"Lightyears 4K - Milky Way and Orion Astro Timelapse Film."
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Lightyears 4K - Milky Way and Orion Astro Timelapse Film
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Rocket Transits Rippling Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Steven Madow
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APOD: 2024 January 2 – Rocket Transits Rippling Moon
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"Interactive map of the sky from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3."
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Antechinus are not actually related to mice. They are just a very small relative of the kangaroo and koala.
Despite their cute appearance, they are darn feisty! A little antechinus can take down a chicken around five times its size, and eat it! The males also tend to die during a crazed mating season due to an overload of androgen.
These furry beasts are something else!
In the last hour we've had a dark storm roll in. So, the lighting isn't great for photographing the colour, but it's fine.
#art #myart #animals
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OpenGL In Bash Is Terrifying And Incredible
There are so many ways you can write OpenGL code but writing it in Bash and actually making a game like that is not only a bad idea, it's an idea that you sh...YouTube
Excellent article by Charlie Stross
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlookCharles Stross (Scientific American)
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@Mark Wollschlager I have seen that too. In fact I remember having discussions, even in the early days, where young wealthy optimistic programmers were arguing for "free" as in beer but only ever applying it to others work, not to their own work. "But I'm giving away software for free!" Yes, and then getting six figure or more salaries to alter and maintain it. Meanwhile, you have pulled the rug out from under many other people.
This is why I was working with Ted Nelson. His micropayment system was genius for providing a way for everyone to get paid for content provision, without having to worry about a YouTube or a Spotify to figure out how to dole out as little money as possible to creators. Could this also have been subverted so that a different pyramid of wealth extraction would emerge? I think the possibility is real, sadly.
Have you seen the movie The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind? Now THAT is what I mean by appropriate technology. We need more of THAT.
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Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. Based on the best selling b...YouTube
Most posts about #37c3 were published on the Fediverse.
I found 11.130 posts on the Fediverse (known to chaos.social or mastodon.social), 2.620 posts on X/Twitter and 1.069 on ATProto/Bluesky. Published between 2023-12-23 and 2023-12-31. (I haven't figured out how to collect posts on Threads, but I have found 150 there. Maybe there are more, but they don't show up in the search results.)
Lots-of-alone-time project update: I picked a bunch of willow yesterday because we have tons of it, and I started trying to make a basket after watching a bunch of youtube videos. Turns out...it's a bit harder than I guessed at first! But maybe I'll manage to make a couple of crappy baskets. We'll see...
I also learned that willow branches wobbling around in the air while I work (badly) with them is ABSOLUTELY irresistible to cats, who kept attacking the willows. Not helpful, guys!
If anyone else is interested in trying this, I used these two tutorials on youtube. Both are really great!
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PART 1 - How to weave a round willow basket - The base
The first in our comprehensive 6 part tutorial. The round base can easily be adapted to make a flower.Running order00:18 Starting the base 02:16 The slath 07...YouTube
8 Approaches to Find Yourself
Learn how to stop reacting to life, making up for the shadows of yesterday, and toiling for your tomorrow. See how to know yourself now.Margarita Tartakovsky, MS (Psych Central)
Peeping sheep.
(#Nikon f70, Nikkor, Ilford Delta 400)
#somerset #filmphotography #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead
Releasing videos to a schedule is one thing, but releasing videos to a weekly schedule non-stop for a decade is something else entirely.
Raise a glass to Tom Scott
Enjoy your rest, you deserve it!
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After ten years, it's time to stop making videos.
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APOD: 2024 January 1 – NGC 1232: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy
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Welcome to the public domain, Mickey Mouse
The version of Mickey Mouse seen in Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy enters the public domain alongside the play Peter Pan, the song “Mack the Knife,” and more.Adi Robertson (The Verge)
NGC 1232: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy
Image Credit: FORS, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO
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APOD: 2024 January 1 – NGC 1232: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy
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I don't know if I would like Fleur Cowles as a person, but her paintings are amazing!
I had her picture books as a child and love them to this day.
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Goats--lots of cute goats!
The people who care for these goats are only a block and a half away. They aren't always close enough to photograph, but they are friendly. They just have more important things to do like eating from a bale of hay!
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Cockatoo and alpacas.
I don't have a terribly powerful camera. Most animals like to stay distant. So, it's hard to get good pictures of them.
The cockatoo at least was chatting to me. I started to walk by, and it had a whole lot to say before I could see where it was in the tree!
Kangaroos...sorry, I couldn't catch them on camera today. I thought I had missed them all together. On the way back from my walk I suddenly found myself almost face to face with a small mob! So close that the male roo freaked out and hopped off! Well, darn it! Next time!
