Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

Just a few more days until the glorious expansion of daylight begins.

We can do this.

Follow along, Stockholm.

All I wanna do is
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Fix this broken synthesizer

Some shots you can’t plan for.
I was waiting to shoot the rise of a supermoon when the clouds rolled in a ruined the spectacle. Instead of the moon crowning the tip of the Bay Bridge, a flock of pelicans passed over it, in perfect formation mimicking the shape of the bridge.
#sanfrancisco #baybridge #pelican #photography #urbanwildlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Just before the invasion, #Ukraine made a deal with #Amazon #AWS to create a data warehouse for its government information and infrastructure: tax and property records, bank statements, and the like. Things that an invaded and occupied Ukraine might lose if Russia got their hands on the only copies.

They literally snuck Pelican crates full of SSDs into the country and spirited them back offshore after backing up 10 petabytes of important historic and legal records.

This paragraph, second from the end, really put a fine point on why Amazon did this: They were not beholden to, nor being held hostage by, any Russian operations...because they never had any:

Amazon didn’t have to worry about its relationship with Russia on the Snowball project. It doesn’t have one. “We didn’t have anything to turn off there,” Maxwell said. “We had never invested there. It’s a point of principle.”

Truly an amazing story from the #LATimes.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-15/amazon-ukraine-war-cloud-data

Christmas trees in #Kyiv throughout the years.
2019, 2020, 2021 vs. 2022.
As Ukrainians usually put it: “Better in darkness and with no heating or internet than together with Russians.”
#Ukraine #UkraineWar

One of the best hashtags on this platform you can follow is #Mosstodon. You will just see calming amounts of green-covered surfaces in nature.

My latest for WIRED: The Mastodon features Elon Musk should steal but won't because he hates you

https://www.wired.com/story/mastodon-features-that-twitter-should-steal-but-wont/

Posting this here tonight for you all. Will post on Twitter tomorrow. We'll see if I have a Twitter account still on Tuesday. #TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration

Mr. Rogers gave me unrealistic expectations for the relationships I’d have with my neighbors

The reason Mastodon and the Fediverse is spread out on so many servers is it protects it from being taken over by anyone. Not even the richest can buy this place.

Centralised services like Twitter are incredibly easy to buy out. If you move from Twitter to another centralised service, sooner or later that will get bought out too.

The point of the Fediverse is to break this buyout cycle, to let people be permanently in control of their accounts. More info here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whyisthefediverseonsomanyseparateservers

This is also an interesting generational thing. Until the advent of the internet, relatively few people lived in high-information environments. *Most* lived in high-relationship environments, and social mores were built around that. Millennials (and younger GenX) and every subsequent generation have grown up in an era where high-information mediates relationships, rather than the other way around.

Looks like the WSJ is going all in on moving to Mastodon, with this little tutorial available without a paywall.
https://www.wsj.com/story/how-to-use-mastodon-the-social-media-platform-blocked-by-elon-musks-twitter-7751455f

I really appreciate that the @auschwitzmuseum reminds me daily about the extermination camps. It’s not intrusive, and not unduly upsetting. But it gives me a daily moment to reflect on the human losses of the Holocaust and the bigger crises of humanity before and since. Thank you.

If any of you post this photo doxing me im gonna buy your mastodon server