Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

#infosec #dystopia

My blog is now officially a victim of a Minority Report style malicious flag. Who knew that writing poems and how-tos for assembling Raspberry Pi cases is now considered "pre-crime".

The circular nature of the "threat intel" community means that 1 entity triggering an alert causes a cascade.

No wonder people view these biased 'AI' tools with great suspicion.

Any attempt to ask this unknown "bforeAI" company why I am a "pre-criminal" will get the usual canned response!

@JeremyLittau Admins deciding what is "safe" for their users (which is very unsafe, by the way) is what creates silos. If a site's admins habitually defederate sites they don't like, then a silo is the result, by definition.

weirder.earth is an example of a Mastodon site that turned into a silo. They block so many peers, some of their users now can't connect to most of their friends.

This is why I believe blocking should be done at the user level only, with the help of opt-in blocklists.

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What if we held hands during reflow

I am very pleased to see @georgetakei is having a good time here. After the nonsense that went down with wil wheaton its really nice to see him welcomed.

Today is the 37th anniversary of the first appearance of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes in the newspaper.

Calvin and Hobbes first appeared about two weeks after I turned six years old—crucially, the same age as Calvin—and it ended after I turned sixteen. I adored it from beginning to end. There is no stronger influence on the way I think, write, or see the world than the ten years of that strip.

https://twitter.com/calvinn_hobbes/status/1593605122998812674?s=46&t=tVCHvzEgD-9r3bfInkj_gw

Maybe the new conventional wisdom that polls are worthless is as wrong as the previous conventional wisdom that polls have perfect prognosticating capabilities. People seem to always forget the error bars. Speaking of error though, the notion that polls always trend blue nowadays is also bunk. #politics #uspoli #polls #statistics gelliottmorris.substack.com/p/…

Shaking off jet lag. We’re visiting All Hallows by the Tower Church, oldest church in London. I told Brad to be in the picture, but he said he hasn’t had his beauty sleep yet.

So it seems joinmastodon removed QOTO from their directory without cause, without contacting us, and without any discussion or due diligence.

Since this is the only way to actually find QOTO for new users if it isnt reversed soon it could mean the end for our wonderful community.

If you care about this place remaining fair, respectful, and inclusive environment I highly suggest everyone reach out to them annd voice your objecttion and your disapointment and having no procedure to keep this fair and inclusive.

If you want to see QOTO stick around you can email your objecttion here:

hello@joinmastodon.org

Feel free to CC me here: jeffrey.freeman@qoto.org

Please be respectful, we want to show them we are the good guys and not give them any reason to object.

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People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration

#mastodontips When you're posting a multi-message thread, make the first message in the thread "public" and the others "unlisted." That will keep the follow-up posts from showing up in people's feeds, but they'll still be able to read them when they click into the first message.

(Credit @kyonshi for the idea, but with all the new users, I wanted to get it out into the wild.)

Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research

https://bigthink.com/health/red-meat-cancer-not-health-risk/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://bigthink.com/health/red-meat-cancer-not-health-risk/

So, due to a miscommunication, I've ended up with a spare BSides London ticket. Free to a good home as long as you promise to use it!

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: there are plenty of educators, and a vast majority of curriculum leaders, standards writers, etc. who vastly underestimate students’ interest in and capacity to learn about and potentially solve complex problems.

I haven’t grown 26K fans in a day since the early days of social media! Welcome to all who are now here with me. Let’s make new adventures together.

It looks like some of The Episcopal Church standing committees and interim bodies started meeting today. Anyone out there attending? If so, what's happening? Do tell! (I'm not jealous AT ALL!) 😁
#episcopal #TEC #GC80 #GC81 #WAT #episcopalian #generalconvention #churchgeek