Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

americans are leaving for bluesky. they have enough of these central european wooly mammoths and their teachable moments. they want to be amongst themselves, living, loving, laughing the night away before ze bill comes. oh gott i am doing zis again am i not?

Has philosophy gone too far

Eating an incredible almond croissant that I had the foresight to buy for myself from a local bakery yesterday, and putting the FINAL copyedit touches on this bold, loud, wild paper that @anthrocypher and I are ABOUT. TO. SHARE. WITH. THE. WORLD. Stay tuned!!! 📝 🧠 🙌

Episode 128 of Oxide and Friends is up on the pod. @bcantrill got a bunch of us blogging 20 years ago with a presentation titled “Guerrilla Marketing”. I would love it if this episode inspired a few new blogs out there! https://share.transistor.fm/s/3c341973

Bye Bye Elon, bonjour journalisme indépendant ! Pour fêter votre retour massif sur Mastodon, découvrez notre travail en profitant de 3 mois d'abonnement pour 1€. L'offre est valable une semaine, mais chut il ne faut pas le dire aux autres 🤫
https://www.arretsurimages.net/?formula=offre-temporaire

Is there any decent open source weather app on Android? I don't mind throwing 2 bucks a month at Weatherbug, but I'd rather support a nonprofit/open project if there is one.

I am so excited about the migration from X that I made a whole YouTube video about what it takes to run a social media company in a responsible way.
Don't worry, I will be back to covering the normal topics and the war in Ukraine next time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8zfgIgZ4c0

The greatest trick the devil ever played was getting people to think he's a fool that's easily manipulated by others. I have no idea why this meme still persists after we've seen this dude evade major consequences for decades, shed supposed puppet masters like Steve Bannon and then win the presidency for a second time.

This is what we do 😍

Time to rebuild my follower base from Twitter on Mastodon!

I’m Vidar, founder of Street Art Utopia, curating the most inspiring street art from around the world.

Every new follower who comments here will receive a high-quality street art photo as a thank-you reply! Feel free to request a specific theme for your photo!

I got a sneak peak of IDFA’s opening night doc About a Hero which trained a LLM on Werner Herzog’s work. It wrote a true crime doc, they filmed a reenactment, cloned Herzog’s voice to narrate it, & featured experts. My convo w the creators on their process
https://voicesofvr.com/1493-about-a-hero-doc-written-by-ai-trained-on-werner-herzog-corpus-blends-realities-and-opens-idfa/

"scientists don't care about technology and politics if they aren't on the fediverse" for absolute FUCK'S sake, yeah I'm going to log on after a long day of organizing a faculty undocumented student defense league, organizing geneticists doing vocal group pushbacks on scientific racism and then getting doxxed and harassed and threatened, being an expert witness about funding in public schools or vaccines & then threatened by the public, and like, learn about Linux or something

So, this needs to be said: two weeks ago something happened that made me proud to be Belgian. THREAD!

Here's the story. A friend – I will call her Caroline – got in touch after a silence of several years. We used to work together back in the day, and had become sort-of-friends. We had stayed in touch through a common friend, who, like me, lives in Brussels. Caroline herself, who lived in the US when we worked together, was now back to France.

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Full post: http://www.cottica.net/2024/11/15/a-system-working-as-intended-appreciation-for-the-belgian-authorities-in-charge-of-asylum-applications/

#Belgium

Shoutout to @nlnet ❤️

I'm working on finalizing the @loops grant and once that is ready, I will be able to get paid for my development of #loops

Who makes bank? You, the fediverse.

Thanks to @nlnet, you will have a viable open source federated TikTok alternative.

So go remind your political representatives to support NGI/NLnet funding if you live in the EU!

Spread the word + please boosties 🚀

#loops

You all, this is the clearest and most accurate explanation on how to move from twitter to #Mastodon that I have seen in a while.👌

Please share it with all your friends who are still on Twitter:
https://quantixed.org/2024/08/14/exodus-moving-to-mastodon/

From @steveroyle, originally shared by @manisha here:
https://neuromatch.social/@manisha/113476870442684560

#SocialMedia #Twitter #TwitterMigration

I got to experience the rise of the nationalist and right-wing populist Swiss People's Party during my time living there. I saw them become the strongest party in 1999, then become the most powerful party in the National Council in 2007.

The party agitated for more restrictions on immigrants and against leftists and radicals to great success. Rates of naturalization peaked in 2006, despite significant and important rates of immigration, particular to urban areas of the country. It was and remains a challenging situation for many targeted communities.

I know a lot of European countries have experienced similar political shifts and I also suspect the second Trump administration will look at what's worked there and try to replicate it.