Blink Dagon @blinkdagon@qoto.org

#熱海海上花火大会 #tokyocameraclub

Every moderator you pay to reduce harassment draws a salary at the expense of your shareholders, and every catastrophe that moderator prevents is a catastrophe you can't turn into monetizable attention as gawking users flock to it.

So social media sites are always trying to optimize their mistreatment of users, mistreating them (and thus profiting from them) right up to the point where they are ready to switch, but without actually pushing them over the edge.

8/

He went to Jared
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RT @INArteCarloDoss
Funding secured
https://twitter.com/INArteCarloDoss/status/1604526436102045698

Fluffy Blue Jay, under a cold windy day. #birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdphotography #nature #winter #wildlife

Just fyi. #openinformation

we weren't religious
one day of seven we'd rest
but for the milking
cows and barn now long gone
house boards ache with memories

Pd Photos & Wrdz

#MoodyMonday #Monday #PhotoMonday #Haiku #Photography #Abandon #Building #Farm #Snow #Winter #SmallWriting #Tanka #Writing #MondayMemories
#Country #CanadianPrairie #Canada #Prairie
#Ekphrastic
#EkphrasticPoetry
#Day12
#ArtAdventCalendar

@futurebird @Doug_Bostrom Wikipedia, where I'm an admin, has long dealt with people pushing pseudoscience and other nonsense. Some of the ways it's been dealt with may be helpful, e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/FAQ#Pseudoscience

I'm also a moderator of a Facebook group, Cambridge Skeptics Discussions. We get true believers proselytising, but they usually end up getting blocked because they resort to insults, become disruptive, and won't engage in reasoned discussion, e.g. providing sources.

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like it's gigantic and destroying the town.

Abstraction
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#winterfoliage #colorado #bouldercolorado #analog #35mm #portra160 #leicaclfilm #mrokkor40mm #filmisnotdead

Birches and hoar frost. Rare and beautiful conditions this week in Cumbria. #photo #photography #landscapephotography #winter

If you’ve recently left #Twitter
for Mastodon... welcome!

Here are some things you should know about security and privacy on Mastodon.

https://grahamcluley.com/mastodon-what-you-need-to-know-for-your-security-and-privacy/

(Please boost/reshare if you think a #TwitterRefugee would benefit from this. Thanks!)

Awesome Collection of #computerscience references, mainly related to #programming #languages. Some of the texts can be found inside the #digital #library of the #acm and, as one might imagine, there are gems that are worth reading. I specially recommend the Axiomatic Basis for #computer #programming by #Hoare and The next 700 programming languages by Landin.

[202212142246 Great Works in Programming Languages](https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWorksInPL.shtml)

The speed of light visualized on a cosmic scale.

Credit: @Physicsj

I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

The "Weird Old Book Finder"

Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/

Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just *start readin'*

Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

A longer essay on how/why I developed it: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4

This was a search for "mastodon"

Stifford Estate, Stepney Green, 1961 (credit: David Granick)
#architecture #townplanning

宝宝保持这个姿势半小时了

昨夜一枝开

Entrance to a turbine hall in an abandoned power plant
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/richmond-power-station

#abandoned #art #photography #industrial #history

A hallway connecting the administration building of Hudson River State Hospital to one of the wards
Explore the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/hudson-river-state-hospital

#art #photography #abandoned