Andres Plaza @AndresPlazaR@qoto.org

Actually cannot believe this. After 13 years, Sony/BMG have decided to take down Rick Astley's "Never gunna give you up" due to a dispute with Youtube over ad royalties.

It's completely blocked globally. Actual end of an era.

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

I had no idea Moose could even hold swords.

#Canada

100% due to Musk's own irresponsible actions...
-- Elon Musk is defending his massive cost-cutting at Twitter as necessary for the social media platform to survive next year, due in part to debt payments tied to his $44 billion takeover of the company.
“This company is like, basically, you’re in a plane that is headed towards the ground at high speed with the engines on fire and the controls don’t work.”
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-san-francisco-fa63069c6cb48850f3c36d052bd96044

You’d think since they’re called Zoom calls they’d go a lot faster.

I had some MIDI fun on the Atari 520ST for Holiday Music Week X at r/Retrobattlestations!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuTzp6hAKYw

#Atari #AtariST #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #MIDI #keyboards #synthesizers #videos #Christmas #holiday #music

"No one is obligated to tolerate intolerance. That's not how 'tolerance' works."

Grace Hopper, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
#Quotes #Tolerance #EmotionalIntelligence

the guy at the pet shop warned me not to get him wet

What news publications have you seen set up shop on Mastodon?

I've come across the following that are active & appear to be legit:

- LA Times @losangelestimes
- NBC News @nbcnews
- ProPublica @ProPublica
- VOA @VOANews
- The Intercept @theintercept
- The Conversation @TheConversationUS
- Meduza @meduza_en
- Global Voices @globalvoices
- Grist @grist
- Arctic Today @ArcticToday
- Die Tageszeitung (in German) @tazgetroete
- Le Monde diplomatique (in French)
@mdiplo

#media #news #journalism

Seasonal reminder: Alcohol is a completely legal drug that destroys lives, relationships and families. Don't make it hard for people who are trying to stay sober to enjoy festivities and functions.

@elonmusk@twitter.com Notably, this response came in reply to an account promoting a right-wing news site.

Opinions from the right are the only ones he values.

#Twitter

This didn’t age well

Week 1: We will finally bring free speech to the Internet

Week 8: Linktree is illegal

Coming up on the show from 3-6p eastern today… Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren and Congressman Joaquin Castro plus suspended twitter journalists @donieosullivan and @w7voa as well as @mollyjongfast SE Cupp, Jefferson Morley, Mike Isaac, Bill Weir, Chloe Melas, and Brad Hendrickson - American helping civilians in Ukraine. See you soon!

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

If you're trying to find journalists on Mastodon, I've created a verified database of several hundred here: http://presscheck.org. Since the backlog has become enormous, the unverified waiting list is now public also: http://presscheck.org/pending

another interesting idea is to deactivate/reactivate your account a lot. That's a heavyweight operation because it has to archive and unarchive the graph edges, and graph operations are complicated and often have high constant factors.