Nick Yates

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I'm a Computer Science and Engineering (and formerly Math) high school teacher from Baltimore, Maryland. A partisan of peace and pi. I use he/him pronouns.

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Nick YatesJul 27, 2023
Kainoa Jul 26, 2023
FEDIVERSE NOTICE -- PLEASE BOOST! ​​

To all Calckey.social users:

The preparations are finally complete. We will be migrating to firefish.social soon. All your posts, dms, etc will be in-tact.

To all Fediverse server admins:

You and your users will probably see a lot of follows from firefish.social. Please don't be alarmed, this is going to be the result of everyone migrating their account at once. Since there are only ~2500 users here, it hopefully shouldn't be too much pressure on your servers, but to be safe, it's slightly staggered to avoid bombarding a server all at once.
Nick YatesJul 26, 2023
Tim HolloJul 25, 2023

I'm finding it a little hard to work today with this in my head.

Antarctic ice extent is now 6.4 standard deviations below the mean. That is, I'm reliably told, a one in 13 billion year event.

We're about to see a lot of shit hit a lot of fans. And we are far from ready.

Business as usual is over. Politics as usual is over. We need to be putting our effort into building systems that can help us survive what greed and power and wilful blindness have wrought.

#ClimateCrisis #Antarctica

Nick YatesJul 26, 2023
Dylan | Jul 25, 2023
Lmfao I just came across this naturally
Nick YatesJul 26, 2023
Artemis Jul 8, 2023
I hope this Email doesn't find you. I hope you have escaped, that you are free.
Nick YatesJul 25, 2023
The ChaserJul 25, 2023
‘Stop calling it Twitter’ says guy who deadnames his own child
https://chaser.com.au/general-news/stop-calling-it-twitter-says-guy-who-deadnames-his-own-child/
‘Stop calling it Twitter’ says guy who deadnames his own child – The Chaser

'Why won't you just accept X for who it is?'

The Chaser
Nick YatesJul 25, 2023
Kainoa Jul 25, 2023
Starting an OnlyFins
Nick YatesJul 25, 2023
Max KennerlyJul 22, 2023
OpenAI talks about ensuring AI is "aligned with human values" but if the CEO doesn't understand there are downsides to building a nuclear bomb and didn't even notice Mark Zuckerberg was the villain in The Social Network then it's unlikely the company is aligned with human values.
Nick YatesJul 25, 2023
Yassie > moved to 0w0.isJul 25, 2023
>Twitter does something bad
>Fediverse spikes in user base
>controversy dies down and they go back
>Twitter does something bad
>Fediverse spikes in user base—

This is insane. Why go back? Stop yo-yoing. The reason you don't get any attention here is because you don't give your attention to here. Why form a bond with a fairweather friend?
Nick YatesJul 25, 2023
J.C. KC8JC 📻Jul 17, 2023

Hey. So as major platforms start to fall apart, don't necessarily look for the next big one.

Dust off your blog.

Go back to establishing web-rings.

RSS feeds. Remember those?

This is the way to share good stuff. You don't need a centralized platform for that.

As hams, we should know that.

Nick YatesJul 25, 2023
Show threadAdvisory Briefs 🛠️Jul 24, 2023

Update: Want to know the hottest 21 days ever recorded on planet earth?

They were the last 3 weeks. No exceptions. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #HeatWave