clew @clew@octodon.social
Math, soil, ecology, feminism, material history, literature of the long nineteenth, waltz, polka, leavened bread. Seattlite.
Hey mastodon.social - looking for a good #opensource podcasting client. Any recommendations?
As a software developer, it pains me to admit, but must be shouted from the rooftops anyways:
Technology can't fix harassment.
Anyone expecting tech to fix harassment only enables the clever assholes.
Algorithms that boost messages are overwhelmingly used by the most vocal and ruthless of any population to polarize the rest of that population.
Let people boost messages, not algorithms. Let people stop harassment, not algorithms.
And PAY the moderators and community leaders their due!
what is your favourite #FOSS tool for managing timing and people across a project, for a large collaborative project?
You know how you can feel the subway train is coming by the sudden change in barometric pressure? That's the same as how I know the fifth graders are approaching the planetarium.
Just saw a Reddit comment saying that the Indian caste system seems off because caste is "such an arbitrary thing to be racist about"...
My dude.
*Race* is such an arbitrary thing to be racist about. It's caste systems all the way down.
And the world's gonna know your name
What's your name girl
Margaret Hamilton
My name is Margaret Hamilton
And there's a million things I haven't done
But just you wait
We tell each other to self host in order to escape the big corps. But when we die, all the self hosted stuff is going to get wiped and history will only remember the archives that got stored by the big corps. And you know how history is written by the winners. Do we need a way to automatically hand over our sites to archive.org or similar? Or send them disc images? Nobody expects to get run over by a car but some of us will, today. I made no plans for this.
"The sky over the port was the color of a YouTube video that won't play embedded."
Country closest to #Bitcoin in terms of electricity consumption: Czech Republic
Electricity consumed per transaction (KWh): 981
Number of U.S. households that could be powered by Bitcoin: 6,398,945
Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption: 0.31%
Carbon footprint per transaction (kg of CO2): 480.57
Source: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Bitcoin will soon surpass Chile, Austria and the Philippines. Holy fucking shit. We have to stop this.
Anybody here plays/collects #tinwhistle or #ocarina?
Frozen water lake in a crater on Mars. Image taken by the ESA Mars Express Orbiter. #space
RT @cfarivar@twitter.com: YES.
I guess I'm interested in meeting people, talking about local politics and events, possibly going to the movies together, that kind of thing. But I'll have to think about a way to organize on Mastodon. Would that be a separate account with a #zurich focus? How do you do it, if you're also interested in local stuff? Did you just set up an instance for local stuff?
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
OK, the new #Mastodon admin only instance is now live at https://tootmin.network
If you're an instance admin, please drop me an email at invites@tootmin.network with your instance URL and username, I'll then review and get you an invite.
Please boost this toot, as the Tootmin Network will give us admins a place to collaborate and discuss Mastodon administration away from our respective instances.
Thanks!
Tolkien estate apparently did not like the movies. So we must needs wait for the copyright expiration before we can expect the movie of Berenice and Lúthien, the woman who entered Sauron’s tower full of werewolves and vampires. So , what’s that, 1973+70 years? 90 years? More!? Ask yourself: do you want copyright to be extended? Fuck that shit.
OMG! Pay-what-you-want feminist bicycle centered sci-fi and apocolayptic stories from a tiny publisher! What's not to love? Only thing missing is a CC license
https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/5739/
https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/6675
Issue 50 (yes 50!) of Internet Archaeology is online and it's a large thematic issue on "Big Data on the Roman Table: new approaches to tablewares in the Roman world". The theme is edited by Penelope Allison, Martin Pitts and Sarah Colley http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue50/index.html
#BeforeModernTimes #Archaeology #Food #AncientCeramics #RomanPottery #NetworkAnalysis #RomanArchaeology #RomanPottery
Hey #Seattle friends, my band is playing a show in a week at the Tractor in #Ballard! Come out and see us if you like synthy dance-pop! Doors at 7:30, we go on around 8 pm.
https://www.ticketweb.com/event/fell-from-a-star-w-tractor-tickets/8216845?pl=tractor
