Christopher Mimsthe way we live now:
Bluesky informs me Twitter is down, and also that Bluesky can’t handle the resulting surge in use, so I come to Mastodon to post about it
Art Hennessey
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I write things, maybe you'll read them. I perform, maybe you'll see me. I talk, maybe you'll listen.
It is amazing to me the extent to which many people on Twitter still are in a sort of denial about how much it has changed.
The paid blue checks contribute bile at worst and annoying trollishness at best. And they proliferate on the top of comment threads.
Ads are shady or outright offensive, especially when they appear in ways that seem to be actually trolling the threads they are showing up under.
American Voters:
2020 - We don't want that guy anymore.
2022 - In case we weren't crystal clear, we don't want anybody who is trying to be that guy either.
GOP in 2024: Hear us out, what if we gave you... that guy again?
Reading a biography of Myrna Loy. She was born and raised in Montana. Her Granparents were practically pioneers.
Interestingly enough, when her family moved from a more rural town to the relatively "big" city of Helena, she and Gary Cooper were students at the same elementary school at the same time. They were only a year apart.
Loy always said she didn't remember him from that time. Cooper said he did remember her as the little girl with red hair, freckles and tight pigtails. #montana
I think I've finally accepted the reality that my Twitter feed was something I built and curated over something like twelve years. I've only been on Mastadon for a couple of months, so I need to be a little more patient. 😆
One of my favorite bits in #ArrestedDevelopment Season 4 is how a simple conversation gains larger and larger context throughout the season. On rewatch, the dialogue in the early episodes is exponentially more hilarious once you know what is going on.
Amazing book that I'm just over halfway through right now.
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is a comprehensive look at the Great Migration of blacks from the Jim Crow South to the Northern cities and the West Coast during a large part of the 20th century.
The book weaves the migrations of three individuals from different time periods and different states into a larger study of this decades-long mass exodus.
It is gripping, informative and beautifully written.
This is how a white supremacist kicks off Black History month.
Desantis is just pure trash.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/politics/desantis-diversity-inclusion-florida-universities/index.html?
You may have heard a lot about "enshittification" lately.
Cory Doctorow in the link below talks about how podcasts remain relatively resistance to this process.
Despite serious attempts, "platforms" have been unable to keep podcasts consumers and creators in their walled garden.
Podcasters continue to create and distribute their content independent of specific apps.
Doctorow on Podcasts and Enshittification. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/27/enshittification-resistance/