Isaac Smith @catsashimi@octodon.social

Think about the Followers that REM would have got if only they had waited until 2017 and sang about Mastodon instead of Orange Crush 🤔

I believe a lot of conflict in the old west could have been avoided completely if cowboy architects had just made their towns big enough for everyone.

🚨🚨🚨 Really major Gmail phishing attack going around right now. Do NOT click on an unexpected "Open in Docs" link.

Whether or not you have, now is a great time to review the apps you've authed to your account: https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions

Can Google win its battle with Macron malware?

The new release of Signal has support for encrypting and sending arbitrary files. That's a very big deal: for many users it has long been an unsolved problem to securely share documents or recordings, and now it's as easy and sending a text. Update out now for Desktop, iOS, and Android!

Controversial Nintendo Adviser Sebastian Gorka Reportedly Out at the White House

tfw you think the google doodle is about the inventor of brie and you're all yay but then you find out it's about the inventor of camembert and you're all eww gross.

With news of Unroll.me selling user inbox info to Uber, lots of people are repeating "if you're not paying for it, you're the product."

I've said before, and will continue to say, that that is the wrong formulation. Sometimes you pay for it and you're still the product – look at US ISPs. Sometimes you don't pay for it and you're not the product – free software.

The real question is whether a software or service empowers users, which can't be boiled down to whether you paid.

Trump Joins Grand Bipartisan Tradition Of Denying Whole Foods Genocide

RIP rabbit.zone. No doubt the first of many. :( https://rabbit.zone/

remember: mastodon is as good as we make it, so if you want to read interesting things whenever you come here, start posting interesting things yourself and start interacting with interesting people.

I don't see as much of what I think of as twitter "forms" here (e.g. tweets that take the form of "tfw when you x"). Some possible explanations:

1.The higher character limit obviates them

2. There's a perceived expectation that twitter-behavior should be eschewed

3. People just tend to act differently in a different context and are "starting over" cognitively

4. The set of people who would use those forms is not very coextensive with the set of people who would join Mastodon

#metadon

FAQ for people sitting on the fence whether to join Mastodon -
https://medium.com/tebelorg/my-first-10-days-on-mastodon-fediverse-f6f1d73db8d7

#mastodon #faq

Welcome to mastodon. Here's your courses on French and Japanese, a "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" bumpersticker, and a fresh pineapple for some reason.

Your mum and dad will fuck you up
you might not know it, but you will
fill up with your family’s faults
plus a bonus, what a thrill.

But mum and dad got mistaught too,
by fools in out of fashion hats.
Who’d play at drilling history,
and claw and fight and yowl, such cats.

Man will always hand down pain
It grows by unknown physics laws.
Why don’t you jump off this train?
Don’t bring up kids to catch your flaws.

Classic Mac OS and dozens of apps can now be run in a browser window

"Black-and-white versions of System 6 and 7 show off what early Mac OS was like."

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/04/classic-mac-os-and-dozens-of-apps-can-now-be-run-in-a-browser-window/

I'll say this: choosing an instance is not just about the domain name, it's about do you trust the admin and what is this instance culture and _how does this instance enact that culture_, and circumscribing a non-toxic universe is a perfectly valid way to define a culture.

the wonderful witches of witches.town have introduced me to the glyph ꙮ

it is "multiocular O", a variant of Cyrillic O that is used in certain religious texts in a phrase that translates to "many-eyed seraphim" and basically nowhere else

I honestly am having a hard time thinking of a single witchier Unicode character unless the Leviathan cross is hidden somewhere in the codeplanes