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My least favourite sharp edge of Mastodon is the fact that when you view someone else's post you only see replies to it that are known to your server - so there's actually a good chance there will be relies that are completely invivible to you, especially if you run your own instance

I'd love it if tapping a post kicked off a request back to the original server that fetched the current reply count, and provided a "view all replies" button if there were replies not yet visible to me

I’m an author and journalist, hopeful about the #TwitterMigration.

I write about science and technology and their cultural effects. My books include Chaos, The Information, and Time Travel, as well as biographies of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton.

I’m working on a history of the telephone.

#Introduction #authors #science #technology #Feynman #Newton #TimeTravel #Chaos #telephone

German nation-wide emergency alert exercise message delivered via UnifiedPush as KDE Plasma desktop notification, within a minute of the cell broadcast :) #kde #unifiedpush

We just published a guest blog post on F-Droid!

You can find it here: https://f-droid.org/fr/2022/12/18/unifiedpush.html

Thanks @fdroidorg !

#UnifiedPush #FDroid

A castle in Italy has braille etched in the railing that describes the view for blind people🤎

I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”

I wrote a blog post about the progress we’ve been making on the Block Protocol. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2022/12/19/progress-on-the-block-protocol/ What is it? Why do we need it? We’re also announcing a Wordpress plugin that makes it easy to insert Block Protocol blocks into Wordpress posts.

Hi, I am a theoretical physicist working in #statisticalphysics of disordered systems, #machinelearning, #informationtheory etc.. Interested in #science, #littérature (mostly in French, but also in English and Italian), #classicalmusic. I have been working on quite a few different topics, my two books "Spin glass theory and beyond", written with G. Parisi and M.A.Virasoro and "Information, Physics and Computation", written with A. Montanari, give some partial idea of my center of interest

The new whiteboard feature of #Logseq looks nice but it won’t be a replacement for the #Excalidraw integration, which is still very buggy that it is almost unusable. We really need a good way for quickly drawing some shapes with arrows and lines between them.
@logseq

Opinions from #ToolsForThought folk desired:

Many of the recent spate of PKM tools are outliners or at least very graph oriented.

What impact do you suppose this has on getting to the narrative, story, or even gestalt of a thing?

I sometimes worry that outlines are great at facts and deduction but less great at tales, induction, intuition.

Thoughts?