Clif @Clif@social.cleverlibre.org

#twittermigration #mastodonmigration
Check out the new Mastodon Migration site for Quick Start, News, Guides and other resourses:
https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#43bc

I'm a brand new Mastodon user.

Earlier I promised a more thought out explanation on why it seems to me that the Mastodon model can cure the worst evils of social media and creating a genuine and workable public sphere.

A draft is here:
https://terikanefield.com/can-the-mastodon-model-cure-the-worst-evils-of-social-media/

It's a draft because there is SO much I don't know.

@antonioserrata

Here is a great thread on how to handle this: https://mastodon.social/@ifixcoinops/109311990514936150

New from me: Twitter has spent much of Wednesday battling a wave of blue-check verified impostor accounts posing as Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, LeBron James and even Nintendo — just hours after Twitter launched its paid verification feature https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/tech/twitter-impersonators-paid-verification/index.html

It's time for your evening read, friends.

Mastodon and the fediverse have existed for years. For those who were here long before it's popularity skyrocketed, it's been a mix of emotions watching it grow.

This is a really enlightening read and the best thing I read all day. Please take a moment to give it a read yourself.

Home invasion: Mastodon's Eternal September begins

https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

I have given one man immense power over my social media life:

@ruud

Nope, not the wealthiest man in the world! But Ruud Schilders is doing a wealth of good running mastodon.world with good equipment and policies.

I hope my WSJ Mastodon guide helps people understand this community and the role trust + information plays in picking a server.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-have-44-billion-for-your-own-social-media-network-try-mastodon-11668002451?st=rf6shbsb89ki10i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

@mathewi

This really means a fringe case has blocked its own users from following/engaging with users of journa.host because the site manager has a chip on his shoulder. Not worth anyone's time to worry about it

Amazing beauty of the cosmos.

Early autumn sea surface temperature rankings from ERA5 courtesy of World Climate Service shows nearly all of the north Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to North America was unusually warm, with record warm #sst (compared to the past 60 years) south of the Aleutians and off the British Columbia coast.Bering and Chukchi Seas mostly near to above average sea surface temps but not dramatically so. #akwx

Yet, like with the subprime mortgage crisis, Wall Street continues to fan the flames, this time, by pouring billions of dollars every year into risky fossil fuels. Despite having made public "net-zero by 2050" commitments, in 2021 six US banks provided $63.9 billion in financing to companies that are rapidly expanding coal, oil & gas operations. This is disastrous for the long-term health of our economy & our planet

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/09/wall-street-gambling-our-future-federal-reserve-must-act-now

#pollution #ecology
#ClimateChange #climate #USA #US

The large North East Greenland Ice Stream is speeding up. It is accelerating at the front, it is accelerating in the back, and also in between. Changes to #NEGIS is important for #SeaLevelRise because it is a large part of the #Greenland mass budget.

Two new papers
* Khan and friends on how frontal changes are spreading in land: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05301-z
* Me and friends on what is happening even further back: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32999-2

@EmmaKennedy I’d very much appreciate a #boost, feeling very much on my lonesome over here right now! 🥺

Did you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.

A billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person, according to Oxfam.

We know which ones we need to hold accountable for the climate crisis.

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-billionaires-the-investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446/

Don't be shocked!!! 💥 This is a 32-shot photo by Fendy Gan, during a severe thunderstorm in Malaysia in 2020, all photos were taken in the same place over a period of 40 minutes to give us this awesome painting ⭐
Jonas

Come join us to work on important #ClimateChange research in the #Arctic! We are looking for a Ph.D. student to lead efforts related #RemoteSensing and #Model integration and evaluating the impacts of #shrubification on vegetation carbon, water, and energy cycling. We will be using the DOE model ELM and ELM-FATES! Apply here: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/ecoevo/_program/application

Fake news tweets take off as Twitter blue checks go up for sale | Mashable

https://mashable.com/article/fake-news-blue-check-tweets-verification

Two things that are really important on here:

♿ Add text descriptions to your images/videos/audio. Accessibility is fundamental. More info: https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediverse-accessibility-tips/#HowDoIMakePostsMoreAccessibleToBlindPeople

⚠️ Use Content Warnings on anything that people may not want to read right now. It could be upsetting like violence or politics, mild like movie spoilers, but either way it shows empathy and consideration for strangers. More info: https://fedi.tips/staying-safe-on-mastodon/#UsingContentWarnings

These features are key to keeping this place friendly. Please use them. 🙏 ❤️

Have just realised that #academics can use @ORCID_Org to
#verify themselves.

Just include your full mastodon link (like this: https://mas.to/@marekmcgann) in the "Websites and Social Links" section in ORCID, then include link to your ORCID record in your Mastodon profile.

Hurray for distributed digital identities!