$1 million.
I didn't want to see the comments, I know many would choose option 1 just to impress people.
Me, I confess I wanna choose option 1, because it's my burden today. I'm honest, just wanted to my make my own confession.
If you like songs & you like bass guitar, you might like my stuff.
Hmm maybe I'll do a thread later if I'm not too busy, with a few words about each of the 11 songs I've got up on Bandcamp so far, so people are more likely to find one they like.
Okay gonna do a little briefing thread about some of my songs! I'll start with...
Love to the younger me
One of my own faves. A good one for when you're looking back over mistakes & ups & downs, & you want to do different in the future, but not by being mean to yourself.
«How Fighting #Monopoly Can Save #Journalism:
The collapse of the #news industry is not an inevitable consequence of technology or market forces. It’s the result of policy #mistakes over the past 40 years that the Biden administration is already taking measures to #fix.»
Today I learned it was a developer and not a groupie or random troll who was trolling me. 😂
I used Etcher, Fedora writer, Rufus, and Ventoy for a year and cloud not boot their ISO. -They got got defensive when I pointed this out.
When I tried to be helpful and report the issue with their website, they got defensive. I was instructed not to use an ad blocker and to use a Chromium browser, not Firefox.
I naturally assumed, incorrectly, that it was a troll and blocked them. - Some developer. 😂
Also only reported bugs can be worked on, so I do encourage even "#TechIlliterates" to send error reports in @ubuntu because those will get acutally worked on and silently patched over time...
Larry Elliott, one of the Grauniads useful Eejits ponticicates
It’s easy to condemn ‘eat out to help out’, but Sunak’s motivations were justified
I am sure that Herod had good intentions as well. He didn't listen to his experts (I suppose who does these days?), he lied about it in evidence. We all make mistakes but this defence is as useful as his presumption that Brexit was going to be positive,
But what's a little #crime against #nature between friends?
On a more serious note, this an #invasive and extremely unwelcome #species. If you spot one in your #electronics#workshop, kill it with fire, and report the incident to the #IEC.
(It's also kind of the antonym of dead-bug circuit construction, which is sort of apt)
Re-upping this post as the beginning of a short thread: the post was written about a general type of behavior called "beefing": the short thread is about the specific, current Mastodon block list controversy and what it means for Mastodon and the left:
Writing something on #ideologies of communication and linguistic #mistakes. Some of the questions I’d like to explore are: how do ideologies construe and are reinforced by online metadiscourses around linguistic mistakes? Do users negotiate/problematise/resist dominant ideologies? How do ideologies relate to #emotions?
Reading suggestions appreciated. @linguistics@academicchatter#linguistics
I generally try to stay out of Fediverse drama, but I think at this point it's necessary to speak up. Please be polite, careful, and kind in your replies.
Maintaining a large-scale public blocklist is a tough job. It's not just aggregation: you're engaged (implicitly or explicitly) in source selection and weighting, data cleaning, statistical modeling, evidence collation, developing a controlled vocabulary, tracing data provenance, appeals, and metamoderation.
I suspect the underlying reason is that mastodon.art and a few others in the source cohort silence us for having a more relaxed CW policy around sex and nudity. This is not the first time kinky & sex-positive instances have been listed on a public blocklist thanks to this cohort of instances: https://seirdy.one/posts/2023/05/02/fediverse-blocklists/#mistakes-made