⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

You and your friends hold each other hostage on social media because you can't all agree on when to quit and where to go. #Interoperability guarantees the #RightToExit:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first

I'm not planning to leave Twitter at the moment, but I'd say in the last couple of weeks I've reached the point where if I was not on Twitter, I would not miss it all that much. Thanks to Mastodon and other services, what Twitter gives me as a user is replaceable. If that's true of me, it's true of others. That should scare Elon Musk a whole lot.

@cstross I want to see a cage match between the Fermi paradox and the Drake equation.

I’m not sure destroying people’s access to WhatsApp will render the Government entirely popular https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/08/whatsapp-could-disappear-uk-over-privacy-concerns-ministers-told

Why a man worth over £700 million is doing a job worth £164k

Yes it’s true, we’ve taken down the main gateway.

Will put up a message on the website with more details today https://moaparty.com

'The danger of continuing to use the term “artificial intelligence” is that it risks convincing us that the world runs on a singular logic: that of highly cognitive, cold-blooded rationalism. Many in Silicon Valley already believe that – and they are busy rebuilding the world informed by that belief.' #aiaiai
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/30/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-human-mind

Watching Time Team.

Phil's just stuck in a trench to try and find a Tory council. Geophys swear it's there, but nobody believes them.

@mattblaze
FWIW, this is actually how Wil Wheaton (formerly on @wilw) was driven off the Fediverse
https://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/the-world-is-a-terrible-place-right-now-and-thats-largely-because-it-is-what-we-make-it/

I wrote a moderately detailed description of what Twitter seems to be doing for encrypted DMs. tl;dr - better than unencrypted DMs, worse than Signal or WhatsApp. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66791.html

The secret Babylon 5 project is... an animated movie - Space Station Babylon 5. | Image: Warner Bros.

It’... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23708919/babylon-5-secret-project-jms-straczynski

Camina Drummer has left an indelible mark on television.
I’ll say, that although Camina Drummer unique, I do love the tributes paid to her by other series like Star Trek SNW, or Sweet Tooth.

Thank you, TV producers, for not letting us go without Drummer in our lives even after The Expanse has ended. #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #SweetTooth #TheExpanse #ScreamingFirehawks #Beltalowda

welp, that will do it. 😅

#SLS #LaunchCost : "the operational costs alone for a single #Artemis launch—for just the #rocket, #Orion spacecraft, and ground systems—will total $4.1 billion" 💰💰💰💰 * https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/nasa-inspector-general-says-sls-costs-are-unsustainable

4.1 billion / ~100k kg = 41.000 $ / kg 🤔

* As of #NASA Inspector General Paul Martin 📆 Mar 1, 2022