ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

How to write a dystopian novel:
Write about what already happens to marginalized folks, but let it happen to white people

Some white folk like MlK for how he makes them feel: hopeful and absolved. Most Black folk like MLK for what he did for us: Voting Rights Act, shone light on injustices done to Black people.

If MLK joined Mastodon, some folks would tell him to CW his own mistreatment, then kick him off of his server, then subject him to targeted threats of violence, then when he left Mastodon to avoid abuse, would say it's because he craves followers and clout. 🤷🏿‍♂️

https://youtu.be/gfFWzacEgAI

#BlackMastodon #MLK

This music is not my cup of tea but some of you will love the blend of prog rock and folk by Scottish Jews in 1972, and we all must give them their due with the album name Moyshe McStiff And The Tartan Lancers Of The Sacred Heart, no?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE7j0MPa5lI

Fascinating and disturbing finding on how AI co-writing can influence opinion from Maurice Jakesh thesis research (h/t @natematias ). Jakesh had people write short essays using an AI tool like Google Autocomplete on whether social media was good or bad. When the tool pre-generated language supportive of social media (top bar), people were more likely to write essays with that opinion and vice versa (bottom bar).

#PeopleOnBenefits

Tax the rich?

WE ALL KNOW why Congress won't tax the rich.

WE ALL KNOW that bribery is why We the People can't get what we need. WE ALL KNOW it is corruption.

WE ALL KNOW why Congress won't stop the bribery.

It's the most obvious thing in the world.

#corruption

Northern Flicker

I ran into this bird about a week ago. All I saw was a shape moving up a tree. I didn't know what it was until I look at the photos.

"Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its main food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long, barbed tongue to lap up the ants." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #birds #NorthernFlicker

Most US folk don't know about COINTELPRO, the FBI program that targeted Black civil rights leaders for false arrest, and yes, assassination. US folks don't know this, because it's not taught in schools. But Black kids know about COINTELPRO.

Most US folk don't know what a "Black Identity Extremist" is. Again, not taught in schools. If you joined a George Floyd BLM protest, there's a good chance you were investigated as a Black Identity Extremist. Again by the FBI. Black kids know this.

See these words from @chockenberry, lead developer of Twitterific?

It's exactly what I said would happen when Elon Musk screwed over 3rd Party developers.

Twitter didn't create broad adoption of Twitter. It was 3rd party developers.

Now devs are pissed—much more than they were before.

So what will they do next?

Drive broad adoption of the Fediverse.

This isn't the only former Twitter developer making these moves. @tapbots is also making an app for the Fediverse.

Bad move, Twitter!

Historians,

I'm playing around with syllabus language to share with other faculty at my university regarding the use of AI in completing assignments. Would love your thoughts. #chatGPT #writing

Dr. Martin Luther King reminds us the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

May the wisdom of Dr. King inspire each of us to do our part in bending the world toward justice for all.

#MLK #MLKDay

It's the latest episode of HACKERverse with Craig Ellrod and yours truly.

Today we spoke with Joyous Higgins. She's had a really impressive career as a hacker, from the SOC to Blizzard. She founded Defender Academy!

@hackerverse
#infosec

https://youtu.be/K1PtDiuXPgw

Testing J Herbin Emerald of Chivor ink on different paper types, I'll border them up later.

The colours and sheen seem to come through more on the textured Fabriano mixed media 250g paper than the smoother Canson Illustration.

'Pissflaps' is with the 2.4m Pilot Parallel with the converter, it flows heavier/thicker; the others are 3.0mm parallel with a filled normal cartridge, flows lighter.

Video in next toot!

#Calligraphy #Ink

#History #Mexicanculture #Mexican

The oldest public library in the Americas is the Palafoxiana Library (Biblioteca Palafoxiana) in #Puebla, #Mexico, founded in 1646 by the then Bishop of Puebla, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (hence the name) to house his book collection. The beautiful hall of the Library was finished in 1773. The Library currently holds more than 41,000 items, including 9 incunnabula, among them a 1473 edition of the “Histories” of Herodotus.

Photo credit: Rolando White