| IS | 56 (1967), the/it |
| AT | Near Oslo, Norway |
| DO | Factotum, procrastinator |
Humanity Officially Has a Viable Defence Against Killer Asteroids
“This means that we could change an asteroid's path with less warning time”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qwjx/nasa-dart-success-asteroid-defence
Dear @Gargron,
Please reevaluate your decision to incentivise centralisation on mastodon.social in the official app.
This is the sort of design a VC-funded startup would implement, not a non-profit acting in the interests of a healthy commons.
I’m sure you don’t want mastodon.social to become mini-Twitter and you don’t want to become mini-Musk.
That’s not how we win this.
More instances, not larger instances is the key.
https://mastodon.ar.al/@feditips@mstdn.social/110233282943673558
Attached: 1 image The official Mastodon app is doing something new which is potentially very dangerous to the existence of Mastodon and the Fediverse. The official Mastodon app now prompts users to join mastodon.social by default, when previously it prompted them to pick a server. If you're new this may sound harmless, but let me explain. The entire point of this place is to be a social network spread out on as many servers as possible (the reasons are here: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers/). (1/6)
I learned today that 5 of my books are among the more than 1600 books banned in some schools right now.
https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/
For more information
https://pen.org/issue/free-the-books/
PEN America's fall 2022 Index of Banned Books found 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles. This searchable banned book list includes each documented book ban in the first half of the 2022-23 school year.
I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.
Please do the same if you're more active here than on #Twitter That's how you can help the #twittermigration
Boost if you agree.
The CEO-to-worker pay gap at America’s largest public companies is now 399-to-1. In 1965, the ratio was 20-to-1.
This explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable.
They've just gamed the system to line their pockets.
Aral Balkan
Neil Gaiman
Tristan Louis
Robert Reich
Mike Masnick ✅
Brian Fitzpatrick
Annalee Newitz 🍜
James Thomson
James Boag