Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

I’m going to rebrand “procrastination” as “just-in-time personal obligation logistics”

Possible things to call a group of Mastodon users:

- Mastadonians
- Fedi-heads
- eHerd
- Tusken Raiders
- Pack 'O Derms
- Mast Movement
- Tooters
- Macedonians
- You guys

If you want to shut down AI art, tell it to draw Disney characters in Disney styles.

Might not work, but Disney lawyers vs. Silicon Valley lawyers is a fight where someone you despise loses either way.

Proposal: if you need to cite something on the fowl place, use archive.org rather than direct link. It serves three purposes: avoiding driving traffic and engagement to the original, future proofing against user deleting their account, and future proofing against complete collapse of the platform.

Are you getting tired of all these links back to the bird site? (Consider boosting so we can get a sample of opinion.)

Someone really needs to build some sort of logarithmic volume filter into linux... a way to keep the normal volume scenes loud enough to hear but reduce the volume on the loud scenes. This way you can listen to a movie in the middle of the night and not annoy your neighbors and not need to keep lowering it everytime an action scene hits.... how is this not a thing already!

@pollak @mindstalk @spfannenschmidt Similar symptoms between the flu or covid will cause people to want to know what exactly they have. Years past I didn’t get tested as I just assumed it was the flu but now I’ll get tested to verify. I’m sure others out there are thinking the same, which results in increased testing.

This makes me wanna get a unicorn....

... and hug Marcia Maeda, the director of the L.A. County Animal Care & Control 🫶

source: https://post.news/article/2Iikz5i0LhMN3KPD0Ql5lDx4S0e

Weekly summary report:

Monday = Dumpster fire express, how may I fuck you?

Tuesday = controlled fuckery dept, how many are dead?

Wednesday = Fuck-around-and find-out line 3, which way you wanna go?

Thursday/tonight - controlled chaos command center, what it do?

Friday = my one day off.

I'm curious if there is any sense of whether #mastodon has or is developing a generational identity?

Anecdotal or data-driven takes welcome, but as a start, indicate your #generation below and boost. Discussion of the assumptions behind this welcomed!

(I had to lump older generations in with boomers because evidently surveys are limited to four choices.) #generation #GenX #genz #millenials #Boomers

A Book Acknowledgment

Wooo JWST spectroscopic confirmation of galaxies at redshifts greater than 12! (Translation: really really distant galaxies, for sure.) https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04480

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906.

As far as I’m aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her.

Image: Computer History Museum

Three degrees, dozens of bylines, years of therapy, countless assurances from friends and mentors.

And no one has done more to cure me of my imposter complex than Elon Musk.

Anyone want to suggest me some good resources on anti-racism work that are especially for primary schools?
I’m doing work on myself, but what’s the best way to tackle my institution? I’m tired and sad today and I want to turn it into action. When I speak out, I want my voice to work harder. #DecoloniseSchools #antiracism #edutooter
And I will Google, but if you’ve got any strong recommendations: thank you

There's a specific vendor, that I won't name (yet), who is being very hostile to hobbyists. They refuse to put their datasheets online (It's "proprietary" 🙄 ), and when you contact them like their web site says, they won't even speak to you (other than to brush you off then ghost you) unless you're a big company ready to buy a large quantity of parts.

I already bought your parts, I just need the full data sheet, people!

@admitsWrongIfProven

Its rather ironic, I am absolutely polarizing in the fedi. The irony is that in real life almost everyone I've met sees me as a mediator. Two people who are in the heat of an argument I can often get to calm down, talk it out and make up.

The very fact that is polarizing on the fedi speaks volumes I suppose.

@Pat @EubieDrew @ufoi