Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

This probably describes me better than any intro

Humans can be fallible, violence prone, dangerous to themselves, other species and the world, true.
But humans can also cooperate, achieve amazing feats, and even save the planet from devastation.
I considered this when I heard that 70 years after the first use of atomic fusion, humans have achieved *ignition* at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. That means more energy was produced from a fusion reaction than was used to power it. We have a long way to go, but this is a huge milestone! #Hope #Fusion

I wonder if Musk has seen in the backend data that activity on Twitter has fallen off a cliff and he’s simply courting controversy in an attempt to offset it.

“We’re witnessing the brain death of Twitter.
An analysis of Musk’s tweets shows him at the center of conversations once kept on the fringes of Twitter.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/15/1065013/twitter-brain-death/
#Musk #Twitter

So, this is weird. Anyone else a Twitter refugee?
#podcast #weird

This sounds like a bad idea with no justification other than airline executives wanting to funnel more money to their personal accounts and abuse their employees to the point of risking the safety of their customers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-pilot-in-cockpit-staffing-shortage-faa-part-121/

@gwensnyder civility has always been a bludgeon against the marginalized

I gotta say, I appreciate people explaining no-QTs on Mastodon, but the critiques of QT (saying it encourages rudeness, incivility, toxicity) really concerns me.

I've heard a lot of folks, especially Black folks and nonwhite women, flag that Mastodon has a culture of shallow politeness that leads to a lot of tone policing of valid, sharp critiques of racist patriarchal bullshit.

Seems like Mastodon needs to adjust.

Honorary Associate Dr Chris Stimpson and colleague have published a paper on the bird species seen in this ancient Egyptian mural of a papyrus marsh.
Called The Green Room, the place where this mural was painted was probably meant for relaxing. 
https://www.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.159

#egypt #ancientegypt #papyrus #twitchers #birders #history #arthistory #ornithology #research #scicomm

Hello ya‘ll ! It‘s #ThrowbackThursday and I thought I could contribute: And it also fits to #TravelThursday since the picture was taken during our vacation in #canada .

#travelphotography #photography #fotografie #church #reise #kirche

Aww Shucks 💕
#crow #crowsofmastodon #halifax #halifaxsocial

#Nurses need to be well paid to properly look after us when we need them. You can’t have them worrying about putting food on the table or heating their homes in the winter or providing basics for their kids.

It’s not political. It’s common sense. A no-brainer.
#NursesStrike

Seeing an uptick in the last 2 weeks of those nasty graphic sextortion emails doing the rounds again for corporates. Thier MO is to spoof the mail headers and make it look like you've sent an email to yourself, giving off the impression your account has been hacked. If you open the email it'll be a wall of text where the cyber criminal claims all sorts of vulgar garbage about how they've infected your computer with malware, they've got recordings of you doing embarrassing things and if you don't pay X bitcoin they're going to send the videos to everyone you know. This is a well known scam.

The part that's scaring people is the email does look like it's been sent from your email account. Hovering over the email doesn't reveal an alternate address, it looks legit. It's not until you check the email headers that you can clearly see it's forged. This content can be very confronting and distressing and that's exactly the point. The juxtaposition between the professional environment and receiving an email like this at work is meant to send you into a tail spin of shame and embarrassment so you don't think clearly and make mistakes.

It's OK, if you've recieved this email many people have received this just like you, it's not your fault, you've done nothing wrong. These people are gross and trying to scam as many people as possible and you've just happened to be one of them. It's highly unlikely they have access to your account. Always reach out to your IT or a close tech savvy friend or family member to talk about if it you're unsure of what to do in your circumstances. Otherwise block, delete move on.

#Australia #scam #email #cybersecurity #securethenation

Elon gave me no warning.... plus he suspended all of my accounts, half of which track aircraft (NASA aircraft, experimental aircraft, weather, airforce etc). not people including my personal

Jumping into the Mastadon waters. #appellatetwitter #LawTwitter

For every 25 patients, substituting 1 nurse with a non-nurse increases mortality by 21% on an average ward #NursesStrike

Australia, which extorted money from tech companies to pay Rupert Murdoch and his ilk, declares that the extortion worked wonderfully well because Murdoch et al deigned to keep some people employed with the extra loot. https://treasury.gov.au/publication/p2022-343549

This method of "supporting journalism" is on the verge of passing in Canada and came close to being enacted in the U.S. What a scam.

With these ToS changes, Elon Musk is making official what has already been happening:

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-information

Antfascist publishing on twitter is essentially dead. Accounts posting substantive material about fascists and the far-right who have not yet been banned will be.

Having a secure website and social media platform like Mastodon with a trusted admin is absolutely essential.

I'm convinced that there is a direct correlation between extreme wealth and an increasing inability to relate to fellow human beings on even a basic level.