Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

While men can wear clothing like hoodies and shorts and still be seen as a leader, women don't have that option.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/11/its-powerful-how-john-fettermans-hoodie-won-the-popular-vote

So, it's time to talk about #aliens.

Is the search for #intelligent #life just an impossible search for a microscopic pin within a mountain-sized haystack? Or is there a way to try and be smart about how we search?

A thread about some work I've been involved with that addresses this question... (1/n)

If you enjoy the thread, and you think others may do too, then please #boost it!

I have a jar of ammonites and a jar of chocolate covered pretzels and I just went to grab the jar of ammonites for a quick snack and WHOOPS! NOPE! That was a close one.

Interesting comment on Hackernews regarding a possible scenario/long term risk should Mastodon threaten the corporate sphere of social media.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545541

@mmasnick here's an interesting take on Elon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLBYtwu0gkY

He was deliberately setting out to change the platform to make it more to his liking - yes, he needed more revenue but he also apparently just personally resents people (journalists) with blue checks -

It's an excellent example of underwater heritage of modern times:
Section of Destroyed Space Shuttle Challenger on Ocean Floor przez @sciam

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/filmmakers-find-section-of-destroyed-space-shuttle-challenger-on-ocean-floor/?amp;text=Filmmakers Find

YOU GUYS https://cheezburger.com/18258181/chaotic-father-turns-his-sons-crayon-drawings-into-realistic-renderings-and-the-results-are-haunting

Yesterday, my local Mastodon admins called for people to donate voluntarily. So much money was pledged that today they posted a poll asking how many months of reserve funding they should keep on hand before donating the overage to charity.

Meanwhile, Elon's breaking Twitter because he desperately needs cash.

@jonreed Love it, but the line before last and the first has the wrong meter and it throws it off. May I suggest the following variant:

There once was a man called Musk,
Who hollowed the bird to a husk,
We migrated and flew,
To friends old and new,
And now we are fans of the tusk

If you've noticed your Home timeline here is pretty quiet it's because at the other place you were constantly hit with 'here's a tweet someone you follow has Liked', or 'here's another from someone you don't follow but someone you follow follows them!', or just general spam. So your timeline was constantly full of things you really didn't want to see and hardly any content you actually cared about.

In this place you only see posts from those you follow, so remember to boost the good stuff!

Having been here since 2016, I can tell you there is definitely no such thing as a consensus on usage of content warnings on the fediverse. It's a decentralized network that doesn't belong to any one party, so by definition there is no single culture on it. Different corners have different expectations and customs.

Sorry this one I have to:

I wrote a little thing about FTC consent decrees, and Twitter, and how all the people who were facing potential criminal charges for not complying with the FTC consent decree quit Twitter last night... and why Elon's not caring about the FTC doesn't much matter if the FTC cares about him... (which it likely does) https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/10/does-twitter-have-any-employees-left-who-remember-that-the-company-is-under-a-strict-consent-decree-with-the-ftc/