John Mierau

@servingworlds
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i'm a storyteller: writer, narrator, podcaster, father, partner, human being in process.

I want to learn from others, expand my world view, help to make things better & have fun along the way.

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when did earth have to fight for the right to party
“The entire Twitter information security community has moved to Mastodon.” https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/
Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk

Elon Musk appears to have outsourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform’s right-wing extremists, like Andy Ngo.

The Intercept
Self-censorship is when fear of consequences stops you from speaking.
When concern or respect for others stops you from speaking, we just call that being a decent human.

It's a Christmas tradition for me to pick a show to revisit.

Help me pick from my top ten-or add your own favorite!

They're not all A+ gems, but they've all got something amazing at their core:

#travelers
#battlestargalactica
#stargateuniverse
#severance
#theexpanse
#babylon5
#fringe
#utopia
#orphanblack
#spaceaboveandbeyond

I've got a feeling that any platform that demands I go hat-in-hand begging to be allowed to bring my audience to their platform- and spams me while I wait, probably isn't going to be around long.

ME: A rawhide book for dogs.

PETCO CEO: What's it about?

ME: It's sort of a chews your own adventure.

PETCO CEO: Get out of my office.

Or, as Stoller notes, "Biden, through his anti-junk fee initiative could simply assert through the White House Competition Council to the 13 different agencies that they end Booz Allen’s practice of charging these kinds of fees."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2022/10/26/the-presidents-initiative-on-junk-fees-and-related-pricing-practices/

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The President’s Initiative on Junk Fees and Related Pricing Practices | The White House

The Biden-Harris Administration is taking action on junk fees that hurt Americans’ pocketbooks and the economy. By: Brian Deese, Neale Mahoney, Tim Wu Last month, at a meeting of the White House Competition Council, President Biden called on all agencies to reduce or eliminate hidden fees, charges, and add-ons for everything from banking services to…

The White House

The first climate model that estimated how the world might warm in the future was published in 1970.

That model, as well as ones published in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s, have done a remarkably good job predicting what actually occurred in the years after they were published

When I quit cable I still had a tivo (old school) so I was able to collect everything pbs and other broadcast tv offered and then select things as I wanted. It ended up a far better experience + I watched less programming (and no ads) because I wasn't just watching whatever was offered at the time I felt like watching something. It's like how we #curate our #home #timeline for ourselves instead of demanding an algorithm give us the #convenience of deciding *for* us. A little effort but healthier