Blenster @Blenster@qoto.org

Happy Hanukkah
Wishing everyone who celebrates a joyous and safe holiday season.

The highlights are out from our livestream with Nancy Otero of Kitco Learning! It was awesome to hear her story, talk about approachable engineering education, and play with some very interesting cardboard mechanical linkages. Check it out, full playlist here:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGswnsgctcE3JhOdigDU6iMrmNJ7VL-4T

I'm finally getting around to converting my six year old, 250 #RGB #LED tree to #Pixelblaze!
I already had it fully pixel mapped in 3D for use with #FastLED, so it was super easy.
More info on the tree build: https://www.evilgeniuslabs.org/tree-v2

The best thing about this latest Mark Rober video is that if you know what to look for, you'll see that it matches up with everything I've tried to tell y'all about San Francisco crime:

* SF is the car break-in capital of the USA
* Most car break-ins are not done by Black people
* Most car break-ins are not done by homeless people
* Police are not designed to help you with these car break-ins. Police are designed to abuse Black people.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWeu2dxHRDg

#BlackMastodon

I dunno who else needs to hear this right now, but here you go.

The first black child ever allowed to attend a white school is only 68 years old now.
White parents pulled their children from school. White teachers refused to teach her.
Ruby Bridges now works as an activist & public speaker
This wasn’t a million years ago. /1

If Mastodon diehards want this to be The Next Place after Twitter, the move is to bend over backwards to listen to disabled and Black community about what they do and don't need in social media space.

Even if it's challenging.

Even if it makes you uncomfortable.

These are power user communities, whether folks like it or not.

So I understand that the bird site has started blocking links to common/known Mastodon instances, and that doesn't seem like free speech to me. So... I did a thing.

If you go to https://spacekaren.sucks it is now a URL shortener that blocks the twitter user agent. That means you can share that link that will redirect to your Mastodon account without the pouty baby stopping you. If you find this helpful can you boost so others can find it? #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Musk #introduction

"One of the reasons why getting full access to your device is really tempting for governments is the same reason it’s tempting for abusive partners and former partners: we carry tracking devices in our pockets." - EFF Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin https://www.ted.com/talks/eva_galperin_what_you_need_to_know_about_stalkerware