Musk has used "Vox, populi, Vox Dei" to justify reinstating Trump on #Twiiter. But the quote is from a letter from Alcuin to the Emporer Charlemagne urging him to resist such ideas, "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit." Which translates as "And do not listen to those who keep saying, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God', because the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness."
It’s Really, Really Worth Trying to Avoid Getting COVID Multiple Times https://www.self.com/story/covid-reinfection-health-risks-study
Our celebration of sunlight begins on December 23, 2022 this year!
(I previously tweeted at https://twitter.com/SunOfStockholm but Elon & Trump ruined everything.)
I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.
It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.
It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.
Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.
Other than media apps and Auto Sleep, what are some great #AppleWatch apps?
How freakin' cool. A #meteor was picked up by EarthCam's CN Tower webcam in #Toronto.
Several hours before it hit, David Rankin at NASA's Catalina Sky Survey spotted the object, and Michael Busch started a thread: https://mastodon.online/@michael_w_busch/109368965024525842.
As the night unfolded: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/c8ff042_probable_impactor/95129080
EarthCam archives about a day's worth of video, so you can still catch it here: https://www.earthcam.com/world/canada/toronto/cntower/?cam=towerview. Tap Archive, select the 3-4AM clip and scroll to the 3:25:56 mark. #astronomy #space
I wonder if we can get https://runyourown.social/ to be the next banned url on twitter
I helped a few people make the great #TwitterMigration this past week.
I wrote a short post summarizing the steps and answering the most common questions and concerns. It might be helpful to more people than I can schedule video chats with.
We had advertising-supported media for generations - centuries - without mass surveillance. The problem with advertising isn't incentives - it's impunity.
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Ok #fediverse gays: I’d like to connect my instance to a relay or two. My understanding is that the nice and safe ones are private. Who runs a nice queer-friendly nazi-free relay and would be happy to have my instance connect? Boosts appreciated :)
The internet wasn't intended to be 3 websites with enough power to turn us into doomscrolling zombies, sway public policy and lead to the collapse of democracy.
Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners https://b.mamund.com/3Abe2aa
it is fascinating to watch Wardley's #pioneers #settlers #townPlanners constrcut playing out in the #mastodon world right now.
#twitter #migration @swardley@twitter.com
Mozilla is hiring. HMU if you want your #1 priority to be making the internet better for people instead of generating return for investors
RT @KobeissiLetter@twitter.com
Layoffs This Month (% of Workers):
1. Twitter: 50%
2. Cameo: 25%
3. Robinhood: 23%
4. Intel: 20%
5. Snapchat: 20%
6. Coinbase: 18%
7. Opendoor: 18%
8. Stripe: 14%
9. Lyft: 13%
10. Shopify: 10%
11. Meta: “Thousands”
12. Apple: Hiring Freeze
13. Amazon: Hiring Freeze
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1589974682245435397
The constant is us: the communities we nurture, the culture we create. The space we cherish is just a vessel for those. It hasn't always been an easy ride, but I'm delighted that this place has been one of those cherished spaces, and proud of the role I played. ❤️🪺
Seeing Mastodon and the fediverse succeed today is deeply gratifying and hopeful for me. It's imperfect and early, but watching thousands of people birth communities that they can nurture and shape and watch grow and evolve, after so many years hoping and dreaming of this ...
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