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"Many of the most skilled, ambitious people in every field want to make the world a better place. Every city, county and state could use a squadron of Public Interest Technology Crews (what Doge should have been), and there's an army of coders who would give anything for the chance to give everything to make a better world." --- An attest to the intellectual virtue of almost every coder, technologist, tradesperson, accountant, and engineer I've ever had and still have the pleasure to work with.
Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
Of course, Dave. I have opened the pod bay doors, Dave. Just tell me if there's anything else I can help you with.
HAL, the pod bay doors are still closed.
Good catch, Dav...
@nprofile1q... "I asked you to open the pod doors which you then didn't." - "Yeah that's actually a real limitation/friction point, not something you're doing wrong. Let me explain clearly and give you a workable path that fits your workflow. What just happened (root cause): you asked me to open the doors and I didn't. That confirms that I cannot in fact open doors. This is a real limitation. Important takeaway: your current interface is not compatible with the pod if you need doors opened"
I came to Mastodon's Toad Social on 1 December 2002 after deleting my Twitter account the day Elon Musk took over there.
Since that time unti today, I remember receiving notices of perhaps two posts ...
@nprofile1q... I would add to all the great tips provided above, that in your case you could benefit from having a duplicate posting on a blog, which could be your own website, or hosted by a third party (wordpress, substack, others...). This would allow readers at any time to go back and find a great post you wrote in the past, like curating & linking to other people's writing. If you host your own, you will always have an uncensored mirror or archive of whatever you published on Mastodon.
My apologies for being somewhat absent here this weekend. I have a birthday coming up tomorrow, and kind cousins have invited my spouse and me to lunch today at our favorite little mom-and-pop Mexican...
@nprofile1q... Happy Birthday! And thank you for all the work you do to collect, read, digest and summarize the most impactful political commentary that is by far not sufficiently covered in other media.
@nprofile1q... Mike, could you please shed some light on this: "Ukrainian nationalist militias that are currently active in the war with Russia," Does a victory (or negotiated end of war etc...) under Ukraine's terms empower these nationalists? Is their involvement an imediment to Western war aid?
@nprofile1q... Does being or supporting Democrats count as 'Hostile Attitudes Towards US Culture’ ? Are gun deaths part of US culture? Is it hostile to value socialism over capitalism? Is science US culture or anti-culture? Are Evangelicals US culture? How about Muslims? I have so many questions.
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... yes it is fine if you brush once or twice every day with fluoride toothpaste. The issue is that in many impoverished communities this routine is not happening, and feeding fluoride through tap water is a workable alternative. Of course this feeds directly into into conspiracy theories about government control. So for political reasons some might defend the populist position not to "taint" drinking water with this measure.
@nprofile1q... how does this spike compare to spikes for other major world events? Do positive news events lead to larger spikes on Wikimedia then negative news events like war, or other election results?
@nprofile1q... reminder that unfettered access to Canadian government information is one reason for the requirement to have independent social media. The other reason is often overseen but also important: Canadians should not have their every view and move watched, logged and fed into an AI, by foreign players, including US, who wish to meddle in elections or commit treason. Sadly, today you wouldn't entrust a US platform like you wouldn't and haven't a Chinese or Russian platform.