hugely disappointing for Twitter to crumble during emergency rescue operations as ad hoc comms network in #turkey #earthquake . and also government actions on bandwidth access
real heads know how early Twitter was developed partly by anarchists for street communication
image source text: https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1623430736232456196
Something I love about open-access, free or low-cost textbooks is I don’t feel bad assigning students the latest edition.
I’m astounded by the prices of textbooks these days. This is very much *old man yells at cloud* but I can’t believe a single law school casebook can now cost upwards of $300!
@WryCritic Nice. Can't log in on Tweetduck. This must have been helluva comet. Good news for mammals.
Comparing engagement between Twitter & Mastodon, contains birdsite link
Compare the Engagement on these two posts:
https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/109825219703955720
https://twitter.com/TexasObserver/status/1623058078101807105
Not just the difference in boosts & likes but actual replies.
#PLEASE PLEASE, #schools and #faculty, stop "teaching" #Adobe #Photoshop, #GoogleDocs, #Microsoft #Windows, #Zoom, and other commercial software applications.
You're not providing #students an #education, your providing companies customers.
We never taught Smith-Corona, or Turbo TS40, or Ford Tempo. We taught, respectively, typing, wood shop, and student driving. We should teach word processing, computer technology, and communications.
A former mailman of ours, now a good friend, has always loved the frog made from spoons, forks and nuts that sits on our porch. He teases he will sneak away with it one day. Tomorrow he goes in for major surgery. I don’t know how to weld (the frog is spot welded) but I did make him this fork cricket for good luck.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.