stephenesherman

@stephenesherman@mastodon.social

Student of 日本語

Street #photographer in #NYC, #bicyclist - Citibike user, #politics nerd and sometimes activist, #Democrat

#Tesla owner and #musk hater. Go figure.

Somewhat techie: #Linux user, assembled my desktop computer, webmaster.

Reading #history of any sort, football (soccer) fan, #maps

Earlier hobbies: #birding, #WW2 aviation, Ancient Greek, #hiking the #Adirondacks #HighPeaks and Hudson Valley

Originally joined mstdn.jp in Nov. 2022. Then home.social (now defunct)

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jerry, to random

OH COME ON

stephenesherman,

@jerry You might want to exclude the accepted words from the posted screenshots.

Free_Press, to news
@Free_Press@mstdn.social avatar

IDF spokesperson:

From the analysis of the operational systems of the IDF, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed in the vicinity of the hospital, when it was hit.
According to intelligence information, from several sources we have, the GAP organization is responsible for the failed shooting that hit the hospital.

stephenesherman,

@Free_Press Over the past two weeks, the Israelis have dropped tens of thousands of bombs on Gaza, but I suppose this particular one was a Hamas rocket gone astray.

stephenesherman, to Israel

So … was Iran involved or not?

NYT: CIA says no evidence of Iranian involvement

Sheril, to random
@Sheril@mastodon.social avatar

Just a reminder that we don’t have to argue with people on the Internet when they’re wrong.

stephenesherman,

@Sheril “Yes, we do!” 😝😝😝

mastodonmigration, to twitter
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

So, Elon Musk says he is going to start charging everyone for Twitter/X...

CNBC: Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is moving to monthly subscription fees >>> https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/18/musk-says-twitter-now-x-is-moving-to-monthly-subscriptions.html

"Among other things, Musk said the social network is 'moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system...'"

Wonder how that's going to work out?

stephenesherman,

@mastodonmigration I thought already imploded several months ago after fired 80% of the employees. It still exists?

evannakita, to nyc
@evannakita@mastodon.online avatar

subway hot take: the A train should be extended to .

There are already tracks under 207 St to access the yard, and those could be extended under Fordham Road, connecting to the 1, 4, and D trains and all three lines.

Some justifications:

  • follows the route of the high-ridership Bx12 select bus
  • finally offers a direct connection between Washington Heights and the Bronx
  • would have made it way easier for me to get to the Fordham Metro-North station this morning
stephenesherman,

@evannakita great idea, also making it much easier for Westchester residents, via Metro North, to get to Washington Heights and UWS.

renchap, to mastodon
@renchap@oisaur.com avatar

Full text search has been merged in main branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉

It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time.

We plan to deploy it to mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the coming days to have a bit more feedback on it and see how it behaves in the wild.

stephenesherman,

@renchap done

mastodonmigration, to random
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

Over the last day this account has been conducting a demonstration experiment boosting breaking news and analysis related to Trump's Georgia racketeering to show how Mastodon has become an excellent source for real time breaking news and to provide newshounds with good accounts to follow. In a way, this demonstration has been too successful. Followers who may not be interested are getting spammed on this topic. That was not the intent, and apologies. As of now, the experiment is concluded.

1/2

stephenesherman,

@mastodonmigration @vmstan @heidilifeldman @GottaLaff @Teri_Kanefield @skykiss @Nonilex @pdougmc @jackiegardina @SteveThompson @VOANews Thanks for the kind mention. I post mostly my , with some breaking and . I DO focus more on posting my original , and less on . And oh yes, I recently bought a new , which I love, although I hate . Ugh.

Free_Press, to random
@Free_Press@mstdn.social avatar

Ukraine has captured a Russian stronghold on the southern front in the 78th week of the war – a possible indication that after months of painstaking assaults, they have broken through the hard shell of some of Russia’s front-line defences.

Ukraine picks up momentum, retakes second town in a week

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/8/24/ukraine-picks-up-momentum-retakes-second-town-in-a-week

stephenesherman,

@Free_Press Wish it were so, but is only 8km deep. Not all "through the hard shell of Russia's front-line defenses."

GottaLaff, to Georgia
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

Oh snap. I loves me the Fani.

Just in: DA responding to Ken 's speedy trial demand. Calling for the trial for all 19 Fulton defendants to begin on Oct. 23, 2023

Will be up to Judge McAfee to weigh in now. There's also the question of what happens to the pending fed removal motions....

stephenesherman,

@GottaLaff A little meta commentary here: It's nice to see this kind of breaking news here on , even before the Breaking news was always 's strong suit. Good to see Mastodon growing.

kristiedegaris, to random
@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot avatar

The letter yogh was used in Older Scots, representing 'y'. It looked like this Ȝ ȝ, so when printing took off, printers often used 'z' when yogh was not available in their fonts.

A famous example is the name 'Menzies' which is pronounced like 'Ming-is'. Based on that, please enjoy 2 different ways to read this rhyme.

