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mike

@mike@flipboard.social

Co-founder and CEO, Flipboard https://flipboard.com/@mike

Interests: #Climbing #Backpacking #Photography #Sailing #ActivityPub #Startups #Design

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kocienda, to random

My career goal is to make better computing. Imagining how things can be different and creating real products out of those ideas. I’ve had some success doing this in the past, and as I look ahead into the near future, I’m as excited as I’ve ever been about what’s coming next.

jeff, (edited ) to fediverse
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    emersson, to random Spanish

    Feliz sábado

    Flipboard, to random
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    Today’s is in honor of .

    @gretathunberg — Climate justice activist

    @akshatrathi — Senior climate reporter, Bloomberg News

    @davidho — Climate scientist

    @nijhuism — Acting EIC of High Country News

    @LizaGross — Reporter, Inside Climate News

    @9brandon — Journalist for NYT, National Geographic, The Atlantic etc.

    @bethsawin — Director of the Multisolving Institute

    @jennysplitter — Managing editor of Sentient Media

    SLTPhoto, to photography

    Spending a few days in the province’s rice fields as the crops are harvested one field at a time and made ready for a new season of planting afterwards. With the world seeing a drop in rice production and a rise in prices, rice may soon go the way of hard to find baby formula. Climate change is a bitch.

    At the edge of a rice field a machine used for harvesting rice sits idle
    Black and white photo details springs and wheels and pulleys around the engine that makes the harvester machine work
    Black and white photo of farmer carrying supplies along a path at the edge of his rice field.

    TNLNYC, (edited ) to internet
    @TNLNYC@mastodon.social avatar

    I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.

    Please do the same if you're more active here than on That's how you can help the

    Boost if you agree.

    davidslifka, (edited ) to random

    In 2004, the web was under threat.

    Microsoft’s browser held 95% market share, but failed to protect against viruses and spyware. The internet was becoming more centralized and less safe, stifling innovation.

    So a movement began: Spread Firefox. People rallied around open-source software that fixed the problems, building and marketing it together.

    Today there is another movement to break from centralized social. But it hasn’t had a name - until now.

    @spreadmastodon and

    (1/3)

    davidslifka,

    I hope that @spreadmastodon and spreadmastodon.org will serve a few purposes:

    1. Remind everyone spreading Mastodon that they are serving a noble cause

    2. Be an easy place to send people who want to learn about or join Mastodon

    3. Help people enjoy Mastodon more by finding new follows (see our new tool, follows.spreadmastodon.org)

    But most important of all... (2/3)

    davidslifka, to random

    We waited a long time for this moment, and it's not here for much longer.

    Let's make the most of it.

    mmasnick, to random
    @mmasnick@mastodon.social avatar

    I recognize lots of folks here don't trust Bluesky, but I actually find a lot of what they're doing really, really interesting and worth watching, including their experiment with "composable moderation." https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/20/bluesky-plans-decentralized-composable-moderation/

    CultureDesk, to accessibility
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    Amazon Prime Video has introduced a new feature to make its audio more intelligible. It's intended as an accessibility feature for people who are hard of hearing, but also addresses a common complaint from audiences who find dialogue too quiet. Here's a look at why so many people have issues with TV audio these days (it's a similar reason to why so many shows appear too dark for viewers — remember that "Game of Thrones" episode?).

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/amazon-introduces-new-feature-to-make-dialogue-in-its-tv-shows-intelligible/

    liaizon, to random
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    An article about the fediverse :fediverse: and ActivityPub by @pierce is on the front page of The Verge right now!
    https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

    pierce, to random

    I wrote about ActivityPub, and why Elon Musk might have saved social networks by buying Twitter — just not at all in the way he meant to https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

    caseynewton, to random
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    This will be familiar to anyone who has been watching the rapid unscheduled disassembly of Twitter https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1649045802332073986?s=61&t=Vqm9FnxVwEfRYYt9aGnAeA

    TrueSciPhi, to random

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    mmasnick, to random
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    Wrote a short post about Elon suspending @dell under the same policy that old Twitter used to suspend NY Post, and which Elon and his friends had argued was unacceptable. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/19/twitter-suspends-reporter-dell-cameron-for-reporting-on-twitter-hack-using-same-policy-old-twitter-used-to-block-ny-post-hunter-biden-story/

    chadloder,

    @mmasnick @SarahOestreich @dell It is not safe for journalists to rely on Twitter. It is also MUCH harder to build a Mastodon following after your Twitter account is suspended.

    willoremus, to random
    @willoremus@mastodon.social avatar

    This visual deep dive into one of the largest AI language datasets is nonstop fascinating, jaw-dropping, and troubling, and anyone who is remotely interested in how LLMs really work, their biases, or intellectual property should read it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/

    niemanlab, to random
    @niemanlab@mastodon.social avatar

    There is strong evidence that media has a very powerful agenda-setting effect, and in certain contexts, can exert a strong effect on attitudes and behavior change. https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/04/on-tv-skepticism-about-the-science-of-climate-change-is-dying-out-but-whataboutism-is-filling-the-void/

    fraying, to random
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    Today's happy place. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR3KpLpF/

    fraying,
    @fraying@xoxo.zone avatar

    The internet is still magic.
    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR3Ej73a/

    skylarrenslow, to random

    Spending a little recovery time at Lake Atitlán

    edwiebe, to random

    Two short videos (attached) that demonstrate waves in the atmosphere. Gravity waves occur in any fluid medium where there are density contrasts (and gravity–it's the restoring force). One is upside down and running backwards, to emphasize how much it is like waves approaching a shore. The other shows, first, Kelvin-Helmoltz waves, then a long-period undulating wave in altostratus .

    At time-lapse video of clouds moving past the camera. First, we see Kelvin-Helmholtz waves. These are hook shaped, with the hook curling up and to the right. After that a long undulating wave in the form of the changing height of a layer of altostratus clouds moves past.
    A video of a layer of altostratus cloud, an unbroken and mostly smooth layer of cloud at a low altitude, that is moving past the camera with regular wave crests (bumps). The video though is running backwards in time and is shown upside down to emphasize how similar this phenomenon is to water waves approaching a shore.

    uartists, to art

    Wind knocks by branches
    Where are you taking me,
    Old patched bridge?

    - keel
    - chill

    PHOTO
    https://fineartamerica.com/featured/old-bridge-over-a-river-alex-mir.html

    briankrebs, to random

    I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.

    josh, to fediverse

    A few weeks ago there was a discussion about the need for a instance dedicated to NGOs, nonprofits, and folks in the human rights space.

    So I got to work with @happy and @gillo and created https://mastodon.ngo! We're admin'ing this instance together and we'll be maintaining it for the long term.

    If you or your organization or someone you know is interested in creating an account, let me know. You can also request an account here: https://mastodon.ngo/about

    mike, to random
    @mike@thecanadian.social avatar

    :TheCDN3: We always appreciate contributions to keep the lights on and the traffic flowing. Please consider sponsoring The Canadian 🇨🇦 through a contribution or subscription at : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mikethecanadian

    davidho, (edited ) to random
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    It's hard for people to visualize removing tons or billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂). I propose we talk about CO₂ removal () like a time machine (e.g., this machine will take us back 5 minutes). For example:

    Q: How far back in time does planting 100 million trees take us?

    A: If one mature tree takes up an average of 25 kg of CO₂ per year, then 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back 33 minutes and 6 seconds in a year. It's not a lot.

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