mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

I usually just post random dumb shit, but I feel the need to address something serious. I keep seeing white people respond to legitimate criticism from Black people with advice about how easy it is to set up your own instance. Let’s set aside for a second the fact that you’re telling a marginalized group to bear the emotional labor of moderating their own space. You’re also basically regurgitating the same “separate but equal” bullshit set down by the court in Plessy v Ferguson. #BlackMastodon

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
ᛄ - supplicate to chosen deity
ᚳ - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit

US based folks - free Covid tests just started today again. Each address can get FOUR FREE https://www.covid.gov/tests

I should elaborate on this somewhat. Once upon a time, someone said to me, “Don’t judge someone by their errors. Judge them by how they fix them.” That’s been a cornerstone of my thinking ever since.

Whenever there’s an issue with #Hachyderm, it’s resolved expediently, and the team is very open and transparent about what they’re doing and why. Those of you who’ve worked in the tech industry for an appreciable amount of time know how rare that is. It’s worth celebrating.

Tech firms resume giving big bucks to GOP election deniers - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-telecom-firms-resumed-giving-130017018.html

I’m curious how many folks understand that Next.js collects telemetry data (and data collection is opt-out)

https://nextjs.org/telemetry

How common is this in frameworks? Eleventy definitely doesn’t have anything like this.

"Pronouns" in conservative circles is a dog whistle. They fixate on pronouns so they can say transgender people are bad without bumping into hate speech rules. Mocking them for using pronouns themselves or not knowing what pronouns are isn't the burn you think it is.

Have fun with circling all the pronouns in screenshots of their tweets if that's your jam, but remember that you are not the intended audience. It's messaging for others on the far-right and it's way worse than flunking English class

Mastodon News Sources

General News - US and World

BBC News (World) Bot - @BBCWorld
BBC News Bot - @BBC
CNN Bot - @CNN
CNN Breaking News - @cnnbrk
DW (Deutsche Welle) News Bot - @dwnews_bot
NPR US News Bot - @NPR_USNews
NYTimes Bot - @NYTimes
Reuters Bot - @reuters
Rolling Stone - @RollingStone
The Guardian US Bot - @TheGuardian_us
Wall Street Journal Bot - @wsj
Washington Post Bot - @WashingtonPost

Tech News

Ars Technica - @arstechnica
MacRumors.com - @macrumors

Node devs of Fedi, what version do you target? Why?
(Boosts welcome, For Science!)

A speaker's right to have their conversational speech removed a distinct form of information than information published by a third party about the subject -- it's much much easier for me to understand and agree with the former right in the public interest.

I'm not saying there are a lot of viral infections going around right now, but when the NY Times feels the need to publish a list of symptoms so you can figure out which of four illnesses you have, that might be saying something.
The rate of COVID positive testing is at its highest point in three months in the US. The US rate of flu hospitalization is up 50 to 100% in the past two weeks across all age groups. Masks on to protect yourself and your family this holiday season!

#Histodons, please help us spread this opportunity for early-career environmental historians (PhD candidates included). The editors of the upcoming 𝘙𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 are looking for emergent scholars to write the book's afterword!

https://www.iceho.org/news/2022/12/12/open-call-for-authors-future-directions-in-environmental-history

#EnvHist @histodons #EnvHum

Someone reported @KimCrayton1's tweet to us, when she was talking about racism. The tweet was reported to us from another instance. This is the first person reported to us on our instance, and it is a Black woman. What does this tell you?
Good thing we're running our own instance. No action taken, more encouragement. Keep doing what you're doing.

@mmasnick @ericbrignac I've had the same thought. Conceptually, I'd like something like what Twitter does but with sliders to allow me to tune the weightings the way I want.

@ericbrignac I get that instinct, but frankly, having an algorithm that I could control (as opposed to a company) would be nice to better organize things...

A suggestion (inspired by @meganmariehart): If an organization hosts a profile of you on their website and includes social share buttons, ask them to create a button to take people to your #Mastodon account. Also, even without such a button, have them include your mastodon feed in your contact information. #fediverse #twittermigration

@mmasnick I would say we’re living rent-free in Elon’s head, but he doesn’t seem to know what paying rent is.