Some people used frogs for the weather forecast. But a simple deep well also works. What was considered magic for a long time was simply the old knowledge of physical facts, fed by experience. Who would have thought that a modern safety lid could enhance the magic? 😎 😉 https://ko-fi.com/post/Well-Magic-Q5Q1X335O
@rolle@nicd@harald .well-known/nodeinfo returns 404 for me too. Also the webfinger endpoint. For comparison, mastodon.social responds to these with 200 + the associated JSON.
I didn't notice any ActivityPub .well-known endpoints in the config @rolle linked, only for the certbot challenge. I think others would fall under the default "location /" block.
Nobel Laureate economist #Angus#Deaton has delivered a ferocious rebuke to his own profession, saying economists have failed to understand that ⭐️capitalism is about power.⭐️
Deaton lobs a series of truth bombs at his own profession, the result, he says, of “changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practising economist for more than half a century”.
These include:
🔸“We have largely stopped thinking about #ethics and about what constitutes human #well-#being”.
🔸If “economists should focus on efficiency and leave equity to others, to politicians or administrators… 🔹the others regularly fail to materialise🔹, so that when efficiency comes with upward redistribution
— frequently though not inevitably
— our recommendations become little more than a #license for #plunder”.
🔸“#Historians, who understand about contingency and about multiple and multidirectional causality, often do a better job than economists of identifying important mechanisms…”
🔸Far from being “a nuisance that interfered with economic (and often personal) efficiency”, #unions “once raised wages for members and nonmembers, they were an important part of social capital in many places, and they brought political power to working people in the workplace and in local, state, and federal governments.
🔸Their decline is contributing to the falling wage share, to the widening #gap between executives and workers, to community #destruction, and to rising #populism.”
🔸“I am much more sceptical of the benefits of free trade to American workers and am even sceptical of the claim, which I and others have made in the past, that globalisation was responsible for the vast reduction in global poverty over the past 30 years”.
🔸Immigration contributes to inequality.
But Deaton’s main point is a recognition of how #power distorts #policy:
“Our emphasis on the virtues of free, competitive markets and exogenous technical change can distract us from the importance of power in setting prices and wages, in choosing the direction of technical change, and in influencing politics to change the rules of the game.”
I was reading this Tumblr thread and then it occurred to me how Scylla is the bubbly extroverted aroace 😂
Screenshot from Tumblr: User demonicseries: I made a graph. The graph is labeled "How lgbt head canons of characters are made" and shows a scale from really mean to really nice. On the meanest end is cishet, then proceeds in order: lesbian, trans woman, bi, non-binary, ace, gay trans boy, and pan on the far end as really nice. User cdfreak: YEAH THIS IS LITERALLY IT... User hyper-nico: #shy anxious person is ace and bubbly extroverted girl is pan?? #well what if we just switch it around? how about a series with a shy pan person with a firity exotebrb aseificgi rdmsmifystdbd
A curious relic of the British Empire in south Oxfordshire, England. The Maharaja of Benares (now Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh) in Northern India gifted this well to the people of the village of Stoke Row in Oxfordshire around the year 1860, in thanks for the 1830 sinking of a well in the village of Azamgarh, India by an empoyee of the East-India-Company who came from south Oxfordshire. The well is 112 meters deep and remained in use for around 70 years until piped water arrived. January 2024. #oxfordshire#well#england
American bully XL dogs must now be kept on a lead
"Despite its powerful appearance, their demeanour is gentle and friendly," it said, but also noted that "dog aggression is characteristic of this breed". https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67851343#bitey#dogs#well#yeah
#VillageLife mirroring #CruisingLife tonight. Was in the shower when the water stopped, so dried off, got dressed (it's -7°C) and went outside to kick the frozen lid off the manhole that contains the deep well. Climbed down to check the pump that supplies the house with water.
@vaviurka assisted with flashlight and tools. The pressure switch had succumbed to condensation. Got it working again for tonight and will have to swap it for a spare tomorrow.
Remember The Well? Pioneering on-line community, still around after almost 40 years.
This week and next, it will host an on-line discussion on the #Fediverse and #indieweb.
Glad to be part of it, together with @evan, @manton, @KevinMarks and @herestomwiththeweather. It's hosted by Jon Lebowsky, best known (to me at least) by doing the annual State of the World panel, also on the Well, with @bruces.
I'll post a link once the thread is public. With these panelists, it should be interesting!!
That's great! Is the #well considering federating? At the risk of being old, I remember when the WELL was discussing whether to federate with the Internet (what, 1994?)
Some people thought it might ruin the then-thriving WELL. And I think they may have been right!!
Anyone have recommendations for ~10 min guided #meditations for people who haven't done any #meditating before? I'm teaching a class on #well-being this semester and want to have the students do some #meditation. Thanks for recommendations!
A week ago, we asked everyone to refrain from offering anything NSFW in non-NSFW threads. This request was made in order to adhere to Reddit’s policies, which state that “content that contains nudity, pornography, or profanity […] should be tagged as NSFW.” Similar polices mandate that we are expected to “ensure people have predictable experiences on Reddit by properly labeling content […] that is graphic, sexually-explicit [sic], or offensive.”
