Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

✨ Friendly reminder ✨ #Mastodon is older than:

* The fall of #Twitter.
* The birth of #Bluesky.
* The birth of #Threads.

If you feel like your timeline is empty, that nobody interacts with you, or that this space seems abandoned...

In summary, if you miss the artificiality of The Algorithm©, remember that you are the person in charge here 🤗 And that this is the most beautiful gift a social media platform can offer to anyone.

Mastodon has a lot of active accounts. Therefore, make your experience here more relevant by:

* Following other users.
* Interacting with them.
* Following hashtags (this is how you replace the recommandation algorithms).
* Following bot accounts (some are really great and useful).

This is gonna be fun 😊

@arstechnica Countdown to big fucking avoidable disaster for everyone and everything within dozens of square kms.

@arstechnica More destruction at taxpayer expense? Great!
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The failed SpaceX rocket launch left acres of damage that had US wildlife officials in disbelief, documents seen by Bloomberg show https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-25/elon-musk-s-spacex-explosion-left-major-debris-after-starship-rocket-launch?utm_source=website #elonMusk #spacex

@spocko

Not just Breitbart, but a Breitbart article whose source is a mental pro se litigant who was declared a vexatious litigant and has a habit of suing opposing lawyers and judges he doesn't like.

I dedicate this post to everyone who keeps saying, “COVID is just the flu now.”

In the most recent complete report weeks:

#COVID19 hospitalizations: 15,756
#Flu hospitalizations: 1,607

COVID deaths: 1,262
Flu deaths: 14

Most COVID deaths in a week THIS YEAR: 3,866

Most flu deaths in a week SINCE 2019: 1,048

Yep, exactly the same!

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

The American press is all in on investigating Ron's boot lifts, but not so much his nazi views.

If this man is reelected, he will pardon all the January 6 defendants and criminals. And where is the outrage from the right over the “altered” national anthem? This is straight out of dystopian novel.

Holy crap! That is *way* more than I expected. If an autonomous vehicle requires 1.5 drivers, is that ... better somehow? Anyway, called it, add one point to my score, which no one likes when I bring up. (🎁⛓️) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/cruise-general-motors-self-driving-cars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7kw.o5Fq.5WLwCg2_ONB9&smid=url-share #AutonomousVehicles

I still think they’re missing the news. The news is not that House Republicans are trying to aid Israel. The news is that House Republicans have declared their first and most important priority: starving the IRS of the funds needed to collect money owed by billionaire tax cheats.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/11/02/house-israel-aid-mcconnell-schumer-biden/71393928007/

It's really pretty inane how news orgs report, for example, that Sam Bankman-Fried "now faces up to 115 years in prison." That's just bull, and they know it. The theoretical statutory maximums for all counts added together consecutively add up to that, but this is NOT how federal sentencing guidelines work. And again, the news orgs KNOW this.

I wrote a short piece on safe #menstruation tracking apps, expanding on a few tweets I posted at the time #RoevWade was overturned. Incidents of testing women for abortion drugs in the UK prompted me to turn it into an article:

https://eroticmythology.com/menstrual-cycle-period-tracking-apps/

#WomensRights #DataSecurity #RoeOverturned #Section58

I don’t understand how Sam is in jail right now I thought Bitcoin fixes governments having guns

It’s not #Caturday, but it is #kissantai.

How in God's name did I wake up to catch a bus at 6:45am to school each morning wtf

People following me for cybersecurity content: Chris Bing, one of the most distinguished reporters on this beat, recently joined the Fediverse. Chris has broken way too many stories to count and also has valuable insight into all things related to hacking. Please follow him.

@Bing_Chris

And please boost for reach.

V 972 mag:
Will #Israel shut down Al Jazeera?

'The government is advancing regulations to close the network's Israel branch, a move journalists and free press defenders decry as baseless and dangerous.'

https://www.972mag.com/al-jazeera-israel-gaza-censorship/

'israeli murderers are called commandos. arab commandos are called terrorists.' - george carlin on the western war euphemisms
#propaganda #gaza #palestine #ceasefireNow #georgeCarlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1TWZ6u0YLk

The new guy sucks. https://brianmcfadden.org/2023/10/27/meet-mike-johnson/

Is anyone surprised that the hoser who sued DOD all the way to SCOTUS over the COVID vaccine mandate is also the guy who threatened to shoot the pilot he was flying with on a commercial flight recently? It’s almost like you can profile these guys to know that they aren’t stable enough to own guns.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-pilot-allegedly-threatened-shoot-flight-captain-sued-dod-covid-rcna123400

Palm Grove Elementary School Principal Myrta Garza didn't like being asked questions by an 11 year old honors student, so she had him arrested. Texas cops put him in a juvenile detention facility for three days, breaking the law to do it.
https://www.texasobserver.org/why-was-this-11-year-old-honor-roll-student-put-in-solitary/
#Cops #Law #Bullying #Settlement