My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 6 of 6
#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
@DaveOfThings I see you head a robotics team. I was in one in high school and I really do miss those days.
It’s hard to beat Sam Bankman-Fried getting arrested…
Binance: hold my beer.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/12/13/binance-withdrawals-surge-as-concerns-about-its-reserve-report-spook-traders/ (US$900 million run on Binance as crypto investors panic)
Tomorrow is shaping up to be an EPIC day for the cryptosnarkers!
Big thread on Mastodon links being blocked on Twitter. Basically, it’s not the link - it’s text mentioning Mastodons paired with any link (even a link about something with no mastodons).
Specific phrasing matters and, notably, some obvious phrasing is not filtered out in a way that makes me question whether this is intentional on Twitter’s part.
This: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/480529/datacentres-in-nz-pm-s-office-rejects-oia-request-on-briefings-over-plans actually makes me extremely angry. Our Gov't is protecting the (dubious) 'commercial interests' of foreign corporations who have an exploitative relationship with our country, pay little-to-no-tax, refuse to abide by our legislation in many cases, and hold huge amounts of our citizens' data off shore. And the Gov't is doing this *in preference* to working Aotearoa-based and owned tech businesses, whose services they've actively snubbed for decades.
"KOSA wouldn’t make kids safer online. Instead, it would subject kids and teens to more surveillance, make them more vulnerable to hackers and creeps, and cut them off from valuable online resources and communities." https://buff.ly/3Bfa8gH
COVID-19 has erased two decades of life expectancy growth in the US. Yet, leaders are still trying to gaslight us into believing that the US had one of the best responses to the pandemic.
#Iowa Court Blocks State's 'Fetal Heartbeat' Law From Being Reinstated | HuffPost Latest News
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iowa-blocks-fetal-heartbeat-law_n_6397c2f0e4b0c281464609c7
I've long said that Twitter's character limit is way too small, and I've also long seen that Fediverse and Mastodon are fine with instances having very high limits. (My current instance has over 16 times Musk's new limit, for example. We also have Markdown for text formatting)
*That being said*, Twitter is not Fediverse, where there's a history of posts of all different sizes going around. People are used to the small character limit, and are averse to anything that would change it. Going from 280 to 4000 in one go — rather than an incremental approach or even collapsing longer texts by default *à la* Octodon Social --- is going to be a culture shock to existing users.
Plus, I'm pretty sure Musk isn't going to implement Markdown anytime soon. I'm not even sure he knows what Markdown is! Why waste $8/month for 4000 characters on a desperate billionaire's dying platform when you can sign up to Qoto (or if you don't like that for some reason, a Pleroma, Misskey, or Akkoma instance) and get more characters *and* versatile text formatting for free?
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-character-limit-4000-elon-musk
FTX’s inner circle – including Sam Bankman-Fried – had chat group called ‘Wirefraud’ https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/ftx-s-inner-circle-had-a-secret-chat-group-called-wirefraud-20221213-p5c5sx
Mathematics Ph.D. Likes hanging out with almost everyone regardless of political views or anything else.
Akkoma: @ML2