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siracusa, (edited )
@siracusa@mastodon.social avatar

First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

jwbland,
@jwbland@mastodon.social avatar

@siracusa @MichaelWhelan Lovedthat Smithsonian book!

dmnelson,
@dmnelson@mastodon.social avatar

@siracusa Wow, I’ve never seen this before but I’m sure I would have been all over it as a kid.

histoftech,
@histoftech@mastodon.social avatar

“At Microsoft, the share of senior employees as a portion of the company’s overall workforce declined more than 5 percentage points after the return-to-office mandate took effect, the researchers found. At Apple, the decline was 4 percentage points, while at SpaceX — the only company of the three to require workers to be fully in-person — the share of senior employees dropped 15 percentage points.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

rzeta0,
@rzeta0@mastodon.social avatar

@histoftech

"Come to the office as and when you need to, you're all grown ups" - is fine.

"Be in the office for no good reason" - stupid.

bluGill,
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@histoftech come to the office. But don't ask to go to the office in india enen though that is where the people I need to collaborate with are.

ajroach42,
@ajroach42@retro.social avatar

The problem with federated alternatives to centralized services (and also one of the main problems with centralized services which lead people to look for an alternative) is Discovery.

Etsy and Twitch and YouTube provide an audience, supposedly. With the right pitch (and the right advertising dollars) you can get your own slice of that audience. (For as long as the algorithm graces you, and as long as you're willing to stomach the other things your viewers will be algorithmically suggested.)

whitneymcn,
@whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz avatar

@djsundog @ajroach42 The human time/effort is still the big issue, but maybe that's okay.

I tend to think of this area as the "human-scale" web, but maybe it's equally accurate to think about it as a return to the "hobbyist" web.

whitneymcn,
@whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz avatar

@djsundog @ajroach42 Pete Seeger once said "normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things."

I think about that a lot these days.

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

It still tickles me that the TERFS and Transphobes tried to claim Terry Pratchett as their own, and everyone who actually knew him, including his daughter, and co-author Neil Gaiman, was like WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, you couldn't be further from the truth.

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

@Amoshias I honestly think it's a kind of delusion, if you believe you're the good guy you put your own traits onto characters you like, even if the text or show really says the opposite

WhiteCatTamer,
@WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online avatar

@RickiTarr Terry Exclusionary Reading Failures

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

If you're like me, and Mother's Day is a rough day for you. I'm thinking of you, and I hope it's a good day anyway.

quincypeck,
@quincypeck@mastodon.social avatar

@RickiTarr thank you. My mother passed away 36 years ago, so a lot of the sting is gone for me. My wife just lost her mother less than a year ago, so not so easy for her. I’m just glad I was able to be there for her today.

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar
augieray,
@augieray@mastodon.social avatar

Taking a short Mastodon break. I'm tired of the culture of criticism here. Unlike Twitter, on Mastodon, it comes from those on the left who attack liberals for not meeting their purity tests. I've been attacked for wanting to help defeat Trump by those who don't like a Biden policy; for COVID-safe dining outside with heaters because that harms the environment; for traveling masked because some immunocompromised feel they can't. Stop attacking others; start being the change you want in the world.

Harrybear,
@Harrybear@mastodon.social avatar

@augieray
Well stated, Augie

bluGill,
bluGill avatar

@augieray try lemmy for a bit if you want to see how bad the left can get in their echo chambers.

emptywheel,
@emptywheel@mastodon.social avatar
ChrisHolladay,
@ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social avatar

@emptywheel
Maggie sucking up to Trump is old news.
Maggie covering up treason should be news.

mastodonmigration,
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

@Threadbane @emptywheel

It's an act to burnish her cred.

Kahte, French
@Kahte@masto.bike avatar

Alors voilà, dimanche dernier, dans mon TER pour revenir d'Amiens à Paris, j'étais toute seule, épuisée, je suis handicapée à 80%, et ma maladie Chronique fait que si je ne change pas de position, assez souvent, j'ai très mal.
Donc j'ai allongé mes jambes sur la banquette devant moi. Mes pieds ne touchaient pas le siège, juste mes mollets et le dessous de mes talons. Des contrôleuses sont arrivés en disant que c'était indécent et que c'était illégale. Et hop une amende de 60 euros.1/2

MarSolRivas,
@MarSolRivas@mastodon.online avatar

@grosminet @Kahte En gros, oui 🐱

Monolecte,
@Monolecte@framapiaf.org avatar
grimalkina,
@grimalkina@mastodon.social avatar

I can't figure out if mastodon is a high context culture or not. People seem to be expected to give long introductions and do a lot of identity/positionality disclosure, but also an enormous reply guy culture which is defined by low context drive-by. Conversational turn-taking is extremely low compared to other platforms ime, but depth-seeking is high. What an interesting mix.

