.brian @brianpm@qoto.org

A nice visualization and explanation of some economically relevant math: https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/

Make note that while we are in the process of building a Black community on Mastodon, if it ever becomes sustained it's not going to be because it happened naturally, it's going to be because we fought for it.

Fun fact: the MP3 file format is as old today as 8-track tapes were when MP3 was invented

Sandy Hook happened 10 years ago today. At the time, people said "how many more children have to die before we do something to stop the killing?"

The answer: 25,000

25,000 children killed by guns in America in the last decade.

And still virtually nothing has been done.

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Made Blackbird public: https://github.com/marcoarment/Blackbird

It’s still VERY EARLY. Nobody should be using it more than I do, and I've barely used it.

The API might change dramatically at any time. Really, don't build anything against this yet.

1989 #MovieBowl CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Politico put it this way:

"The former president and the person that polls show is still the most likely GOP presidential nominee in 2024, today on Truth Social called for the suspension of the Constitution."

This poses a problem for journalists who would cover the 2024 election. By what logic can that coverage proceed?

Neutrality makes sense only within a constitutional order that his candidacy is trying to upend. "Just report the news" pretends this will be a normal campaign.

#journalism

Ever consider tremendously overengineering a simple idea? Well if happens to be an On Air sign for your office/podcast studio, boy, do I have you covered. https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/11/creating-a-smart-on-air-sign-with-an-e-ink-display/

@charlesesmith @atpfm I think a path forward is ActivityPub as a common protocol. It has some room to evolve to be more network efficient to scale well first. But if Tumblr, Flickr, Micro.blog, Mastodon, and others adopt a common protocol we can build out a post sharing ecosystem. Nb: this doesn’t solve content moderation or legal liabilities. This is where companies come in—providing that value atop a common protocol. (Like email providers and spam filtering sort of)

Arrhenius

▶️ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/climate-change-from-a-to-z

@elizkolbert

"Our descendants would live happier lives “under a warmer sky.” The prospect was, in any event, distant; doubling atmospheric CO2 would, he reckoned, take humanity three thousand years.

It’s easy now to poke fun at #Arrhenius. The doubling threshold could be reached within decades, and the results are apt to be disastrous. But who among us is any different? Here we all are, watching things fall apart. And yet, deep down, we don’t believe it."