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joannaholman

@joannaholman@aus.social

@joannamuses on twitter. Thoughts on books, Eurovision, Melbourne happenings, music and culture with bonus architecture and cute animal pictures.

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joannaholman, to melbourne
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I love the cultural diversity and vibrancy of Melbourne. I took both of these pictures in Lonsdale st in the last two weeks

Two men standing in front of a tree on a side walk dressed as Ancient Greek warriors holding spears

joannaholman, to random
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Sometimes I see a story and think that’s exactly the kind of thing mastodon would be into, in this case someone who got a tattoo of their favourite local bus

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68316153

joannaholman, to random
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How long until someone is pitching a “premium” AI content generator trained on only material from before AI content generators turned most of the Internet to gibberish?

joannaholman, to random
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Something that’s fascinated me around the Taylor tour is the number of people who’ve trusted our airlines enough to fly interstate the day of shows and then panicked online/to journalists when things have gone wrong. I don’t wish bad stuff on any of them and I know accomodation is expensive but my anxiety and lack of trust in airlines would never let me fly same day if it’s at all avoidable. I’m flying in two days early if I can

joannaholman, to random
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I despise online stores that make you put in all your personal details before they'll tell you how much the shipping costs. I shouldn't have to get my details on yet another database only to find out the exorbitant shipping fee makes the item too expensive

joannaholman, to random
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Looks like there’s a bunch more newbies joining us today than usual which is awesome. Everyone be on your best and weirdest behaviour for them

liampomfret, to random
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So multiple US mobile phone networks seem to have gone down simultaneously, nationwide. If this isn’t a cyberattack of some kind, what would cause this? Some kind of common flaw or bug in the software/hardware used across each provider? Yet there’s other providers that are still up, so what would they have been doing differently?

joannaholman,
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@liampomfret here’s one explanation for what could have gone on https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111975019352929384

joannaholman, to random
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I love the idea of the Loose Ends charity. If a loved one passes away leaving a craft project incomplete or develops a disability that would make it too difficult to work on, their volunteers will finish it and return it to the family https://www.looseendsproject.org

joannaholman, to random
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AI created entertainment content feels like the tech version of meal replacement shakes. Sure both are technically going to achieve something, providing you with some vitamins and protein from the shakes, distraction and entertainment from the AI content. Both might have some small legitimate uses in the context of a well rounded individual life and society. But made a major part of our lives they are both soulless, highly artificial impersonations of the creativity, care and culture making that’s part of what makes us human and which makes living in community with other humans worthwhile.

joannaholman, to melbourne
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There’s been a lot of mockery of women getting excited about Taylor Swift but all the people mocking miss the beauty of it all. I didn’t secure a ticket but went down to the MCG last night anyway. Although we couldn’t hear what was going on inside as well as hoped, the concourse and lawns were filled with thousands of very happy, very friendly people singing, dancing, complimenting each others outfits and trading friendship bracelets. It was delightful. The world needs more spaces for collective joy that are open to everyone.

A crowd outside a stadium at night loudly sings shake it off

liztai, to mastodon
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Only on do I see people judging others being on and #X, seemingly implying that they are better humans for not being on it.
This betrays their massive privilege & ignorance of how cultures outside their own operates on .
People fm less privileged countries rely on them to get their messages out. Self-hosted options are priced for Americans. It is not "the price of a cup of coffee" for everyone.
So, you are not impressing me with the virtue signalling.

joannaholman,
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@liztai And also Mastodon is not the haven for everyone people often act like it is. The culture here around discussion of things like religion can be weird and a bit hostile at times so I'm not surprised people who want to talk about those things have stayed on Twitter or gone to other commercial alternatives.

joannaholman, to melbourne
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Wandered around for a bit in the CBD last night and it was so striking how much nicer the vibe was with the Taylor Swift concert drawing a lot of young women into the city compared to events that draw mostly men.

che5hire, to random
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I think Facebook is such a normie thing that I actually legitimately cannot fathom why anyone uses it.

