DecaturNature @DecaturNature@qoto.org
Nature lover in Decatur, GA, USA. Interested in the sciences and science education. Science is a practical philosophy to be shared with all, not a commodity to be owned and sold.
Joined Aug 2018
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I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.
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@morganarae The text you cited described "Israeli soldiers attempt to arrest Palestinian militants in their home". But you seem to assume that Palestinians deserve to live under occupation because you want to continue a war from 3000 years ago.
USA politics - no more loyal opposition
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Three years ago there were 65,000 sheets of paper containing hand-written measurements of rainfall taken all across the UK & Ireland before 1960.
Virtually all of the 5.28 million observations on these sheets were unavailable to climate scientists as they had never been digitised.
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There seem to be a number of pundits insisting that anything short of putting trans people in camps is not "an attack on trans people's rights."
Please understand how ridiculous that sort of characterization is.
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I mean, think about this for just a sec: LinkedIn, Twitter, SnapChat, Instagram, the list goes on and on. The VERY first thing these platforms will do after you've installed the app and logged in is to ask you to share all of the information in your address book. Ever wonder how these social networks got so big so fast? It's remarkable how much of their growth is based on convincing everyone it's totally fine and normal to give away all of the contact information given to them by friends, family and acquaintances.
kindergarteners training to murder jews
@morganarae To any neutral observer, what you described is "fighting off an occupying army that is attacking your neighbors" -- not "murdering Jews".
Is there a guide for incorporating Mastodon to your website? For example, people can show their twitter feed (most recent post) on their website. I'd also like to see suggestions for how best to link out to "follow me" or "share this"....and icons we could use. I did a quick search of fedi.tips and fedi.guide, but only came up with information on how to embed a single post on the website (https://fedi.tips/how-to-embed-mastodon-posts-on-a-website/).
@futurebird Larry Niven's "A gift from Earth" depicts a rough transition to post-scarcity (for a single, important resource -- human organs)
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This is my first post on a Mastodon server of any kind. I am the blind writer, blogger, social critic and various other things around the blindness world. I am currently the publisher of the news and information site World Blind herald (www.world blind herald.com) and will probably post a fair amount about that project. I’m also interested in a lot of other things and, as I find more people to follow, my posts will likely vary in subject matter more over time. #blind #blindness #introduction
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All major road-building projects in Wales are scrapped over environmental concerns
GOOD!
Can we do the same in England too?
We don't need any new roads. All they do is attract even more cars, bringing even more pollution, noise, danger and ugliness
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Keep it simple…
Find someone who makes you a better person.
Leave the world better than you found it.
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One of the biggest public health failures was the notion that if something doesn’t work 100% it’s not worth doing. This is why people scoff at masks, hand washing, even vaccines. Viral load is a factor. Any way you minimize exposure helps.
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Like many who were enslaved when they were born, #FrederickDouglass did not know his birthdate. So, he adopted February 14th as his birthday. He remains among the most brilliant, fierce, eloquent, prescient Americans in history and, by forcing America to live up to its founding creed. represents TRUE patriotism.
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #History #News #Histodon #valentinesday
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This certainly helped my transition to the Fediverse. #networking #computers
@cgervasi Rioting is fairly common around large sporting events throughout history. I think scale matters.
The SuperBowl and everything around it reminds me of Aldous Huxley's theory of "herd poison" from "Brave New World Revisited". From the idea that it's a 'must see' event, to the compulsion to wager bets on it, to the fan riots... everyone just agrees to spend the evening hypnotized by the spectacle.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9134469-groups-are-capable-of-being-as-moral-and-intelligent-as
#superbowl #books #huxley
@Rachel_Thorn I'll chalk it up in part to the appeal of mass-culture. It invites people to abandon any sense of agency, and probably ends up being conservative (both because it stops innovators from going out on a limb and because it's controlled by the powers-that-be).
@BertL Truly 'taking over' seems unlikely -- ideally, the involvement of big institutions would mean them setting up servers to serve their own communities, like what Medium did. I expect that many big institutions (publishers, universities, etc) would do the same -- just wanting a place to host their own content. Others, like Tumblr, could try to establish mega-instances (analogous to Gmail or Hotmail) but I think that small community instances will still be able to thrive under those circumstances, because they do serve distinct purposes. Email did not have an analogous community structure to it before Gmail became dominant. I'd only get worried if they set up instances that have 'lock in' features -- like not supporting moving of servers.
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Nature lover in Decatur, GA, USA. Interested in the sciences and science education. Science is a practical philosophy to be shared with all, not a commodity to be owned and sold.
Joined Aug 2018
