Also consider checking out the Fediverse (joinmastodon.org) in addition - Bluesky and Mastodon are similar, but popular with folks in different fields, with a lot of tech, science, and especially OSS happening over there.

It's very little work to keep an account in both places (as I do).

4/ Ventilation saves lives. Clean indoor air, through ventilation or filtration, dramatically cuts the spread of respiratory infections. It’s time to treat air quality like food hygiene: a basic public health requirement.

Fucking hell that's rude.

But the problem is (as the thread also points out) most users treat this as "Twitter, but no Nazis", and expect central moderation to enforce that.

Honestly if you want Twitter, but with communities that have norms and moderation, your best bet is to find a good Mastodon instance.

Well put and I wholeheartedly agree. Happy birthday!

X is a nasty janky website full of Nazis and I can't understand why anyone voluntarily uses it. On the other hand the people who run this place are not your friends and they will rug pull everyone here in a second if it suits them. Why are people stanning any of these companies.

We live in an increasingly individualised, atomised, lonely society — technologies are offered as solutions to societal problems caused by neoliberalism. Loneliness is commoditised by these corporations. Let’s not get too busy making fun of each other to see it’s our tech overlords profiting off us

"AI-munted" is a beautiful turn of phrase

I really wish you'd stop using chatgpt to make the illustrations for your newsletter, it bums me out

Writing is hard work, but don't underestimate the motivating power of annoyance.