@tuningmind

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seeking signal amidst noise

Instead of going to bed, I’ve just spent over half an hour reading this blog post about a footbridge across a highway in Minnesota, and I regret NOTHING. This is an amazing text and you should read it too!

Now I’m entirely unsure which hashtags to use. 🤔 maybe #blog #geek #history #interstate #minneapolis will help others enjoy this piece.

From: @davidallengreen
https://mastodon.green/@davidallengreen/110974536760311635

d a t green (@[email protected])

A post of absolute geeky beauty. Bravo. https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge

Mastodon.green
#braverangels Enjoying the red-blue comraderie at the Braver Angels convention in Gettysburg!
I'm so glad I stuck with Mastodon.
We have app support for de-Twittering and de-Youtubeing links.
Why not have the same for news articles? I consciously chose not to read my news with Apple (or Google, Facebook or Microsoft) - so I don't want every shared article from someone else to tell them what I'm reading. Not to mention longevity of the links...
Couldn't #Fediverse apps de-Amp, de-Apple, de-Bing shared news articles, too?
#Privacy #BitRot
One of my favorite things about mastodon is that sometimes when I come here to be distracted and I look at my timeline and there isn’t anything new, and I pull to refresh and there still isn’t anything new, and I actually need to go find something useful to do.
Reminder to newcomers and anyone else who may need a reminder to please use alt text on your images to help the visually impaired, like me, and those with slow connections. Thank you! Also to capitalize each word in your hashtags. #AltText

Lessons, living with parents with dementia: when an app on their phone spontaneously changes it's icon, it's a fucking disaster.

Some Google engineer launched a feature that got them a promotion and now my mom can't use her phone anymore. Silicon Valley is incapable of imagining a user who isn't a 27 year old white man.

@etfeuropa
"A vigorous and effective civil society is difficult to ignore."
Shhh… She’s fixing the world.. ❤️

@wikipedia @taavi @mediawiki

Integration of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon Identity standards into the software that powers #WikiPedia & other Wiki's is so important I find it hard to express.

It is the first big step of integration between the Wikipedian and Fediverse communities, and it has been massively under-noticed and not gotten nearly the attention this deserved.

I'm all for it, want to find ways to help & hope this is the beginning of much more integration to come. 🔥

@fediversenews