James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

Twitter is considering forcing users to let the company sell their data and phone numbers to advertisers, in potential breach of #Apple rules

#Twitter is working on plans to force some users to agree to data sharing or lose access to the app in a bid to save its ad business, according to Platformer.

Elon #Musk's platform, like #Google and #Facebook, currently allows users to opt out of personalized ads, but this option could soon disappear.

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-plans-to-force-users-to-share-data-with-advertisers-2022-12

Danielle Smith, Jordan Peterson, Pierre Poilievre... faces of #WhiteFragility that chooses to smash the mirror rather than look at itself.

@N01100010 @Foodiekenobi @Nerdfest

It is surreal. Everywhere.

Not only at the pharmacy, but I'm overhearing unmasked parents in the schoolyard lamenting about their kid's endless illnesses, and then agreeing it is perfectly fine to send those same kids back to school UNMASKED.

Even those kids who are still *coughing up a lung* as they trail outside barking and hacking all over everyone else.
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#MakeItMakeSense #doomed #school #CommonSense

Nothing more than than an attempt at gaslighting on a massive scale.

Thomas Greenway, 7th Premier of Manitoba & Thomas Greenway, bassist for Crippled Black Phoenix, are the same person.
Change my mind.

Let's celebrate the season with a bit of science! Starting a daily countdown of 10 modern and fascinating ideas about the brain for us all to discuss. How likely is this to be true? And if true, what are the implications?

Brain idea 10: Our moods may depend not just on what's happening in our brain, but also our gut. The gist of the idea is that the gut can send distress signals to the brain that can trigger fear and anxiety.

The friendly summary:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/the-gut-brain-connection

The deeper dive:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgstr.2022.1019578/full

#neuroscience
(And despite my reluctance; because I'm trying to work out the hashtag habit here ...)
#BrainIdeasCountdown

Some of you will know that there are character codes which are magic, For example, 8 is backspace, 9 is tab, 13 is enter/return, 27 is escape.

And then there's 127, which is delete. Why?

Because if you're dealing with punched cards, you need to remove errors. And the only code which will work for cancelling out a column is all holes punched, since you can't un-punch a hole

And 127 in binary is `01111111`.

@thomasfuchs I think scepticism of crypto comes from a good understanding of it.

These are *NOT* birds

They may look like birds, but they are flowers called Magnolia Liliflora.

>>>>Nature ROCKS!<<<< 🙃

#nature #flowers #birds #zen #beauty #beautiful #awesome #photography #arts #art

So what are our Twitter-Mastodon strategies people?

Which one best describes you?...

Please re-share for larger numbers.

Imagine how shitty you have to be to get booed by people who are still willing to pay money to go see Dave Chapelle

COVID-19 has erased two decades of life expectancy growth in the US. Yet, leaders are still trying to gaslight us into believing that the US had one of the best responses to the pandemic.

https://healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-life-expectancy-compare-countries/#Life%20expectancy%20at%20birth%20in%20years,%201980-2021

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

I wonder what 2022 would have been like if russia hadn't invaded us

I also wonder what 2023 will be like after we destroy the russian military forever and declare eternal victory over the parasitic infection that happens to be our neighbor

Watching The Grinch as a child:
You’re a mean one Mr. Grinch!

Watching The Grinch as an adult:
This dude realising that people are terrible and wanting to live his life in peace alone with his dog is 100% relatable.

@damienowens @JamesHMcLaren “what’s wrong? I’m applying binary search to get the correct answer as efficiently as possible”

Tesla stock is down 4.6% today, 10% on the month, 57% on the year

I do love my neighbourhood when it snows. It's like I'm in a Dickens novel.

What I really want to know about Hunter Biden is why the Saudis gave Jared Kushner two billion dollars.

Even if he hadn’t written three of the most-loved #DoctorWho stories, Chris Boucher would be a legend for just this line:

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

RIP Chris 💙💙