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Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: https://mzl.la/3BNXQMQ
Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative | The Mozilla Blog

Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st

You know why performance on mastodon.social has been incredibly slow?

There was a big spike in posts on the Fediverse today. At one time, there were 350,000 toots sent in an hour.

See bottom graph.

@MattBinder Even if Space Karen quits the CEO he puts will be a yes man so its going to remain ugly :/
@MattBinder We need to get off twitter en masse - its hard to pull it off it is going to need coordination but you cant have a child dictate what public speech is anymore.

this right here is why the Elon Jet account is important

this information about Elon Musk, the man whose entire career is made off the idea that he's going to save the world from climate catastrophe

and this is how he rolls so he can get to a World Cup game:

@jeffjarvis I cannot pin a post in iOS otherwise very nice stuff!

How The Washington Post has used flight data:

* To track a former president's emergency landing (in 2022): https://wapo.st/3HGp8IA

* To map out how military helicopters flew over George Floyd protests (in 2020): https://wapo.st/3V3WRie

* To raise questions about Elon Musk's flights (in 2019): https://wapo.st/2RmjE7X

* To investigate The Post's owner Jeff Bezos (in 2018): https://wapo.st/3YmLt3M

* To document extravagant trips on the taxpayer dime (in 2017): https://wapo.st/3HMh9d0

Plane carrying Donald Trump made emergency landing in New Orleans after engine failure over Gulf of Mexico

A plane carrying former president Donald Trump suffered engine failure late Saturday evening over the Gulf of Mexico, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in New Orleans shortly after taking off from the city.

The Washington Post
This is what Twitter is now defining as "doxxing people's location." A factual piece of reporting about the company blocking a competitor. Can't do anything until I delete it.

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science #HistoryRemix

Sexism pushed Rosalind Franklin toward the scientific sidelines during her short life, but her work still shines on her 100th birthday

Franklin was born a century ago, and her X-ray crystallography work crucially contributed to determining the structure of DNA.

The Conversation

@dangillmor I have been begging people to get to the lifeboats for five days now.

https://mastodon.social/@jpanzer/109497342323604137