ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

People/Society: How are you cynical & positive at the same time?
Me: How does nature operate? With adapting to unexpected conditions, when conditions are through no fault of their own.
People/Society: How do you keep believing anything you do, will make any difference?
Me: I never know. All I know is, I gotta try to do something & that means a lot. We've saved hundreds of hectares in past. I can't give up.
People/society: Why?
Me: I don't break lifetime promises. This is the hill I'll die on.

A wild story with copyright and academic publishing implications: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

The folks of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are in real trouble. We can help.

https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/thousands-trapped-on-pine-ridge-burn-clothes-for-warmth-in-wake-of-storm/article_94206351-fe7c-5c97-8370-83be18af81a8.html

Friends Of Pine Ridge and First Families Now are providing supplies and heating to the affected families.

If you can afford it, you can donate here:
https://www.1stfamiliesnow.org/donate

And for everyone who boosts this post, I'll add another dollar to my next donation. So, uh, go wild.

This year:
Nobody freezes.
Nobody starves.
Nobody goes it alone.

Donate to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation families.
#StormElliott #PineRidge #NativeAmerica #NativeAmericans
https://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/organizations/organizations-firstfamiliesnow/

Twitter was a shithole before Elon Musk. Twitter is a shithole during Elon Musk. And Twitter will be shithole after Elon Musk.

The goal of the fediverse has not been (nor should it be) to recreate some version or other of a shithole.

It can be (and is) so much more.

#fediverse #twitter #elonMusk #mastodon

Ubuntu's owner, Canonical, to go public (see cite below). apparently not to raise money, so why? so shareholders can get money out? but then it can be purchased by another company.

So much of the open world, depends on ubuntu....

What do you think?

"The head of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, claims it recorded a profit of US$175 million (A$237.7 million) in 2021 and is likely to undertake an IPO in 2023."

https://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/canonical-may-go-public-in-2023,-claims-us$175m-profit-last-year.html

Parents sacrificing their children’s health to the false god of Republican ideology. A special place in hell for these parents.

“Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/

no regrets

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/style/twitter-elon-musk-sasha-solomon.html

There are many people on Mastodon who are good and smart and cool and who genuinely care about marginalized communities. There are also many of those same people who, for whatever reason, don't add #AltText (aka "captions") to the images they post.

Let's change that!

It's easier to do than it seems, and there are tools like @PleaseCaption that will remind you. Plus more people will get to enjoy your posts and some users will only boost image posts that include alt text.

he tweeted this and got a search ban within 20 minutes. his name doesn't even appear in the search listings if you type his username. he has 1.2 million followers

@AriCohn “I said ‘Jew-ish’, not ‘Jewish’” would once have been career-ending, because once we all pretended that candidate virtues mattered, but now it’s acknowledged openly that voters do not care about intelligence, honesty, or competence, just party affiliation, and there’s no reason to resign, no matter how many gaffes you make, because the people who vote for you don’t care, and the people who don’t vote for you don’t matter.

If the House of Representatives' new Republican majority doesn't toss George Santos -- epic liar and right-wing extremist -- out on his ear, it will be right on brand.

Elon Musk - the owner of Twitter with the largest following on Twitter - is boosting an enduring Russian propaganda & disinformation campaign into nearly all Twitter feeds tonight.

@mathlover proof dictator counties are just plain isolated. Not a clue of what’s going on in America. Fkn idiots.

If we could stop referring to people trying to deliberately cut power to thousands of people in the middle of a nationwide cold snap as "vandals" or "burglars" that'd be great.

They're terrorists. If another country did that, we'd call it an act of war.

The New York Times' relentless normalization of sociopaths has reached a peak.

"In the U.S., Sam Bankman-Fried is persona non grata. But in interviews across the Bahamas, residents say that his crimes were hardly comparable to the gang violence of the island, and expressed fears of economic fallout if crypto investors don't return."

This is NOT from the Onion, though it should be.

(No link from me, for obvious reasons...)

OFFS. Dumb Russians. 🇺🇸
I need a #birthcertificate. #screenshot
#elonmusk

Jo Brand (a former nurse) is RIGHT - the #NHS, which we, our parents, grandparents and great grandparents built over 75 years, is in real danger of being culled and the corpse sold to predators

The only way to keep it is get rid of the Tories - and KEEP them out!

https://medium.com/p/542a1360a472

@WillBlackWriter Do not allow them to eviscerate your #NHS to then say they need #privatization to “restore” services. They will make you pay a HUGE amount of your income for #healthcare and strangle #providers with pitiful payments. All the cost “savings” will go to #corporate #entities that will pay greatly reduced #taxes on it.

@killyourfm @est existing Mastodon will probably prove more durable than Usenet or IRC were, and they lasted quite a long time in the face of corporate pressure.