ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Hmm, we really missed the mark when we designed radiators sized for cats but not humans. 😐

#catsofmastadon #mnwx

New York City
Holiday Windows, 2018

In 2018, I visited NYC for Christmas and toured some of the store windows dressed for the holidays.

I'd never seen windows like these! I wonder if they still put so much effort into them after the pandemic. I hope they do. They were wonderful works of art, and I certainly never forgot them.

#WindowFriday #Window #ArtAdventCalendar #MastoArt #JoinIn #ArtMatters #Photography #StreetPhotography #NewYorkCity #NYC

When you're Jewish ... but also pagan.

Remember that 'distracted boyfriend' picture which went viral? Here's the same people 10 years later.

A belated self-#introduction: I'm a cognitive science professor whose research focuses on human language: how we understand it when we hear & read, how we produce it when we speak & write, and how we learn it. I'm PI of the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory (cpl.mit.edu) at MIT where our work draws on ideas and methods from artificial intelligence, linguistics, and psychology. I'm also a passionate advocate for open scholarship, open science, and open access. #nlp #linguistics #cogsci

The Intercept is working on verifying its Mastodon account, @theintercept with theintercept.com. But I’m the meantime, it is indeed the official account!

A lot of white Americans don't value bail reform, because they can't conceive of themselves being charged with a crime they didn't do, when there is literally zero evidence. That seems like a vanishingly rare occurrence.

A lot of Black Americans do support bail reform, because they know that being falsely accused of a crime is a very real possibility for them. Happens a lot.

Both groups of people are correct in their risk assessment. 🙂🙃

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall."
~ Roald Dahl
📚
#bookstodon #books @bookstodon #RoaldDahl #reading #booklover #bibliophile #writingcommmunity #books #heaven #writerslife #writer #bookshelf #library #attic #writersofmastodon #quotes

I recently emailed a rabbi, and when he didn't reply for two days, the more reasonable part of my brain was like "It's the holidays, this is not an unusual amount of time, and he's probably busy." But the rest of my brain was like "Maybe he found an archive of that time I did an extended thread about which Pokemon are kosher to eat on Twitter".

Did I just missed this before now, or did the @Tusky app just quietly add Scheduled Toots to their app like a bunch of sneaky Santas?

Bookish Advent Day 23 (Part 2)
Another "post it while I remember" effort
Jarett Kobek - I Hate The Internet
Does what it says on the tin. Laughed til it hurt.
#Bookstodon #Books #BookishAdvent #Fiction #Humour

Long before European settlers arrived, Indigenous peoples had established complex agricultural practices that are still relevant today

#Indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #agriculture #farming #gardening

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/agriculture/2022/10/08/roots-run-deep-2

Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. for decades as a planner of the Montgomery bus boycott and as the primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington. A confidant and adviser, he introduced MLK to Gandhi’s principles of nonviolent resistance. His role in the civil rights movement was largely relegated to the background, however, because he was gay. In the 1980s, he became a public advocate for gay and other human rights. #BlackFriday #LGBTQ

We receive over half a million HTTPS requests per day to www.bbc.co.uk with no TLS SNI hostname (& ~100k/day to www.bbc.com).

The vast majority of these look like automated testing rather than humans.

If you run one of these (or know someone who does), please consider updating your software to something which supports TLS SNI (or deleting the test) because we may remove support for client which don't support TLS SNI which means your tests will break.

Boosts/shares would be much appreciated 🙌🏻

After the report about the Girl Scout mom getting booted from Radio City Music Hall, I spent the last two days reporting out the use of facial recognition technology by the Madison Square Garden empire to keep hundreds of lawyers that work for firms that have sued it from attending concerts, sporting events and shows. It is a radical use of the technology by a private company and I am truly shocked by how forthright MSG is about its real-world block list. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html

But important to note the class is now basically every single adult in America. Basically for $2-3 each, Facebook got to expose our personal data to thousands of apps, build what was a trillion dollar platform, and importantly enrich and avoid liability for its leadership. 2/5

Facebook posted overnight what would be “the largest [settlement] ever achieved in a data privacy lawsuit” and “the most Facebook has ever paid.” $725mil seems large but coupled with Zuck’s SEC deposition transcript just revealed this week, it protects Zuckerberg (again). 1/5