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johncarlosbaez, 5 days ago to random

I quit Twitter and moved to Mastodon in October 2022 when Elon Musk took over. Many other academics also came to Mastodon, and I was very happy - see my pinned posts. But most of them later became inactive.

I stick around because I've decided that corporate-owned social media are dangerous - especially now, when authoritarians are spreading their reach. Turns out it's unrealistic to expect that most academics feel this way - yet. They may get the idea when it's too late.

(1/2)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04005

dansup, 5 days ago to Pixelfed

Groups are nearly finished, and the app too.

Collections and Portfolio features are getting major overhauls, with federation support.

Speaking of federation support, rumour has it that Pixelfed is working on custom domain support so you can bring your own domain to any Pixelfed instance, allowing you even more control, and a fallback in the event you need to migrate and preserve your handle/identity! 👀

#pixelfed #groups #byod #customDomains #federation

Impossible_PhD, 5 days ago to trans

It's Pride month, and now that we're 55 years after Stonewall, it can be awfully easy to forget why it's all such a big deal--and what Pride exists to do.

This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're diving into the lifesaving importance of Pride and the Prejudice that makes it so necessary. Grab a rainbow flag, show yourself a little love, and join us as we talk about internalized self-stigma and shame.

#Trans #TransJoy #MtF #Enby #FtM #Psychology

https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/pride-and-prejudice

coloradosun, 5 days ago to random

Nearly $300K from group with hidden donors pours into Colorado legislative primary in Democratic district
https://coloradosun.com/2024/06/10/aurora-state-senate-race-money-colorado/

TonyStark, 5 days ago to random

Men of the Fediverse: please stop telling women they’re overreacting to U.S Republican fascism and they need to earn your support. JFC do better.

GottaLaff, 6 days ago to random

AGAIN.

Via Chris D. Jackson, “ 16 Years Elective Office, TN Election Commissioner, Local Democratic Party Chair, Strategist”:

#Trump Caught Paying People to Attend Rally

A Craigslist ad has been found offering payment for people to attend Trump's rally in Las Vegas today.

Remember the video from a few days ago where Trump was waving at a non-existent crowd? It appears EVERYTHING IS A FACADE.

The media wants you to think Trump has enthusiasm, but the facts say otherwise.

DemocracySpot, 6 days ago to animals

📷 Gus' goofy side.

#FediversalPictures #DogsOfMastodon

TonyStark, 6 days ago to random

We are reaching a new level of low when words like “revenge” are used when describing the justice system, our political system, presidential candidates, or the citizens of the U.S.

There’s no mystery about what Trump and his supporters want or will do. All we have to do is look at what they have already done to see that Trump and his base have already given up on democracy and any kind of accountability.

Republicans call for "revenge" in response to Trump's conviction:
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/08/1211598489/trumps-trials-gop-revenge-response

stux, 7 days ago to random

Just a little reminder that here in Europe, we play the same exact video games as youth from the United States

We do not have (daily) school shootings however

Instead of blaming video games, start looking at the super easy to get weapons on each corner of street problem

Games are not the problem, weapons are 🇺🇸

RickiTarr, 7 days ago to random

A sweet little girl said I was pretty today, and my first instinct was to correct her, and seriously, that kind of bullshit is why girls and women have to struggle with self image throughout their lives. So, I said, thank you, and told her she looked pretty too.

Like imagine saying, Actually kiddo, I'm fat, and short, and I have a big ole moon face, and weird hair, and...
I don't want to put that energy out in the world anymore. Anyway, y'all look pretty today.

warandpeas, 8 days ago to random

That cat on the left is up to something.

Strandjunker, 8 days ago to random

Between Dolly Parton’s quiet COVID research fund, BLM support, and her sending generations of children books through the USPS, she continues to be one of the most relevant and wonderful people of every era. — Dolly represents the best of America, while Trump represents the worst.

kde, 8 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to kde

You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

• Krita is your new design/painting app
• Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
• glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
• digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

• Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
• Scribus - layout like a pro
• GIMP - need we say more
• Blender - ditto

@kde

nixCraft, 8 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

Remembering Alan Turing, died on 7 June 1954, victim of prejudice and ignorance 💔 He was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist and is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artiticial intelligence. He was also homosexual in a time when homosexuality was illegal. After his conviction he was given a choice between chemical castration and prison. He chose chemical castration, and later chose to kill himself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

rbreich, 8 days ago to random

Unemployment has been at or below (mostly below) 4% since the end of 2021.

4 years ago, Trump called it "joyous" &"stupendous" that unemployment was only 13.3%.

In the "booming" Reagan years, unemployment averaged 7.5%.

Pres. Biden is presiding over historically strong growth.

the_etrain, 8 days ago to random

Can't wait to one day tell my grandkids how I was on Mastodon in November of '22. They'll probably get sick of me talking about it.

GottaLaff, 8 days ago to random

🎯
Via Kyle Griffin:

In his meeting with Volodymyr #Zelenskyy, President #Biden apologized for delays in security funding — blaming conservatives:

"I apologize for those weeks of not knowing what's going to happen in terms of funding, because we had trouble getting the bill that we had to pass … some of our very conservative members who were holding it up."

TonyStark, 8 days ago to random

Great. Appoint a couple of people who blindly support a guy who stole government secrets (which he confessed to and shipped the evidence that he had done so directly to the government he stole them from) and left them lying around a public country club where literally anyone could see them to the Intelligence committee.

I hope people are paying attention to this.

Speaker Johnson makes outlandish picks for key intelligence posts:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/speaker-johnson-makes-outlandish-picks-key-intelligence-posts-rcna155681

StillIRise1963, 8 days ago to random

White supremacists raped Black women with impunity until the end of Jim Crow. Any Black man who supports them is no kind of fucking man at all.

mcc, 8 days ago to random

I'm having a technical problem. This would be a great time to have access to services such as Reddit and Stack Overflow as opposed to those services now being traps that exist to sell your words to sketchy businesses so the sketchy businesses can eat the delicious statistical relationships therein and use them to sound more plausibly like humans when they're telling you to eat rocks

DemocracySpot, 8 days ago to animals

📷 9:55 AM | 82º F

#FediversalPictures #DogsOfMastodon

GossiTheDog, 25 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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