ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

It’s so odd to feel so connected to strangers on Mastodon. I feel comforted by the solidarity, common interests, and intelligence. I can barely hold a conversation with trumper family and friends anymore. That includes my 80-something parents. On every trip to see them, as we cross into the north Georgia mountains, I tell my hubby, you’re in trump country now darling.

Militant decency.

#Gnu #TerryPratchett

As you're considering the other new Twitter alternatives, ask yourself if you really want to go to another corporate entity that could end up being just as bad as Twitter and Facebook. Algorithmic sites, by design, reward hate and outrage. You're jumping into another fire.

We have a rare and fleeting chance to build something different right now.

I'm choosing to spend my time trying to make this place succeed — helping new users and saving my best content for here.

I can't believe I even have to say this, but please do not grant the San Francisco police department the power to kill people using armed robots: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/red-alert-sfpd-want-power-kill-robots

None of Donald Trump's 2024 GOP rivals has had the courage to condemn his antisemitism.

Let's be clear. One sign your party has embraced full on fascism is when denouncing Nazis is more dangerous politically than dining with Nazis.

Media needs to treat the GOP accordingly.

The spike in usage in Mastodon and the recent announcement by Tumblr, makes ActivityPub at least just as interesting, and actually even more interesting, than any of the blockchains 🤷🏽‍♂️
#decentralization

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/1669680000?hl=en-US&tz=480&date=2022-10-01+2022-11-28&geo=US&q=ActivityPub,blockchain&sni=3

Hi friends: We are a pro-democracy organization doing everything in our power to defeat fascism in America. We currently have 12K followers on the platform. Help us grow by BOOSTING this post and telling everyone you know to give us a follow!

Running a poll on #Twitter trying to gauge interest around adding #ActivityPub to #Flickr. https://twitter.com/DonMacAskill/status/1597256480519966720

TIL: Masto has polls too. 😂 https://sfba.social/@d0n/109422647995225732

@jarbochov One of the reasons I'm asking in multiple places. :)

A lot of people are asking, "Is the Fediverse doomed to be crushed because of storage capacity needed for instances?"

No.

It is possible to create a P2P content distribution system. We're already seeing some of that with PeerTube.

And my team at #GreatApe are also devising a solution.

@tchambers yay! It may make flickr great again 😁

A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based in the United States.

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan, malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/11/u-s-govt-apps-bundled-russian-code-with-ties-to-mobile-malware-developer/

Ada Lovelace died #OTD in 1852, at the age of 36. In her 1843 supplement to Babbage’s Analytical Engine, simply titled Notes, she outlined four essential concepts that would shape the birth of modern computing a century later. #WomenInSTEM

i might have my criticisms of mastodon, but the founder of post is out here pretending “net worth” is a protected category to signal you can’t make fun of billionaires on his a16z-funded twitter alternative

Trump incriminates himself AGAIN, the GOP goes FULL FASCIST and demands companies pay Elon Musk, Arizona MAGAs have a complete meltdown and more! Tonight we speak with AZ Sec. of State-elect Adrian Fontes about this and more! Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast live at 8p ET/5p PT! https://youtu.be/It4P3jFyfpk

The Milky Way core over a field full of fireflies in the Catskill Mountains