@nkrishnan

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BREAKING: JavaScript has been banned from Twitter for impersonating a real programming language.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lukaseder/status/1590301562525876225

Lukas Eder on Twitter

“BREAKING: JavaScript has been banned from Twitter for impersonating a real programming language.”

Twitter
Hullo. So this is Mastodon, eh? Well, I'm here. And to celebrate, here's a photo I took yesterday in Kingston NY of Good Omens director Douglas directing An Unnamed Actor (on the other side of the glass) in Episode 2 of Good Omens Season 2 (Coming Next Summer).
"national boom in students choosing a major in the arts and humanities ... At UC Berkeley and many other top universities, students increasingly are choosing to study fields such as art history, modern and ancient languages and literature, philosophy and religion, visual and performing arts, and film and media studies. They believe these academic disciplines are vital to their pursuit of becoming global citizens who can tackle society’s issues ... "
#highered #humanities
https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/10/31/defying-negative-stereotypes-humanities-majors-are-booming-at-berkeley/
Defying negative stereotypes, humanities majors are booming at Berkeley

The number of first-year enrolled students declaring majors in the arts and humanities is up 121% over last year.

Berkeley News
There's an org I love called Probable Futures (gonna work to get them Here On Mastodon) that puts climate science in the world. They built a tool that lets you EASILY integrate/map YOUR data with climate data + predictions. Upload CSVs, use an API. They need ALPHA TESTERS! (I helped build it). Go here: https://probablefutures.org/alpha-program/
If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏
Hey, so, we've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today. 1,124 new Mastodon servers since Oct 27, and 489,003 new users. That's pretty cool.

Step by step i'll migrate my routine apps to #opensource.

#Twitter -> #Mastodon (in the process)
#Youtube -> #NewPipe (still migrating my subscriptions)

Check out this #Github repo for alternate clients
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

GitHub - mendel5/alternative-front-ends: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)

Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.) - mendel5/alternative-front-ends

GitHub
It’s amazing how quickly I’ve gone from “What the hell is Mastodon?” to “Maybe I should start a Mastodon server?”
2022 General Election - Neeraj Krishnan - Medium

To get to conclusions from first principles is daunting. About a couple of hours of research (reading arguments for and against) went into coming up with these. Mostly relying on my priors in…

Medium

How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:

1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit

#YoMigroaMastodon