Dani M. MLT(ASCP)🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @War_Kittens@qoto.org

Seeing people on #Birdsite go crazy over the @ situation on Mastodon DMs (don't go writing someone's handle out in an @ able way in DMs, people, unless you want them joining in)...

Do people realise that DMs on Twitter are not secure at all? If anyone with access to the backend is so inclined, like unprofessional billionaires or spies on the payroll, wants to have a look... They can because that sh*t isn't encrypted.

Here from Vice in April when the takeover saga began https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvneym/elon-musk-reading-twitter-dms-direct-messages

Monday mood:

Did you know that many security products depend on security folks using Twitter?

There are quite a few ML models that put significant weight on twitter search results.

Just a thought as some folks leave Twitter for Mastodon - data science folks might want to have a backup plan

Also, if you understand how these work ML models and security products work, you could possibly manipulate threat and vulnerability prioritization

https://twitter.com/sawaba/status/1068361691438743552

Perfect

Your reminder that the fediverse does not tolerate transphobes, terves and other gender-critical nonsense.

Trans lives matter, trans people are welcome here, and trans people built this place. If you don’t agree, you do not belong here.

When it came time to reckon with social media’s failings, nobody ran to the “web3” platforms. Nobody asked “can I get paid per message”? Nobody asked about the blockchain. The community of people who’ve been quietly doing this work for years (decades!) ended up being the ones who welcomed everyone over, as always.

Feels a bit like trying to consciously ignore the multi-car pileup out on the street because it makes you feel guilty, but also you keep popping out every now and then to see as more cars smash in to the pile

Here’s an #Introduction for you all: I am an attorney near the capital of Mississippi. Southern-raised #Progressive. Civil #Litigation mostly. I like #books #legaltheory #cats #football #anime #metal and the sci-fi masterpiece Alien (1979). Since I discovered #caturday on a Sunday, here’s Opal (header is Ripley):

Remember that you can mute someone for a fixed amount of time.

Is someone posting about something you don't really wanna see in your feed right now? Boosting too much? Generally making you anxious?

You can mute someone for a few hours or days, after which they'll show up in your feed again.

There's a lot of new people joining right now and if all the new energy is making you a bit stressed or anxious, don't be afraid to mute people for a while 💚🌻🍂

[ #FediTips #NewHere #TwitterMigration ]

@maxkennerly It's going to be the most amazing business school case study in history - in part because we can see his brainstorming, ill-informed ideas being floated in real time. (I.e., Twitter Blue by Monday - no, that'll screw up elections bc of the fraud we're planning to enable, so let's delay it!)

The whole Musk–Twitter debacle isn't just social media gossip, it's also one of the most obvious-in-real-time business screwups in history, from the enormous purchase price to backing out and getting sued to the extraordinary level of LBO debt to the erratic and incompetent management.

Incredible. Musk's team literally fired people without knowing what those people even did. Some employees laid off by mistake, other employees were laid off on purpose but it turns out they're the only ones who know how to implement features Musk wants.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/twitter-now-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back

Any bipoc SFF writers here?
#introduction #writing

While my profile details my planetary mission mapping, I also have a very down-to-Earth background.

I started my first internship at the Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS) in Boston MA digitizing the first spatial road network for the whole state, then became a GIS Specialist covering precinct mapping, watersheds, and local gov mapping in Ohio, coal resource mapping at Reston, USGS, and contaminant mapping at navy bases in VA.

A broad slice of GIS/Mapping over three decades!

I think, with a little patience and a lot of hard work, we can make this place just as awful as Twitter 💙