mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

Hello friends, a reminder that historians dot social is for folks working all over in all kinds of positions who think about historical contexts! We're aiming for a robustly inclusive community here. Pls read and share the terms of service which is a core feature of any 🐘 server/ instance! And look for the weekly transparency post fr @jmadelman @lizcovart and me about how things are going!

I keep seeing that “first they came for the journalists” sign, and it pisses me off so much, because when they came for muslims, immigrants, and trans people, mainstream journalists normalized it and reported it as “both sides”. Somehow it didn’t count for them until it was happening to them personally, which is *exactly* what the fucking poem was warning against in the first place.

John Mastodon is just a figurehead; the real work was done by Ernestine Toot. he’s recently been trying but failing to erase her legacy.

What kind of Mastodon discovery tools are available? Off the top of my head, things that would be nice:

"Who are these people?" - Show me a few posts (not boosts) from each of my most recent followers.

"Actual social network" - Show me posts from the people followed by people I follow, and who the link is. LJ called this "friendsfriends" and it was cool.

"Trending" - posts boosted by people 2 or 3 hops away from me, ordered by number of boosts, and omitting ones I've seen.

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

@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 🔥