Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Nov 22nd marks the 35th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, if anyone's keeping track :D

"Naming it Honeypot is too obvious... Name it Hive instead..."

There was a terrible misunderstanding, and in an attempt to solve the four hardest problems in computer science (the other three are naming things and off-by-one errors), the cryptobros thought they'd nailed cash invalidation.

#sorry #notsorry

7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

I've seen multiple examples now of mastodon.social moderation not just not giving a shit, but actively making decisions that favour hateful shit, racism, and queermisia.

This is getting a lot worse than the "basically no moderation at all" problem it already had for years. Now it's "actively harmful moderation"

If you see this and are on mastodon.social, please try to find a new instance. I'll help you if you need help.

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*GASP*

thanks gpt-3 you are so very fucking helpful

This seems like an appropriate first comic for mastodon.

xenia: hacker princess

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I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

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Truths we have to hold in balance:

1. Logging onto a feed and seeing a bunch of anger and despair about current events can be real stressful. The issue isn't any one message, but the deluge, and how it takes over--and boundaries around that are good.

2. We cannot separate our communities from the world we in which we live, where "no politics" usually means "leave politicized aspects of your identity at the door" and "pretend oppressive status quos are neutral."