Tim Carmody

@tcarmody
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Ex-liontamer. Tech, media, humanities, journalism, and miscellaneous. I write a newsletter about Amazon. Born in Detroit, living in Philadelphia. Trying to make Mastodon more fun. Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
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Tim CarmodyNov 18, 2022
Well, friends — I've enjoyed my time on mastodon.social, and I really like it as a server! Please don't push to cut off so many good Mastodonians just because it's so crowded there! But I think, as many of you have said, that I could have a better experience on a smaller server where I know the moderator. I’ll be migrating follows in a moment but you can find me at @tim. See you soon on another instance! I will miss my posts; some of them were good.
Tim CarmodyNov 18, 2022

If you’re looking for a historical metaphor to understand the influx of users from Twitter to Mastodon, “colonization,” “refugees,” “gentrification,” and even “white flight” aren’t really appropriate. I’ve used “exile” but it’s imperfect too.

One that might be worth trying is “enclosure.” It’s a LITTLE like what happened when English landlords enclosed the commons and huge numbers of people abandoned farms for cities: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

Tim CarmodyNov 18, 2022
Josh "cortex" MillardNov 18, 2022
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Tim CarmodyNov 18, 2022
Jamison HermannNov 18, 2022
– We met on Mastodon. Not on the same server, but we saw each other’s toots on different federated Mastodon servers. And Hamilton got up the courage to migrate his account one day and DMed me.
– Yeah, I’d seen you online before. And I know that sometimes I’d be on one server and then you’d be on the other server, and then I’d think, maybe I should migrate over to that server the next weekend. And then you’d be at the other server. So we kind of crossed… I know. It sounds so stupid now.
Tim CarmodyNov 18, 2022
One interesting divide on here in the wake of the Twitter Migration is between people who’ve used the new servers / open sea nature of this place to pick new handles and those who’ve kept the same namespace as on Twitter (or sometimes other social accounts) #TwitterMigration
Tim CarmodyNov 18, 2022

What is a music album that didn’t quite catch on but you consider a masterpiece and wish more people knew about?

One of mine is Broadcast’s Tender Buttons. It’s Euro-inflected glitchy electronic pop, full of songs that are deceptively simple but endlessly listenable. It turned out to be their last album. The late Trish Keenan has an unforgettable voice, reminiscent of 60s pop but somehow perfect for 2005. If any of this sounds like something you’d enjoy, please look it up. #music #indie

Tim CarmodyNov 18, 2022

Do you ever just find it IMPOSSIBLE to read all your email? Not even to reply to anything, or because there’s bad news; just… you can’t get through it all, in the same way you can’t finish a big meal or the dregs of a cup of coffee?

Anyways, sorry Defector roundup, friends’ newsletters, and a weird pitch from a PR person I last dealt with almost five years ago. I’m marking all as read and moving on with my life

Tim CarmodyNov 18, 2022

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I tried appending short descriptions but ran out of characters. They’re good people, you should check them out!

Tim CarmodyNov 18, 2022
Trevor OwensNov 18, 2022

Huge job opportunities!

Multiple hires for Digital Projects Coordinators in the Library of Congress Collections Discovery and Metadata Services division.

Pays $126,233 - $164,102 per year

Apply by 12/09/2022

These jobs are a huge opportunity to play a key role in implementing
the new Library Collections Access Platform -> https://bit.ly/3XptbP4

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/690107400

Library of Congress Launches Effort to Transform Collections Management and Access

The Library of Congress has awarded a major contract to further develop and implement a new, open-source IT platform that will revolutionize how the Library’s vast physical and digital collections are

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Tim CarmodyNov 18, 2022
PwnallthethingsNov 18, 2022

One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.

That there are systemic traps that trap workers in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.