*obviously, these experiences are all situated within my own network effects, and I'm not well networked here.

RVLara23,
@RVLara23@mastodon.social avatar

@grimalkina sure, valid. It can be tough if you're looking for something really specific bc I think we're still hovering at around 1mm active users over here. The user pool is going to be limited no matter what anyone is searching for, absolutely true.

I'm curious how Threads and Bluesky federating will change that but there's also a lot of resistance to those integrations from this side so.... who knows?

Also, hope you didn't think I was singling you out or anything - wasn't my intention.

grimalkina,
@grimalkina@mastodon.social avatar

@RVLara23 oh totally just reflecting as you are about what we get out of here and what getting that requires vs what might simply not be possible:)

GryphonSK,
@GryphonSK@techhub.social avatar
Flobzh, (edited ) French
@Flobzh@masto.bike avatar

C est le blues du dimanche soir alors parlons d amour 💘
N hésitez pas à commenter

niavy,
@niavy@masto.bike avatar

@LaKorin
On s'est fiancés au cours du mois d'août, on s'est marié en février l'année suivante.
@Flobzh

Camille_Poulsard,
@Camille_Poulsard@mamot.fr avatar

@mag @LaKorin @Flobzh @grincheux

Tu ne crois pas si bien dire.

Elle préférait l'artillerie lourde disons par rapport à sa propre anatomie.

Elle m'avait donné beaucoup de détails que je n'avais pas demandés en peu de temps...

grimalkina,
@grimalkina@mastodon.social avatar

"When people are treated unfairly, for example, when they are not allowed to have input into decisions that will affect them, or when they are not given good explanations of why certain decisions were made, the symbolic message may be that the organization does not think highly enough of them (to provide input or to be given good explanations)."

mlevison,
@mlevison@agilealliance.social avatar

@grimalkina sounds interesting. Is there a way to access without the paywall?

grimalkina,
@grimalkina@mastodon.social avatar

@mlevison yeah if you pop it into google scholar or similar there is an open pdf on research gate. I typically don't link to ancillary docs because I want to link to the specific publication and then folks can use that to browse for open copies/plus people are super mean on here if you share a link they consider weird or maybe it's a platform they don't like idk. Not worth the bizarre blowback.

maddad,
@maddad@mastodon.world avatar

The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—as They Always Have
By a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices decided that there is no need for the state to provide a preliminary hearing in civil forfeiture cases.😡

When cops decide to help themselves to your property, they can do it without a warrant, without securing a conviction, without even charging you with a crime. 😡

When the government doesn't obey the law,
Then there is no law.
Billy Jack 1971

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/supreme-court-civil-forfeiture-hearing/

B_Whitewind,
@B_Whitewind@regenerate.social avatar

@janisf @Jon_Kramer @maddad I only speak as I do because I spent a very long time thinking about this problem. In the end my conclusion was that it is the way it is because it's just easier to be a piece of s*** shrugs
If you ever find the answer, let us know. Lord knows mankind has spent eons thinking about it.

janisf,
@janisf@mstdn.social avatar

@B_Whitewind @Jon_Kramer @maddad

You make it harder to be a piece of shit, and you make it easier for mothers to raise sons who aren't pieces of shit, and you make it so women don't have to fuck those pieces of shit so more shit doesn't come out the chute.

nixCraft,
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

Why do so many people treat Excel as a database? 🤔

sgsax,
@sgsax@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft Counterpoint: Why do so many people use Excel?

trechnex,
@trechnex@social.trechnex.com avatar

@nixCraft because technically you can use any modern spreadsheet program to perform the same functions as a personal database (eg. filtering tables, generating reports, organising data, searching for records, etc)

It's a good thing that people don't have to learn Microsoft Access or LibreOffice Base to do that imho. 🙂

This idea that using spreadsheets as a database is a "noob" thing to do probably should have went away about 10-15 years ago.

Alice,
@Alice@beige.party avatar

I want to open a stationary ice cream truck that serves boozy snow cones called BroCones.

Kickstarter link in bio.

octothorpe,
@octothorpe@mastodon.online avatar

@Alice @lisamelton that’s just called ‘New Orleans’.

Alice,
@Alice@beige.party avatar

@octothorpe @lisamelton Except the advantage is that you don’t actually need to go to New Orleans.

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