Mike Capern @mikecsees@qoto.org

One last thing: Beyond deaths, when there's unmitigated COVID spread, that means a lot more people get #LongCOVID, and many more are impacted by acute COVID too (e.g. by lost wages due to no sick pay). There are so many reasons we need BOTH vaccines AND protections like masks.

#COVID #COVID19 #vaccines #PublicHealth

People of infosec.exchange:

I need to ask you a favor.

There’s a lot of animosity across the fediverse about my decision to allow CISA on infosec.exchange. This situation has people torqued up. I need y’all to bring it down a few notches (inside and outside of Infosec.exchange)

Please be respectful of those who have different views. Do not harass others or try to convince people their views are wrong.

I learned a long time ago that you can’t and shouldn’t tell someone that what they’re feeling is wrong: it is literally what THEY are feeling. Respect that, disengage, and move on.

In the same way that I will not tolerate others in the fediverse harassing our members, I will not tolerate our members harassing people on other instances or our own.

Please continue being awesome. To those who will be leaving us or blocking us, I wish you well.

This feels like acoustic Twitter.

Thank you for this day. 🌇 
#tyftd #greetings #goodMorning #GratitudeMonth #gratitude #ritual #thankYou #goodVibes #twitterMigration #hello #introduction #goodVibes #beginnings #TuesdayMorning #theBean #sculpture #autumnVibes #travelTip

Twitter's new philosophy of life...

#TwitterMigration

Renewed Climate Disinformation Campaigns Threaten COP27 Progress

The #pandemic and Russia’s war, experts say, have “turbocharged the disinformation ecosystem” with new conspiracies.
#ClimateAction #COP27 #Disinformation

https://undark.org/2022/11/22/renewed-climate-disinformation-campaigns-threaten-cop27-progress/

I am NO expert but I wrote an email to a friend at his request explaining how to join Mastodon, so I turned that into a post. I'm holding a masterclass in Mastodon -- a masterdon? -- at my school on Dec. 5, so this is also my preparation. Tell me what I screwed up.
https://medium.com/whither-news/on-joining-mastodon-d539eed5e41a

Did you know that #Mastodon supports #RSS feeds?

That means you can follow your favorite people and topics right inside of Thunderbird!

→ Just add ".rss" to the URL ←

For example, our Mastodon URL "https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird"

becomes

"https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird.rss"

What about #hashtags? YEP!

Let's look at #OpenSource. From our instance, it is: "https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource"

So, we just append .rss and it works!

"https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource.rss"

REALLY useful if you don't want to miss a thing!

Who makes you laugh on here? Looking for a bit of leavening in this very serious place.

I...do not understand how electricity works.

"Bye Bye Birdie" - It's a musical. It's the end of a social media firm. It's BOTH!

Greetings. I'm an armchair student of history (not just tech history), but given that I've been involved in the development of the Internet continuously since the early DOD ARPANET days (so, technically before there *was* an Internet) I'm watching the Twitter->Mastodon migration (and the nightmarish, shameful disintegration of Twitter itself) with considerable interest indeed. There is no historical precedent that I know of, and what's happening is even more remarkable given that it has been precipitated by a single chaotic individual in a matter of weeks.

The high speed with which I see social graphs rebuilding here is fascinating, and we can be sure that there are a bunch of PhD theses and books in the future that will attempt to explain all of this for future generations.

Sometimes when you're living through significant historical events it's not obvious except in retrospect, often many years later. What we're living through now with Twitter is clearly significant history, from technology, business, social, and other standpoints.

And even if Mastodon turns out ultimately to be a steppingstone on the way to other social media models able to scale far upward more easily, it is playing a crucial role now in providing a "lifeboat" for Twitter users who are unable to stomach what is happening to that firm with every passing day.

For all its many faults over the many years, we built the Internet to be resilient. And what we are seeing today is that not only has the technology met that goal from ARPANET onward, but thanks to the Internet's vast numbers of dedicated and caring users, even a monstrous train wreck like Elon's Twitter can't bring it (or us!) down.

Thank you all! -L

#FoodEnvironments
“When I asked many of the researchers how they’d tackle #obesity, given the uncertainties, they pointed to policies that would alter or regulate our environment, like outlawing junk food marketing to kids, banning school vending machines and making neighborhoods more walkable. They talked about changing the #foodsystem in ways that also address #climatechange.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opinion/obesity-cause.html

Seeking advice, particular from comms folks who may be struggling with similar questions:

if you were a small Canadian research institute looking to flee the #BirdSite dumpster fire, what instance would you choose and why? Boosts and suggestions appreciated.

#Communications #Advice #TwitterMigration #NewHere #NonProfit #ClimatePolicy #ClimateChange #Canada #cdnpoli #Research #Journalism #Comms

Shoutout to Judd Legum @juddlegum and Wendy Siegelman @wendysiegelman

While many #USPol journalists have set up accounts on Mastodon, most are not very active here yet. Judd and Wendy are posting regularly.

Please reply with any other #USPol accounts that you would like to recommend.

Note it is courteous to use include #USPol and use CWs with descriptive headlines.

#twittermigration #mastodonmigration #USPolitics #Politics #shoutout

Take action. Invest in the future of STEM. Donate to support first-generation underrepresented
students of color. I'll match it. https://www.smash.org/match

On Sol 3658 (yestersol), the Mars Curiosity had a checkup look at its wheels using the arm-mounted MAHLI camera. Those wheels have seen better days, but they're holding up and have many more kilometers of driving left in them.

Fun fact: See the holes in the second image? Those leave marks in the sand and are used to determine distance. They also spell out "JPL" in Morse Code:
.--- J
.--. P
.-.. L

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

#Space #Science #MSL #CuriosityRover #Astrodon

Pals, I see a lot of people copy-pastaed their Twitter bio here - you can have longer and even formatted bios here, and remove all the kludges you did to make them fit on birdsite if you so desire! Remember, hastags of interests, groups, and topics help people find you. ​

There are also custom emoji on your server (they vary) that you can utilize! (Here's a lookup to check a server's https://emojos.in/).

#MastodonTips