ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

The most important thing about Democrats maintaining control of the U.S. Senate is what it means for the federal courts: President Biden will have two years to appoint federal judges, including Supreme Court justices if any seats open up on the high court.

Anyone over the age of 40 remember how we were taught that we could do anything to change the world?

Now we seem to teach young people the futility of trying.

How do we turn that around?

Thought that I would introduce myself to #BlackMastodon 🙌🏾😁 I’m Nadine. #Writer. #Lawyer #Comic Book fanatic and a Londoner! South-East #London if I’m going to be specific 😏 here’s me at my desk, posing and not working 👩🏾‍💻 #crimewriter #blackwriters #nanowrimo

Just resist the urge. Because you're not going to think to check for robots.txt, but you ought to, that's how we communicate we don't want to be involved. You're probably not going to bother to read the various terms of service for the instances you touch, many of which explicitly ask you not to do any scraping or automated activity beyond normal use of the service. You're not going to know to respect people using the NoBot hashtag that was meant to prevent automated follows. You're certainly not going to parse user profiles and pinned posts to learn how people like to be approached, what will get you blocked, or even think to heavily throttle your activity because instances are falling over in response to load.

Whatever your thing is, make it 100% opt-in. Make it appropriate for a significantly more at-risk user than you are. Make sure it forgets things, purges info about servers it can't contact, can't operate in any sort of logged-in mode where consent is an issue.

We will straight up help advertise your cool thing if it respects users properly and takes the time to consider the safety and preferences of every person involved. There are a lot of fun, thoughtfully-designed toys! And there are a lot of people really tired of having to come and tell you off when you wanted to help, honestly. Help yourself and ask around before you flip on your cool new thing, let folks point out what you're missing.

What's the best way of saving old Twitter threads?

I've got a few links saved that might become defunct relatively soon...

@atomicpoet Up until the current growth of the active userbase by 370% it was very much sustainable. I don't know why people seem to think that every active (or mind you, inactive, as some people think total user number somehow correlates to this) user breaks the rules on a daily basis. The 5-10 reports per day were very much handleable by even a single moderator. But now I am literally in the process of onboarding more moderators.

TL;DR - failed bcc to all laid off personnel results in reply-all hilarity.

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1591152301817102336

There's probably a couple of these already but here you go

NSA calls for a strategic shift to memory safe languages. https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI_SOFTWARE_MEMORY_SAFETY.PDF

Back in 2010 #twitter launched their “t.co” link shortened. And I thought at the time how profoundly terrible that is. If the database and/or ability to look up t.co links ever changed, we would literally lose information. We will no longer know what URL was tweeted. It burns a huge hunk of internet history to the ground if we lose that. It was vain and shortsighted and stupid. Now in 2022, I wonder how many months we have left when we can resolve those links. And what happens to collective internet history when they’re done?

In another funny twist, what about trials or legal matters that hinge on the content of a tweet? And suddenly you can’t get the content of that tweet? Or where did that link point to?

Nobody saw this coming except for all of us who saw this coming.