πŸ–₯️ & 🍺

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Still figuring out Mastodon

#GoStars #WhoDey #CBJ

200 Temba, his arms wide
302 Mirab, with sails unfurled
403 Chenza at court, the court of silence
404 Kadir beneath Mo Moteh
500 Shaka, when the walls fell

That's neither good nor bad, but it reflects the fact that the average Mastodon user doesn't care about replacing Twitter and is often opposed to making it more Twitter-like, culturally and technologically, even it means driving potential users away.

Bluesky, meanwhile, is very specifically aimed at people who want a Twitter replacement, even if it's not there yet.

Regardless, this could all end with Twitter winning by default, with all of the negative political consequences that entails.

Good for NPR for quitting Twitter πŸ’ͺ

What do we want?

Better hearing!

When do we want it?

Better hearing!

Here is a tiny warthog for your troubles, fellow tooters.
Maybe the real social network is the friends we convinced to move to Mastodon along the way.
Found lots of stuff I drew in the http://haveibeentrained.com database. Some of it was work for hire, some creator-owned. I just wrote to the law firm handling the class action to ask if they need artists to document instances of their work-for-hire being scraped for AI training, or just creator-owned.
Soawning

Data Governance for Generative AI

Part of my ongoing public-service campaign series. #euc #jesus
Omg lol