Now, some people managed to restrain themselves by offering only vulgarity – terms like “shit” or “TikTok influencer” – which was great: The aforementioned policies do not say anything about vulgarity, after all, suggesting that Reddit views sentences like “That fucking choad is such a shit-headed, ass-piss-guzzling cunt!” as being completely work-safe. Unfortunately, we did also see a lot of profanity (which is terminology with religious or blasphemous connotations, like “What the hell was that example?” or “By the bloody nails of the cross, I hereby curse thee to ‘make a joyful noise’ whenever thou art proximate to one whose favor thou might seek!”). Moreover, there was a lot of content that could conceivably have offended someone.
We therefore have no choice but to mark the entire subreddit as being NSFW.
We really, . By marking /r/PICS as NSFW, we’re depriving Reddit of advertising revenue, and we feel awful about that: It’s a fast, drastic step that could adversely affect the site as a whole, and it’s being done without any input from our administrative counterparts. We did ask Reddit to communicate with us, but since no response was forthcoming, we’ve been forced to assume that a gargantuan monster has been terrorizing their headquarters. (Why else would they appear to be rushing out lackluster replacements for third-party tools, many of which have proved to be worse than nothing at all?)
Still, whether we’re dealing with an actual monster or just an anachronistic dinosaur, the point is that /r/PICS can’t wait any longer: We simply cannot risk NSFW content showing up in non-NSFW threads, so – in the immortal words of 17th-century philosopher Tuliddle Tulate – “No path remains but that of making the community NSFW… and on an unrelated note, Android-users can still make certain third-party applications work if they follow a few simple steps.”
He was rather ahead of his time.
Anyway, here are some things to keep in mind:
Gore and pornography are still not allowed in /r/PICS.
It is normal to experience special feelings while looking at John Oliver.
Thank you for your attention!
You may now resume your regular John-Oliver-posting activities!
##(from 8 days ago) On The State of /r/PICS: Profanity, Offensive Content, and An Open Letter
Hello yet again, /r/PICS!
Things have never looked better (or sexier) here, have they? Honestly, the moderation team was a bit skeptical about only allowing media featuring John Oliver… but that’s what you voted for, and we have to admit that you were right to do so!
Unfortunately, it turns out that we overlooked a small problem.
According to Reddit’s policies, “content that contains nudity, pornography, or profanity […] should be tagged as NSFW.” While we did ask the community to tag anything even remotely NSFW, we’ve nonetheless seen a lot of swearing in non-NSFW threads. Since Reddit has officially stated that we are expected to “ensure people have predictable experiences on Reddit by properly labeling content […] that is graphic, sexually-explicit [sic], or offensive,” this democratic approach to tagging is putting the community in jeopardy. Additionally, since a distressingly large number of people have expressed that they are offended by the sight of John Oliver, we are forced to conclude that media featuring the man is regarded by some as “offensive.”
Now, we really, really don’t want to mark /r/PICS as being NSFW. Doing so would mean that we were no longer discoverable, that we would no longer show up in Reddit’s main feeds, and that millions of people would be deprived of John Oliver’s presence on their screens. It would also have the effect of keeping Reddit from showing advertisements alongside our posts, which we feel would be unfair. (After all, Reddit generously hosts our little community, and we’d hate to adversely affect them by making an immediate, detrimental change to that arrangement.) However, unless things here change, we may have no choice.
We therefore have two simple requests for you:
Please do not use any (a NSFW link follows this parenthetical) profanity in non-NSFW threads.
If you post anything that could possibly offend anyone, please tag it as being NSFW.
As we do not have time to put this to a vote (since Reddit is moving very quickly against communities that it deems to be problematic), we are pleading for all of /r/PICS to behave in a responsible manner. The continued inclusion of profanity or offensive content in non-NSFW threads will leave us with no option but to mark the entire subreddit as NSFW, which – as previously stated – we do not want to do.
Before we sign off, we want to address some potential concerns:
Q: Will making /r/PICS a NSFW subreddit result in the moderators being removed? A: ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Moderators were removed from communities that were “encouraging sexually explicit content,” and some were threatened with removal if they “incorrectly” marked communities as NSFW “as a form of protest.” /r/PICS has always mandated against pornography (and that will remain unchanged), but has allowed tasteful nudity, profanity, and content that might be defined as “offensive.” Therefore, /r/PICS will not be made NSFW as a form of protest: Any such change will be enacted in order to comply with Reddit’s policies. If Reddit were to remove moderators from /r/PICS, that action would go against their own publicly affirmed guidelines.
Q: Wait, is /r/PICS NSFW right now? A: No. We’re just asking that if you have to post something NSFW, please tag it appropriately. Do not post pornography – that rule is unchanged – but ask yourself if you’re offering either profanity or anything that could be construed as “offensive” by anyone.
Q: Can we still post media featuring John Oliver? A: Yes. However, again, please tag all submissions – be they posts or comments – appropriately.
Q: Do you – the moderators – have anything that you’d like to say directly to Reddit’s administrators? A: What an amazingly prescient question! Yes, in fact, we do have something to say. We’ll include it as a comment!
That’s all for now, folks! Thank you for making /r/PICS and Reddit great!
Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out (www.engadget.com)
Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.
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