ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

wow ok unfollowing now, I was a big fan of the original ship of theseus but had no idea it’s now… wait

It's 1989. I'm an assistant cameraman on a #BBC documentary in #Haiti. A boy had been trailing us for hours, wanting to help. Seemed like a nice kid. He was interested in my camera so I showed him how it worked. Then, he grabbed my camera, ran about 20 feet turned, and snapped this photo of me. He captured perfectly the look on my face, just as I realized I might never see my camera again. Then, he ran back, handed me my camera, all smiles.
Good kid. Wonder whatever became of him.

#ThrowBackThursday #Thursday #Photography #ShortStories

My fiancé has really been hit hard by the Birdsite third party app death thing. She used Twitterrific, and absolutely HATES!!!! the Twitter app experience. She mostly uses Twitter for Hockey news, and has tasked me to find hockey stuff on Mastodon.
I am *not* a sports person by any means.
So, for those who are, HELP!

In the wake of J6th, many far-Right groups are in chaos, while other newer formations are rushing to fill the void.

In the latest installment of #ThisWeekInFascism, we roundup the growing collection of neo-fascist, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi groups that have been growing over the last few months, as the far-Right mobilizes to attack the #LGBTQ community.

We also look at how antifascists have been pushing back.

https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-133/

You can't use TikTok on the University of Texas Wi-Fi. Concealed guns on campus still allowed.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tiktok-banned-university-of-texas-austin-campus-1234662400/

Then the leopard ate the transphobe's faces.

Straw bonnet with ribbon and machine-made lace, made in England, 1860. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Blue sea dragons float on the ocean's surface, a habitat that covers over 70% of our planet. Animals like this are the 'average' Earthling, we humans, living on the hard dry Earth, are the exception. If aliens had to describe life on our planet, this is what they'd see.

Big thanks to @Ravencanada for the #books recommendation!

I went with the hardback because I already knew that this is a version that I would like to refer back to for years.

Would you be interest in seeing more excerpts from this translation?

#Tao #TaoTeChing #translation #Chinese #Taoist #Philosophy

I've been collecting interesting examples of information organisation in history, focusing on non-Western civilisations. I came across this example of an ancient Mesopotamian spreadsheet! It records wages paid to temple workers in 1295 BCE.

#History #AncientHistory #Cuneiform #Mesopotamia #CognitiveHistory

I love watercolor art. What do you think? For more of this style: like...

If you Want to See more Attractive and Interesting Dachshund art Visit my Profile Bio link...

#mastodon #art #digital_art #dogs #dog #dachshund_art #photography #FollowFriday #pinting

I read through 70,000 words of Apple's privacy policy and associated guides so you don't have to.

Apple's advertising business has grown massively in recent years, with ads appearing in the App Store, News and Stocks apps. Part of this is its personalized advertising. Everything you do in the App Store is tracked, every tap of the screen and scroll of a page.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-privacy-data-collection/

#apple #wired #data #privacy #news #advertising #infosec

You see a black square representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe. This square was printed with a wood block in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica..." (1617), and is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum". Fludd's pre-universe idea was aware of its visual limits of representation in a book. That's why all directions have a "And so on to infinity" remark.

Access the page: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gbbychu2/images?id=gzy3gujm

#BookHistory #histodons

Felt like showing off this picture of My city 😌
Despite it being in the news currently, it will always be home, seeing the star in the mountain at night ⭐
#ElPaso #915
Fun fact!
We are the only city in Texas that uses the Mountain Time time zone, I think you can clearly see why 😂😂😂😂

I'm a software engineer who dabbles in AI image generation for art and fun. I also created a cute GPT2 finetune for prompt generation affectionately called Prompt Parrot. 🦜

I'm here to socialize, learn and escape the wreckage of Twitter. 😉

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKDay
#NASA

America isn’t split evenly between Liberals and Conservatives. If it was, Conservatives wouldn’t need anti-majoritarian methods like voter suppression, gerrymandering, manipulating the Electoral College, and claiming elections are rigged.