Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org

For those wondering about the availability (now and in the future) of archived Twitter data: The Library of Congress has the full record of the first 12 years of Twitter data, but they stopped full collection in 2017. Since then, they have only archived tweets deemed to be of historical significance. Here’s a white paper from them describing why they stopped full archival collection, and what they still collect.

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2017/12/2017dec_twitter_white-paper.pdf

Superb potted economic history of our era. Marred only by the faulty (conventional wisdom) election prediction at the end. Cory! @pluralistic https://doctorow.medium.com/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom-bfad6f3b35a9

Another design consideration re: Mastodon is that it works well for ephemeral asynchronous communications, but for many reasons should not be counted on as an archival resource. Media attachments are periodically purged and may not be available after a week, or a month, etc. While some servers may try to preserve content forever, this may be costly and unsustainable. Creators, researchers should treat this as an ephemeral resource and make provisions for self-archiving anything important.

To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

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Breaking: rumours that Channel 4 have approached Nadine Dorries to appear in new reality series "I'm a catastrophe, get me out of here" have been vehemently denied by a spokesperson for Ms Dorries.

Hello to former twitter pals.
Thought I’d give this tooting a go.
Still figuring it out. Hopefully I’ll manage to avoid the pitfalls which beset my Twitter existence 😂

When I was a boy I spent entire afternoons imagining what it would be like to walk around inside the Great Pyramid at Giza.

Now there is an online virtual walk-through, *inside* the pyramid, from the Giza Project at Harvard. Astonishing.

https://giza.mused.org/en/guided/266/inside-the-great-pyramid

HT @stux @knuppelbeer

Just this. Please Boost.

#introduction #qotojournal Hello. I've looked at a couple of servers and finally settled here. What is particularly excellent and unique is the ability to follow another domain of interest and get its whole public timeline on your Home page or in a list. So I can easily keep an eye on what's happening on other servers. Everyone needs Domain Subscription!

#MoreMadnessOfHumans
BBC News: Air pollution: Uncovering the dirty secret behind BP’s bumper profits
BBC News - Air pollution: Uncovering the dirty secret behind BP’s bumper profits
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63560279

Loch Achtriochtan and the Aonach Eagach ridge in Glencoe.

At a time when we’re about as rich as we’ve ever been we apparently can’t afford the NHS. That doesn’t make sense. So there must be other explanations for the mess it is in. Two choices. 1) Tories say we aren’t that rich. Or 2), they have massively messed things up. You choose.

“Not only is the UK the only major economy to be shrinking in the three months to Sep, but it is the only one not to have recovered in full the chunk of the economy lost during the pandemic.
The UK has an economy 0.4% smaller than in the quarter before the pandemic in Q4 2019.”

“One may be an oddity, two a coincidence. Three is a pattern. The slimy antics of Mr Hancock, the revolving disgraces of “Sir” Gavin & the continued presence in high office of Ms Braverman epitomise a culture of shamelessness”

Andrew Rawnsley on the steps #Sunak needs to take if he wants to convince anyone he cares about integrity #UKPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/13/disgraced-tory-mps-shame-our-politics-will-rishi-sunak-keep-promise-clean-up-house

Financial institutions have poured billions in investment in fossil fuels since Paris Agreement.

In 2021 for first time clean energy received more finance than fossil.

#cop27 To meet the clean energy investment needs that ratio has to jump to 4:1 by 2030.

@EnergyMonitorAI@twitter.com

I made a new Twitter logo.

twitter refugees complaining that toot is a silly word have forgotten that tweet is also a silly word and we all made fun of it back when twitter was a novelty