Chris Wetherell @cw@mastodon.cloud
A different thing. I'll probably post about oddities. Started these projects: Google Reader, Avocado, Brizzly. And music sometimes. Prefer friendly spots.
"Again, those who used substitutes reported missing and craving Facebook less over time, whereas those who weren’t reminded to try alternatives missed it more over time."
Not a quote from a #Mastodon advocate 🍍, but research cited by Chicago Booth Review in 2015:
http://review.chicagobooth.edu/magazine/spring-2015/dispelling-a-common-marketing-mistake
"Biology. You may know it as the subject that was taught by a basketball coach, because school budget and fuck you that's why."
The Oatmeal wrote a long, thoughtful, and most importantly nice strip on how we react to arguments that either confirm or challenge our worldviews (compared to arguments on unimportant stuff). Highly recommended!
So... we're never going to hear the ending of the ice fishing story Louis C.K. was telling in American Hustle, are we?
I have never seen a better Instagram account. https://www.instagram.com/unsolvedmysteriespeople/ https://octodon.social/media/NKEb0fOc_sRVvzDLtAE
A set of polyhedral dice showed up in my mailbox today, and none of my friends say they did it.
Hopefully this isn't the calling card of some dice-based murderer.
Dan Olson expertly discusses fans using a diegetic justification to nullify criticism of a work and I'm all: a thing! That! That's definitely frustrating! Less of that!
the disappointment when you learn "avocat" means lawyer and not a cat which is also an avocado
You've heard of hot takes, now get ready for Show more
Three things that #Mastodon has convinced me of:
1. Twitter's 140-character limit is well past its prime, and hinders quality dialog.
2. The simplicity of Twitter's @name convention is brilliant and powerful; perhaps their strongest asset.
3. I value personalization (including domain support), but do not relish the act of hosting my own services if I can avoid it.
when you're hosting the praetorian guard but it's also a 70s key party https://mastodon.cloud/media/D7Re5QpNKxaun_8fth4
Deleting my instance tonight after considering the potential danger of caching media from other federated instances... big, big problem with the current #mastodon implementation.
Uh oh someone sent me a box of masculinity again.
*looks at twitter* oh good, i got followed by a tech exec and three more brands
*looks at mastodon* i got followed by 8 witches, 3 queer furries and 7 cybrepunks
I just went around and did some basic nmap-ing on the most popular Mastodon instances, and there's some seriously sketchy stuff in there. Publicly reachable Postgres servers, tons of open internal HTTP ports, SSH with password login, multiple Mastodon instances that seem to be running on mail server VMs, …
I guess if you're just running a single-user instance for yourself, sure, but those are all 2000+ user instances.
(From a #mefite comment)
Today's playlist–
"It’s one of the fascinating ironies of book collecting,” he adds, “that an unreadable book could be worth more than one that’s ready to read.”
LOL! From an amazing article about the paper knives used in the Victorian era to cut open the pages of bound books. And which many of us still mistake for letter openers.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-mystery-of-the-phantom-page-turner/
George R.R. Martin is opening a film studio in New Mexico...(!) and the Coen Bros will one of the first to use it...(!) & how do I become an intern for this
