mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

Gonna tell my kids this was #JohnMastodon.

Tired: Tech writers dumping on Mastodon without having ever used it

Wired: Political writers inventing a founder for Mastodon because they can’t read #JohnMastodon

Pro tip: If the goal is for Mastodon to obtain mass adoption, then a good idea would be to figure out how to incorporate content creators within the community. Like most early tech spaces, Mastodon looks like it's being used by mostly tech geeks, academics, and folks who are into technology, but this does little to attract your average Joe to Mastodon, and the danger in that is your average Joe ends up consuming social media pumped out by people like Elon and his fans.

@jeffjarvis there are a lot of ethical obligations newsrooms *should* see but don't, I'd put the fediverse pretty low down on that list tbh.

Newsrooms should not spin up instances for their reporters partially because this is too new to dedicate strapped staff to, partially because layoffs mean reporters would lose their timelines bc you can't migrate posts, partially because newsrooms are *already* not great at social media policies, and mostly because the problem it ostensibly solves, verification, can be done by just sticking rel=me into author pages and letting reporters self-verify super easily wherever they set up shop here.

RT @BretDevereaux@twitter.com

So this chart, which I made using the numbers in S. Mintz' recent Inside Higher Ed. piece (link and original source below) on the change in permanent faculty for 14 history departments is catastrophic.

We, as a field, as a discipline, should be discussing almost nothing else. 1/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1603885980154531840

Keep seeing criticism of Mastodon saying "it's fundamentally difficult to advertise on" and I'm sat here like "good 👍"

Any conversation about “better” cars HAS to be in the context of real, ambitious strategies to achieve FEWER cars. As I put it recently in my blunt advice to Irish cities, “Your goal SHOULDN’T be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with a million electric vehicles [that was their stated goal]. It should be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with 250K electric vehicles. The answer HAS to be FEWER cars and LESS driving.”

#ElectricVehicles #EVs #cars #cities #urbanism #transportation

Coffee drinkers! Listen! Starbucks workers nationwide are starting a 3-day strike today (Friday 12/16) as part of their effort to unionize.

How can you help? Don't cross the picket line. Get your coffee elsewhere. (Preferably at independent coffee shops. Long live small biz).

And spread the word! Make this message viral. Let's hold billionaire corps accountable because worker's rights are human rights. Let's go.

Editor agnostic Custom Elements language features coming to an editor near you in Q1 2023

Both, VSCode and Neovim connectors are only 20-40 lines of configuration code that can be installed as a plugin, the rest is editor agnostic Language Server code 🔥

We need to stop being caught off guard by rich, powerful people operating as though they have impunity: Assume the worst, dumbest thing they can do, they will do.

The most significant element of Twitter banning links to Mastodon (as it appears to have done) is the weakness -- and panic -- it demonstrates.

does anyone have a sense for what is happening to non-English-speaking twitter right now? i assume muks doesn't care about it, but is it feeling any of the new censorship regime?