ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

And frankly, it's amateur hour for people to play word games like saying "bird site" instead of #Twitter. If you want #Mastodon to be a true alternative for people fed up with Twitter and/or other social media sites, it's time to grow up just a little bit. If you don't like my attitude on this, please feel free to hit UNFOLLOW right now. Thanks.

Depressing how many emails I'm getting from people to whom I recently recommended #Mastodon, that are variations of "I'm having trouble getting signed up."

These are relatively skilled computer users too (some *extremely* so) -- and longtime social media users.

This really *is* a problem.

@JamesGleick @marshallproj wondering if my missing state (PA) isn't listed because they don't maintain a statewide list, of they failed to respond.
🤔

Is your book a “threat to the order and security of the institution”? The Marshall Project @marshallproj has created a database of #books banned in prisons.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/12/21/prison-banned-books-list-find-your-state

@drewharwell @caseynewton Some servers have quote toots. Just not mastodon.social.

the HarperCollins Union has now been on strike for THIRTY days with no response from management. https://linktr.ee/hcpunion

Comcast Agents Mistakenly Reject Some Poor People Who Qualify for Free Internet

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/12/21/1554232/comcast-agents-mistakenly-reject-some-poor-people-who-qualify-for-free-internet?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#business

3M says it will stop manufacturing #PFAS #foreverchemicals in 2025. But what about all the contamination already in the #environment?

Scientists are working on ways to eliminate it, but there isn’t a simple fix, as Michigan State University environmental scientists explain

https://theconversation.com/how-to-destroy-a-forever-chemical-scientists-are-discovering-ways-to-eliminate-pfas-but-this-growing-global-health-problem-isnt-going-away-soon-188965

#News

Don Jr. is basically a 24/7/365 advertisement for why we should have a massive inheritance tax.

They have a point, they do fit the requirements well.
So of course they don’t want the job.

Elon Musk is Still Silencing the Journalists he Banned from Twitter.

It looks like our accounts have been reinstated, but it's an illusion: We're actually locked out and can't post anything without deleting specific tweets the billionaire doesn't like.

This latest article embeds a Mastodon post and links to posts by @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa and @tony

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/

Guess how many Ford Pintos caught fire before they were recalled?

38 (27 deaths)

https://washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1978/05/09/fire-hazard-seen-in-2-million-pintos/98828a08-62e1-4847-a0f8-ffb5d4f4e34d/

Guess how many Teslas have caught fire? 144 (44 deaths)
https://tesla-fire.com

#Tesla

My interview with @blaine, who was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building #fediverse infrastructure that will help #Mastodon scale. https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/

Within the next 24 hours Russian losses in #Ukraine will cross the 100,000 mark.
An absolutely insane waste of human life.

Little FYI, I will NOT sell mstdn.social, masto.ai or mastodon.coffee NO MATTER WHAT.

I don't give a sh*t about money. Paying the bills is okay but that's it.

This place is much more important and no money in the world can buy that away from me

A promise I made over and over and again this time ❤️

Dear twenty-something app developers with perfect eye-sight: Stop putting tiny light grey on dark grey text. Someday you will understand.

Henrietta Lacks was a poor, Black, young mother diagnosed w cervical cancer in 1951. When her cells were collected w/o consent, scientists saw they multiplied remarkably fast.

“HeLa” cells changed #science. They’re used globally to study viruses, drugs, hormones, genes, diseases & develop vaccines. Lacks passed away at 31 w no recognition.

Rebecca Skloot’s beautiful book about her life & legacy is changing that. Now her statue will replace Robert E. Lee in NC. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/us/henrietta-lacks-statue-roanoke-virginia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #history

Centralize everyone’s authentication and you draw some serious threat actors:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oktas-source-code-stolen-after-github-repositories-hacked/

Eleanor Morton deserves to be far more popular than she is. (Check out any of her Tolkien/Lewis or Scottish Tour Guide vids). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVEQ21gUhyY