Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@codykirkp

Hi Cody, welcome to qoto. Nice to see another old-school guy here.

So I read your profile, you have a goal to get "a T1 line."

What?

@wadhwanisumeet

I have no idea what Bluesky is, but if it's funded by Twitter, then they own it, whether it's structured as a non-profit or not.

@computerphile

You should get together with @g0scv.

@wadhwanisumeet

That's impossible. If they do it will be owned or controlled by a company. The Fediverse and Mastodon are not owned or controlled by any single entity.

@c_ratcliffe

Actually, arial billboards (banners) have been around for awhile, too...

(image: Mediawiki Commons, CC-BY-SA-4.0, Raimond Spekking)

@c_ratcliffe

I've never seen or even heard of drone billboards. Sounds like a modern version of skywriting. When skywriting was used in the past, it was not viewed as intrusive. But flying billboards, that sounds like it would leave people with a negative impression toward the sponsor. This is similar to ideas about using lasers to project ads onto the moon.

These sorts of things are more about the use of a common resource than about the technology itself. Airspace, especially in a densely populated area, is a scarce common resource so it needs to managed so everyone can use it fairly.

@caro_aniso

I don't know what you're doing here, either, but we're happy to have you.

@c_ratcliffe

Technology is offen neutral, but neutral tech can be used for good or bad. Some technology, like thermonuclear weapons can only be used for bad, I think.

Your idea is a good thought experiment though.

@trinsec

Yeah, bias in the training AI is a bit of controversy right now. And actually, this is how most people think -- if they describe a white person, then they don't mention her race, but if they describe, for example, a black person then they will include her race in the description.

@pwinn

@SweaterVest @msilpala

The entire congressional delagation from Hawaii has been Democrat since 1977, except for a couple of guys for three terms, so it's an easy call.

(BTW, this is why they end up politicians like Tulsi Gabbard, who is a Republican, but she runs as Democrat because she'd have no chance at all if she actually declared as a Republican.)

@peterdrake

1. Okay, don't make me look it up, what are crepuscular rays?
2. Honey is bee vomit.
3. With eusocial insects in mind, I read that last one as "burn the new Fire Ants"

@rataflechera

>"When will we know if the GOP recovered Senate or House or neither?"

Who cares? Biden will just veto whatever they pass anyway. And there's no chance for an override.

It‘s a moot point really. You didn't actually fall for all that old-media nonsense about this being “the most important election ever” did you? They’ve been saying that about every election now for decades. The reason why old media say those things is so gullible people will get excited enough to foolishly hand over their hard-earned dollars to the campaigns, most of which ends up going to old media to buy campaign ads.

This is also why many elections are so close now. When there is a clear winner early in the campaign, then nobody donates money. But when the contest is 50/50% then more people donate. That’s why the campaigns and media and their pollsters always try to make the contests look closer than they actually are.

Get it?

Calm down.

@Bertrecords @daeyoung

@lupyuen

Oh, oh!

@c_ratcliffe

There's one problem with that.

Here in the US the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and nearly all IP attorneys are owned by the wealthy and politically connected, so that their decisions are pretty much arbitrary at this point. Even when you sue, the courts are the same way, nealy always deciding in favor of the wealthy/politically connected.

So a NGO like that wouldn't be able to effectively enforce their IP.

IP = intellectual property

@reallyedbrown

Yeah, it's too bad. Although it's not easy figuring out what will be difficult for poeple to see. I recently posted a video of a woman with anorexia who was extremely emaciated and I CW'ed that (although in retrospect, I don't think I worded the warning correctly.)

I've found it useful for spoilers and extremely long toots (so people don't have to scroll through a super-long toot).

For textual content, I think it helps to also include some warning at the top of the toot, under the CW, just for folks who have the auto-open feature enabled.

@ahmong

I have dyslexa and so I have trouble catching typos and such when I look at them in the edit window, but after I post the toot it's easier to find them for some reason, so I just delete and repost. No biggy.

@louiscouture

Not to mention that everything is shot in vertical.

https://qoto.org/@Pat/109061498523719466

@reallyedbrown

It's become kind of running joke here on Mastodon. I think it got started because some people didn't like the idea of CWs or couldn’t discern when it was appropriate to use them, so they just started CW'ing every toot so most people would eventual enable the auto-open feature you mentioned, thus defeating whole scheme altogether.

@trinsec @pwinn

These age deceptions must be post-COVID stress images.

If you don’t specify a race, it always shows white people? That’s kind of weird.