ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
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Seems like a lot of the science/humanities/academia instances are closed or getting really big. I'm thinking of making my own instance. Some aspects I'd like it to have:
* domain blocks for hateful sites
* longer text limit to promote deeper discussion (maybe 20k characters)
* latest mastodon+glitch ( https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/ ) with all the nice features
* culture welcoming especially to people identifying with LGBTQIA+ and PoC
I looked into the technical and financial aspects and I can do this!
Would anyone be interested in this? Any suggestions on the last point?
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#introduction
Before retiring, I was an aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander), software developer, and tech writer. But that was to pay the bills. I think of myself as a writer -- mostly sf, some horror, some mystery, some (yet unpublished) fantasy. Lots of details at www.dvorkin.com
My wife and I also help writers self-publish. You can find out more at www.dldbooks.com
In theory, I should be writing much more now that I'm retired. In practice, that's not happening. I blame the Internet.
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So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).
Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).
Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.
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Today is #WorldPancreaticCancerDay💜and #CervicalCancer🎗️Elimination Day of Action.
Yet, I notice that neither have found their way to my Mastodon feed…
Give me a shout if you’re interested in what were doing under the #EUCancerPlan.
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Looking for a new read? #bookstodon #books #SFF #scifi #ScienceFiction #dystopian
An underground city, built centuries ago to ride out the devastating heat. And a young solar engineer whose skills may be the key to saving her city…if she doesn’t get herself killed first.
https://szattwell.com
Excerpt: https://szattwell.com/aestus1excerpt/
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Students shouldn't need to trade their right to privacy to access their right to an education.
To ensure the safety of students around the globe: EdTech needs Schooling.
https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/edtech-needs-schooling
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It’s OK to boost without hitting the favorite button. We get it. You like it, so you’re sharing it. You don’t have to favorite it as well. It’s redundant.
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*paid for by The committee to move faster through the notifications timeline.
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“This is not a phishing attempt” starts Twitter’s FAQ to staff being told to click “yes” if they want to stay…
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I don’t have imposter syndrome, I have poster syndrome. I literally cannot shut up
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It's been a crazy few years. As 2022 draws to a close, I thought I'd do a post about the strategy I've used to protect my writing time from the general chaos of world and personal events, and their demands on my time and energy.
Fundamentally, the challenge is to identify who you are. What is it that makes you feel your strongest self? For me, being an author is a significant part of that answer.
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"Do you love Me?" Alice asked.
"No, I don't love you!" replied the White Rabbit.
Alice frowned and clasped her hands together as she did whenever she felt hurt.
"See?" replied the White Rabbit. "Now you're going to start asking yourself what makes you so imperfect and what did you do wrong so that I can't love you at least a little.
You know, that's why I can't love you. You will not always be loved Alice, there will be days when others will be tired and bored with life, will have their heads in the clouds, and will hurt you.
Because people are like that, they somehow always end up hurting each other's feelings, whether through carelessness, misunderstanding, or conflicts with themselves.
If you don't love yourself, at least a little, if you don't create an armor of self-love and happiness around your heart, the feeble annoyances caused by others will become lethal and will destroy you.
The first time I saw you I made a pact with myself: 'I will avoid loving you until you learn to love yourself.' "
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Hello everyone! I joined a few days ago. I'm a glaciologist and senior researcher at #GEUS, The Geological Survey of Denmark and #Greenland
I mostly tweet about #Arctic #Antarctica #climate #climatechange #Polar science, but also #Mars science, #equity #openaccess and #fieldwork
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This may be old hat to the entire universe, but I just discovered "Horizontal Scrolling" just 'cause I've got many Mastodon columns (8 and counting).
The Shift key is the secret. With a thumb-wheel, it's downright fun!
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this fiasco with #taylorswift and #ticketmaster after the #zlibrary takedown brings up this enraging question: why does the average #artist make so little money?
society clearly values artistic output. writers, musicians, comics, etc create content that is voraciously consumed. why does the staggering amount of money spent on things like books and music (a damn fortune by me!) end up in the hands of middlemen?
publishers and #ticketmaster and #livenation making bank gaming the market sucks
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Now I have another challenge with pixelfed and mastodon.
If both are the same protocol, if I even can use the same mobile app for both.
What is the difference then?
Why have both of them? Just because of WEB UI❓
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Need a good laugh?
Do you keep hearing about machine learning taking over the world "soon anytime now"?
This #deviantart entry of mine from 2009 has been labelled, presumably automatically, as "mature content". I kind of see why–not quite an adversarial attack, but yes quite the failure of excessive generalization.
It's a most innocent photograph: that of my favourite lunch, back from when I was at INI Zurich: mozzarella with cherry tomatoes, olive oil, salt, and ... bread.
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Hi Aurynn, have you had a chat with
@freemo
about their strategy? They seem to have a consistent position and explanation on what they do and how do they deal with servers, AFAIR in their about page:
It’s a #STEM focused server. As qoto.org has a potential for encouraging serious science-based and academic discussions, so there can be unintended consequences of blocking qoto on the basis of their policy of defed.
Just a thought I wanted to share with you.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
