Mastodawn

Yaser ✅Jul 1, 2023

Adam Dalliance Jun 30, 2023

Today
* Reddit ends free API access.
* Twitter turns off anonymous reading.
* Youtube is talking about banning ad-blocking users.

The tech industry was living on cheep money and low interest rates, and now they're all afraid to let their precious content get used for AI training.

The walls are going up, the lawful corporate web is collapsing in on itself.

Yaser ✅Feb 11, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum Feb 11, 2023

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange #HistoryRemix

Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer

American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.

NOAA Climate.gov

Yaser ✅Dec 31, 2022

رأس السنة الميلادية
كل سنة وإنت راس يا عمي

Yaser ✅Nov 22, 2022

Rev. caffinepwrd ☕Nov 22, 2022

This is why I do Thanksgiving with friends

Yaser ✅Nov 22, 2022

Ceci n’est pas un Magritte Nov 22, 2022

Soir d'orage - Ceci n'est pas un Magritte n° 19869

Yaser ✅Nov 16, 2022

morg pyre (derogatory)Nov 16, 2022

im an internationally published author*

*people from multiple countries have seen my toots

Yaser ✅Nov 13, 2022

Jon S. von Tetzchner Nov 11, 2022

Welcome to Vivaldi Social!

Yaser ✅Nov 13, 2022

ploum Nov 10, 2022

100 Mastodon myths:

1. Mastodon is hard.

FALSE. It’s a "soft"ware. Not hardware.

2. You have to use Linux to post on Mastodon.

FALSE. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also supported.

3. You need to learn to use the Vim editor before posting on Mastodon.

FALSE. There’s also an emacs plugin.

4. Mastodon is only for computer nerds.

FALSE. As you can see, we sometimes try to make jokes that everyone could understand.

Yaser ✅Nov 13, 2022

Boba Nov 13, 2022

If you're white and you tell a person of color that they need to CW their discussion of racism that happens on this platform or in their daily life, I will suspend your account. This is your warning.

Yaser ✅Nov 13, 2022