MrQuindazzi @mrquindazzi@qoto.org
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men,—the balance wheel of the social machinery.... I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich: it prevents being poor.”
—Horace Mann, Twelfth Annual Report of Horace Mann as Secretary of Massachusetts State Board of Education, 1848
Joined Nov 2022
Closet analog I can see is John McAffee
After changing his name to Howard Hughes. Because he can. RT @StableGeniusLib@twitter.com We are only a few months away from seeing a disheveled E...
MrQuindazzi
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After changing his name to Howard Hughes. Because he can.
RT @StableGeniusLib@twitter.com
We are only a few months away from seeing a disheveled Elon Musk wandering around the Bay Area offering to draw blue check marks on people with a sharpie for $8
Can't really bring myself to log into Twitter.
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One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.
That there are systemic traps that trap worker in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.
MrQuindazzi
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Going forward, all tweets advocating two spaces after a period will result in temporarily losing verified account privileges.
MrQuindazzi
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University professor; writer; speaker. #Design, #UX, #IT, #communication, #publicPolicy, #agriculture, #NaturalResources, #economics
Home: #greaterSeattle via #Geòrgia, #Virginia and #Pennsylvania (with a summer in #Oslo and two in #DC)
Politics: #VoteBlue
Soapboxes:
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#DisInfo
#Elections
#JournalisticMalpractice
#MediaCriticism
Next: thread of #Mastodon #tips as part of #twittermigration
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I've spent over 15 years building a Twitter network of real value to me.
The changes are actively hostile, destructive, & undermine the premise of the entire system. They take away my investment. Your investment too.
Of *course* the user base is angry.
(good 🧵 from @mmasnick)
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RT @mmasnick
@davekarpf But, instead of taking that fairly straightforward path, which really might have gone over well (I keep noting I'd sign up for Blue if…
https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1588789384878657537
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p.s. By the way, a lot of the servers on https://joinmastodon.org/servers say "get on waitlist" but this phrasing is misleading.
A lot of these servers don't have a waitlist at all and will accept you pretty quickly, within a few hours in some cases. It's just the server admin is screening out spammers by switching on the "why do you want to join?" form, because spambots find this form harder to cope with.
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Some real folks to follow when getting started:
@murshedz
@anildash
@jentaub
@cruickshank
@Gargron
@FediFollows
@JamesGleick
@karin
@WhoIsLisaBirnbach
@lolgop
@popehat
Student free speech question if you are so inclined.Dress code prohibits obscenities. Student has a shirt that expresses approbation of a certain political figure, but no swears. Same piece of clothing has the acronym "FPF" where the initials clearly refer to the political figure. Tinker, Morse, and Mahanoy seem to say it can be prohibited. Care to offer an opinion?
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@Popehat Student free speech question if you are so inclined.Dress code prohibits obscenities. Student has a shirt that expresses approbation of a certain political figure, but no swears. Same piece of clothing has the acronym "FPF" where the initials clearly refer to the political figure. Tinker, Morse, and Mahanoy seem to say it can be prohibited. Care to offer an opinion?
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men,—the balance wheel of the social machinery.... I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich: it prevents being poor.”
—Horace Mann, Twelfth Annual Report of Horace Mann as Secretary of Massachusetts State Board of Education, 1848
Joined Nov 2022
