ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

One thing about abusers is if it is useful to them they will make you feel like the most important person in the world and if it is useful to them they will make you feel like absolute dirt and they will see no contradiction between these things

Jack felt the tingle in his skin turn to a searing burning as every printed circuit in his flesh screamed to capacity with data
"You can stop at any time" said The Engineer "you don't get extra #credit for saving a few more"
Yet every quettabyte of folded data contained the connectome of another person
Another dream
Another soul saved before the Molten Fleet arrived
"Each person is another voice in the Senate vouching against my execution" Jack said
"Give me more"
#vss365 #WritingCommunity

Happy #Caturday!
This is The Yule cat, or Jólakötturinn in Icelandic. Legend says the Yule cat would eat anyone who didn't receive new clothing before Christmas Eve. It is thought to have originated as a way to encourage people to work hard in the autumn to earn new winter clothes.
Personally, I like to think of it more as a reminder protect others by being generous in donating money and clothing to those who may have need during these frigid days.

#folklore #iceland #mastoart

Oh baby.....it is cold outside!

We normally promote the conference Tech Intersections: Women of Color in Computing on #Twitter but won't this year for obvious reasons.

Please help us spread the word about this #bipoc conference in #Oakland #California.

We're offering 20% off with promo code MASTODON. #BlackMastodon #BlackFriday

We also want to give free tickets to people who have been laid off.
https://techintersections.org

It is estimated that at least 40,000 people are in American prisons for marijuana possession.

https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/cannabis-prisoner-scale

#prisonReform #BrittneyGriner

guys think if they squat my user name on emerging social media platforms ill give them $1000 for it , instead of just calling them a Bitch

I'm curious if there is any sense of whether #mastodon has or is developing a generational identity?

Anecdotal or data-driven takes welcome, but as a start, indicate your #generation below and boost. Discussion of the assumptions behind this welcomed!

(I had to lump older generations in with boomers because evidently surveys are limited to four choices.) #generation #GenX #genz #millenials #Boomers

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🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1601426760226185217

It came to my attention that someone had posted a message saying, in effect, "Don't trust the United Federation of Instances. One of their instance admins is boosting stuff with swastikas in it. UFoI just pretending to be good faith actors!"

The accuser didn't provide receipts, but they did name the instance admin. Looking through that admin's feed, I found that, lo and behold, they HAD boosted something from the notorious poa.st. The content of the message wasn't hate speech (just an innocuous anime picture), but the username indeed had a swastika and a Confederate flag in it. In my book, that counts as hate speech.

I reported this to a UFoI admin. It turns out that the offending instance had been removed from the UFoI.

The nascent UFoI is waiting until they've vetted the initial member instances before posting an official list. Unfortunately, until this process is finished, sites can pretend to be members. (The offending instance can and does claim to be a member on their website.)

Lessons / thoughts / questions:

1. Admins can't fix problems that they don't know about. See something? Say something!

2. There are definitely bad actors (including Nazis, trolls, impostors, and DDOS attackers) in the Fediverse.

3. Someone can see bad actions and conclude -- correctly, mistakenly, or dishonestly -- that the actor's admin knows about or condones this. Before jumping to conclusions, it may be best to give the system a little time to work.

4. At the same time, marginalized people are sick and tired of playing whack-a-mole with this stuff. Saying, "If you get something you don't want to see, just block the person or instance," comes from a place of privilege: specifically, the place of not getting a firehose of this stuff every day.

5. Suppose I'm on instance A. A federates with B, and B with C, but A does not federate with C. If someone from B boosts something from C, will I (on A) see it on my federated timeline? Are there other places where I might see it?

I didn’t realize this is a thing, but #academics, did you know that you can hire help with your #admin? I used to joke I would make a better PI if I had an MBA, instead of a PhD in Ecology. Well, you can hire someone with MBA skills to help you with tasks you hate and generally suck at and it isn’t even that $$$!

For just $35/h, someone else can reformat your CV, reconcile your #budget statement, or fill in expense claims! Imagine the FREEDOM!

https://www.sparkandtinder.ca/

Just read the email: with 89.4% of YES votes, postdocs at UC have agreed to ratify the tentative agreement for the new contract!
It's definitely not the *perfect* contract (it's the result of a compromise, after all) but it's a **big** improvement over the status quo. Now I wish to see similar results for my grad student colleagues!
I'm glad I was (a small) part of this strike, and I hope this will lead the way for other institutions and ultimately bring *real* change to the system!
#fairUCnow #AcademicWorkers #AcademicStrike #UCstrike #postdoc

I hope people enjoy Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. It is visually stunning, and tell such a moving story.
It's on Netflix.

Anyway:

Our land cloud, Gibbs, in his natural element on a walk at Silverwood Park.

Gibbs is a Great Pyrenees / Komondor cross. And a rescue. He'll be turning 2 soon. He weighs about 100 pounds, so he's on the small side for his breeds.

#DogsOfMastodon #dogs #GiantBreeds #RescueDog #MNastodon #Minnesota #TwinCitiesMN #Snow #Winter

Barbara Jordan (1936-1996), a civil rights leader and attorney, became the first African American elected to the Texas senate in 1966, and the first woman and first African American elected to Congress from Texas in 1972. A tireless champion for minorities and the underrepresented. Although she never explicitly acknowledged her sexual orientation publicly, she was open about her life partner of nearly 30 years, Nancy Earl. #BlackFriday #LGBTQ

TEN social media? https://paper.wf/ceoln/ten-social-media