ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

The great @blaine Cook (legendary inventor and former lead developer at Twitter) has written superb first draft of a "Fediverse Charter." Naturally, he made it open source for anyone to build on. Because that's just the culture here in the Fediverse. Get used to it :)

cc @jeffjarvis @davetroy @dangillmor @KevinMarks @tchambers https://slocanstatement.org/

#SFCriticalMass

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.

I see some people talking about screen reader accessibility, so I want to point out a real bad habit some people have gotten into on Twitter and on Carrd pages which wreaks havoc on screen reader accessibility. I thankfully haven't seen it on the fediverse much.

Usually people refer to the habit as "Twitter fonts". This is a misnomer, though; these so-called "fonts" are just misusing various Unicode characters (mostly those designated as mathematical symbols) because someone thinks they "look cool". DO NOT DO THIS. Depending on the screen reader, some of them might be moderately legible, some of them might get spelled out, and the worst of them will spit out garbage like "JAPANESE LETTER JAPANESE LETTER CHINESE LETTER SQUARE ROOT CHINESE LETTER".

I recorded a video a while back to demonstrate how bad this can get:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLDvg0cZYZ8

🦇

#ScreenReader #Accessibility

This week's highlightable delights: Storytelling and the art of tenderness, David Bowie on creativity and his advice to artists, the poetic science of the aurora borealis https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/bowie-borealis

it just occurred to me that the experience of using mastodon is having a radicalization effect on the people that choose to stay; we are all realizing that we don't want to be a product any more.

THIS IS THE FUTURE SOCIALISTS WANT

THIS IS HOW WE BREAK THE KYRIARCHY

RISE MY FRIENDS, or sit down, plenty of us have chronic illness and standing up for a long time is just not nice to our bodies at all

Starting to see the US #lawsuits under federal and state #law directly related to #Musk’s, um, chaotic directives at #Twitter. Is there interest in analysis/discussion of these as they develop? Three:

* Cornet v. Twitter (Nov. 3) (class action re employees): https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65680829/cornet-v-twitter-inc/

* Rodriguez v. Twitter (Nov. 16) (class action re contractors): https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65760825/rodriguez-v-twitter-inc/

* Borodaenko v. Twitter (Nov. 16) (#disability discrim. class action): https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65761068/borodaenko-v-twitter-inc/

Suppose I should provide a brief #introduction

- Background in #physics
- Use #datascience #machinelearning and #cloudcomputing to solve challenging problems in #insurance
- Live in #Madison #Wisconsin
- Organizer of our local #python meetup group -- see @madpy
- Perennially hopeful #WhiteSox #baseball fan
- Devoted #tea drinker
- Proud papa of two

Been trying to keep an open mind about Post but, yeesh, it has a lot of warning signs right out of the gate, and I don't mean beta bugs. Comments run by OpenWeb? Investment by Marc Andreessen? No way to know who is reposting your content? No way to moderate comments on your posts?

It doesn't seem buggy, it seems structurally unsound in ways that will be hard to fix.

https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1596224339355262977
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1596606967195533312

I have no idea if I posted this here and if not wow what a mistake. My Books are FREE until the end of Cyber Monday (11/28).

Come on come all and hey if you know someone who likes demented stories about demented people, let them know!

https://codemonkeyarts.com/boas_vol1
https://codemonkeyarts.com/boas_vol2
https://codemonkeyarts.com/book/the-curse-of-dawn
#books #bookstodon #freebooks #free #book #bookmastodon #writers @bookstodon.com @bookstodon @bookstodon

The birdsite flagged this post for 'sensitive' information. Consider it an incentive to buy this book. (It's illustrated!!)

#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #WomensHistory #History #SlaveRebellion #StayWoke #WokeUsedCorrectly

If you're in need of reading material, I've been keeping a list of every book I've read since 2013. Links to reviews and author interviews in there as well: https://parentheticalrecluse.com/reading

#books #bookstodon #literature

If you’re interested in my work on radical empathy, here’s a link to a segment from a talk I did on inclusive leadership. I’ll post the link to the full talk in the next post.

https://youtu.be/Sfd09hiJYDY

Peanuts and the quiet pain of childhood – how Charles M. Schulz, born 100 years ago today, made an art of difficult emotions https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/20/charles-schulz-peanuts-biography-david-michaelis/

#quotes

Hi #mastodon , my #introduction : I am a human rights #lawyer working mostly for and in collaboration with #youth . I facilitate strategic planning and policy/practice change workshops using experiential learning. I also help local jurisdictions implement systems reform (sometimes collaboratively and sometimes through lawsuits or other means). #youthrights

Non-work things to share:
#boxer
#jiujitsu +
#vipassana practitioner
#mixedrace
If you cannot find me, I am #hiking with Gu dog.

@bookstodon #books

My 2022 Books of the year by genre: (thread)

Best Overall: Thrust, Lidia Yuknavitch
Mystery Thriller: Jackal, Erin E. Adams
Historical Fiction (tie):
Hester, Laurie Lico Albanese
Four Treasures of The Sky, Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Fantasy: Babel, R.F. Kuang
Sci-fi: Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi
Horror: The Fervor, Alma Katsu
Humor: Shit Cassandra Saw, Gwen E. Kirby
Satire: No One Left to Come Looking for You, Sam Lipsyte
Nonfiction: Allow Me to Retort, Elie Mystal

If you need a calming visual, here are a few relaxing fall photos I took at Peachtree Lake. #photography

Here are my #7Books . Not sure what they say about me, but they are longtime favorites. In no particular order

1. City of the Plains trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) (yes, this is 3, which is cheating, but really they should be read as 1)
2. 2666 (Roberto Bolano)
3. Dhalgren (Samuel Delaney)
4. Overstory (Richard Powers)
5. The Collected Short Stories of Breece Pancake
6. Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
7. Skin of the Lion (Michael Ondaatje)

@bookstodon #bookstodon