Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

I remember being at some new shopping mall thing, and it having a poster on the wall about how great the shipping center was because you could "interact with all the brands you love" and wanting to throw up so bad I walked out.

That's #threads that is.

Have fun interacting with the brands you love folks.

I'll be here talking to people.

We need a slightly derogatory term for people on #Theads. Get a #Mastodon account , you:

Thwerp?…
Threadhead?…

Someone's asked for a 12" print of the Bjork sketch I did yesterday, if you want one shout/DM now as it'll only be this one print run.

Published 30 years ago today...

#Cartoon

Very simply, the response about Threads from @Gargron is impossibly naive. It assumes good faith interactions with a company that routinely demonstrates, and often flaunts it's lack of ethics. There is no universe in which Mastodon gets Threads content for free. Either they're going to find a way to monetize Mastodons userbase or they're not going to implement interoperability.

You don't build a milk empire by letting everyone have free access to the cows.

There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

📣 👀 People coming from #twittermigration - noticed how #mastodon runs without any ads?

No bullshit algorithm, well moderated content, and most importantly: no idiot CEO (or the concept of a single enterprise running the platform in first place)?

Thats because we survive mostly on donations.

If you are financially able to, please support your Mastodon instance.

If you are a user of #convocasa please donate via: https://steadyhq.com/convo-casa

We are currently very short of our target 😅 🙏

lol twitter now requires login to view any tweet, RIP that whole ecosystem of embedding some tweets and pretending it's journalism

Climate emergency headlines…

“Canadian wildfire carbon emissions reach highest level on record”
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/canadian-wildfire-carbon-emissions-reach-highest-level-on-record

“No end in sight to wildfire smoke suffocating American cities. And yes, climate change is to blame.”
https://www.salon.com/2023/06/29/no-end-in-sight-to-wildfire-smoke-suffocating-american-cities-and-yes-climate-change-is-to/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Ad blockers are also cybersecurity. Say it with me.

They reduce malvertising, watering hole attacks, and general malicious script execution. It’s not all about you, ad firms.

Who's gonna tell them?

Hit them in the feels: confirmation bias and the emotional component of reason
Brian Macrae Davis

We may see ourselves as rational decision makers, but we are all prone to judging ideas based on how well they agree with what we already think

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/07/hit-them-in-the-feels-confirmation-bias-and-the-emotional-component-of-reason/

QED workshop: How to Read a Scientific Paper, with Dr Anja Harrison

Being able to read scientific papers is a valuable skill for a skeptic, to figure out whether the latest ground-breaking treatment really is as wondrous as the headlines suggest.
At QED, our workshop will teach exactly those skills.
Hosted by Dr Anja Harrison, we will pick their way through academic publications to learn what to look out for, and how to spot potential issues and red flags.

https://qedcon.org/news/2023/how-to-read-a-scientific-paper-anja-harrison?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=papers

Who's excited for Threads

The FCC is accepting applications for new, low-power, community radio stations the first week of November.

This is huge, you guys, this window rarely opens (the last time was 2013), and as you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.

The Grassroots Radio folks are holding a conference in West Virginia to help folks out with this.

Please boost and share.

#radio
#community
#local
#journalism

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

Back when Windows 95 came out you could drag "The Internet" icon to the bin and it'd pop up a message that said "Are you sure you want to delete The Internet?" and we thought it was hilarious but in hindsight maybe one of us should have said "yes".