Social, Politics and Whatnot

Social, Politics and Whatnot

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Just go “aah!” Hardcore!
Just go “aah!” Hardcore!
My best work happens when a certain kind of relaxed determinism converges with methodic productivity. If you work long enough in software you'll meet people who think that success is the result of brute forcing through everything. Work needs to be fast, sleep needs to be less, overtime doesn't exist because why would you want...
·marcel.io·
Just go “aah!” Hardcore!
Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?
·ar.al·
Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
AndreasHoevermann@sciences.social on Twitter
AndreasHoevermann@sciences.social on Twitter
In der Leipziger Autoritarismusstudie lassen sich auch einige Befunde zum Antisemitismus finden, die ich hier in diesem Thread zusammenfasse. Welche Formen des Antisemitismus werden gemessen, wie hoch ist die Zustimmung und wer stimmt besonders häufig zu?1/🧵— AndreasHoevermann@sciences.social (@AndreasHoev) November 11, 2022
·twitter.com·
AndreasHoevermann@sciences.social on Twitter
Mastodon, Fediverse, ein paar Gedanken (feat. Marketing) - Tales from the Mac Hell
Mastodon, Fediverse, ein paar Gedanken (feat. Marketing) - Tales from the Mac Hell
Ja, ich auch. Ja, wegen Musk. Ein rassistischer Vollidiot, geschenkt, aber (nicht erst) seit der Twitterübernahme ein gefährlicher Vollidiot, und wenn ich mein Scherflein beitragen kann, ihm da das Leben schwerer zu machen, so be it. Ich hab mir einen … Continue reading →
·korrupt.biz·
Mastodon, Fediverse, ein paar Gedanken (feat. Marketing) - Tales from the Mac Hell
Welcome to hell, Elon
Welcome to hell, Elon
Owning Twitter means owning a host of impossible political problems. Is Elon ready?
·theverge.com·
Welcome to hell, Elon
Misconceptions
Misconceptions
Some common geographic mental misplacements
·storymaps.arcgis.com·
Misconceptions
Klassentreffen der Ewiggestrigen
Klassentreffen der Ewiggestrigen
Die historische Rekonstruktion des Molkenmarkts hat illustre Freunde. Bei einem Festival der Stiftung Mitte Berlin gibt sich auch der ehemalige Regierende Bürgermeister Walter Momper die Ehre.
·nd-aktuell.de·
Klassentreffen der Ewiggestrigen
Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else.
Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else.
In a nuclear war, hundreds to thousands of detonations would occur within minutes of each other, resulting in tens to hundreds of millions of people dead or injured in a few days. But a few years after a nuclear war, global climatic changes caused by the many nuclear explosions could be responsible for the death of more than half of the human population on Earth.
·thebulletin.org·
Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else.
Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
The impact of such layoffs would likely be felt immediately by millions of users and would put them at risk of hacks and exposure to offensive material such as child pornography, insiders said.
·washingtonpost.com·
Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce