Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Dear reporters, news people, etc.,

The reason you're not getting any reach on Masto is because you rarely interact. You just come here, post your news article, and don't engage with the community.

You will never get reach if you don't interact with people. This is not Twitter. This is not Facebook. If you want this platform to work for you, you have to become a part of the community, not just shout at us and leave. Forget everything you learned in the walled corporate digital gardens.

My "dispatches from Antarctica" newsletter kicks off tomorrow morning! 
Subscribe to follow along on my two month expedition: https://buttondown.email/arielwaldman

Trump wants to terminate the Constitution, but I say he should be forced to carry it to term.

We have had 3 more instances sign up to the United Federation of Instances in the last 24 hours or so.

Still around 200K members but I really am getting excited at all this momentum.

Setup a cool little verified link system too where members of the UFoI can add a verified link to their profile.

If you are an instance admin and want to join, whether your instance is 1 user or 100000, just let me know, as long as you follow our code of ethics I can add you and you will show as a founding member on the website once we launch.

#UFI #UFoI @ufoi

I was shit-canned from a 2020 Dem zoom group because I was appalled that someone thought using a deep-fake about Trump was a good idea and resented me mentioning it (without detail) on Twitter. Hard to be ethical, lately. Someone always thinks you’re Karening them.

you know you're in the right neighborhood when

A little known feature of #Mastodon is the ability to create your own personal notes about an account.
This is a great way to potentially remind yourself why you follow particular accounts (or just about any other reason you can think of).

Also, these notes are private. The account does not know what you have written down, nor the fact that you have even made these notes.

Please #boost to help spread the knowledge around your networks. ☺️
#MastodonTips #Feditips #Notes
https://youtu.be/npoBM9Ev2CQ

@Rasta DAMN!! To quote a childhood friend of mine, that's all teeth!

Kirkjufellfoss, #Iceland 🌈

I left Reykjavik early morning and headed 3 hours north to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula to shoot Kirkjufell.
We arrived at the famous peak. It was a downpour. My heart sank. Exhausted and still to early to go eat dinner, I took a nap in the car for “a few minutes.” A few minutes turned into an hour.
As I slept, the sun had come out behind me and woke me up. I turned and looked at Kirkjufell. My jaw dropped. Rainbow over Kirkjufell!
#Fotomontag #photography #rainbow

Buachaille Etive Mòr, Glencoe, Scotland.
Taken on a day of foul weather, just a 50 yard walk from the A82. Taken a good few years ago now, not the best photo I've ever taken - I think I've learnt a lot since then, so a return trip is due for 2023.

#Scotland
#Glencoe
#Photography
#Travel

‘ #Nature knows no indecencies; #man invents them.’ #Quote

A spouting whale appears in front of #USCGCBear during #OpNanook in August 2022. #shipphotography #uscoastguard @uscg #whale #spouting #whalespout #sea #ocean

Watching crypto implode in exactly the same ways that unregulated financial markets have been imploding for the last 400 years.

Watching billionaires fantasize about transcending their mortal bodies and becoming gods, just like they have been for the last 4,000 years.

There's just these ruts in our brains where it's easy to get stuck.

There is a disturbing conjecture circulating that the gunfire-induced power outage was more stochastic terrorism intended to stop a #dragshow at a military base. As if grown-ass soldiers can't handle it. Parrallel but distinct from current use of #antitrans #GC #gendercritical asshattery as a wedge issue.

https://www.wral.com/moore-county-woman-protests-drag-show-on-social-media-claims-deputies-visited-her-saturday-night/20612783/

This might be one you'd want to #Boost peeps need to know about this.

#fascism #stochasticterrorism #drag #entertainment

If we don’t have voting rights we don’t have anything. Moore v. Harper is an enormous case that will be argued this week before the U.S. Supreme Court. Keep your eyes and ears open for it. @marcelias and @democracydocket will be all over it this week. #politics #votingrights #scotus #supremecourt

Hear me out: the COVID pandemic isn't over.

5) At the bird site of my 750 followers, probably thirty percent had left their account open but hadn't tweeted in over a year, and sometimes much more. I suspect Twitter is a bit of a paper tiger, with several million abondoned accounts, which must over represent its advertising reach. My conclusion is that Twitter is now more people talking at you; pundits, reporters, entertainers, bots, celebrities, etc than it is people talking with you.

Foolish me. I spent the weekend worrying about the effects of large language models on our educational mission.

Apparently it take a true visionary like billionaire venture capitalist, post.news backer, and Musk-stan Marc Andreessen to see that the real problem in the AI space is that these academic fields like AI Ethics and AI Safety are trying to CENSOR perfectly innocent algorithms that are simply minding their own business and preserving or exacerbating societal injustices.