They're after me... @frickinLasers@qoto.org

LinkedIn is social media the same way that thing with cake in the conference room last Friday was a “party.”


#LinkedIn #SocialMedia

I set a 90-day timer on all of my posts and wrote a macro so that they’ll auto-edit and be replaced with sequential segments of the Alf erotic fanfiction I started writing when I was twelve, so start preparing for Mastodon to get REALLY weird.

Anything by REM
#HashtagGames​
#SongsOrMoviesAboutSleepwalking

Somnambulists Like It Hot

#SongsOrMoviesAboutSleepWalking
#HashtagGames

The worst part about sneezing is losing the food in your mouth.

Twitter, which recently suspended my account and the accounts of several other journalists, allows verified accounts to post recruitment videos urging American soldiers to join Russia's Wagner Group PMC, which is designated as a transnational criminal organization by the US government.

THIS.

The Globus INK (1967) is a remarkable piece of Soviet spacecraft equipment. Its rotating globe showed cosmonauts the position of their Soyuz spacecraft. An electromechanical analog computer, it used gears, cams, and differentials to compute the position. Let's look inside 🧵

Pollsters, pundits and politicians all get it wrong when it comes to independent voters, who they assume mainly are partisans of one party or another.

New data shows these swing voters really do swing, depending on the candidates on the ballot and the issues they care most about at that election https://theconversation.com/independent-voters-can-be-decisive-in-elections-but-theyre-pretty-unpredictable-not-shadow-partisans-196618 #News #uspolitics

View from the inside of a cello (photographer unknown).

Apparently, advertisers do not try to sell to Gen X, because Gen X will automatically refuse to buy anything that is targeted to them.

I sort of want to be offended by it ... but not really.

Huh.

Consumer Reports (CR) has released a mobile app (iOS, Android on the way) that shows what data companies collect about you, then allows you to have CR get the data deleted:

https://www.permissionslipcr.com

Essentially, CR will act as the data ombudsman for anyone who asks them to. I love it.

CR is a non-profit that accepts no advertising or corporate sponsorship, and they have a great reputation. It's a superb choice to take on the data capitalists.

#privacy

Be nice. Maybe don’t lick his butt
- me coaching one of my cats on how to get along with the other one

Am I good at social media? No. But am I good at making lasting, meaningful relationships with people in real life? Also, no

Who needs a chip clip when you can just eat the whole fucking bag.

Honoring Tyre Nichols as he lived, enjoying the things he loved, before the world watches a video of his murder. 💔❤️🛹 #TyreNichols #skate #BadBrains

A word— It’s not lost on me how quickly the attempt to bring these Black officers to justice is occurring. Isn’t it interesting that the police union isn’t shielding them for once? There’s no let’s wait & get all the facts. This needs to happen, but there’s a profound difference.

Today I woke up an optimist.

He thanked me.

I’m so glad that the Fediverse has become a thing.

Because I’m convinced that Big Social will soon be primarily for chat bots talking to relevancy algorithms.

Pretty much, it will be ChatGPT optimizing “content” for Twitter’s home feed.

The traffic will likewise be artificial.

Just “impressions” made to convince bots that their tweets are “optimized”.

Have we tried exploding other foods to see if they are drastically improved by the process, or did we just stop with corn?