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Why Isn't Every Linux Distro Shipping KDE?
When you look at the Linux world it looks very GNOME but KDE does exist and it looks like it's great so why don't more distros just ship KDE instead, well th...YouTube
Flowers and a nest
I don't know what flowers these all are. The red ones are definitely indigenous to Australia. The white ones--maybe?
I'm not certain what bird made this nest. Clearly the nest had been blown done from its tree. I am fascinated by the colourful threads the bird found to make part of its little home (marry me! I'm a great home decorator!)
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The NYD 24 Global Stream Parade officially kicks off in les than an hour at 0100 UTC.
This will be our thread for announcing upcoming stops on the parade route which can be seen at: radiofreefedi.net/nyd24
We and the broadcasters will use #NYD24Parade if you want to keep an eye out, or mute for the day. Boost the participants and let's celebrate discovering some of your fedi streaming friends.
#streaming #broadcasting #live #JoinIn #party #antiparty #community #friends #owncast #peertube
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Some recent transcriptions from 2023.
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Some recent transcriptions from 2023. "De Medeae Fabula, Particula 2" by Karl Theodor Pyl. archive.org/details/karl_pyl_medeae_part_2_1850_latin/pyl_medeae_1850_latin_bwdragon/ "Les Muses, Étude de Mythologique Grecque" by Paul D... | Minds
... Particula 2" by Karl Theodor Pyl. https://archive.org/details/karl_pyl_medeae_part_2_1850_latin/pyl_medeae_1850_latin_bwdragon/ "Les Muses, Étude de Mythologique Grecque" by Paul Decharme. htt...Minds
@ivory Was gonna say - any client I've ever used offers up to 7 days.
But then, I think Ivory doesn't even warn you if you don't add alt text? Seems Ivory might be a bit behind what other clients offer.
Well, I've set everything up now, so submissions for issue two are basically open (for members of marginalised groups only, then everyone from 15-31 Jan) 🎉
If you're raring to go, have at it! 😄
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Cats Filled the Prison. Then the Inmates Fell in Love.
In Chile’s oldest and most overcrowded prison, the inmates have found solace in the hundreds of stray cats.
happy new year! 🎉
and also, happy public domain day!
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of particular note this year is mickey mouse entering the public domain! this comes with a few caveats, which you can read about here: pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mou…
keeping all that in mind, when the clock strikes midnight in the USA, feel free to begin your copyright free mickey mouse shitposting!
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#SocialCoop inline poll: should SocialCoop be one of the signatories of the [[Fedipact]] effort to *preemptively defederate* with Threads.net?
loomio.com/d/AZcJK6y2 is an ongoing Loomio discussion about this but I wanted to see some in-instance discussion ideally.
Discussion: Support the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact
For some time, there have been rumors that Meta (Facebook) has plans to impose itself on the Fediverse.Loomio
- yes (say why) (44%, 4 votes)
- no (say why) (55%, 5 votes)
- maybe (0%, 0 votes)
@3wordchant Unfortunately I think there is need for treating Threads a bit differently than other instances, given that is so large and varied. Despite its failures of enforcement and policy, there is at least a bare-bones policy against hate speech, which distinguishes it from platforms that actively encourage such things. help.instagram.com/47743410562…
The problems it poses should be weighed against the benefits, esp. enabling our members to reach a larger network of people.
@3wordchant I don't think we have much leverage against Threads by refusal to federate with our few hundred members. In contrast, being visible on threads could help more people there see the option of doing social media cooperatively.
Unlike a space like Gab, most people are joining Threads simply by default, and are not directly associating with the accounts you mention.
I think limiting, is an appropriate compromise.
@ntnsndr I don't see how the implication that we'd federate with Gab if it had a few million more non-bigoted users is in line with s.c's Federation Abuse Policy.
Folks who want to do outreach to Threads (or Gab) users are completely able to sign up for accounts on those platforms if they like; going back to "balance" it seems obvious that s.c users' safety is more important than making life slightly more convenient for that subset of users who want to evangelise in that way (1/2)
@ntnsndr a core strength of the fediverse, and part of the explicit agreement with s.c users, has been to have better moderation (and thus more community safety) than corporate equivalents. Twitter has been a great example of the importance of upholding standards of behaviour, through the rapidly increasing toxicity on the platform after those standards were relaxed in the name of including problematic voices (2/2)
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@3wordchant I think it is a good point that this may require a policy change.
Since Gab does not have a recognizable hate speech policy, no, I don't think a large number of users there would change our approach.
I think the availability of a tool like limiting allows us to make an appropriate choice. In my view social media should never be entirely on-or-off, just like social life should not be. People are complex, and the fediverse should reflect that.
