Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

At lunchtime today I snuck into Dixons and on their display ZX Spectrum typed:

10 PRINT "LORD ARSE WOZ ERE ";
20 GOTO 10

RUN

Then ran away laughing. I might have been high on Vimto.

#Mastodon features that #Twitter doesn’t have:

* Temporary muting (e.g. for a day)
* Self-verified URLs in the profile
* Hiding spoilers etc. via content warnings
* URLs must start with protocols (fewer false positives, e.g. in code).
* Everyone can edit posts (in v4+).
* No ads (which doesn’t come for free = donate if you can afford it)

More obscure: I like that you can search for post URLs to “transfer” them between accounts.

I ran @coprolite9000's program and got this. See #bbcmicrobot hashtag for more.

Using this platform made me realise how I came to accept exposure to cruelty & hostility as part of the deal of being able to talk to you. The clicks algorithm is not necessarily our connection master. How refreshing to be reminded of that.

The good news: I finally found a cure for impostor syndrome

The bad news: it requires someone else to pay $44 billion and takes about 3 weeks

Everyone on twitter right now #twitter #tech #technology #twittermigration

Hi Mastodoning Mates. Any chance you could boost me a bit as I'm struggling to find folk I originally followed on the Twitter. Is that how this works? I'm ASD and find new systems like this and written-instructions a major headache and very confusing.

Is Mastodon really that hard for non-technical people to figure out or do people just dislike having to learn new things? Is it really that confusing that there's no single "mastodon.com" website? It seems to me that people don't want to invest 10 minutes into actually reading up on what federated social media is all about.

#meta #mastodon #RIPTwitter

I joined this site a fortnight ago today.

I did not have a clue how it worked, or about its lore and culture.

Now, it seems intuitive - though not because I am adept but because networks and protocols are familiar and practical things.

We use them all the time: www, mobiles, emails, etc.

And this place is structured to encourage calm civility.

It was Twitter which was strange and, in many ways, inhumane - rewarding clicks and rage and vileness.

We just got used to it.

And now we are out.

I'm growing increasingly concerned that people are jumping from #RIPTwitter to yet another “#twitter” in the #TwitterMigration - and, down the line, they'll end up in the same place they are now. Lesson not learned. And they see no other way.

We've been trained to believe that the only way to connect with others is through somebody else's vision of what #SocialMedia and #Community are.

Streamed my thoughts live, earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=166UPX238W8 - does #LockerGnome come back in the #fediverse?

My #videogames intro

Ms. Pac-man
Donkey Kong
Shining Force
World of Warcraft
Breath of the Wild

#gaming

Do y'all know of any instances that'd be good for PoC writers?

I'm thinking scholar.social or perhaps writing.exchange?

#FediHelp #FediSearch

(feel free to boost)

Hello UK! I’m tired but excited to get ready for my London stage debut in Allegiance, which is based on my real life story and experience in U.S. internment camps during World War II. #NeverForget

I have questions. Seems like we're about to fight for the soul of community, again. Those of us who are old enough to remember the beforetimes (pre #SocialMedia), this 'post dot news' idea sounds grand, but is it more of the same? A new algorithm rises? Algorithms are anathema to #community. Eventually sold? I'll reserve judgement, but... am I missing something, here? Apart from ceding control ONCE AGAIN? Where do creators go? So many have bridled at #Mastodon already.

Every time I see 20+ users sign up in a matter of a few minutes I instantly think "What dumbass shit did Musk do now..."

#twitter

Accurate text generation within images is a pretty big deal for #AIArt.

I wonder if Stable Diffusion or DALL-E will be able to catch up?

Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud

Link: https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/elizabeth-holmes-fraud-trial-prison-sentence
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33663191

always wanted to eat salad as a kid, but mom wouldn't lettuce #dadjokes