I think the Internet Archive has about a year or less before being closed down. They face multiple lawsuits demanding better collection management - but they have little or no curation at all.
Just go look for yourself: Taylor Swift albums jumbled up with console games, copied blu rays and random video with no tags - a real museum has direction, purpose and the IA needs to staff up and stop being a huge dumpster of random shit. Or the inevitable will happen.
South Australian public hospitals are under strain with the health department boss declaring a system-wide internal emergency after many staff are sick with COVID.
Got a #report about a user saying things that were upsetting people, noticed it was from another instance, realized that I had access to the actual account that had sent it. Not sure what this is or why, didn't even realize #ActivityPub supported signed reports (I'd honestly like to get more), but obviously that's a risky thing if they didn't know it was happening and didn't know why.
What are people's feelings on using the FediBlock tag for calling out individual accounts? Personally, I find it mildly annoying at best, in that most of these accounts are already acted upon by staff, but potentially harmful at worse if people are going there instead of immediately clicking the report button, or even worse, using it to call out a user by finding one of their worst out of context posts and putting it on blast.
Honestly, I'm using it as a tool to scope out instances that we need to block because they are literal Nazis, literal pedos, literally attempting to harass people off of the network, or otherwise bad faith. I would rather it not come into play for individual accounts, but be advance warning for when the actual staff of a server is the problem.
What do people think though? Is there a perspective I'm missing?
Just wanted to point out, with the ongoing #spam attack on #fediverse / #misskey / #mastodon, this kind of happens on every social network. The only reason you are hearing about it is because #moderation#staff is normal users who use the normal channels to talk about it, and we actually take it way more seriously than the corporate social networks do.
Like, this represents most of the traffic on #Twitter, and they don't seem to care, so it speaks volumes about the fact that you can see us talking about how we don't want that here.
Returned to my workbench recently, and tonight I finished sanding on the largest staff I've made yet-- it's an inch or two taller than I am (5 foot 11) and is as wide as a soda can at the head end.
I've decided I'm going to inscribe references to as much of the knowledge I've gained in my Druidic pursuits on its surface as possible. I'm hopeful I can do enough to submit images of it, with explanations, as my Druidic review to formally finish the grade with OBOD.
“Brave eliminated some positions as part of our cost management in this challenging economic environment. Several departments were affected, amounting to 9% of our staff.”
The tax shall be repeated in the following year, regardless of #layoffs. If more layoffs follow, it is extended until a full fiscal year without layoffs passes.
The proceeds are split 50/50 between government and the laid-off employees.
The Vanguard community centre for the #blind.
We are supporting them this week with the supply and installation of a new #electrical catering #water#heater.
This will be totally #free, and it will help them to provide a more comfortable service for their many users and #volunteers/#staff.
Working together with cross agencies to support the #public.
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. --Ursula K. Le Guin