@FediTips hello! Please Caption Bot has moved from botsin.space to @PleaseCaptionBot

Could I trouble you to update https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-remember-to-add-text-descriptions-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/?

Additional info: in the migration from botsin.space to hachyderm.io, the bot's follows list didn't get transferred unfortunately. So while it's slowly re-following all its followers, some users won't get reminders for a few days/weeks. In the meantime, if anyone wants to make sure they get reminders, they can unfollow the bot and re-follow it.

@theropologist hallo, I take care of @PleaseCaption and someone from your instance suggested that Beige.Party might be a good place for it to go, since BotsIn.Space is shutting down.

The bot follows ~10k accounts, subscribes to toots (not boosts), and sends ~2-ish DMs an hour. Assuming the bot is a good fit, would you be comfortable hosting it?

We have a lot of societal mechanisms to make the youngs appreciate old stuff, like Beowulf, Banquo, and Bach, but where’s the pressure for adults to appreciate the new stuff?

Why is it cool for grandparents to drag the kids to Ballets Russes, or to put on the Beatles, when they don’t have to go to see Beyoncé in concert or listen to a Biggie track?

A hypothesis.

First, background. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-national-evil is a life-changing long-read about the discovery of how essential #iodine is, in the alpine cantons of Switzerland. (I began it as bedtime reading and it’s so riveting the kids begged me to not stop halfway.)

Now, that hypothesis: societies have a finite “science indulgence budget”. Every concession you have to make to accommodate expert advice. Every tradition you have to modify. Every moment you acknowledge your forebears did it wrong. All that eats into your society’s budget for change.

Till your whole society nopes out of any more science.

“Thanks for the iodine, and all the life-saving public health and personal health interventions, but we’re good. We’re not gonna change our ways because of outsider experts. Any changes are gonna be vIbEs-OnlY”

And western society’s budget for this just got spent, in the last couple of decades or so. It might take years, decades, centuries, to bank back that willingness to listen to experts.

After the TV show *Motherland: Fort Salem* blew me away with the power of telling stories that totally and thoroughly centered people who aren’t normally centered (see https://sfba.social/@22/113134315559753389 and https://fasiha.github.io/post/motherland/), I knew I had to have more.

More stories recentering people whose stories I haven’t heard.

What a strategy!

*Reservation Dogs* became my favorite TV series ever. It’s a story completely and totally about reservation kids in Oklahoma, by a largely Indigenous cast and crew, and the only thing that helped fill the emotional hole it left when I finished the finale was wrapping myself in the official merch shirt (https://shop.fxnetworks.com/collections/reservation-dogs/products/reservation-dogs-spirit-anatomy-adult-short-sleeve-t-shirt) and trawling the subreddit reliving it with fellow RezzDogs lovers.