A rubber mallet is a very useful tool to own
Somehow, I feel like this is set up to make the next step in this nightmare even more harrowing. Nonetheless, it is pretty incredible what this man has done to his own reputation in the past few months.
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I do not understand why news organisations, and the Guardian in particular, are being so slow to move to Mastodon. Setting up their own instances seems an obvious move.
The best leaders I've worked with and for are OK with being wrong. They seek out challenges to their perspectives. They know great ideas can come from anybody. DEI simply gives them a language and better toolkit for things they intuitively do.
But eventually, they realized this is a game they couldn't win. No one person can be an authority in DEI, because the whole point is elevating a multitude of voices. They kept saying the wrong things, and instead of having the humility to be okay with being wrong, they started throwing tantrums. "No more politics at work (unless it's my politics!)"
Ego is what happened. The superbrain thing to do was be a thought leader. They learned the language and made small commitments. Sometimes even large commitments, even though many quietly faded away before reaching fruition.
The u-turn on DEI from the charismatic superbrain tech founder class has been illuminating. These are the same people who wrapped themselves in BLM and ERGs a couple years ago. Now they're saying wokeness is public enemy #1. What happened?
Fascinating that I haven't heard a peep about Web3 alternatives to Twitter in these months of crisis.
We are living through a truly epic emperor-has-no-clothes moment in tech. So many emperors, so few clothes.
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Hi, crop scientist here. Wind doesn't "take farmland out of production." You can keep farming under the turbines.
But, it's harder to sell farmland with turbines on it to real estate developers later!
And that's a lot of farmers' real financial plan when you get down to it.
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It is comical the degree to which journalists treat everything as a both-sides debate until something happens to *them* at which point it's an unambiguous moral problem.
Does the Qoto web client lack the ability to follow hashtags?
I find I use both Twitter and Mastodon quite a bit.
I go to Twitter to observe the trainwreck first hand, to try to provide some perspective, and to promote alternatives.
I come here to learn new things.
Every time we have to speak basic personal information into a phone or enter it into a form is indicative of massive failure of information technology. Countless hours wasted. Vulnerabilities created. Avoidable errors. It's wild to me that there's so much investment in technology but the basic plumbing is so decrepit.
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Getting deep into the syntax for CSS Nesting, exploring the options…
Here’s a quick & overly simplistic preview...
Option 3:
article {
font-family: avenir;
& aside {
font-size: 1rem;
}
}
Option 4:
article {
font-family: avenir;
} {
aside {
font-size: 1rem;
}
}
Option 5:
@nest article {
& {
font-family: avenir;
}
aside {
font-size: 1rem;
}
}
Which all become:
article {
font-family: avenir;
}
article aside {
font-size: 1rem;
}
Thoughts?
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16 years, 9 months and 4 days ago, Google launched Google Docs, a free online word processor, closer to the release of Windows 95 than today.
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This map shows where the world's carbon emissions come from - population centers, flight paths, shipping lanes and high production areas.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-carbon-dioxide-emissions-around-the-world/
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So #Tumblr has 135 million (!) active users who will join the #Fediverse in the next few months (if not sooner): https://www.tumblr.com/press
For comparison #Matrix has 64 million active users: https://news.itsfoss.com/matrix-sixty-million-users/
Tumblr also plans on adding Matrix support (probably after activating #ActivityPub upon the site).
How will #Mastodon servers handle the influx as Tumblr is a very media rich website (more more than #Pixelfed IMHO)‽ Any #MastoAdmin want to weigh in‽
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Because direct messages are part of the feed in #Mastodon, I often realize they are DMs AFTER answering. This is a mishap in UI design that should be fixed.
In the meantime, here's a CSS for a clear pulsing indicator for private messages. If you are not an instance admin, you can use Live editor for CSS and the pin icon: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/live-editor-for-css-less/ifhikkcafabcgolfjegfcgloomalapol?hl=en
CSS (WIP):
.fa[title="Mentioned people only"]::after {
width: 8px;
height: 8px;
border-radius: 50%;
content: '';
display: inline-block;
background: #f15f5a;
order: 1;
animation: pulse-animation 2s infinite;
}
.fa[title="Mentioned people only"]::before {
order: 2;
}
.fa[title="Mentioned people only"] {
color: #f15f5a;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 8px;
transform: translateY(-2px)
}
.status-direct .status__relative-time {
color: #f15f5a;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
}
.status__visibility-icon {
display: inline-flex
align-items: center;
padding-top: 0;
margin-top: 0;
}
@keyframes pulse-animation {
0% {
box-shadow: 0 0 0 0px rgba(241, 95, 90, 0.5);
}
100% {
box-shadow: 0 0 0 10px rgba(241, 95, 90, 0);
}
}
I am now @acjay
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