Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @YUL_native@qoto.org

4. A search of the same database of 47 major U.S. newspapers over the last month reveals just eight articles that mention inflation in proximity to "corporate profits."

https://popular.info/p/the-truth-about-inflation

NEW POST: on "The Saskatchewan First Act" - now another province is attempting to unconstitutionally amend the Constitution of Canada. Why this cannot be permitted.
https://emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/saskatchewan-has-joined-the-unconstitutional

Hello #TwitterMigration people. If you encounter a racist/discriminatory/hate toot, tag it with #fediblock. That makes it easier for administrators to find troublesome identities and/or undesirable servers and block them. #Twitter #Mastodon #TwitterTakeover #racism #hate #bigotry

Help and Guide Links PAGE 2:

Fediverse directory:
https://fediverse.party/

Debirdifier:
https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/

Fedifinder:
https://fedifinder.glitch.me

Twitodon:
https://twitodon.com

What to Do Once You're on Mastodon (and what not to do):
https://www.swapnakrishna.com/blog/mastodon-primer-part-2

Setting up your profile:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/

Add a verified website to your Mastodon account:
https://barrd.dev/article/add-a-verified-website-to-your-mastodon-account/

#mastodonmigration #twittermigration

A number of people have asked what I could have done better. In particular, I should have set the first post in the thread to public and the rest of the posts as unlisted.

Here's a fantastic explainer from @djnavarro via @flodebarre:
https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/#how-can-i-make-threads

(It's worth reading the entire thing. I learned a ton.)

I tried to switch to another "instance" to see what it was like. Alas, none of my follows or followers were migrated over, and Mastodon says my "backup" of my old account to import was corrupted. Hoping it will just take a while to migrate over but starting to think I'm going to be starting from scratch as the new Instance is pretty sure I'm only following one person.

I keep seeing people say Mastodon is nothing like Twitter. And they’re right.

Mastodon is an echo of the old internet, it’s decentralised, chaotic. What you get depends on your sysadmin. You can’t search, everything has to be shared to you by a human. Networks split apart and rejoin. What you see is your unique connection to it.

Is this good? Maybe. But for me that’s the internet I grew up with. No algorithms, no targeted adverts, just human interaction, and it was glorious.

No joke: The Secrétariat du Québec aux relations canadiennes has mailed me multiple physical copies of the province's consolidation of the Constitution Acts and I'm 90% sure it's to troll me about the Bill 96 provisions being included.

(They're still unconstitutional, by the way).

One of my friends asked "Where the journalists at?!" and I'm glad there's now a journo instance, find journalists to follow here: https://journa.host/explore

If "immunity debt" explained the current rise in infectious illness, then we would have seen this a year ago, after most of the isolation and masking ended. We didn't. It's happening now, after repeated infections with #COVID19 are leaving many with weakened immune systems.

Here’s a tool for finding out any instance’s custom emoji. Mine (mastodon.social) doesn’t have the “verified” check like some others, but it does have the Rocinante , so.
https://emojos.in

One of the nicest things about Mastodon so far is having a very scientific and academia focused feed where I can discover and follow those working in fields where I don't have a background.

It is wonderful for seeing the diversity of research and being inspired by the works of others.

Interesting fact of the day: The same effect that cuased light in a prism to split up into different colors is what ultimately caused the first transatlantic telegraphic wire in 1858 to fail.

Morse code is transmitted as on-off signals, effectively square waves. Square waves are in fact made up of many different frequencies. Like in a prism different frequencies move at different speeds through a wire. Therefore as the on-off pulses traveled through the transatlantic telegraph wire the signal spread out like it does in a prism and ultimately the pulses would overlap and be indistinguishable.

The effect was so extreme that it took a message of only 98 words (the first message sent) over 67 minutes to send one way and a whopping 16 hours to confirm the message.

Whitehouse, a doctor with little mathematical understanding, thought he could solve the problem by increasing voltage, which we now know was a futile effort. He increased the voltage to the point he managed to short out the cable entirely and made it useless. However Lord Kelvin had already warned of the problem as was ignored and he came up with the law of squares to describe the problem which later was refined to give us the telegraphers equation. The telegraphers equation is still used today to model feedlines in radio transmitters and receivers.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science #QOTOJournal

Seems the exodus from twitter is accelerating rather than slowing down. Last 24 hours has been the largest influx so far!

This is very good from @jeffjarvis

'Hope for post-Musk net'

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Twitter
https://buzzmachine.com/2022/11/05/hope-for-a-post-musk-net/