Greg Spradlin @spradlig@qoto.org

MILITARY: Can we have $820 billion?

CONGRESS: Here’s $858 billion.

THIRD GRADER: Um, can I have some pencils?

CONGRESS: Heh heh. No.

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

On this day in 1986, Elie Wiesel delivered his timeless Nobel Prize acceptance speech https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/10/elie-wiesel-nobel-prize-speech/

Glad I moved to mastodon. #Twitter is relaunching its Blue service on Dec 12. $12 on a troll infested site. No Thanks!

Folks: Elon Musk is now targeting MeidasTouch on Twitter. It’s more important than ever that we grow our platform here on Mastodon. Please consider boosting this post and telling everyone you know to follow us. Thank you for your support!

Activity on mathstodon.xyz is growing. We’re looking for a few people to help handle moderation reports. We had about 50 reports last month.
We’re only looking for help with the easy stuff - spammers, hate speech, etc.
We are particularly looking for different perspectives: non-UK timezone, protected characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality different to ours.
If we know you, and you trust yourself to keep your cool, and you’d like to help, please get in touch.

cc @ColinTheMathmo

T-Rump Org is a Big Loser!
Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg is celebrating a win on all 17 counts against Trump Org, but only his fall guys are paying the price, so far.
Weisselberg is still on the payroll, gets a $500K bonus from Trump Org, and made a deal with the court, to serve only 5 months prison time, and 5 years probation, contingent upon his truthful testimony in court.

These 17 convictions still leave Trump out of reach for the time being, but more indictments are expected to come.

If Musk gave Taibbi and Weiss access to users' private messages --that is, access to other people's DMs -- it's a flagrant violation of privacy promises, and should cost Musk and his investors a ton of money in damages.

This also gels well with my group's research:

"#Mastodon’s traffic increased by 1.4 million in November, a 588% increase in just a month, figures show...going from 1.4 million to 9.5 million in just a month as the ongoing Elon Musk Twitter overhaul sees users and advertisers seek alternative platforms.

Google Trends data also reveals that worldwide searches for ‘Twitter alternative’ soared 504 per cent in November to an all-time high."

#TwitterMigration

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/mastodon-sees-traffic-soar-by-588-following-musks-twitter-takeover-340236/

The Continuity of Splines is now on YouTube!!

it has been a year in the making, goodness ;-;🎉 I hope you'll like it ❤

❱ https://youtu.be/jvPPXbo87ds

Have you ever seen an oak tree dance?

Britain is full of 'lost' rainforests, predominantly in the southwest and northwest of England, west Wales and the west coast of Scotland. There are other areas where the conditions are perfect too, like this one in the Peak District National Park.

When the rain starts and the cloud base drops into the rainforest, the trees come alive. Everywhere you look, there is magic and mystery.

#photography #woodland #trees #rainforest

Hello: has any scientist on here abandoned Twitter for Mastodon entirely? I’m looking to speak to you for a story I’m writing

from @micahflee, about twitter's recent ban of antifascist activist @chadloder.

elon specifically asked andy ngo to send him "antifa accounts" that should be suspended. chad loder was banned shortly after. ngo had previously tried to have loder suspended from twitter, and had even become involved in a legal battle to try to force them to stop reporting on a January 6 insurrectionist.

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/

Hi friends: We are a pro-democracy organization doing everything in our power to defeat fascism in America. We currently have 12K followers on the platform. Help us grow by BOOSTING this post and telling everyone you know to give us a follow!

Helio is a libre music sequencer designed to help the composer focus on the notes. It runs on all major platforms, including Android! You can compose on the go, and export MIDI files to turn the sketches into full-blown pieces later!
https://github.com/helio-fm/helio-workstation
#MusicProduction #LibreAudio #FOSSaudio #MusicComposition #MIDI #Sequencer #Helio #Android

@marcelias As folks will tell you, put your mastodon address in your Twitter bio and the programs -- debirdify, movetodon -- will find you. Also, I'd actively promote on Twitter the wonderful time you're having here. Convince them it's not hard. I hope this might be helpful to your friends there. https://medium.com/whither-news/on-joining-mastodon-d539eed5e41a

Savoring the last few hours of a long weekend and mildly annoyed with illustrator precision and browser-aliasing issues

@Gal_suburban
Without the cooperation of the #Pentagon, neither Plan A involving a DNI report, USAID, and the #NationalGuard, or Plan B, involving a violent insurrection of the #Capitol Building to murder politicians would have been feasible.

So Mike Flynn had Donald Trump decapitate the civilian leadership at #DOD and install operatives willing to execute a coup: #Ezra Cohen, #Kash Patel and Christopher Miller.
PART IV:
https://jimstewartson.substack.com/p/the-insurrection-was-plan-b-part-ace

Welcome to the Wibbly Wobbly Web

#generative #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #Processing

3Blue1Brown dropped a new video on convolutions over the weekend.
As always, it's great, because of course it is. A nice intro to fourier convolution too.
#maths #convolution #programming
https://youtu.be/KuXjwB4LzSA?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tweepsmap-dailytwitter