ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Moa does not exist #TerranTradeAuthority #AIArt #midjourney

me: sorry I have to go my, uh, cat is texting me

date: omg just tell me you're not interested

cat still texting: THE GOOD LITTER HAVE I MADE MYSELF CLEAR

Unrooted From Solid Truth
© Surazeus
2022 12 23

Unrooted from solid truth of the ground,
I travel for over two million years,
spreading out from the lush valley of fruit
to follow every river from the sea
till I climb every lofty mountain peak,
always searching for Heaven of my dreams.

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2022/12/unrooted-from-solid-truth.html

#Poem #Poetry #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Romanticism #MetaRomanticism #AmericanDream #Symbolism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism

Once this idea came into my head, it refused to go away until I tried it. So now you can all share in my build of "Frosty the Glowman."

It’s OK Mother Earth. That happens to me when it’s cold too.

I will have an open #internship position @AaltoUniversity on #probabilistic #circuits.

The internship will be within Aalto's #AScI program, which is an excellent opportunity! See project 4116 in the announcement below.

🔗 https://www.aalto.fi/en/aalto-science-institute-asci/asci-international-summer-research-program-2023-project-list

#MachineLearning

✨ Introducing #FediScope ✨

Discover notable (*) accounts by profession (e.g. journalists, historians, etc.), then get a Mastodon-compatible CSV file for any you want to follow.

https://eloquence.github.io/fediscope/

Tested in Chrome & Firefox desktop. No special authorization required, it all happens in your browser without logging or analytics by the tool.

Find it useful? Give it a shout-out :-)

(*) As recorded by #Wikidata.

Informative toot on procrastination coming soon.

The holidays is not a time to compromise on principles in order to appease family.

Bigotry and other such awfulness should be confronted whenever it is heard.

Family who don't respect your humanity don't deserve your company.

I just discovered there is such a thing as #Episcopagan and I am here for it.

The holidays can be a really tough time. The advice I often heard was, "Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Help others. Get out of your head." It's perfectly fine advice, but unhelpful if the mere thought of interacting with people is overwhelming. Anyway, here's a thing I did one year that did help:

I bought a Cookie Monster costume, went to the airport, and waited at arrivals with a sign that said "COOKIE"

Didn't have to talk to anyone and boy did I get to watch people's faces light up.

#introductions I don't know what I am, but I'm here.

I write a lot about feelings (especially grief) and dissolving the plutonomy. I code; I record original music; I build shelves; I pull out wisteria; I parent; I friend.

In suspended transition from 2000-2016, struggling towards transgirl since then.

I love F. Scott Fitzgerald's books about the rich and their falls from society, but watching it happen in real-time is exhausting and takes too long.

boost this cat whenever you feel like it. no rush.

time to set the Palace on fucking fire and set up a slicey boi lads

Are we clear now extreme disparities of income—and particularly subsidizing billionaires—is not great for a healthy, stable society?

My three... #BlackHair #BlackFriday #BlackJoy #BlackFediverse #BlackMastodon

Quick intro thread
I’m an anti-hatred activist who stumbled into the role by tracking down white identity extremists on Reddit, who stumbled into that by tracking down climate change deniers on Reddit.
I’m extremely passionate about social media moderation being a discipline and a profession, because the sleazeballs are definitely disciplined and professional-grade, & have been for over a century.
The Twitter-> Fediverse transition presents an inflection point in that effort.

@h_albermann @pilotmike @hankteford @eirliani @austinkocher @Mastodon and I understand that there are instances that are themed on various erotica / pornography; those are rightly left to individual instances to navigate federation or defederation. Mainly because of local laws.
There is *definitely* a need & market for legal guidance / operations rulebooks / user agreement & AUP boilerplate for jurisdictions. “Industry” groups are the model there.