Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Gorgeous sunset tonight.

I don’t want to hear Christmas music until the turkey carcass is out on the porch with the jack-o-lanterns.

The Boston Public Library (USA) has digitised its collection of legacy vinyl (crackle and hiss and all) at the Internet Archive, and it's the absolute epitome of a 50s–70s library record collection.
https://archive.org/details/vinyl_bostonpubliclibrary

Holy shit!
The aftermath of 8,800,000 lbs of thrust.

#artemis #nasa #space #orion

Big rumblings in the expansion of the #Fediverse have been happening recently.

#Tumblr has already promised to implement #ActivityPub (the protocol Mastodon uses), which will mean you can follow Tumblr accounts from here and vice versa. And today we a learning that #Flickr is also considering it!

This will be a massive expansion bringing, which obviously carries some uncertainties, but I, for one, welcome our new federation partners.

This is the way the internet is supposed to work.

One thing that’s a bit of a hassle with Mastodon is that you can’t immediately follow people on other instances.

You have to copy the username and search for it on the server that has your account.

To make this easier, I’ve created a little bookmarklet. Press it, and you’ll be taken to the same account as viewed from the masto host you are on.

GitHub Gist: https://gist.github.com/bramus/d8bce55dab1881cde18aa2169c66ac33

(Change the value of `MY_MASTO_HOST` in the code to your mastodon host –not URL– and you’re good to go)

Took the twins #qcxmini 40/20 out for a spin today for a #pota #parksontheair activation at K-7956 #beargrasscreekstatenaturepreserve. And Greg @k8ket@mastodo.radio I brought along a Zombie Raccoon, too #amateurradio #hamradio

Twitter Allows Russian Officials to Share Antisemitic Cartoon of Zelenskyy

#elonmusk #Twitter permitted a #Russian Embassy account to post a cartoon that echoed #Nazi #propaganda in its depiction of Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr #Zelensky

#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/22/twitter-allows-russian-officials-share-antisemitic-cartoon-zelenskyy/

I'm hoping to do a series of articles / threads about how the PDP-12 works, by diving into its instruction set and other low-level behaviors. Here's the first one of these threads! 🧵 #pdp12 #umdpdp12 #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

[I posted this thread on The Other Site a couple months ago, but since I'm planning to follow it up soon (and because I have new friends here), I'm reposting it.]

Both #Google and #Apple will soon be facing an uncomfortable and crucial inflection point, brought about by Elon's #Twitter.

The terms of service for both firms' mobile app stores prohibit hate speech and a variety of other kinds of toxic speech that are rapidly becoming the norm on Twitter under Musk, and that (judging from his continuing statements) could soon become the majority of posts on the platform.

While it is arguable how well both Apple and Google have handled apps up to now that catered to the far right end of the political spectrum from day one, Twitter is a different case, since it has had (at least up to now) a much broader spectrum of users who by and large are not as tolerant of the kinds of speech on which most users of those other platforms thrive. The same can be said of most advertisers, many of whom have already paused their Twitter ad buys out of concerns regarding Musk's behavior and actions. Yet another factor is EU regulations that specifically prohibit much of the kinds of speech that Musk is now gleefully inviting back onto the platform.

The situation is complicated by many firms and municipalities using Twitter for important announcements, but as Twitter skews toward catering to fascism these entities would be wise to plan for other communications channels as soon as possible.

More imminently, it is likely that both Google and Apple, along with various of Twitter's infrastructure providers (some of whom, reportedly, haven't been paid for bills that preceded Elon's coronation), will be under pressure to reassess their participation in an increasingly toxic Twitter ecosystem. In the cases of Apple and Google, the calls for them to enforce their Terms of Service as written can only be ignored at the firms' own peril over time.

This will be an ethical test on a grand scale. We will all be watching. -L