Clif @Clif@social.cleverlibre.org

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
- John F. Kennedy
9/12/1962

@TonyPrep I think that's backwards. We get the population we get and then desperately try to figure out how to provide the food, water, energy, and other resources they need. And we do it unevenly, inequitably, and poorly. Very few countries or societies have ever had any kind of explicit, fair, or women-centered family planning policies.

Given that we are rapidly trying to build community here…

Can I ask you to do two key things:

1) Reshare other people’s posts - so your timeline is rich with other people’s posts for anyone browsing your content to discover.

2) Follow, follow, follow. That goes for following those posting good stuff - and also following those that follow you (as much as practically possible/sensible).

If you do these things, you’ll help us all network up at fast pace - and we all grow our voices & reach. ✌️

Today, the global population reached 8 billion.
Here's a reflection on what that means.
https://www.gleick.com/blog/8-000-000-000

Artemis 1 is now in Earth's orbit

#artemis #moon #mission #nasa #esa

Characteristically thoughtful on sharing a planet with #8Billion from @petergleick

https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/109348688011205300

Fedified.com is a list of Twitter-verified accounts that have moved to Mastodon. This is a hand-curated list, so it's updated a few times a day. https://fedified.com/

Hello! Long time no see!

And welcome to the new users, of which there are... quite many, aren't there?

As you may have noticed, this project has been on a bit of a hiatus for a while. This is something I work on in my free time, and I got a bit burned out on working on it, and wanted to use my free time for other stuff. But with this recent influx of so many new users, I figured I do need to come back to this.

So I am planning to at least release some smaller updates in the near future!

How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:

1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit

#YoMigroaMastodon

RT @davidfisman: RT @sammy4723@twitter.com

A reminder:
* COVID is airborne.
* Herd immunity did not happen.
* Omicron was not mild.
* Kids do get sick.
* Transmission does occur in schools.
* Each variant is not milder.
* No wave has been an exit wave.
Minimizers have been wrong about every
single one of those things..🦠

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sammy4723/status/1590740079206895617

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.

#Arctic climate rankings are in for October 2022: https://zacklabe.com/archive-2022/.

Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”

What's sadly telling in this list of media outlets are the few number of U.S. media organizations that published this editorial, and only *one* of those was by a large metropolitan-area paper:
"This editorial calling for action from world leaders on the climate crisis is published today by more than 30 media organisations in more than 20 countries."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/15/the-guardian-view-on-cop27-this-is-no-time-for-apathy-or-complacency

This article on what the author calls the "antiviral" design of Mastodon is a good explanation of why Mastodon feels different from Twitter, and why, if you're looking for a 1:1 Twitter replacement, Mastodon might not be what you're looking for.

https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51