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

All the magic of academia is gone by then 😅

#academia #PhD #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/1063162/twitters-imminent-collapse-could-wipe-out-vast-records-of-recent-human-history/

By @stokel
Via @AbandonedAmerica

I wonder what this TV was used for... 🤔
https://i.redd.it/qmp64gtf89y91.jpg

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The lesson to take from the big layoffs at Twitter and Facebook is this: "The job will never love you back." No matter how much effort you put in, no matter how clever you are, no matter how long you've committed yourself to $COMPANY, when push comes to shove, you're just a replaceable part in the machine.

Keep your weekends and your evenings. Leave your bugs at work. Your time is for you, and your boss won't send you flowers.

Enjoying the brief moment that this lowly bot has more followers than @profbriancox

Hehe… my bot on the other place is pumping out links to Mastodon with every post now 😂

Ohh! Now I get it!

Took a bit for the joke to land Elon

Hello gorgeous #atarist

apparently musk fired an entire infosec team.. today? and their role was 3rd party risk assessments as part of making assurances for advertisers, and validating sharing of user data.

Having a read through this issue of 'Your Computer' magazine from January 1982 ( UK ). It includes a review of the newly released BBC Micro computer along with lots of other interesting articles and program listings for the reader to type in. The adverts are always fun too!

And for people who want to use crosspost between Twitter and Mastodon automatically, I recommend Moa!

https://moa.party

Airball (MicroDeal, 1987) #DOSGaming

Jawas riding their bikes into the weekend... #StarWars #AIArt #AI #Art #DigitalArt #StableDiffusion

I joined Mastodon a bit over four years ago. Many of my generation seem to fear that Mastodon will become like Twitter with all the new people. I do not.

The idea seems to be that Mastodon is so nice because its people are nice. I believe most people are nice. Twitter has been set up in a way to make us into monsters and to make the worst monsters look like average folks.

The design choices of Mastodon do the reverse. We will become a bit more like Twitter, but mostly stay Mastodon by design.

I remember Mastodon being a quiet place, an exclusive club with only a handful of members. Now, look at this place!