe.

The Fediverse has planets (known as servers/instances). >Your handle< @ mastdn.social means your “planet” is mastdn.social.

Your posts = your broadcast signal.
People from other planets can hear your signal and follow you.

Planet gets too crowded = lag (it moves slowly.

You can change your planet and also keep your followers.

Follow and 🔁 repost for daily tips.

How can a tumultuous crowd-sourced unpaid open free-for-all—Wikipedia—handle the most controversial history in the making and get it, mostly, right?

Fine essay by Heather Ford. (And I was there, too, in Alexandria, 2008.)

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-shaping-history-why-i-spent-ten-years-studying-one-wikipedia-article-192602

“Here we all are, watching things fall apart. And yet, deep down, we don’t believe it.”

You know about climate change, you’ve read plenty about climate change, you’re tired of climate change, you’re in despair. Never mind. Read this anyway. By @elizkolbert.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/climate-change-from-a-to-z

@tamtuck if your Minneapolis Twitter is/was anything like mine, here are a few places to start (not all accounts are very active right now; would love more suggestions!): @Dbrauer, @WedgeLIVE, @YourQueeringTherapist, @naomikritzer, @MNUAF, @amityf, @UnicornRiot, @ziibiing, @tony

My not-so-bold prediction is that the bird site ends up with Facebook vibes: a legacy user base which doesn’t understand the magnitude of misinformation being spread. Will become an place where misinformation is laundered to seem like normal discourse.

“Years ago, when I was writing my first book, I found myself in the main branch of New York City’s public library not because I needed to do research — the book was a memoir — but because the space itself seemed most aligned with the task of writing. It was like going to church to pray.” #Libraries #CharlesBlow https://www.nytimes.com/by/charles-m-blow https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/opinion/thankful-libraries-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

New preprint dropped to ruin Thanksgiving with more novel SARSr-CoVs
https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1595750984915247105?s=46&t=uHCP5fH5Q_PXi6z-mdN8rQ