Ewan Keepers @ewankeep@octodon.social

cryptocurrency is for people who understand neither cryptography nor currency

How White Nationalism Courts Internet Nerd Culture
https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/how-white-nationalism-courts-internet-nerd-culture-b4ebad07863d

#introductions Hi, I'm an astronomer and data scientist at the University of Washington. I work on statistical methods for astronomy, including black holes, asteroids and the sun. I also play harp and take pictures of things (mostly waterfalls and squirrels).

Hello fellow #astronomers and #datascientists ! Where are you all hiding?

I can't wait to get up tomorrow and find out whether Jesus saw his shadow when he came out of his hole.

Some millennials aren’t saving for retirement because they don’t think capitalism will exist by then - Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2018/03/18/some-millennials-arent-saving-for-retirement-because-they-do-not-think-capitalism-will-exist-by-then/

Decentralize your world.

There is of course #mastodon as federated social media.

There is good old #email as federated postbox (as long as not everyone uses GMail).

There is #peertube as a federated video platform.

There is #Riot / Matrix.org as federated group messaging.

There is #XMPP for federated 1on1 messaging.

And there is #nextcloud as federated cloud storage.

In theory most services are already federated. We only miss more users :)

#federation #selfhosted #privacy

I think mastodon needs a way to subscribe to or view the public feeds of other instances without necessarily having to create accounts on them. A lot of instances are billing themselves as topical communities, and I am interested in more than one of them, but I don't want to have to maintain a whole bunch of profiles

@ewankeep
Oh sorry, I should have posted the link. Haven't read it yet but I'm looking forward to it

One of the things I love about The Dispossessed is that LeGuin doesn’t pretend that once anarchist society is established it’s all roses and freedom and happiness because she jumps right into all the contradictions of living in a society conceived of as a revolution and keeps on interrogating that. It’s great! Even the bits at the end that are heartbreaking but also familiar because, yeah, we’ve all dealt with that even in the spokescouncil model blah blah blah bleep bloop

Coworkers: "Oh, why aren't you going to the motivational talk about What If You Could Do The Impossible?"
Me: I'm socially and medically transitioning my gender presentation, I don't think I need help from a straight cisgender dude on how to do the impossible, thanks.

imagine if we could prosecute war criminals instead of repeatedly giving them high ranking positions in government

If you're pissed off at FB for collecting your data, just remember that Google is doing that as well.

Give DuckDuckGo a try.

I decided today I want to publish a book of in-universe short stories.

I've only written one.

I have another series book to write, and my non-series MS to finish revising.

I hope my family doesn't need to talk to me for the next three or four years.

#amwriting #writing

So hard to find a new apartment when owning a cat. Now I understand why on moving day so many people just abandon cats.

Just for this reason, it should be illegal for landlords to discriminate based on pet ownership. It's cruel to the pets.

OpenStreetMap: now more than 1 million map contributors!

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and me, free to use under an open license.

A milestone has been recently passed which deserves some celebration.

Over the lifetime of the project, 1,000,000 different users have created a user account and made edits to the map.

Why not sign up right today and map your neighbourhood?

--> https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2018/03/18/1-million-map-contributors/
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#OpenStreetMap #OpenSource #maps #mobile #desktop #FOSSGIS

You know, I gotta say this.

It's pretty telling that white people or people that can pass as white keep trying to tell me that the overwhelming good of the internet is 'balanced' by... police brutality.

As a victim of police brutality, I'm telling you straight up they are full of shit.

There is no doubt police brutality is a major issue, but to use that as the point to minimize what the web is and has meant for marginalized peoples, reeks of gross entitlement.

Two days in a row of driving. Yesterday my sister's car and today my girlfriend's. That's enough for this month.