David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

House January 6 panel recommends criminal charges against Donald Trump – video - The January 6 committee has referred the former US president to the justice department for criminal charges, accusing Trump of fomenting an insurrection and conspiring against the government over his attempt to subvert the outcome of the 2020 election, and the bloody... #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2022/dec/19/house-january-6-panel-recommends-criminal-charges-against-donald-trump-video

The January 6 committee has released an introduction to its final report. It's a devastating indictment of Trump, citing him as the "central cause" of the 1/6 riot and depicting him as a conspirator who mounted multiple (possibly illegal) plots to overthrow the 2020 election to grab power. Here's his legacy (so far): He tried to break the American republic, and, fortunately, he failed. Please read/boost/share/like.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/january-6-committee-report-devastating-case-against-donald-trump/

Well, this isn't something you've ever seen before.

It’s an accident of history that social media came to be walled gardens while web and email services did not. Post (and sites in that model) are plantations that enrich the owners, and impart platform risk to users.

Companies and media outlets in particular should consider establishing their own Mastodon/ActivityPub instances that they can control and ultimately monetize/drive revenue with as needed.

The notion a VC backed platform has creators’ best interests at heart is specious.

Okay my drawing block has been lifted and I drew this today. I’m pretty satisfied with the result. #MastoArt #DigitalArt #Wednsday

@april @Dbrauer I agree this is a key point. Policy makers assume cars cost more than $2500, if we use your number.

BTW, "impoverished" is your word, not mine.

And, I would distinguish between educated young adults without much money and long-term low wage earners. We saw more of the former than the later in my UPDP term.

Obligatory Winter Wonderland Photo

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

No money laundering here, people. Nope. Not at all. Speculators buy multi-hundred batches of #Trump #collectibles because they're valuable!

Nothing to see here... move along.

Hello new followers … it’s apparently purge night on Twitter. If you wouldn’t mind, please introduce yourself if we don’t know each other and I don’t follow you. We all have to make a new community here. Thanks. My intro is pinned.

@mike

I read your post:

https://empty.coffee/notes-on-standing-up-a-mastodon-server-aws/

Excellent stuff! I've done pretty much the same with S3 and Cloudfront; but in my case, coming out of a Vultr Ubuntu 22.04 server. I hit the same memory issue trying to compile; 2GB minimum was required.

I did it for the same reason - to understand how this works and scales in the back. I've learned lots and eager to learn more.

The IAM usage did intrigue me; that's something I can't do. On the other hand, I'm on fail2banned up

#mastoadmin

My series continues.

We need to plan faster with bigger goals in mind – but we’ve been distracted. We’ve been in triage mode with our organization in dealing with the pandemic, supply chain challenges, a volatile economy, and workforce issues.

That’s why trend #10 of my “23 Trends for 2023” has to do with the idea of ‘revisiting strategic agility’ – which is to say, the ability to plan faster with bigger goals in mind!

https://jimcarroll.com/2022/12/23-trends-for-2023-10-revisiting-strategic-agility/

People on the other site keep telling me that Mastodon is just an echo chamber... which... is not at all how I'm experiencing it. Lots of people seem willing to disagree with me and make their disagreements clear.

They just don't suggest that I don't deserve to live when they do. And that seems healthier.

Mastodon News Sources

General News - US and World

BBC News (World) Bot - @BBCWorld
BBC News Bot - @BBC
CNN Bot - @CNN
CNN Breaking News - @cnnbrk
DW (Deutsche Welle) News Bot - @dwnews_bot
NPR US News Bot - @NPR_USNews
NYTimes Bot - @NYTimes
Reuters Bot - @reuters
Rolling Stone - @RollingStone
The Guardian US Bot - @TheGuardian_us
Wall Street Journal Bot - @wsj
Washington Post Bot - @WashingtonPost

Tech News

Ars Technica - @arstechnica
MacRumors.com - @macrumors

What a tragedy that this good man, who has devoted his life to public service, who has made mistakes and learned from them, and who still expresses a profound understand of America’s public-health problems, should remain a target of vitriol from the worst among us. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04432-7