Mastodawn

I've seen so many like me who are over the moon about sending people over the moon.

I've also seen people who are meh about it, and even a few who hate it.

This is fine, whatevs, I don't get it but I've loved space since I was a toddler.

What is not fine is lashing out at those of us who are enthused. For some of us, it's a symbol of hope, something good, in this dark world right now. You don't like it? Fine. You don't like that we like it? Find a cork and stuff it. Don't yuck our yum.

Let people enjoy things. (Unless they enjoy harming others, in which case Houston, we have a problem.)

Que 20h ago

Angus McIntyre 1d ago

The reason why the Artemis mission has everyone so fascinated is because it is a showcase for the efforts of people who are very, very good at their jobs, at a time when the news cycle is dominated by people who are not merely terrible at their jobs, but awful human beings as well.

Que 2d ago

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Apr 5

This was one of the most amazing things I saw at the Seattle Asian Art Museum recently—this cube of intricately cut metal, lit from within, that turned the whole room into an artistic interplay of darkness and light. Casting all the visitors into the installation; shadows on the walls.

Artist: Anila Quayyum Agha, a Pakistani/American artist

#AlicePics #Art

Que 4d ago

da_667 4d ago

brutal, but entirely true. and I'm tired of pretending its not.

https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116369383743382637

Que Apr 5

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Apr 5

Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.

Mashable

Que Apr 1

Star Trek Minus Context Apr 1

#StarTrek

Que Mar 30

Fedi.Tips Mar 30

⚠️ Do not move your account to mastodon.cloud. If you know someone already on mastodon.cloud you might want to suggest they move to a different server.

-Mastodon.cloud's admin hasn't posted since Feb 2023
-There doesn't seem to be any moderation, really awful bigotry is still there months after being reported
-The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes
-Because of all the above, many other servers have defederated mastodon.cloud

#MastodonCloud #FediBlock

Que Mar 30

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Christine Lemmer-Webber Mar 30

"Over 1.5 million GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot's coding agent" https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/

Microsoft rolled it back and used the most weasel'y wording language imagineable to say they did so https://twitter.com/martinwoodward/status/2038612131084464521

> We've disabled it already. Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on _any_ PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky. Disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback.

"product tips" lmao

Que Mar 24