Well, will you do it?

Elon is about to charge monthly for Twitter and there will likely be a huge migration wave to Mastodon.

Black, Indigenous, and other POC have had so many issues since Elon took over Twitter so let's welcome them when they come to the Fediverse

#indigenous #black #poc #Mastodon

Open Source projects either die a failure or survive long enough to become a security risk

Little. #parenting #kids #comics

Call 911 — I just witnessed a murder.😀

The Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama is the president of the UN security council this month, and when Russia tried to argue multiple times, Ukraine speaking in the UN was “against the rules”, Edi Rama replied:

“I must say, coming from you, all this about breaking the rules — it is quite an impressive shot. But there is a solution for this: You stop the war, and president Zelenskyy will not take the floor.”

From 6:30 and onwards:
https://youtu.be/MCzwOJzHjjE?si=P7w0q3Nx4DHHWaeu

being a programmer is very liberating because i can turn any computer problem into a much weirder computer problem

I’m still waiting for Scott Bakula to leap in and fix this mess I created.

"We don't need to visit Egypt, we've got Suez at home."

Suez at home:

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with a parent deciding a certain book is not right for her child. There is a colossal problem with a parent deciding that, therefore, no child should be allowed to read that book.” - Jodi Picoult

Humans are weird because we could have had enough food, water, and healthcare for everyone on the planet but we chose AI customer service agents instead.

Senator Susan Collins is threatening to wear a bikini to work. Why? Because Chuck Schumer has done something that threatens the very fabric of the republic: relaxing the Senate’s dress code. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/john-fetterman-attacked-republicans-senate-dress-code-1234827861/

This chatbot could’ve been a form

I want to address something I've been thinking about recently. As far as Religion, Afterlife, ect, I'm solidly in the "I don't know" camp, and I'm fine with that. I think any Religion, Religious Institution, or Religious Leader who has used spiritual beliefs to oppress, control, manipulate, or financially gain from other people should be both questioned and mocked, and I have no problem doing it, or with other people doing it.

The issue I run into on Mastodon is Aggressive Atheism. I have no issue with atheism at all, but I do have a problem if it's used to attack other people for their personal spiritual beliefs. If someone is making a comment about something they believe personally, and they aren't hurting anyone with it, jumping into the comments to say "PROVE GOD IS REAL" is just as annoying and pointless as a couple Religious people knocking on your door, and telling you, you must accept their Lord. This is simply a matter of respecting other people.

I recently made a physical object that defies all intuition. It’s a square of acrylic, smooth on both sides, totally transparent. A tiny window.

But it has the magic property that if you shine a flashlight on it, it forms an image of a cat.

Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows

https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering

#Science

I just uninstalled Facebook.

I’ve been getting in arguments with my brother and aunt.

They’re anti-vaxxers. Meanwhile, my uncle (brother-in-law to the anti-vax aunt) died last year from COVID. If the vaccine had been available then, he’d still be alive.

I’m so sick of reading the comments of these ignorant people. I’m sickened by the fact that these ignorant people are my kin. I don’t understand why these ridiculous conspiracy theories about the pandemic and the vaccines exist. Why do so many people seem to care so little about the suffering of others?

How can my aunt in good conscience share a post about Jesus and loving your neighbor, and then an hour later try to defend a nurse who refuses to get vaccinated so that she can protect her patients? How are those things compatible? Doesn’t loving your neighbor require you to try and protect them from a deadly virus?

I’m sick of having these arguments, and sick of trying to keep my head from exploding by reading this nonsense. So, I uninstalled the app and I’m probably not coming back until the world makes a little more sense again.

Maybe by then, I will have decided that seeing my siblings’ vacation photos aren’t worth being on that predatory network anyway. We’ll see.