nickevershed

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Data and interactives editor at The Guardian in Australia

Doing things like: dataviz, investigations, science, mapping, music, python, javascript etc

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When an eel has a maw
with a pharyngeal jaw,
that’s a moray.

When the jaws open wide
and there’s more jaws inside,
that’s a moray.

When it skulks in a reef
and has two sets of teeth,
that’s a moray.

When an eel bites your thigh
and you bleed out and die
that’s a moray.

all the various communities of people I want to follow / stay in touch with / etc are now split between mastodon, bluesky and tw*tter 😞
you carry a large box of miscellaneous cables around from house to house for your entire adult life, but does it help you find the one XLR cable you need and know you own when you want it? no it does not
my chair gradually sinks down over the course of video meetings

People looking for a more neutral take on the state of various networks will probably get a lot out of this writeup from @mmasnick:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/28/six-months-in-thoughts-on-the-current-post-twitter-diaspora-options/

Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

Techdirt

I meant to be finishing a post about books I'm reading but I got distracted and wrote ~2500 words about Mastodon and Bluesky and the related things (welcoming design, insular culture) I've been stewing on for a few months

And also about vegetarian meat substitutes in the 1980s, which were *really something*

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

Today is primidi 11 Floréal in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating rhubarb.
and often it's along the lines of "The government just decided it was ok for everyone to get sick etc" which really discounts the agency of the general public, health people, etc etc

not sure of the nuance of this and discussing without getting yelled at but I am kinda interested in the disconnect on the current level of covid interventions.

every now and then some intelligent people I generally have quite a bit of respect for comes out with some tweets/posts/whatever about how they can't understand why seemingly everyone else / politicians / etc / are ok with not wearing masks etc etc etc

GOOD MORNING