mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

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?

As $8chan (Twitter) experiences another major man-baby meltdown, a friendly request to new arrivals or those who've been here for a while: Please don't use Twitter->Mastodon cross-post bots.

It makes it seem like you're not actually here, nobody knows if you'll read replies, it results in non-working @-mentions, and it spams our timelines with twitter.com links.

It should not be upon each of us to filter those out. Now's a good time to cut the cord properly. Thanks for your consideration.

Please y’all don’t spend the next 24 hours “unpacking” why this dudes behavior has/does not align with his words

There was NO “free speech” mission

Just a guy…and some friends…high off their own bullshit with enough wealth to make holding them accountable beyond challenging

@arossp hey that sounds familiar. :) have some followups (oh so many followups) in the works... https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

Protocols, not platforms. That we let ourselves get suckered into platforms over protocols is one of the biggest unforced errors in the history of the net, and if Musk makes that widely obvious, it will be a significant silver lining in his sophomoric conflagration.

Help us choose the syntax for CSS Nesting!

This article will walk you through the three options currently under consideration by the CSS Working Group. Read through them, and take a one question survey to weigh in.

https://webkit.org/blog/13607/help-choose-from-options-for-css-nesting-syntax/

#AllTechIsHuman just launched a project to track responsible tech related university programs! Sort of like the Responsible Tech Job Board but for degree programs. https://alltechishuman.org/responsible-tech-university-ecosystem

@mmasnick man. Elon banning the Santa tracker right before Christmas is a very bold move.

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