Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

@cstross I (who am totally not a robot) wish you a traditional American Giving of the Thanks as depicted in patriotic image of first Thankinggives at Plymouth The Rock. Has Turkeybird and Pilgrimship! Much American, very traditional, wow!

Nice to see some support on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/z09ioa/qotoorg_an_inclusive_stemfocued_instance/

#reddit

@b0rk famously the #haskell GHC compiler offers an option to make the computer beep at the start of a major garbage collection https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.html#rts-flag--B

From that link:
“Some people here use it for a variety of purposes—honestly!—e.g., confirmation that the code/machine is doing something, infinite loop detection, gauging cost of recently added code. Certain people can even tell what stage [the program] is in by the beep pattern. But the major use is for annoying others in the same office…”

Review this every day.

This is one of the big topics that people are bringing up as they discover the #fediverse

https://blacksun.social/@sean/109377295432367591

Let’s game it out, shall we?

Suppose I’m a total d*ckhead. You know, like one of those guys we’ve left behind on the bird app. Racist, homophobic, perhaps just addicted to trolling and starting sh*t.

I hear about the new pachyderm playground and decide I want to show up and start trouble with my trolling.

What happens?

If the Fediverse becomes sufficiently popular, the following might happen:

1. Advertisers start using tags or direct messages to get into people's eyeballs.
2. We can block individual accounts, or servers that allow this sort of thing, but it's easy to set up new servers.
3. Moderators (or maintainers of public block lists) adopt a defensive policy of not federating with any server that hasn't been around and active (with believable human conversations) for at least, say, a year.
4. This makes it very hard, but not impossible, for individual people to set up new servers; they just have to create a community through some other means and hang out in their isolated space (or with each other) for the first year.
5. An industry arises of using AI to create thousands of fake "communities" that, once federated, let loose with the advertising.

Alternately, after step 1, we might start using anti-spam software to filter our tags/DMs the same way we currently filter our email.

Trying to figure out if something is regional or universal: Do you usually eat Thanksgiving dinner at

My dog just triggered Alexa's 'turn off all the lights if you detect snoring' feature

7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

Oh dear. I've just been informed that collecting the names of every person on the planet for my naughty and nice lists is, and I quote, “a significant and wholly irresponsible breach of #GDPR “.
I'm going to hand out about 8 billion consent forms soon. If you could all get them back to me ASAP that would be appreciated.

I support @freemo and #qoto

It seems they've set up a poll, without notifying the people who were questioning the policy (link below). They've also blocked me for posting my opposition on that thread!
If you want to vote, the poll is at https://episcodon.net/@johnclint/109388586578524262

@Empiricism @stanstallman @mergerson "Racist" is a powerful, harmful label, because #racism is so powerfully harmful to its victims. Before you choose to take part in harm someone, you have an obligation to do due diligence in assessing the fact, rather than just hitting a reboost button or writing some angry statement of condemnation.

In 2010, California decided to move from first-past-the-post elections to "jungle primaries," which is good

Four years earlier, Oakland decided to move from first-past-the-post to ranked choice voting, which is better

Good read on how Sheng Thao won the mayor's seat:
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RT @DarwinBondGraha
Civil rights attorney and first-time political candidate Allyssa Victory was the rainmaker in the 2022 Oakland mayoral election. Her supporte…
https://twitter.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/1595098773692289027

It's delightful to work towards a #mastodon #coop for #Canada with @evan and other lovely folks. Thoughts so far:

The #Twitter #migration creates a sense of urgency. But that rush is at odds with creating safety, a broad leadership team, real accountability structures...all the things that might actually make for a healthy community.

We've seen plenty of fast-start sites. It's hard but powerful to slow down & create conditions for lasting success & inclusion.

[continued] #CoSocialCa

#EarthquakeReport #EarthquakeToot #TsunamiReport for M7.0 #Earthquake offshore of #SolomonIslands

appears to be a tsunami recorded on the Honiara tide gage https://webcritech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/SeaLevelsDb/Device/1695

also seismic waves recorded on DART buoy 55023 https://webcritech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/TAD_server/Device/2082