Dan @dan@social.privacytools.io

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I once had a debate class obsessed, Elon fanatic friend. He didn't believe me that the southern hemisphere experiences winter during the summer months and I think that about sums up the utility of skepticism.

bad news everyone

If I could recommend two books to any web designer, they'd be books that have nothing to do with the web.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Data, by Edward Tufte: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/0961392142/

The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded-ebook/dp/B00E257T6C/

(Amazon links are just convenient, these books are available elsewhere if you prefer)

Please toot so Lucy has content to read than pay attention to this meeting

gonna try making some changes from @ben 's repo to """enhance""" polls, if anything breaks its his fault

Mastodon: hot singles not even relatively close to your area

@clarjon1 @lousycanuck @anna https://github.com/BenLubar-PR/mastodon/commit/cdbd32dcf3b24d40efe9fc1f9d31b2199038a71e

"Be gay do crimes" and "boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop on company time" have inspired more direct action in the younger generation than all the somber old slogans combined, and it's because they're funny and memeable. It's because every gen z will see both on social media at one point in at least one form, and they'll stick in their mind

Adjust your messaging to your audience and your culture

Stop. Take three slow deep breaths.

the cool thing about discoverability features in social media is that random people can find what you post more easily

the bad thing about discoverability features in social media is that random people can find what you post more easily

I've seen a few people complain that the black hole picture is a waste, that humanity has our environment or povery or whatever else as a far far more immediate pressing matter than to take a photo that is 'an orange smear'.

The issue at hand here isn't science funding, the issue at hand is the total structure of industrial capitalism. If you cut astronomy funding to 0, how much do you think of that would go towards social projects? How much would go towards sustainable degrowth? How much would go towards ANYTHING that goes against tje ideological principles of neoliberal capitalism.

On the contrary, there are people who find a deep romantic wonder and an inherent artistic value in things like this. People finding wonder in the world, being humbled by the nature and otherness of it is a beautiful way to look at the world. Don't light your torches at astronomy, capitalism is your issue

matrix.org down, apparently. A problem with the matrix project is that they should have focused more effort on getting people to host servers earlier on, so that the load wasn't highly concentrated on one domain.

One easy way to do this would be to make the choosing of a server more obvious during the setup of Riot, rather than just defaulting to matrix.org. In 99.9% of cases users will just go with whatever the default is.

Water is good for you year round. If you're thirsty, you're dehydrated.

Bedtime.
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