Scott Reynolds Nelson
Paul FordIf it behooves you, instead of thinking any more about Twitter—hit us with some PDFs, some incomprehensible sociology, a fact about your town, some poetry no one cares about, political theory that will never land, obscure social history, climate links, math things, some tech so obscure 20 people use it. We want your inner noise. Just push the gas on your own ephemeralism and launch us into the future.
Jeff Greco@ftrain I’m using the bookmark feature constantly here, so much good stuff
jack the nonabrasive@ftrain @jeffgreco shoot, I didn’t know that existed! Thanks! I had been using Pocket, which is good for saving threads, still
חנן כהן • Hanan Cohendid you know that if you favorite a post, Mastodon will index the post for full text search? this is how it works on my instance and maybe in other instances.
Louise Locock
Jeremy ⁂@ProfLouiseL @hananc @jeffgreco @ftrain The instance you're on needs to have ElasticSearch installed and configured, which is not always the case, but when it is, you can indeed do full text search inside your own statuses, mentions, bookmarks and favorites.
Kara Shallenberg
CMSgt Dragon Woman (she/her)🇺🇸@jeffgreco @ftrain I can’t figure out how to use the bookmark function. How?
Andy Cook
Quinn Supplee
SuperSpreader
Līga
You S Blues
$dodger||ENDLESS FOLLLOWS READ PINNED@ftrain i don't have the guts just yet but this very much sounds like an aspirational emotional space to get to with regard to sharing online
@ghost we’re ready whenever you are
dr2chase@ghost @ftrain I have a blog, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's lame, but there it is. I went to look up a good bit to repost here and found all the links had rotted, so, sometimes bad through no fault of our own.
Here's a nerdy useful bike thing I did: https://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2022/06/26/laser-cut-acetal-pom-chain-guard/
einmon
KatM@ftrain This is the manifesto ☝️ I want "push the gas on your own ephemeralism" as a bumper sticker 😂
Cool Grey MatterCredit: Paul Ford @ftrain for the words and @KatEmm for the request. I'm just the designer.
@coolgreymatter @ftrain hell yeah
@coolgreymatter @KatEmm that is fantastic
Marta Kvande@KatEmm @ftrain not quite a bumper sticker, but ....
https://www.teepublic.com/sticker/37601365-ephemeralism
https://www.teepublic.com/sticker/37601365-ephemeralism
ARF
did you know/remember that Digital offered AltavlVista as a set of inter/intranet tools?
https://archive.org/details/altavista-brochure-hebrew/mode/1up
this is from my project to save the digital history of Israel.
David Brent 📚
Matt S@mattshortridge @ftrain @hananc Did Alta Vista also sing the National Anthem at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game? 😉
Gillinger has moved
R. L. Dane 
@Gillinger @dbsalk @hananc @ftrain
Suddenly, I'm remembering watching the interlaced gif logo of WebCrawler slowly appear before me. Funny how some things are so banal, yet so indelible.
@RL_Dane @Gillinger @hananc @ftrain I remember WebCrawler! IIRC, it was run by AOL.
1995 was a good time on the Internet. Everyone was still trying to figure stuff out, and at the blazing speed of 33.3k baud.
Kind of like Mastodon right now, but without the screeching modems. 😉 #SearchEngines #DialUp #RetroTech
@dbsalk @Gillinger @hananc @ftrain
Yeah, screeching modems have been replaced by screeching influencers, but those are easily muted. 😂
Dag@ftrain Political theory of mine is we ask the wrong questions and have wrong assumptions. Political journalists seem to assume that we all want the same end results, but have different methods of getting there.
This is simply not true, and we never ask for metrics. I would like our political debates to be what society would you like in 1 year, 5 years, 10 years. What concrete ideas do you have for taking us there. Then we measure for efficacy.
Zaini 
@Zaini @ftrain The "both sides" coverage distorts this though. Think healthcare, climate, tobacco, energy policy. Covering it as two reasonable sides with different ways is both factually incorrect and harmful. But the political reporter class persists with that nonsense. Lots of issues also have 6 reasonable sides, or only just one. Cover it that way.
BRB
erin sparling@ftrain sometimes I just want to use LaTeX and mathjax to do all of the typography on a site.
@everyplace did you think of applying to one of the latex supporting mastodon instances like mathstodon? Or are they all booked up.
@ftrain I didn’t know that existed!!!
Man Bartlett@ftrain I’m trying 😂✌️ https://zirk.us/@man/109524203456024397
Man Bartlett 🍓 (@[email protected])
i'm looking forward to the day when access to the akashic records is available to everyone, via science. all memories of all humans from all time. apocalypse will probably directly follow but those 10 minutes of universal access will be a blast.
George Girton@ftrain I don’t know about all that, but here’s a nice photo of a redwood with th moon, that I got while picking up the newspapers from the driveway this morning 🍸🐈
@martinicat that's exactly what I'm talking about
Courtney Fay@ftrain my political theory that I wish would land - Free Market Democrats.
https://misscrf.medium.com/the-right-who-cried-socialism-d19def06d512
https://misscrf.medium.com/the-right-who-cried-socialism-d19def06d512
@misscrf god ME TOO this would be much better as an identity than being ironically neoliberal
ElectricRedPanda
T L Holaday
MilennialZero@MilennialZero @ftrain thank you for taking the time to read and consider it!
Beth@ftrain “The best revenge is to lead a good life”.
yfkysf@ftrain I am worried that so many of the young people I interact with seem to flatline when they are at school. How do you just go in and sit still and not explore the tools you are presented with? My genX ADHD brain just doesn't get it
Drew@yfkysf @ftrain
Defecit theories about what's wrong with our kids are like looking through the wrong end of the telescope. The answers are in the systems we surround our young people with. We need to ask them about what works for them, what they need from us. Co-construct the learning environment based on that feedback. I always get surprising and insightful feedback from the classes I survey, some of it uncomfortable for me. The relationship with our students is the foundation of learning.
Defecit theories about what's wrong with our kids are like looking through the wrong end of the telescope. The answers are in the systems we surround our young people with. We need to ask them about what works for them, what they need from us. Co-construct the learning environment based on that feedback. I always get surprising and insightful feedback from the classes I survey, some of it uncomfortable for me. The relationship with our students is the foundation of learning.
@ftrain @yfkysf @drewran
My 21 year old son went to a progressive high school, but even there it was based on sitting in a chair listening to a lecture. The thing is, people who want to become teachers—even progressive teachers—are people who were “good at school.”
Not my son. But once he was outside with a tool or a task at hand he was wide awake. In a lecture, fast asleep.
He’s been a firefighter, and he has a great job climbing cellphone towers.
My 21 year old son went to a progressive high school, but even there it was based on sitting in a chair listening to a lecture. The thing is, people who want to become teachers—even progressive teachers—are people who were “good at school.”
Not my son. But once he was outside with a tool or a task at hand he was wide awake. In a lecture, fast asleep.
He’s been a firefighter, and he has a great job climbing cellphone towers.
Francis 🏴☠️ Gulotta
1337 $#!+ I did that