'There once was a lassie named Menzies,
Who askit her aunt whit this thenzies.
Said her aunt wi a gasp,
"Dear Me, it's a wasp",
An you're haudin the end whaur the stenzies!'

stephenesherman,

@kristiedegaris I got brownie points in a course for fitting my IBM Selectric with custom-bought ‘yogh’ and ‘thorn’ keys.

stephenesherman,

@kristiedegaris 1975. The Selectric had two? replaceable keys. You could go to Whitlock’s Typewriter store, right on campus, and choose from dozens of specialty keys, that you could easily pop onto your typewriter. Lol

stephenesherman, to mastodon

Is there a consensus position on ? Obviously ev’s are environmentally positive. Personally, I despise and deactivated my account a few months ago. But for ’s the Tesla was better and cheaper than others we looked at, and was actually available … It’s a conundrum. 😞

shoq, to random
@shoq@mastodon.social avatar

This is an exceptionally informed and insightful post. I urge everyone to read it twice.

You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is… | Coyote Tracks

https://tracks.ranea.org/post/722507935765397504/youre-so-vain-you-probably-think-this-app-is

stephenesherman,

@shoq Great read! "At the end of the day, I’m a Mastodon partisan. But I don’t love its collective tendency toward self-important dogmatism. I’ve seen more than one friend get set up only to pull back, worrying there are dozens of unwritten rules about content warnings and alt text and linking and boosting they will constantly be put on blast over. "

JonChevreau, to random
@JonChevreau@mstdn.ca avatar

Turkey drops opposition to Sweden’s NATO bid on eve of summit https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/10/turkey-nato-summit-eu-sweden/

stephenesherman,

@JonChevreau Great news: to join …. finally approves.

Free_Press, to Ukraine
@Free_Press@mstdn.social avatar

Russians Are ‘Trapped’ in Bakhmut, City Under Ukrainian Fire Control – Kyiv

The latest reports from Ukraine’s military paints a grim picture for Russian forces in the long-besieged city, with many already “engaged and neutralized.”
️

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/19304

stephenesherman,

@Free_Press No confirmation on this, but I’m not sure why UKR military would make these claims if not sure. .. Maybe just morale boosting? … Bears watching developments

mmasnick, to random
@mmasnick@mastodon.social avatar

This seems like a pretty good statement regarding Threads from @Gargron https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

stephenesherman,

@mmasnick @Gargron Sounds good to me. There’s no way to unpush the thousands of panic buttons that have been preemptively pushed, but it’s a very reasonable, accurate statement of the situation.

colemankane, to fediverse

For anyone who's come over to the from : One of the first things I did when coming here was seek out a bunch of to follow, so my TL could mimic the "current events" feed. Here's a curated Google Sheet listing over a thousand journalists who've made accounts over here, who cover all sorts of things from cycling to sports to breaking news. Use it to help populate your , broadly for exposure.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14vfonxtyy0JFDxu5dZOZo-yAJrRXcu2lZ33atkFb7GM/edit#gid=0

stephenesherman,

@colemankane There over 1300 names on that spreadsheet. I started to wade in, quite enthused ... I followed three and then realized that two of them are inactive here. It's a good resource, but would require a fair amount of time to select journalists of interest and then check for inactivity (all done within Masto's two-step foreign-follow process).

kevinrothrock, to random

Russia is a magical land where no prominent public figure has sided with Prigozhin, and yet his mercenary convoy seems to be cruising through cities, seizing military installations almost unmolested en route to Moscow.

stephenesherman,

@kevinrothrock Weird, isn't it? It's almost as if Russia doesn't have an army.

alexeheath, to random
@alexeheath@mastodon.social avatar

Meta is planning to release its Twitter competitor in mid July, I’m told. It will eventually hook into Mastodon/ActivityPub but not at first. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/23/23771599/command-line-musk-versus-zuckerberg

stephenesherman,

@alexeheath So instance admins who loathe , who dislike its content policies, and who don't want their loads exponentially increased .. will be ... compelled to federate with Meta ...because .. why??? (I must completely misunderstand mastodon's design. Or, its primary feature is felt to be wholly inadequate by its most vehement proponents.)

stephenesherman, to ramen

Tonkotsu

. #マストドン写真部 #フォト #写真 #カメラメン .

stux, to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

I want to apologize again for the sudden block from mstdn to .art💔

Some say it's because they where bashing on meta but that's untrue.

The admin was spreading mis information about the discussion that only fueled the fire and not the discussion with knowing any of the facts

If a "user" does this we can handle accordingly but when an admin does this it's getting worrisome

We should not figh each other but rather talk about it like adults, and also I am to blame in this

It won't happen again

stephenesherman,

@wiredfire @stux So some admins are as fractious, opinionated, quick-to-overreact, etc., as any other cross-section of humanity.

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to bluesky
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Hey Fedies, before you click through on 's Terms of Service, and innocently agree to licensing all your content, likeness, thoughts and dreams to their fancy customizable AI Quamputer, you might want to watch the new Netflix Black Mirror: Joan Is Awful episode. Would hate to see you wind up trapped in a Jack Dorsey fictive metaverse.

stephenesherman,

@mastodonmigration haha … just watched this episode last night

stephenesherman, to firehouse

Ariel in the
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#マストドン写真部 #フォト #写真 #カメラメン #ニューヨーク
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#ファッション #スタイル #ストリートスタイル #ストリートフォト

stephenesherman, to photography

top of Chrysler Building through dense hazy smoky sky, on June 7, 2023, when the Canadian wildfires darkened the NY skies #マストドン写真部 #フォト #写真 #カメラメン #ニューヨーク

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