misc

misc, 17 days ago to random

Feeling more optimistic about the fedi today

misc, 17 days ago to random

tfw you're working on a project with someone you don't know too well, and you see an alert come in on their computer for an email from "team Kennedy"

misc, 21 days ago to random

How do I get on a candidate's text list with someone else's name?

misc, 23 days ago to random

Dial slowly turning from "Biden is horrible but he has to win to avert fascism" to "fascism is already here"

misc, 23 days ago to random

First Hassan, now Klippenstein. Real bummer to see a new wave of leftists not merely sticking by Substack, but hitching their wagons to it from the start.

misc, 25 days ago to Palestine

The #Palestine solidarity movement at #Oberlin is getting … Wilder

@oberlin

misc, 26 days ago to random

When you run out of gmail space, what's the easiest way to delete a bunch of stuff online and keep it locally?

misc, 26 days ago to random

lol is this free trial free because they are gonna scrape more of my email or because they just really want me to try their AI bullshit

misc, 1 month ago to random

What's the word for when someone is doing something they feel defensive about, and they want you to do it too so they can feel better? Anyway...

misc, 1 month ago to random

There are so many map-based apps that should be pretty simple to implement and yet haven't been (afaik)

• Chances of rain along your bike route for different start times
• Given a route, best rated restaurants that don't take you far away from that route, for pick up orders
• Best restaurant to meet up for two parties, that requires them to travel a roughly equal amount

misc, 1 month ago to random

The journalists went to Bluesky, the politicians and orgs went to Threads, and when bridges are fully implemented, Mastodon will be the best place to have it all.

misc, 1 month ago to random

Everyone goes after Marie Antoinette for saying "let them eat cake" but they leave out the part that came before, which was a crowd angrily chanting "let us eat cake!"

misc, 1 month ago to random

So, how's @loops coming along? https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112304702493157030

misc, 1 month ago to random

@austinha

misc, 1 month ago to random

Post Post News news post https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/112299409473855102

misc, 1 month ago to random

It sucks that Instagram is the default place to live stream protests because it is terrible for sharing to other platforms.

misc, 1 month ago to random

We need to make (more) things on the fedi that aren't available elsewhere, that meet needs of specific communities that are still stuck on X.

misc, 1 month ago to random

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misc, 1 month ago to random

With the @ifnotnowboston account here, I'm thinking I'd like to lean in to what the fedi is good at, and use it more for community and conversation, than breaking news and broadcast. Like, more discussion prompts I guess. Are there some good examples of accounts doing that successfully?

misc, 1 month ago to random

Bluesky was short term disastrous for the potential of Mastodon as a Twitter alternative but in the end it might have been necessary. This place wasn't ready, and journalists and left activists were much better able to form a functional ecosystem there. When we can share content from there back here it's gonna be so good.

misc, 1 month ago to random

Just checking, if someone writes a reply to you, and you don't like it, there is no way to hide it for everyone, right?

misc, 1 month ago to random

I had to re-add a dormant Twitter account to my app to rt something as a favor to a friend, and suddenly I'm getting push notifications of Elon tweets and other right wing garbage.

Is this new, or has it been ongoing and I'd just disabled it?

misc, 1 month ago to random

Me watching tik toks people have shared other places: hell yeah, tiktok rocks

Me actually opening Tiktok: wtf man, this sucks

misc, 1 month ago to random

Bleary eyed 5 hour layover thought about "AI" training data, and specifically the idea of running out of it, vs the idea that these things learn the way we do.

A human could reread the same "training data" multiple times and learn new things each time.

misc, 1 month ago to random

Best site for tracking the latest eclipse cloud cover estimates?