Monoid Mary> There is another possible problem that had not even occurred to me. The candidate failed the trivial question because they tried to write the answer in Java.
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extropicone of the biggest things i internalized from gnusocial is that i don't have to passively accept whatever changes in lifestyle that big corporations decide to push on me. i don't have to passively accept ANY technology changes. i get to decide what technology i use and how i interact with the world through it. that was a big insight for me, and watching the mastodon timeline i'm seeing 100 thousand people slowly coming to the same realization. it's pretty powerful to watch and it reminds me to have empathy when they say shitty things about mastodon vs. gnusocial or the pre-existing community here. they are still recovering from their twitter stockholm syndrome. it's been a while since i've seen first hand how much social media is fucking up the brains of the world.
afldcrthree logicians walk into a bar
the bartender says, "do all three of you want a beer?"
the first says, "I don't know"
the second says, "I don't know"
the third says "yes"
@Efi yep, that's exactly why i moved
just another reminder: I've moved over to https://mastodon.xyz/@er1n for the forseeable future.
Hallå KittehThe Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect:
http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues.
[ . . . ]
and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect."
http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues.
[ . . . ]
and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect."
The Book of KelsPosting on Birbsite after being spoiled with 500 characters feels like trying to stuff a bowling ball into a condom.
MOTHERTUSKIN TIMELINE LAG, YO
if anyone hasn't senn @sarahjeong's article on Motherboard abt mastodon yet, go check it out. it's pretty great at explaining what mastodon and federation are to laypeople.
yan 🐇hypothesis: if too many early users sign up on mastodon.social instead of other instances, federation will end up becoming a second-class feature. (imagine what email today would look like if gmail had existed in the 90s.)
other instances need to be able to compete with mastodon.social for growth, or https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 should be implemented.