George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

People at work through the decades.

Last night, I deactivated my own Twitter account and walked away from an audience of 30,000 followers.

Because I no longer believe a moral argument can be made for staying on Twitter/X in 2023.

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/there-is-no-moral-argument-for-staying-on-twitter-x-cdef14b04730

We would be greatful if you could amplify our voice & let your followers know that the Auschwitz Memorial is present in #fediverse: @auschwitzmuseum

Every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of #Auschwitz.

Auschwitz is a place that shows where hatred, antisemitism and contempt for a fellow man led people decades ago.

It is also a place where we should reflect on our individual and collective responsibility for the world we live in.

Leaving Twitter. And thriving. A true story 🐦👋🏼

“as a platform becomes less reliable — either editorially or technically — staying becomes more fraught. And as NPR has demonstrated, you may not be giving up all that much if you walk away.”

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

A meteor burning up in Earth's atmosphere, filmed from the International Space Station.

Hey Mastopals, I'm looking for some work so if you know of anything, LMK. Looking for part time (20 hrs/week or less), fully remote work. I have experience in software QA, writing (that's what I'm best at), and music production, plus the usual bullshit (customer service, spreadsheet fuckery, etc). Happy to take short term contracts, one off assignments, etc. Would love to do something meaningful that isn't just enriching a capitalist but hey, I know how rare that is.

@seth @mastodonmigration Starlink cannot and is not designed to provide many people with internet access - it can't handle the bandwidth. It is designed to provide a small number of users slightly lower latency at a steep financial premium, along with the environmental harm it does.

Don't believe the hype.

And to actually get people internet access; advocate for rolling out fiber optics and local wireless.

So I follow the @auschwitzmuseum account, and when I see a post of an individual, I take a moment with them. What they looked like. Where they were from. I try to learn to pronounce their name if it is unfamiliar to me. I purposefully make the effort to bring this human individual into my mind and think about the life and potential that they had that was stolen from them. I make them real for me. I don't know them. I will never truly know them. But I want to acknowledge that they existed and that their existence was extinguished and that their very existence was important and has meaning.

I know not everyone has the emotional bandwidth to do this. For me, my flavor of neurodivergency has a tendency to want to pull me outside of humanity, so I find this practice as one way for me to reconnect and to sit with the tragedy and to feel. It isn't a good feeling obviously. But it helps cement the importance of our humanity and that we as humans have a lot of work ahead of us to be better to one another.

If your organization needs video support, I work with two people who can both shoot and edit. They're crazy talented, driven, and creative, but were caught in recent RIF actions. Reach out to me, and I can put you in touch.

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. Postal Service (USPS) customers. Here’s a look at an extensive SMS phishing operation that tries to steal personal and financial data by spoofing the USPS, as well as postal services in at least a dozen other countries.

I like to show my work, and went pretty far down the rabbit hole with this one:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/phishers-spoof-usps-12-other-natl-postal-services/

I've been taking a break from work for the last few weeks, so missed much of the brouhaha over the McKinsey developer productivity article. But I'm sure that I could not write a better response than this one from @tastapod

https://dannorth.net/mckinsey-review/

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Just deleted/deactivated my Twit/Xitter account. Gonna miss all those aviation peeps, but it had to be done.

Any #avgeek #aviation peeps here on the elephant, give me a follow - will follow back!

The Israeli government has cut off food, water, and fuel to 2 million people inside Gaza as part of its campaign to stamp out Hamas terrorism. Collective punishment is not only contrary to international law, it is inhumane and illogical. It is what my community once endured in World War II, all because of the actions of others who happened to share our ethnicity. Have we learned nothing? How will this possibly help deescalate the violence rather than radicalize many more? It is madness.

2100 followers and counting. Wow. Thanks again.

More posts are coming up. And we'll also address your comments and questions asap.

Have a good start into the week!

When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents. /1

Funny clip on Australia's Indigenous Voice Referendum

“The #MexicanGrayWolf recovery program has been sabotaged by the over-reporting of wolf predation on livestock,” said Greta Anderson, deputy director of Western Watersheds Project. “It has resulted in wolves being killed by the government and their packs disbanded, and it has resulted in the taxpayers footing the bill for improbable reimbursement claims for losses totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

True, true, all true.

https://www.wmicentral.com/news/mexican-wolves-plight-more-than-a-matter-of-populations/article_246b31fb-33de-5e35-9cab-8b17b6a727df.html