Like why the fuck do you care what Joe McJoe who went to college with you and only talked to you once is posting about online? Why the fuck do you want to see the weird Catholic minion memes your great uncle posts? You can’t even post anything slightly out of line because your full name is there and your boss is probably e-stalking you :notlikemiya:. It’s like LinkedIn but it just hurts your chance of getting a job instead of helps it.

joannaholman,
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@che5hire @timrichards the news feed is a useless dumpster fire especially now they insist on inserting content from random pages irrelevant to myself or any of my friends. However, I’m still there as it remains the only groups platform most people will use and there’s still a few Facebook groups I find very useful

RickiTarr, to random
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Without looking it up, tell me anything you know about Lithuania or Lithuanians.

joannaholman,
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@RickiTarr They've had some cool Eurovision entries

timrichards, to melbourne
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Do we have the real Taco Bell (rather than Taco Bill) in Australia now? Just spotted this on Chapel St, South Yarra; first time I've been along here in ages.

joannaholman,
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@timrichards we do. The food was quite good but I did have concerns about the cleanliness

joannaholman, to random
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Is there really a market for this?

joannaholman, to melbourne
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It’s kinda adorable that small packs of cookers are still having little marches through the city. They’ve been at it 3 years and still haven’t found more interesting hobbies. There’s barely enough of them to push their weirdly large portable PA system in front of trams

joannaholman,
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@timrichards same. A family member has friends involved in this kind of thing and I had to insist they stop talking about them because it brought too much back up. At least when they started they were in the same vague segment of the galaxy as having a (ignorant and anti-social) point, but now they’ve got every covid spreading thing they wanted it’s just self indulgent disruption

joannaholman, to random
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Members of the wiggles doing tiktok dances is a part of the modern internet no-one prepared me for

timrichards, to random
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Good to see them go, they're a pain to deal with. Luckily I haven't received too many in recent years; even US companies have caught up with electronic payments.

Australia phasing out cheques is a good idea, but we shouldn’t ditch cash https://www.smh.com.au/money/banking/good-riddance-to-cheques-but-don-t-ditch-cash-just-yet-20240206-p5f2oe.html

(maybe paywalled)

joannaholman,
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@timrichards given the older folk riot when banks make a passing mention of one day maybe phasing out passbooks cash is not at risk anytime soon

davidwengier, to random
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Aus post: Your package is coming today, is it okay to leave it if nobody is home?
Me: Yes!
Aus post: If nobody is home, we'll take it to the post office!

What's the bet they take it straight to the post office and don't even attempt to deliver it?

joannaholman,
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@luciedigitalni @davidwengier @andyjennings and if it’s couriers please they consider dumping it at a random house somewhere else in the neighbourhood good enough for their GPS

joannaholman, to random
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Sociologists really should be studying the subset of Aussie social media users who make buying a lot at Kmart most of their personality

joannaholman,
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@ppossej Absolutely. I like Kmart and shop there a bit but when it comes down to it, its a pleasant enough but very generic budget brand. It's a weird thing to obsess over

timrichards, to auspol
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Another good reason for being able to quote-boost is that you could add hashtags left off by the original poster - eg #auspol for an Australian politics post. As it stands, I can't boost a politics post that doesn't have that hashtag without breaking the rules of my instance.

#Mastodon #QuoteBoost

joannaholman,
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@timrichards Maybe that would be good sometimes although there's also been times I've left out hashtags because I'm primarily wanting to say something to the people who follow me, not people stalking hashtags

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

joannaholman,
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@ArmoredThirteen @Coreidan Agreed. My worry is not even that youtube will do a big conspicuous wipe of things (though they might). It's that they'll quietly start deleting low view count content from accounts who don't log in much leaving people wondering if they were misremembering that they used to be able to access certain content

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