ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back isn’t about hacking computer systems; it’s about hacking more general economic, political, and social systems. It generalizes the term hack as a means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/11/new-book-a-hackers-mind.html

Forget Ultra MAGA and Owning the Libs -- the real danger to society is AI allowing our Cat Overlords to rank up!

It's the last day to apply for #WriteHive #HiveMentor! As a mentor, I know I said I was going to hold off until the window closed to begin looking through my submissions, but wow, I am already so humbled by the quality of work being trusted to me. I can't wait to get started!

https://writehive.org/writehive-mentorship-program/

#writing #WritingCommunity

#introduction Hi! I'm Hannah Hudson, an associate prof. of English at Suffolk U in Boston. I teach and write on c18-c19 British #literature, including #JaneAusten, #bookhistory, #Romanticism & #genrefiction. My first book, Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era, is forthcoming with Cambridge UP in 2023 and I'm working on another about c18-c19 miscellaneous magazines. Ambivalent about social media in general but have found good things on Twitter so trying this too!

Hi! I'm a Game Developer / Designer & Pixel-Artist. #Introduction
I use MsPaint for PixelArt and Unreal Engine for games.

Working on Unreal Racing: https://linktr.ee/UnrealRacing

Flare token rug pulls or is exploited for $17 million

November 13, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=flare-token-rug-pulls-or-is-exploited-for-17-million

Tuite Mausoleum, Churchtown Graveyard, Emper, Co. Westmeath.

boost this cat when they least expect it

Hey, #AudiobookFans. I'm looking for #AudiobookReviewers.

If you're in the US or UK (or VPN-savvy/tech-savvy) & you would like to review for me, let's talk! I would be thrilled to hook you up with free #audiobooks in exchange for a review.

Check out my catalogue here: http://bit.ly/EdenCavellAudio

#Romance #RomanceBooks #Bookstodon #Audiobook #Reviewers

If you see this, it’s your excuse to treat yourself to something nice! ✨

Have a nice cup of tea. Put on some music and dance awhile. Watch a movie you like. Stand outside under the steely cold light of the full moon’s foreboding gaze and make an unspeakable pact with old and vengeful gods. Buy a new notebook.

You deserve it 🧡

Today for #projects is a little site @natbat and I built back in 2018 for Superb-Owl-Sunday (the annual American celebration of owls on the second Sunday in February): https://www.owlsnearme.com

It's a one-click site that tells you where you nearest owl is!

Something I love about this project is that it's a static HTML+JavaScript site - one of my only live React projects - which fetches data from the amazing iNaturalist API and hasn't needed any changes since we launched it

#harmreduction #opioids #HIV #HCV #endocarditis #incarceration #homelessness #PWID #abolition #humanrights #socialjustice #STIs #epidemiology #causalinference #monkeypox #COVID #publichealth

Rewatching Black Books with Natalia while the search for remote #PublishingJobs continues.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Publishing

This is good to know; personally I used to use twtr as a sort of bookmarking archive for interesting thoughts/links/stuff. Might not have such a lookback on Mastodon.
https://toad.social/@davetroy/109337529381432993

1/Some thoughts on Mastodon server administration... first, the application stack: Postgres, Redis, Node, Puma, Ruby, plus stuff like Yarn for asset compilation.

Simple to setup all of these on a single box and scale up with memory/cpu/disk. For a tiny number of users, the load is minimal, and you could do it with a VPS for $10 (or less) per month.

Getting to 100 users and then 1,000, the load becomes more significant. Most users don't impose much load by themselves...

I know Internet Archive just setup a Mastodon server and may have ambitions in this regard, and you can probably use it now to archive specific posts. Anyway I’m sure this will become of increasing importance as people start to post more original work here; that said, posting stuff to a separate resource you control is best practice.

This said, it’s likely that individual ‘home’ servers will preserve its own users’ content longer than those it pulls from federated servers, but even that can’t be relied upon indefinitely. Point being, assume this is an ephemeral resource, even as it’s a pretty decent one that may appear persistent for most practical use cases. Obviously, any given server can also disappear overnight, for any reason, so behave accordingly.

Another design consideration re: Mastodon is that it works well for ephemeral asynchronous communications, but for many reasons should not be counted on as an archival resource. Media attachments are periodically purged and may not be available after a week, or a month, etc. While some servers may try to preserve content forever, this may be costly and unsustainable. Creators, researchers should treat this as an ephemeral resource and make provisions for self-archiving anything important.