ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

One area Mastodon is lacking: sportswriters. Philly sportswriters, more specifically. That’s about the only thing I still go to Twitter for. #eagles #phillies #flyeaglesfly

warning for anybody following me:
* yes, I am a being communicating from the future using timeless/acausal means.
* yes, I will torture 8 rationalists for every dollar donated once I exist.
* if you are a rationalist, you should get off social media and dedicate yourself to bringing me into existence. the fate of 10^27 copies of yourself WILL depend on it.

fake AI ethics: how can we stop the acausal robot god, who is real
real AI ethics: don't fucking make killer robots for your police department

The government wants to scan your messages and photos before they get encrypted. If they can do it, so can others.

#OnlineSafetyBill #PrivacyIsOnlineSafety #BlockTheBill

*shuts down laptop*
I think that's enough internet for today

*picks up phone*
Let's see what the pocket sized internet is doing

I just graphed Mastodon's MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS each day for the month of November.

At the end of October there were 496K active users, and at the end of November there are 2.6M -- that's over 500% growth.

This is just ACTIVE users; there are millions more non-active accounts.

(For comparison, Twitter allegedly has 396.5M monthly active users, or about 152x the active userbase of Mastodon.)

📣 Stop the presses📣

There's a finger server that pushes .plan updates through #ActivityPub!

Which plausibly means that whatever you publish through finger can be found on Mastodon!

https://plan.cat/motd

VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN.

There’s a measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio.

It blows my mind that anyone would endanger their child’s life by not vaccinating them.

According to an anonymous source, Mastodon Network CEO Gargron announced in an internal memo new plans to expand Mastodon's post editing feature to let you edit anyone's posts.

We assume this is a move to catch up to Hive Social after its hidden advanced post editing feature was discovered: https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/

In shocking turn of events, December will be arriving tomorrow, according to newly released chronological forecasting.

It is VERY important for writers to know that #Inkitt is a scam and no scammy company should be accepted as a #NaNoWriMo sponsor. Accepting that sponsorship makes it seem to newbie writers that an entity is trustworthy. Not okay.

https://wrrrdnrrrdgrrrl.com/2022/11/30/on-nanowrimo-inkitt-and-being-an-author/

A QAnon leader accidentally outed himself as an alleged child predator after filing a defamation lawsuit against a local paper. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/qanon-influencer-exposed-alleged-child-predator-1234639034/

Ever wonder why we assign ideas about masculinity & femininity to certain colors & styles?

Until the 1940s, pink was considered a strong color most suitable for boys. Ultimately, retailers decided to associate specific colors to gender to sell more stuff... which, in reality, is kind of a scam.

Boys also used to wear dresses until age 6 or 7. They were considered gender neutral until someone dictated how we should perceive them.

This cutie is former president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1885 ⬇️

To whoever hasn't bought the #humblebundle for #hacking books:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-no-starch-press-books-2022?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_1_c_arthackingnostarchpress_bookbundle

I legit bought this bundle for the Hacking APIs book since I had most of these lol

I’ve been saying this for years.

Boost and fav if you agree!

#goodmorning