Chris Lastovicka

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Love being read to by audiobooks.
Work in web, study #InformationScience.
Into #Buddhism, #yoga.
Happy #hermit.
Cat parent.
(they/them) 🏳️‍🌈
InfoSci websitehttps://infosciencer.com
Composer websitehttps://chrislastovicka.com

Yesterday the Treasury Department clarified that buying a colossal electric pickup truck like the Ford F-150 Lightning or Rivian R1T qualifies you for a $7,500 federal tax break.

Meanwhile, buying an e-bike still gets you nothing.

https://t.co/exRZfXhhyi

#climatecrisis #transportation #bike

Which Electric Vehicles Qualify for Federal Tax Credits?

Here is a partial list of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles that will qualify for federal tax credits in 2023.

What other features of social media should be added to email?

Maybe Microsoft Outlook can add a tip jar to their email client.

I wrote a blog post about how our profession's (and society's) overvaluing of innovation denigrates the critical work of maintenance. "Valuing maintenance" https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2022/12/14/valuing-maintenance/ I spent a lot of my career thinking that innovation was the work I should aim for and maintenance was just drudgery. We're socialized to see it that way and it's not only offensive to those in roles focused primarily on maintenance, but dead wrong about which is more important.
Valuing maintenance | Information Wants To Be Free

Website of librarian, writer, speaker, consultant and LIS educator, Meredith Gorran Farkas. Includes the popular Information Wants to be Free blog.

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see [email protected] or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests
@threegems music, my dogs and 2 kittens, my grandchild, my 2 children, children laughing, nature, babies, breathtaking views, mountains, the power of the ocean, majestic trees, children reading, parents reading to their children, acts of kindness, a good book.
Hi, this is Greta. You are welcome to follow me here, if you prefer planet earth to planet mars.

#introduction #reverse

Hi everyone reading this. Would you please tell me in 1 or 2 sentences what makes your heart sing?

The collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces.

System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits.

The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in community hands. <3