40+ year IT person and (slow) long distance runner.
Father to a bunch of kids, married to my dream person.
Loves to travel the world, Grateful Dead (all incarnations) and enjoys all the goodness the world has to offer.
Just living life.
Some tags of things I like:
#Linux #InfoSec #SciFi #antifascist, #ultrarunning #running #gratefuldead #DeadandCompany
| Human | Yes |
Humans are so poorly designed
What do you love?
I dunno - bread, pasta, cake, alcohol, smoking and drugs.
OK, we're going to make all those things just horrible for you.
Oh no.
What do you hate?
I dunno - cabbage, running, those weird green smoothies health people make you drink, work, having to interact with people.
OK - those are the things you have to do all of the time just to stay alive.
What?
I quit Twitter and moved to Mastodon in October 2022 when Elon Musk took over. Many other academics also came to Mastodon, and I was very happy - see my pinned posts. But most of them later became inactive.
I stick around because I've decided that corporate-owned social media are dangerous - especially now, when authoritarians are spreading their reach. Turns out it's unrealistic to expect that most academics feel this way - yet. They may get the idea when it's too late.
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Following changes in Twitter's ownership and subsequent changes to content moderation policies, many in academia looked to move their discourse elsewhere and migration to Mastodon was pursued by some. Our study looks at the dynamics of this migration. Utilizing publicly available user account data, we track the posting activity of academics on Mastodon over a one year period. We also gathered follower-followee relationships to map internal networks, finding that the subset of academics who engaged in migration were well-connected. However, this strong internal connectivity was insufficient to prevent users from returning to Twitter/X. Our analyses reveal significant challenges sustaining user engagement on Mastodon due to its decentralized structure as well as competition from other platforms such as Bluesky and Threads. The movement lost momentum after an initial surge of enthusiasm where the main network was fully established as most users did not maintain their activity levels, and those who did faced lower levels of engagement. Our findings highlight the challenges involved in transitioning professional communities to decentralized platforms, emphasizing the need for focus on community building for long-term user engagement.
It's bad enough that MAGA thugs are bum rushing us to a Trump dictatorship and, you know, trying to eradicate people like me by stoking fear with the uninformed.
But do they have to be such whiny bitches about it all?
Bro, are your white christian privelges and spray-tan Jesus really that fragile? Are your feelings so hurt that all you care about is revenge?
This grievance shit is getting old and I'm tired of it. Let's vote so hard that these fuckers will truly have something to cry about.
"Love knows No Gender" by James DeFazio
Prints and more available at:
https://james-defazio.pixels.com/featured/love-knows-no-gender-james-defazio.html
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“There is no cavalry coming. No miracle solution. No saviors.
In the end, we, the American people - not any of our institutions - have to save our democracy by voting in defense of that democracy this fall.
We are the cavalry. The responsibility is ours.”
—Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, February 28, 2024
Pepsi replaced its 32oz Gatorade bottle with a 28oz for the same price.
Nabisco shrunk the family size box of Wheat Thins by 12%.
General Mills shrunk the family size box of Cocoa Puffs by 6%.
Frito-Lay shrunk the size of a bag of Doritos by 5%.
Shrinkflation is everywhere.
Push nazi propaganda, in SOMEONE ELSE'S replies, because I'm not tolerating it. I simply am not. Capitalism is boiling the planet, it's got nothing to do with people "breeding like rabbits."
If you can't simply NOT post that shit in my replies, you will NOT be in my replies. It's that fucking simple.
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