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David Feb 4, 2023

This is a sentence in a BBC News article about Liz Truss. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64523277

'Like many in her tribe, Ms Truss has never been short of that priceless political quality: a brass neck'

Now I am no fan of Liz Truss but I do so worry how awful the BBC has become. With such overt commentary and bias you could be forgiven for thinking there was political motivation directly influencing news.

How do we get BBC bback to an objective source of news ... rather another commentary.

Liz Truss returns - and it could be trouble for Rishi Sunak

Truss returns to the political fray via a newspaper comment piece - and the PM can't afford to ignore her.

BBC News

David Jan 22, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum Jan 21, 2023

“If the World were 100 People”

25 are children
75 are adults (9 are 65+)

60 Asians
16 Africans
14 people from the Americas
10 Europeans

31 Christians
23 Muslims
16 people w/o religion
15 Hindus
7 Buddhists
8 other

Languages:
12 Chinese
6 Spanish
5 English
4 Hindi
3 Arabic
3 Bengali
3 Portuguese
2 Russian
2 Japanese
60 other

86 can read & write
7 have a college degree
40 have Internet
78 have shelter
91 have access to safe drinking water

Source: 100people.org based on 2016 #data

David Jan 6, 2023

Tucker Teague Jan 3, 2023

Like most people, I don't make a big deal about new year's #resolutions, but I always have some, at least in my mind. Typically, they are lose weight, get in shape, maybe climb a mountain, write something big, etc.

I'm not saying I don't/won't have any of those resolutions (read: vague hopes) but I'm thinking of one resolution: to begin #simplifying my life—reducing the number of things I have, saying "no" more often, controlling my buying-things-cravings, etc.

I think this is fundamental.

David Dec 25, 2022

Chris Trottier Dec 25, 2022

Good graph for understanding the Fediverse, though it's not exhaustive!

It shows who is talking to who, and why.

For example:

1. Mastodon talks to Pixelfed through ActivityPub -- it does not talk to diaspora*
2. diaspora* talks to Hubzilla using Diaspora -- it does not talk to Mastodon
3. Friendica uses three protocols, one which is specific to its software (DRFN)

As well, all these services have vastly different functions!

David Dec 23, 2022

Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎Dec 23, 2022

For me at least, getting onto @Mastodon and appreciating the structure of the platform and the tone of conversation has made these other pop-up social networks (Twitter replacements) totally unattractive. No, I don’t want to move up on a wait list by “referring 5 friends”; no, I don’t want to be part of another Jack Dorsey project; no, I don’t want to be part of something with weird completely top-down control. Mastodon broke me for other platforms.

David Dec 16, 2022

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David Dec 16, 2022

Ken White Dec 16, 2022

Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.

And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.

David Dec 16, 2022

Quinta Jurecic Dec 16, 2022

Ironically, the Great Banning is the first time that Mastodon has felt like it's fulfilling the role for me that Twitter once did—a place to keep up-to-date on a fast-moving event, where everyone is talking about the same thing

David Dec 16, 2022