While the valiant franc-tireurs at Mammouth.Cafe work to restore their Mastodon instance, I'll retreat to the safehouse at Mastodon.Social and do the following:
So there was this Dutch somnambulist in upstate New York who went to sleep around 1760 and slept for 20 years, doing pushups and situps in his sleep the whole time. When he woke up the villagers saw his new muscles and gave him a new nickname.
What, you never heard of Ripped Van Winkle?
@[email protected] And for those Mastodonites (what's the word for that anyway?) who aren't into #hamradio, here's a plug:
As Stewart Brand (of The WELL and the "Whole Earth Catalog") has pointed out for many years, ham radio is the ultimate in decentralized, free communication. There's no "middleman" -- you talk directly to other people -- unless you volutarily set up a mesh or other network... beginning to sound a bit like Mastodon, isn't it?
@wrenpile I was a Brooklynite for only one year, but it was an eventful one (2001-02). I took the Brooklyn-Miramar local and ended up in San Diego 12 years ago. BMT are my real-life initials so I have a special affinity for those subway lines.
I saw the discussion you were involved in re clay tablets, books, versioned documents, and Needham. I copyedit a lot of Chinese-history stuff as well as some book-history stuff so I'm glad to run into you & your interlocutors
the future is already here
it just hasn't federated to your instance yet
Serge K. Keller 🦣
beatrix bitrot