@ntnsndr there's evidence to suggest that sanctions are effective at reducing harmful behaviour¹; it doesn't simply migrate elsewhere when communities are banned in one place. For me (and by my reading of s.c's Federation Abuse Policy), that applies equally to "Facebook should ban hate groups" and "s.c should not federate with Facebook until they enforce their rules against harmful behaviour" (1/2)
¹techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/stud…
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@ntnsndr more evidence about the efficacy of deplatforming far-right groups: idz-jena.de/fileadmin/user_upl…
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@ntnsndr thanks for the paper, I'll read it as soon as I can.
Meanwhile, I fully agree with you that it will be helpful to have better tools.
In the mean-time, while those tools are built, and given that you are familiar with the evidence of deplatforming in reducing harmful behaviour, why do you think it is better not to use the (sure, blunt) tools available? (1/2)
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@ntnsndr Do you think there might be some component of personal privilege in your preference for this approach, and do you see any potential exclusionary impact in applying that preference to a community space that intends/claims to be welcoming to people who face more marginalisation than you do? (2/2)
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@3wordchant What do we gain in safety by defederating that we wouldn’t gain by limiting?
If we limit, then we will not see any Threads posts in the federated TL. If SC users decide to follow individual Threads accounts and boost any toxic bigotry into local, they’ll be in violation of our own internal codes of behavior and will be dealt with.
This does raise a new Q though. Are we in violation of rules if we quote boost something in order to critique it? Are CWs sufficient?
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@jotaemei @3wordchant I think our rules and moderation team are wise enough to detect the difference between affirmation and critique.
Thanks for these points.
@jotaemei off top (others with more knowledge of ActivityPub might be able to think of further examples), defederating would prevent Threads users from organising harassment campaigns invisibly in replies to s.c users, and prevent s.c. users' content from reaching unexpected audiences of hate groups on Threads by being boosted (or whatever Threads calls it there).
@3wordchant @jotaemei @ntnsndr these are good examples, thank you. Playing devil's advocate here a bit:
- The telephone can be used to organize a harassment campaign. Should numbers not be able to call each other freely because of this? Should the government tap all lines because of this? My gut feel says no to both. Does this intuition not apply here because of speed or some other factor in this particular network? I'm unsure.
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- On boosts as a danger/weapon: I'm sorry but I don't see how federation makes the problem significantly worse for what amount to public web posts that can already be scraped, etc. Maybe a visibility rule to 'only show to logged in users from instances in a user-kept allowlist' would be needed for such cases?
Essentially user-defined per-post federation allowlists might be needed in the long term.
"authorized fetch" is part of what you're describing, and I hope its adoption continues to increase.
As for "you can still see the content on the web", sure, but there's a wide zone between "technically impossible" and "absolutely trivial to do" – surely you agree that putting *any* friction in the way of the bigots who demonstrably exist on Threads will reduce the amount of harm caused, even if not to zero?
@3wordchant @jotaemei @ntnsndr My (surely privileged, tech-bro-influenced position) is currently "open web first", and if someone doesn't want their posts to be seen widely they should use a non-open visibility setting.
This doesn't mean I think we shouldn't defederate with actively fascist instances, or we shouldn't work to improve the paltry visibility settings we have now in Mastodon. We should do both. It's just threads doesn't seem like a fascist/troll instance to me, and I've seen plenty.
@3wordchant @jotaemei @ntnsndr now, if once threads has set up moderation/admin communication channels harmful accounts stay up... then my position about them will change.
You pointed out earlier that this position might be inconsistent/irrational as the onus of work should be on them given their track record. That's fair. I'm still processing this and I might change my default position because of this.
Exactly. In February, Facebook will celebrate 20 years of having had the opportunity to set up effective moderation. The parent company's 2022 revenue was over $116 billion; Instagram (the business unit of which Threads is a part) had estimated revenue over $50 billion the same year. I think it's very fair to say that they have had a huge opportunity to improve their content standards, if they were going to.
@ntnsndr while I agree with you about the benefits of decentralisation, I think framing this as a "basic fact" about scale ignores the factors specific to FB's organisational structure, constituency of its investors, business model, and the nature of the (lack of) legal regulation in its country of origin, and many of the countries where it is most popular.
@ntnsndr thanks for the answer. Do you agree that this special-case weighing is a departure from our established Federation Abuse Policy, and that until s.c makes a change to that policy, that the status quo should be that Threads should be defederated based on " fails to enforce policies to deal with hate speech", and the (many) documented instances of Facebook failing to enforce their Community Guidelines?
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