ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse

🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse

🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

freedom of speech as long as the speech is flattering to me

If you’re going to leave Twitter, please don’t
a) delete your account, because someone bad will steal your handle
b) delete your Tweets, because their existence doesn’t help Elon and it’s like burning the Library of Alexandria.

Twitter captures a real-time historical record of a couple of decades and the billions of individuals’ snapshots are irreplaceable.

The thought of all those tweets being erased makes me feel physically sick.

[please pass on if you agree.]

5/🧵 Mastodon and the broader Fediverse work using a protocol called ActivityPub.

If you're interested in how that works from a technical perspective, a good place to start is https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/ by @darius

If you're curious about where that tech goes next, follow @cwebber who is CTO at @spritelyinst working on awesome stuff like https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn

#welcome #welcometomastodon

I put @tomgauld's brilliant new comic for @newscientist alongside Ibn Al-Rabin's masterpiece “Le Verbe Prophétique” as demonstrating the ways you can do things in comics seemingly simple yet bewilderingly complex that can only be done in comics.
#comics

I will continue to run an ADS-B receiver in my window to track planes in my community using public, open source broadcasts, as I have been doing for almost a decade. Plane tracking is protected by the First Amendment and has facilitated many news stories.

If I get my account back, will I stay on Twitter? Unless Elon Musk makes a dramatic course change, I don't know why anyone—journalist or otherwise—would feel comfortable investing a single tweet into the hands of this volatile totalitarian. I won't delete my Twitter account, but Mastodon is home going forward.

Stages of getting into a new research thing

1. No one has thought of this
2. Oh, some people have, but it’s not exactly the same
3. Oh, it’s exactly the same
4. OMG, everyone already knows about this, but they all call it something different

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

If you're trying to find journalists on Mastodon, I've created a verified database of several hundred here: http://presscheck.org. Since the backlog has become enormous, the unverified waiting list is now public also: http://presscheck.org/pending

#CommercialFishing Kodiak Alaska Harbor

#IKEA Hadron Cjolidder

which one are you?

#Inkvent day 16: Serendipity

This is a navy blue with both shimmer and sheen (actual sheen, not like yesterday’s).

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

Woah. Watching Twitter misuse our research by putting warnings on links to Mastodon.

Here for example is the warning that @georgetakei "may be unsafe."

In a study led by Ben Kaiser at Princeton, we tested the effect of interstitial warnings on user behavior.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/warnings-work-combating-misinformation-without-deplatforming

Do what you’re good at.
#Humor #Irony

#twitter just banned @Mastodon and that's actually unexpected.