David Preston

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Educator and advocate for Open-Source Learning. Author, ACADEMY OF ONE. I do crosswords in ink.
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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! - Sitting Bull
Now there are more than 10 million users registered on Mastodon. - The Verge

Over the years, Mastodon has occasionally seen the number of incoming users shift from a flood to a trickle and back again. While the flow of people jumping over from Twitter now is slower than it was shortly after Musk’s takeover, as of this weekend the “fediverse” microblogging platform now has over 10 million registered accounts across known server instances. Some Verge writers are among those registered — if you’re looking for someone to follow then here you go.

The Verge
Rolly Crump dies: Disney designer helped define Disneyland

Animator turned theme park designer Rolly Crump, who was instrumental in the design of early Disneyland, died Sunday in his Carlsbad home. He was 93.

Los Angeles Times
Rolly Crump dies: Disney designer helped define Disneyland

Animator turned theme park designer Rolly Crump, who was instrumental in the design of early Disneyland, died Sunday in his Carlsbad home. He was 93.

Los Angeles Times

“It’s not like science is going to be held hostage by a guy that played himself into burning $44 billion on a website that makes no money, just so he could force all its users to read his shitposts.”

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-nearly-everyone/

Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone

Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.

WIRED
Going toward #opensource feels good
I’m all in

So... the summary is that for all the fear some people had that taxpayers would "bail out billionaires," and the corresponding fear that companies had that "a ton of our money could evaporate and destroy the economy with massive downstream impact"... FDIC/Treasury stepped in and did the right thing: depositors made whole, no taxpayer funds, bank assessment to make up any difference, & SVB equity/unsecured debtholders (mostly) wiped out.

A very good result.

Hello world! Elon Musk picking a twitter fight with Icelandic philanthropist and man of the year 2022 Haraldur Thorleifsson ended up being the final push that we needed, so now we are here on Mastodon. We don't know how any of this works, but follow us for posts on vision science, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and stupid memes #VisionScience #CognitivePsychology #CognitiveScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #StupidMemes #ThanksForPointingOutHashtagsInComments