Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

If Scooby-Doo taught us anything, it’s that humans are always the monsters.

Home Depot is having its "ultimate tool event" in case anyone wants to buy my cousin Jason.

#Mozilla is creating a fediverse instance. What is Mozilla?

• A “not-for-profit” that owns multiple for-profit businesses and pays its CEO $5.6M
• Gets ~83% of its revenue (~$500,000,000) every year from surveillance capitalist Google
• Makes a browser that protects your privacy (*some configuration required)
• Is now a VC…

This is the best we can expect from Silicon Valley/capitalism. Question is: can we do better than that?

Sources: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf, https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990-ty21-public-disclosure.pdf

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Americans should name mass shootings the way they do hurricanes but after Republicans who accept payments from the NRA.

Media companies start returning money linked to Sam Bankman-Fried
ProPublica, Vox, Intercept, Semafor....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/20/sbf-journalism-grants/

The sun rises this morning for its shortest trajectory across the sky this year. The Northern Hemisphere's #Winter #Solstice occurs this evening at 21:47 GMT, which means we're halfway through the dark times.

Meanwhile, our Southern Hemisphere neighbors start summer with their longest day of the year. #Summer Solstice. Lucky bastards.

#HappySolstice to all who are celebrating!

Homeward Bound! Dog, found 1,600 miles away, will be home for Christmas - The german shepherd mix went missing in October 2021. Now, the friendly pooch is on a cross-country road trip from Kansas to California, back to the family who adopted him as an abandoned puppy. #Kansas #npr

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1144581887/dog-zeppelin-found-kansas-sacramento

Sunset as abstract. #photography #fotografia #fotografie #sunset #seascape #colors #Cozumel #LauraCochranPhotography

b000m! 172 reports solved and over 50 spam account suspended ✅

Soo sorry for the mess while I was asleep

Possible abduction victim in north Oshawa is safe with case invstigated as domestic matter - #Oshawa #Ontario #missingperson #missingpeoplecanada #missingincanada

Durham Police have issued a statement regarding a possible abduction last Friday in Oshawa, saying the woman is safe and the incident is being investigated by another police service as a domestic matter....

More Info: https://missingpeople.ca/possible-abduction-victim-in-north-oshawa-is-safe-with-case-invstigated-as-domestic-matter/

"‘cytros,’ are individuals recruited by political parties or other organisations to spread #disinformation, discredit rivals, derail political discourse, and manipulate public opinion online"

Great piece by @muniramustaffa about the recent #elections in #Malaysia.

It's hard enough for tech companies to fight disinformation in English (the native language of most of them)...how much gets missed elsewhere? #extremism #conspiracyTheories #southeastasia #FarRight

https://gnet-research.org/2022/12/14/rage-clicks-hatebomb-and-the-new-world-order-how-hard-right-politics-and-conspiracy-theories-overlapped-to-undermine-malaysias-elections/

Large North Carolina School District Passes Strong Trans Protections - Other Districts Should Follow

#transgender #trans
https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/large-north-carolina-school-district

Been here on Mastodon for five years but apparently promoting your own work like, say, a book is not allowed on here 😆

In completely unrelated news, my book is now just over a month old:

https://softwarecrisis.baldurbjarnason.com/

It's a lean guide to applying systems-thinking to software projects.

For example, in it I try to show how testing and experimentation deliver additional economic value to a project beyond just reducing defects.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! Sending love and hugs!

Buachaille Etive Mòr in Glencoe with winter coat on, taken from the roadside.

Due to the blackout in Kyiv, the teacher held an online lesson right on the street. Ukrainians are amazing! #UkraineWillWin

📹 Alice Smahina/Facebook

Every warning label has an awesome backstory.

The German phrase "zwischen den Jahren" ("between the years") refers to the days between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day or - depending on who you ask - the 6th of January (Epiphany).

So, if your German friends don't answer the phone or open the door during that period, please remember:

They are spending their holidays in a non-existing time-slot between 2 consecutive years.

Enjoy our language!

#TheGermanWord

Okay people, let’s get the shortest day of the year started.

When was your personal moment that you realized it was time to leave Twitter? What was going through your head — how are you now?

#twitter #twitterexodus #twitterrefugee #infosec #infosectwitter #twittermigration