Mike Capern @mikecsees@qoto.org

Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th.
New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.
https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=42842&lang=en

Holy moly. This is gonna be a time sink of massive dimensions. Much of the Boston Public Library's vinyl collection digitized on archive.org

Lots of stuff you know and lots more you don't.

https://archive.org/details/vinyl_bostonpubliclibrary

#music #publiclibrary #vinyl #archiveorg

"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide...'

—@adamdavidson

I made Thanksgiving dinner and now the kids are crying and I'm not allowed to help anymore

The collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and its affiliated businesses has left a million creditors holding the bag for a chaotically managed, corrupt enterprise that created vast personal fortunes for the conspirators who ran it, even as it stole the life's savings of retail investors who bought into its lies.

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Looks like the NIH has set up a new website so that people in the US can finally report home test results: https://makemytestcount.org/

Hopefully these results will be made public soon, and are factored into policymaking, as current data may be undercounting by as much as 20x.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

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