Ariella @ellabellafull@librem.one

Maria Ressa on how #SocialMedia can enable free speech that stifles free speech (through the popularization of lies/conspiracy):

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMF4k4Tp1/

Facts are needed for truth, which leads to trust, which leads to genuine human connection.

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My birth and death are the same moment at this scale.

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All previous WHOAs have been retired.

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PUNY HOOMANS!

Stop. Go. Have existential crisis about Mind incapable of perceiving the universe. 🤩

https://mapoftheuniverse.net/

#space #universe #cosmos #galaxies #quasars #RedShift

@notroot When I created paxilprogress.org it was to “bring together people’s experiences around SSRI usage.” This refined over the years to, “support everyone’s personal journey with and away from SSRIs.” Because SSRI discontinuation syndrome was so traumatic, and nothing makes people write like pain (happy people don’t join support groups as often haha), then it skewed further into SSRI withdrawal support. I tried to protect the support-during tone via informed consent.

@notroot The technique is to never be an open free-for-all database for people to journal in. A service provider has a purpose in life, and data has no intrinsic value. So define the parameters for assigning value to content, and for you to get value from it. The goal(s) don’t have to be too specific, or they can. There’s plenty of opportunity to be more open at first, then refine, or be more specific at first and then relax.

@notroot when I used to boot up communities and ran one in particular for nearly a decade. This strategy worked really well:
-Define the purpose of the user generated data. What’s the goal of the community content?
-Define moderation guidelines that serve the content goal, and general kindness.
-Issue signalling system for community to self-report.
-Have enough moderators for signal responses and self discovery.
-2-3 warnings
-When banning, reference which moderation guideline.

A friend and I discussing the increasing complexity of personal computing:

He: Now it is: ‘Net up? VPN connected? Email (accounts) working? DNS right? Battery not swelling? Mouse driver loaded? TB2/3/4 or USB-3/3.2/3.2 Gen1/3.2 2x2?

Me: And: Am I wearing pants? 1980s computers and dial-up networking are looking pretty good right about now! But not pants. Those can stay gone.

#InternetOfTrouble #Cloud #PersonalComputing #FAIL #Internet #pants #NoPants

Le Monarque is a great bow in #PvP #Destiny2 . Been practising with it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZXWGSh7lvY

Got it masterworked tonight too. Woot!

This couple kills me bwahaha! #ChristmasTree #humour

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFxwa2aW/

Description: husband is on one knee looking at a short tree with low branch and needles count. After the wife makes fun with of his comment, she and the camera snap around and enter slow motion to follow her walking away with chin up, smugly. Her grin grows and the husband throws his hat in her direction. Video stops just before the hat makes contact with her head.

You know you're getting old when you recite some #poetry from Dylan Thomas (Do not go gentle into that good night...rage, rage etc.) to your dad, and he doesn't know what you're talking about, has never heard it, and doesn't understand its meaning.

Or maybe it's because I've seen more recent films that quoted it, like #Interstellar. ;)

Anyway, here's an impactful reading by Sir Anthony Hopkins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnn9468vhwI

When building or buying a computer, make sure it's special enough so that you relate to it as THE computer, not A computer.

You'll love it longer, reach for it with more passion as a creative tool, and in general the value returned will flow more and for longer.

It's also just tons more fun and leads to better system names like "Tangie" (99 iBook) or "Angel" (white PC case with Overwatch Mercy wing decal.)

Keep #PersonalComputing personal. 🥰