ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

What is going on at the #MetOpera? More than a week after they were hacked, their website is still down, and I haven’t seen any information about who attacked them or why? This seems astonishing.

Do you know the difference between a Million and a Billion? 1 million seconds is 12 days. 1 billion seconds is 31 years.

The reaction to a senseless death like that of Stephen “tWitch” Boss illuminates a gulf: between people who absolutely can’t understand it, and people who can. The former are the ones who tend to say that suicide is cruel or selfish or indefensible. That’s very wrong, but you can understand how they can’t make the cognitive leap if they’ve never experienced real depression. The latter are more likely to be thankful they got through the worst times.

My count of Starlink sats in the operational orbit shells just reached 3000
https://planet4589.org/space/con/star/stats.html

I’m pretty sure the whole tracking private planes thing is possible because of publicly available records. Here’s USA Today explaining how to do it, even if Twitter won’t allow it anymore.

https://traveltips.usatoday.com/track-private-plane-flight-61785.html

Twitter shuts down #Revue

https://www.getrevue.co/

Whatever you think of ChapGPT and other AI, they’re here to stay. They will force changes in education and the workplace. @zeynep says the crucial thing here: It’s an occasion to think about what we value in humanity—what makes us human—and what we must do to honor that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/opinion/chatgpt-education-ai-technology.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

« The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes. »
Aldous Huxley 1931

@BlackMastodon Aaron Neville - Louisiana Christmas Dayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhejKyIcjU4
#BlackMastodon #BlackHolidayJam

Good morning on another day in the zone between "everything is fine" and "we are doomed for sure."

Good morning on another day where, in the spirit of complex systems, what you do shapes the future.

Mastodon is not positioning itself as a post-twitter haven. It is - and has always been - it's own place. You happen to see it as a post-twitter haven.

You can always fork mastodon and add your own feature set and use the same ActivityPub network - and not miss anything from the ActivityPub/fediverse members who are not using your forked instance. Just comply w/ActivityPub standards for communication and you are golden.

That's what - for instance - tumbler is doing. They're adding ActivityPub.

@gwensnyder what do you mean by intentional friction? Asking from genuine curiosity. If that has been debated at other points im happy for a pointer.

@BlackMastodon #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi
To all the people who “don’t see race” or are “colour blind” or “a-racial”.
Stop it.
Just stop.
I am damn proud to be Black.
Being Black is cool as shit.
I love my black skin.
The music is awesome.
The food rocks. The jokes are hilarious. The fellowship is healing.
I want everybody to fully see and celebrate my expression of Blackness.
What I don’t want,
is to be fucked over by a system that cannot handle the glory of people being different.

The Birdsite feels thinner and thinner. But it also still has no promoted content for me. I wonder how follower numbers are going for the bigger accounts.

I just came to say that #Elmo is no longer the richest man on earth

The "buy my book to screw Jeff Bezos" sale has had a change.

UK hardcovers are now back to full price, not $5 each. But they're still selling Kindle versions for less than they'll pay me for them. If you buy a hardcover in the US, getting the book costs them $15 more than they're charging you.

US - https://amzn.to/3jnI3JV
UK - https://amzn.to/2MCC9J7

Really. Every time you buy this book, Amazon pays me out of their own pocket.

Bright future exploration SF, with crime, three novels and two stories. https://mwl.io/fiction/sf#aratu

Math on the "sale" - https://mwl.io/archives/22444

Wow.

@ben

The @elonjet account appears to be back but its owner @jxcksweeny's account still appears to be suspended. I suspect there will be a lot more weird flailing like this because this is what happens when there's no policy anymore, just vibes.

Having recently discovered its existence, Elon Musk is now founder and CEO of the Streisand effect

cc: @mmasnick