ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Call your reps! Legislators are trying to sneak a truly horrendous bill that would make the internet even more garbagetastic into a year-end funding bill. Details:

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/01/congress-trying-to-sneak-through-internet-link-tax-to-funnel-cash-to-private-equity-firms-that-are-destroying-local-journalism/

Mastodon is not an ad-driven platform. There is absolutely zero incentives to let awful people run amok in the name of engagement. The goal of Mastodon is to build a friendly collection of communities, not an attention leeching hate mill. As a result, most Mastodon instance operators have come to a consensus that hate speech shouldn’t be allowed.

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

I love this book so much. I used to read it as a kid and then when I became a father I started reading it to my children. Beginning in utero.

It is such a silly, fun book. I want more kids books to take you on a funny journey like this classic.

Tags: #SesameStreet #Grover #Books #KidsBooks #Parenting #Muppets #Bookstodon

Griffin does not exist #TerranTradeAuthority #AIArt #midjourney

"Naming things"

submitted by NeedleworkerUpbeat34
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/z9y51z/naming_things/

This is the weekly reminder (and EXCITED REMINDER) that for #law #lawyers #legal you might want to check out, add yourself, and import @heidilifeldman's #LawFedi list!

When I found it, I was the 60th(?) person on the list... it's now OVER 900 #LawFedi folks!

The list is here: https://mnky.us/3AYIapi (shortlink to Google Sheets)

If you would like to join, here’s how https://forms.gle/AKMhScVySmS93LbK9

Prof. Feldman keeps an eye on the list for spam, trolls, and errors.

#lawProfs #LegalTech

#Dalle2 does a good job of generating square images, but a lousy job of generating rectangular images suitable for a Mastodon header

Five Forced Reads ("required reading")

What are five books you had to (but didn't want to) read, and then really enjoyed?

I remember –
1) "Pygmalion" George Bernard Shaw 1913 (high school)

2) "A Kestrel for a Knave" Barry Hines 1968 (HS)

3) "Travels With My Aunt" Graham Greene 1969 (HS)

4) "The Iliads of Homer" George Chapman trans. 1616 (Uni)

5) "Collected Ancient Greek Novels" BP Reardon ed. 1989 (Uni)

Your five or so? Not necessarily literature.

#Bookstodon #reading #5ForcedReads

Sam Bankman-Fried's defense is pretty simple. Paraphrasing: "We were completely incompetent, even though we'd been assuring everyone that we were completely competent and making (inadvertently of course) lots of statements that turned out to be false."

Cheers was a holodeck program. #StarTrek #Trek #TNG #Cheers

#PlanetTerry #StarComics

Once again I am begging the void to produce an activitypub fediverse answer to bandcamp.

Labels, orgs, groups of punks host instances.

Bands create profiles. Can upload their music, organized by release with lyrics, art, metadata. Numerous download formats available. I don't really care about payment for music, but probably some integration with external payment platform (librepay?) for PWYC downloads goes here.

Profile is viewable by anyone. So far this is a self-hosted bandcamp clone (that also does not really exist as far as I know).

You can follow profiles from elsewhere on the fediverse and you'll get posts when the band publishes new songs/releases (with embedded player linking back to the media hosted on instance?) or posts other updates (tour dates! etc). (It should have RSS too)

Genuinely impressed by the creativity of #openai #gpt3. 🤯

What a great poem about #primeediting.
#CRISPR

If you are a #librarian , #LittleFreeLibrarySteward, #author , #publisher , #storyteller , or just a person who enjoy talking about #books . Please give my a sign. I would love to follow you.

@bookstodon @littlefreelibrary #LittleFreeLibrary #library #bookstodon #booklover

Hey, can anyone here recommend me short stories by trans women authors?

Anything speculative fiction (fantasy, sci-fi, horror, etc) published in the last 5 or years. Bonus points for POC, and/or new/unestablished authors.

@transbookstodon @sffbipoc @lgbtqbookstodon #WritingCommunity #trans

You don’t know if there is a #LittleFreeLibrary near you ? Check the map !
https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/

Note : Only registered Little Free Libraries will appear on the map. As many are not registered you can still have the surprise to find an unexpected one near you.

You can also check #StreetLibrary or #BoiteALivres.

#Australia : https://streetlibrary.org.au/find-2/

#France : https://boite.a.livres.zonelivre.fr/

@littlefreelibrary @bookstodon #littlefreelibrarysteward #littlefreelibrarylove #books #bookstodon

Introduction

Hi ! I am the Steward of a small Blue Box growing in my yard where I share books with the Community. I read a lot. So I share a lot of books.

#ReadInColor
#LittleFreeLibrary
#Literacy

#Bookstodon
#books
#fantasy
#sff
#historicalnovel
#romance
#kidlit
#yanovel
#graphicnovel
#comics
#fairytale
#folklore
#legend
#folklore
#folktale

#genealogy

#animals
#cats
#chickens
#nature

#doctorwho
#StudioGhibli