Disabled geek who uses social media to keep up with the world from behind the Blue Mountains
Avatar description: Luse from Poison Elves with an annoyed expression taking booze up his room
| Location | Wiradjuri land |
| Pronouns | He/him/hey you |
A large and growing sector of the U.S. economy produces nothing of value. Nada. Zilch.
Crypto. Derivatives. Private equity. Every winner comes at the expense of a current or future loser.
Shouldn’t a rational society heavily tax this zero-sum work? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-economys-large-and-growing-unproductive#details
#introduction : I'm a #neurologist, cognitive neuroscientist & ethicist at @UCSF. I care for people with #dementia + other cognitive disorders and research #decision making, #neuroethics, #neurotech.
I trained for my MD here at #UCSF and my PhD in #philosophy at #NYU. I'm interim director of #bioethics at UCSF. #interdisciplinary
Personal: Dad to 2 adolescent boys, a #chihuahua + a #corgi. Family background Hokkien Sino-Burmese, 🇲🇰 by 👰🤵. #NBA, history podcasts, food, #SFGiants, 90s #hiphop.
FRIENDS: We are MeidasTouch, the unapologetically pro-democracy organization many of you know from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.
With the chaos at Twitter, we want to build our platform here on Mastodon to make sure we can continue to spread our message.
Can you please BOOST this post, FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same?
Mainstream media journalist: It's too hard to build an audience on Mastodon! I cross-post the same shouty posts and one-sentence slogans as I do on the fowl app, and they just get no traction here! It must be because it's just too complicated for people to read posts from other instances or something!
Me: Okay, do you follow many interesting people here?
Journo: No.
Me: Do you reply to posts and engage with other people?
Journo: No.
Me: Do you like and share many other people's posts?
Journo: No.
Me: Do you post anything interesting, insightful or funny? Or just shouty denouncements?
Journo: Oh, I don't just cross-post shouty posts and slogans — I also do self-promotion! Subscribe now to read my latest article!
Me: Could the problem be that you've relied entirely on an algorithm that's fine-tuned to incite people by distributing the most provocative content widely to generate ad views? That the core issues are that you don't engage, contribute little to the online community, and share little content of real value and substance? That you're essentially no different to the social media bullies you so often denounce in your paywalled articles?
Journo: No. The problem isn't me, the problem is Mastodon!
Coffee drinkers! Listen! Starbucks workers nationwide are starting a 3-day strike today (Friday 12/16) as part of their effort to unionize.
How can you help? Don't cross the picket line. Get your coffee elsewhere. (Preferably at independent coffee shops. Long live small biz).
And spread the word! Make this message viral. Let's hold billionaire corps accountable because worker's rights are human rights. Let's go.
Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:
Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell
Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan
Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa
Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee
Tony Webster
@tony
Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder
Hello #TwitterRefugees #TwitterMigration!
Help yourself to a drink: ☕🍵🍺🍷🍸🧃🧉🥤
🔹Fill out your profiles.
🔹Toot an #introduction.
🔹A toot is a post.
🔹Hashtags are how we find cool stuff and people.
🔹Favourite is a quiet high-five or hug or thumbs-up.
🔹Boost is to share toots worth sharing.
🔹@feditips has the best toot-orials.
🔹Ask for help with #FediHelp.
🔹CamelCaseYourHashtags so screenreaders don't mangle it.
🔹Describe/Caption your images.
🔹Don't try to fit an elephant into a bird-shaped hole.
Robert Reich
CNN Breaking News
Winston Chiong
MeidasTouch 
Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Katharine Trendacosta
Tiffany Li
The Chaser
Georgette Tan