@anniemo71 @Siencyn As a provider, Toot Wales offers Mastodon, #Pixelfed and a blog platform, all of which "speak" ActivityPub. Pixelfed is a photo-sharing service, similar to Instagram but again, open and standards-based.
This all means you can use ANY provider to communicate with ANY service, so Mastodon users can subscribe to Pixelfed members for example.
It all just works, you own your data, no algorithms, and you can move accounts at any time.
More here: https://blogs.toot.wales/toot/musk-i-explain-everything
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@anniemo71 @Siencyn #shwmae bawb! We are certainly an alternative to Twitter and as you can probably tell there's quite the #TwitterMigration happening right now.
This service is provided by Toot Wales Inc., a registered non-profit. It uses a global social networking standard called #ActivityPub, which is an open Web standard for communicating across various services (unlike proprietary corporate systems)
I am writing this using the #Mastodon software service.
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EARN IT - Anti-Encryption Bill Passes Senate Judiciary Committee
Sad day + I have no candy for the kids... shame on me ...
https://gizmodo.com/earn-it-anti-encryption-bill-passes-senate-committee-1848515670
@VictorVenema @micefearboggis @Ruth_Mottram @wolfgangcramer @tasvo @saravicca @arthurgessler @steve
That's fantastic! I would love to see more academics convert from non-free social media to Fediverse. This independence and decentralisation are suited to the notion of open science.
So far, there are only a handful of us from #biomedicine / translational research field, but hopefully that will change.
Hello, all. I've been around for a few days but haven't yet made an #introduction post. So here we go.
I'm a #bioinformatics consultant with [The Bioinformatics CRO](https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/) working on a variety of small and large projects ranging from fundamental genomics to clinical decision support. Before that, for several years I was a postdoc and ORISE fellow specializing in high-altitude medicine and physiology at the University of Colorado Altitude Research Center. My academic background is a nearly even mix of #biostatistics, machine learning, and biology.
The ARC* has been sadly moribund for a few years, but thanks to collaborations with other groups, we're [starting to get more active again](https://harcsummit.org/). Hopefully I will have more to say about that in the future. Meanwhile, feel free to ask me anything about #altitude medicine---I think I still remember most of it.
Years before _that_, I was an Air Force #medic (after a brief stint as an Army infantryman) followed by a couple of years as a civilian EMT. My time in patient care informs my approach to science: the numbers I crunch represent human lives.
Otherwise, I'm an armchair #paleontologist hoping to be able to call myself an _amateur_ paleontologist again one of these days---by which I mean actually spending some time in the field and/or the prep lab---a too-occasional science fiction writer, and chronically sleep deprived. Also, my life is the internet: it's cats all the way down.
*Fellow #Primeval fans may recognize the jacket in the picture. My wonderful fiancée found it for me when I was hired at the ARC, for exactly the reason you think.
Migrant crisis (the Tories created): Alarm at Braverman’s racist immigration rhetoric
#BenJennings on #JairBolsonaro’s defeat in #Brazil – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian
Current #emissions pledges will lead to catastrophic #ClimateBreakdown, says #UN | #GreenhouseGasRmissions | The Guardian
The Age of Anonymous Email Is Nearly Over https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/anonymous-email.html
RT @GeorgeMonbiot@twitter.com
Rishi Sunak, the first Chancellor in UK history to receive a criminal sanction while in office, reappointed Cruella Braverman 6 days after she was sacked for what we now know were “multiple breaches of the ministerial code”.
They have started as they mean to go on.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1585517325528305665
Treorchy Male Choir have recorded a beautiful version of Eli Jenkins' Prayer to celebrate the day of Dylan Thomas' birth https://nation.cymru/culture/watch-choirs-stirring-tribute-to-dylan-thomas-on-his-birthday/
We need to ensure that we stop denying 80% of Welsh children the ability to speak Welsh, language group Cymdeithas yr Iaith has said. https://nation.cymru/news/we-cannot-continue-to-deny-80-of-our-children-the-ability-to-speak-welsh-cymdeithas/
#greece #european #global #environment #ecology #technology #social #cultural #social #economics #politics #news
ANNOUNCEMENT
I regret to announce the discontinuance of 'Food for Thought'
Unfortunately, as some of you already know, I’m currently suffering severe liver cancer, and although undergoing chemotherapy, it is unlikely that I shall live for more than another four-five months. Obviously I need to use the time I have left in other ways.
Ian Kenway
#phidoc #books #literature #music #greece #symi
ANNOUNCEMENT
I regret to announce the discontinuance of Book of the Month and Track of the Month on PHIDOC which began in March 2018. All my monthly ‘appreciations’ (110 altogether) will still be available on the site.
Unfortunately, as some of you already know, I’m currently suffering severe liver cancer, and although undergoing chemotherapy, it is unlikely that I shall live for more than another four-five months. Obviously I need to use the time I have left in other ways.
Ian Kenway
Anti-slavery Welshman to be inducted to America’s National Abolition Hall of Fame https://nation.cymru/culture/reverend-robert-everett-professor-jerry-hunter-national-abolition-hall-of-fame/
"Conservative MPs, this is what you’d be voting for"
@ByDonkeys
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https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1583360491032047616?t=hnU9WQb4LbV040tOZXfUnw&s=19
For anyone who can access BBC iPlayer
A really interesting story for Black History Month
Gerallt Wyn Jones searching for his other Mam
Caru Hwn! ♥️
RT @Keir_Starmer@twitter.com
After 12 years of Tory failure, the British people deserve so much better than this revolving door of chaos.
We need a general election, now.
My full statement:
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1583083599754334208
Meanwhile, #Covid-19 cases have nearly doubled (90% increase) in my neighbourhood since last week.
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
Personal website:
My interests include:
#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology