ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

To be sure, I don't like Elon Musk either.

But his problem isn't that he's autistic. It's that he's an asshole.

Just so you also know: autistic people have largely been early adopters of the Fediverse -- we came here because Big Social could no longer be a space for us.

Believe it or not, I am everyone on the cover of Castle Risk.

Late in 1985, my dad was contracted by Parker Bros. to paint the cover for the game. I was off for Winter break from my freshman year of college, so he had me pose for *all* the figures in the painting.

#Astronomy is threatened: three quarters of major observatories affected by light pollution.

Light is polluting the #sky above most observatories and that immediate action is needed to decrease the amount of contamination coming from artificial light.

#LightPollution
https://www.ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/three-quarters-major-observatories-affected-light-pollution

The paper by Falchi et al. (2022):
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2929

I really struggled with the icing for my gingerbread barn and it accidentally became a gingerbread slaughterhouse.

While cleaning up the Lastpass mess, I discovered that, at some point, Lastpass dumped a plaintext config into the unprotected note field for all Wi-Fi Password entries.

This means that all these Wi-Fi passwords were exposed in this breach - no master password bruteforcing necessary. Has anyone else seen this behavior with Wi-Fi Password entries in Lastpass? Perhaps this is just a weird thing that only happened to me?

BLOG POST: Why the Fediverse is Revolutionary https://blog.atomicpoet.org/s/vOcINMxQd#

An explanation for what the Fediverse is, and why it's the biggest communications revolution in a generation.

This is the blog version of a thread that I made a month ago. I've compiled it into one long form article.

Sad juxtaposition in my timeline.

A post about survivors of Mariupol right next to one about survivors of Auschwitz. Both about the struggle to live under inhumane conditions.

#Ukraine
#UkraineRussiaWar
#RussiaUkraineWar
#RussianWarCrimes
#WWII #Nazis #WarCrimes

The biggest threat to democracy is not just Trump, but a Republican Party obstructing all attempts to hold anyone accountable, remaining fully committed to the quest of installing authoritarian rule by a reactionary minority. Did the Committee make that clear enough? 5/

do not boost this cat instantly

I swear to God, journalists have become so swept up in so-called "Web3" hype, that they're seeing blockchain where there is none.

To the people in the back: the Fediverse has nothing to do with cryptocurrency, tokens, coins, etc.

A mere half inch of snow has brought all package deliveries to a halt in Portland.

I spent six years living in a falling apart hunting shack in northern Wisconsin with a living room window that overlooked Lake Superior.

One of my favorite things about being there was watching storms roll in across the lake.

Extremely lucky to get this shot by waiting for the lightning to start and repeatedly mashing the shutter button.

#photography #storm #lightning #longexposure #lakesuperior #wisconsin

The Intercept's Lee Fang worked with Elon Musk on a "Twitter Files" story and used the opportunity to launch his own personal Substack, knowing his colleague at The Intercept @micahflee is still banned by Elon Musk for his factual reporting on Musk.

If Lee Fang is going to boost his own personal substack at the expense of any kind of principled solidarity with his colleagues, why should I continue my recurring donation to The Intercept? I'd rather my money go directly to Micah and Robert Mackey than to indirectly fund Fang's work - let Fang raise money on his own substack.

J.R.R. Tolkien Sent Illustrated Letters from Father Christmas to His Kids Every Year (1920-1943)

https://www.openculture.com/2021/12/j-r-r-tolkien-sent-illustrated-letters-from-father-christmas-to-his-kids-every-year-1920-1943.html

As a Union Electrician I'm basically self employed. When our job is done we call the hall, get a dispatch and go work for another contractor. I've worked with hundreds. I've never received a Christmas bonus from any except today. Thank you K and B Electrical Contractors out of #Louisville Kentucky. #IBEW #Electrician

LastPass, by being breached and almost certainly deliberately not telling their customers about this until just before Christmas needs to be nuked from orbit.

a) Class action lawsuit time. Make it hurt, hurt hurt.

b) User instructions for recovery MUST focus on migrating to either Bitwarden, 1Password, iCloud Keychain (if mac-only), or Chrome password manager (if google-only).

Hey folks, taking some inspiration from another toot. Reminder during these colder seasons -- if it's cold for you, imagine what it must be like to not have a #home in the US. There are hundreds of thousands of people in one of the wealthy nations on the plant who are at risk of these weather issues.

Local shelters are often on short supply for things like socks, underwear, underclothing, feminie hygiene products. A few bucks from you could LITERALLY save someone's life.

You want change? That's how it starts. We grow from our beginnings.

Facebook posted overnight what would be “the largest [settlement] ever achieved in a data privacy lawsuit” and “the most Facebook has ever paid.” $725mil seems large but coupled with Zuck’s SEC deposition transcript just revealed this week, it protects Zuckerberg (again). 1/5