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Digital content strategist, journalist, baseball fan. #gocubs Remaining on Twitter while exploring Mastodon. San Francisco Bay Area.
The problem when government has a financial incentive to partner on a service — #Clear Secure’s #airport #security line — that creates no societal benefit and only helps those who can afford the service: https://slate.com/business/2022/12/clear-airports-line-tsa-precheck.html #tsa #precheck
Clear Is a Pox on America’s Airports

Happy holidays to everyone but the company for skipping the security line.

Slate
Got first MyShake app warning about 6.3 magnitude #earthquake in Humboldt County but didn’t feel it in #bayarea. That’s about 200 miles away. That’s a big one. Hope everyone is OK.
1. I appreciate the research done and Insider’s detailed analysis on the possibility that three distinct #baseballs were used in 2022.
2. I don’t trust #MLB on this.
3. I’d like expects to weigh in on whether Insider’s analysis has holes and whether the research is statistically significant given the sample size and how the balls were obtained and tested.
4. “Goldilocks.” Very nicely done.
#homeruns
https://www.insider.com/mlb-used-two-balls-again-this-year-and-evidence-points-to-a-third-2022-12
MLB used two balls again this year, and evidence points to a third

An Insider investigation based on research by Meredith Wills found evidence that during this season, MLB circulated three distinct sets of game balls.

Insider

If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop: Ticketmaster and Ideas Lying Around"

https://doctorow.medium.com/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-will-eventually-stop-110ba9711133

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Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop

A lot of regulations went up in flames in the Reagan/Thatcher era: labor laws, environmental rules, finance frameworks. But the most consequential shift of the age was the change in antitrust law…

Medium

An Incredible Day In Internet History

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

Interesting piece by @mathewi about the culture clash between journalists accustomed to Twitter & existing Mastodon instances. He reports about 45 servers are blocking people on journa.host, which I was seriously considering joining or shifting towards: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php What do you think? How should members of the media be approaching participating or reporting on the #fediverse?
Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it.

<p>Ever since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]</p>

Columbia Journalism Review
Mastodon has jumped the shark. The Cheese Board daily #pizza of the day bot is here! (Image below was the Friday tweet.) #Berkeley #BerkeleyCA https://sfba.social/@Todays_Pizza
Todays_Pizza (@[email protected])

0 Posts, 1 Following, 1 Follower · Bot sending the daily pizza for Berkeley's Cheese Board Collective (but not associated with the collective) Managed, somewhat, by @[email protected]

SFBA.social
Oh, Lord, Amy Klobuchar is on
Morning Joe and they predictably go after 230. NO! Thousands of site hosts on Mastodon, et al need its protections. Social media will not be about some big, evil company but about thousands of volunteers and their risk and liability.
I get that proper nouns don’t count, but I coulda used the points from this one. #baseball #nytspellingbee #hivemind
#Mastodon isn’t #Twitter! (Thank goodness!)

⭐️ Favorites ⭐ just let the poster know you liked their #toot.

🔁 Boosts 🔁 push someone's post into your friends’ feeds (and help people find what they are looking for).

So thank you for ⭐ my posts (#awesome!), but if you 🔁 posts, then more people see them!

And pretend it’s the 2010s! #Hashtags are how you #search #lol#mastodon #MastodonTips #BillsMafia #Vote #ally #tips #twitterexodus #elonmusk #fediverse