There's a new academic search engine out there called Scinapse.
Tagline: "We're better than Google Scholar. We mean it."
More strange Mastodon reporting. This time from @thurrott, who claims "I’ve been using Mastodon since December, but the interaction there is almost non-existent compared to Twitter."
Dude, you follow 22 people. Try following more people. The "non-existent" interaction is *up to you*.
I've found WAY MORE interactions and engagement here than I ever had on Twitter. Plus fewer death threats.
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/social/279094/mastodon-continues-to-lose-users
Is "quiet quitting Twitter" really a thing? If so, I assume it's frowned upon. Although unintentional, maybe that's what I did.
The abuse being dealt out to people who announced they were leaving only got worse when they returned after making said announcement.
It was tough. It still is, but I miss my friends.
If you're ever in need of a rabbit hole in which to lose yourself, I highly recommend PBS's "Blank on Blank" clips on Youtube - fun animation set to fascinating audio interviews with various icons and luminaries. For example, enjoy some Rod Serling!
https://youtu.be/7ywWdT6IL3o
Prune MREs
7 abortion providers are ready to switch to misoprostol-only medication abortions if a judge bans the main abortion pill, mifepristone, nationwide. That ruling could happen as soon as this Friday.
Pretty much everything that Team "you're overreacting" insisted would never happen after Dobbs is, in fact, happening. It's almost as if they were not arguing in good faith this whole time.
https://jezebel.com/mifepristone-ban-misoprostol-only-abortions-in-the-us-1850083070
I keep seeing articles about Mastodon slumps, and journalists going back to Twitter. Is it fair to say, that maybe Mastodon isn't for journalists, or brands, or even people who want large accounts? Maybe Mastodon is true social media, for people who want to interact and discuss, not be influenced, sold to, or manipulated with cult style tactics and followings. There will always be groups who dislike the idea of the people controlling their own inputs, people who don't like the idea of accessible Administration, and people who don't like the idea that if we don't like a space that we can just move to another one, or even create our own. Individualism is scary to the kind of people who thrive on complacency, and not challenging the status quo.
Just installed a utility that locally indexes your Apple Photos and gives outstanding textual image search capabilities.
Here is a search for “kids at the beach” in Apple Photos native search (left, zero results) vs the same search in "Queryable" on the right (lots of accurate results).
This is all local and private!
App store link (runs on macOS, iPadOS, iOS): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/queryable/id1661598353
...lucky charms
I can't help pushing, or bumping into, big red buttons.
Could explain my marital status.