ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

First up is @ProPublica, for really going all-in on a meaningful presence in the fediverse. (Many of their reporters are here, too.)

You may remember them for their chilling reporting on family separations at the US southern border (content warning: child suffering).

https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy

They are not beyond critique (e.g., their recent reporting on the COVID lab leak theory has received significant criticism), but IMO definitely worth a follow.

#elonmusk is a noxious troll and conspiracist. And suspending journalists from #twitter is a thin-skinned whiny power play. But let’s have a bit of perspective. Only yesterday, the #CommitteeToProtectJournalists reported that 363 journalists were imprisoned worldwide as of Dec. 1, 2022. That’s real silencing.

"So that’s the charter, to chart history through music and to trace music through history, all the while trying to look more closely and more critically, trying to unpeel and uncover, and to encourage readers (that’s you!) to do the same."

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson. Music Is History (p. 13). Abrams Image. Kindle Edition. #books #bookstodon #BlackMastodon #history #music

Welcome #TwitterMigration! If you're not adding alt text to your media uploads, please do, since it helps out screenreaders.

Also remember to make your hashtags PascalCase or camelCase, since it makes it easier on screenreaders!

On November 17th 2022, my friend Minhyong Kim and I visited the house where Maxwell was born, at 14 India Street, Edinburgh. It's now owned by the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, and you can take an online tour here:

https://clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/

I took some pictures. There's a little plaque on the door:

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Since there's been another big influx of #Qwitters I'll say it again...

Follow liberally it will enrich your timelines!

Your Home timeline is a great place to find accounts to follow. If you see a post boosted, click on the boosted user's avatar. You might not be following them!

Here it's more about who you follow than who follows you. You'll have a better experience by following lots of people

Should all Journalists show solidarity with the banned accounts on Twitter and stop posting on Twitter?

It is a few today that fell foul of Elon Musk, it could be you tomorrow over something else.

If you see this post, vote and boost it.

Tiny Mastodon Newbie Tip 🐘✨:

Direct Messages here are better described as Mentioned People Only toots (posts).

Direct Messages will appear in your timeline and be visible to ANYONE that you have tagged in this toot 👥​

So, if you are Direct Messaging someone, but write the handle of someone else to recommend them (or something else...), they will ALSO be included in this Direct Messages ​

Be careful with this! ​⚠️

Direct Messages on Mastodon, like on many other platforms, are also not end-to-end encrypted. This means the administrator(s) of your instance and the instance of the person you are sending it to could, if they wanted, read them ​

Do not write any sensitive information in Mastodon Direct Messages. Or on any other platform that does not provide solid end-to-end encryption 🔒​

#TinyMastodonTip

Can't find someone you are looking for in the Fediverse? There is a search engine for that...

search.noc.social/

Need to find lists of different types of users? There is a resource for that...

researchbuzz.me/2022/11/05/a-b…

@AnnemarieBridy I hacked up some CSS to improve the visual design of the advanced web interface, in case it’s useful to anyone else: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/109369271004447690

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Lord of the Rings door types

This is significant ...

The German office for data protection and freedom of information hosts the official #Mastodon server for government departments

They are now calling for all ministries on the server to put their focus on Mastodon

They are also asking ministries which are not yet on Mastodon to join as soon as possible

Coffee drinkers! Listen! Starbucks workers nationwide are starting a 3-day strike today (Friday 12/16) as part of their effort to unionize.

How can you help? Don't cross the picket line. Get your coffee elsewhere. (Preferably at independent coffee shops. Long live small biz).

And spread the word! Make this message viral. Let's hold billionaire corps accountable because worker's rights are human rights. Let's go.

#blackmastodon #blackfriday #blackfedi #blackfuturism #digitalart #blackart

#SciFi #VSS

Space mining? Now there's a joke: what good is a pickax in space? No, for us it's mostly hoovering. You've no idea just how empty most of space is until you try to find something worthwhile in it.

There are those who asteroid-hop, but you waste more material redirecting your craft and constantly recalibrating your trajectory, then slowing to a proper speed, than you ever recoup from your typical asteroid. No the real gold—and platinum and ruthenium—is found just floating about in spicks and specks in space.

Some laugh at us "detectorists", but we make a comfy living, and if you miscalculate with a spoover, likely as not you'll trip across another "vein" soon enough that's equally rich. When pickings are poor, we can usually find the remnant of a comet's tail or dip around a planet's exosphere like a slingshot, but if you try to process too much debris at once, you're likely to plug the spoover—it's not built to handle that kind of density. We're after quality, not quantity.

#SciFiPrompt: space mining

#blackmastodon #blackfedi #blackart #blackfriday #digitalart #blackjoy #blackfuturism