The Librarian 🌷 @thelibrarian@scholar.social

Would I want to say this / see this post...?

...in a newspaper section (news, analysis, op-ed, advice, amusements, ads, announcements & notices): post public

...in a newspaper were it news, but it's not: post unlisted

...at open mic night: post followers only

...in a surveillance agency's files on me as a telephone transcript: post direct message.

*For me, social media == Mastodon. I don't actively engage with other platforms anymore.

Re-posting & pinning my #introduction for any new folks:

Hi, I am an academic #librarian, #geospatial information scientist, computer scientist, #linguist (theoretically) and amateur #mathematician into:

#higherEd / #education,
#visualLearning & #infoViz
#publicPolicy,
legal studies,
political theory & economics (MMT, etc),
#computationalSocialScience, and
#systemsScience (#SD and #ABM, etc).

I like #synthWave music and #garmentEngineering (#fashionDesign).

An #omnipologist if you will.

Use CWs as subject lines to give others more freedom of choice in what they read.

Help our vision-impaired friends know what we are talking about when we post images by adding a description.

Use #hashtags to make posts discoverable, if desirable.

Mastodon is about community, not celebrity.

It is perfectly fine to have more than one account, especially on different instances. Federation allows one to lessen context collapse this way.

I am planning on more frequently tooting passages from sources I'm reading and I am going to do so thus:

The *public* post will be reference information, comments, content notes, tags;

Interesting pull quotes/passages will be posted as comments in reply with a brief citation, so they are boostable. These will be reflective of things that can be considered in an edifying way, even if my personal opinion differs (a note may or may not indicate this).

Pinning this post for followers new & old.

On day I became curious about the historical origins the Republican party. I came across Mark Lause's book "Young America : Land, Labor, and the Republican Community." The GOP's allegedly socialist origins might explain why they use/are symbolized by the color red.

"Facebook is based on the appropriation of surplus leisure time" -- Fred Block, ~01:17:30

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rNyG4fmor_I

One step closer to being able to survive on Arakis...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/08/27/water-harvester-makes-it-easy-to-quench-your-thirst-in-the-desert/

If I were to, hypothetically, write some software to be ActivityPub-compatible, what AP explainers, tutorials, or implementations should I look at?

Thanks, friends!

@darius @nolan

Would I want to say this / see this post...?

...in a newspaper section (news, analysis, op-ed, advice, amusements, ads, announcements & notices): post public

...in a newspaper were it news, but it's not: post unlisted

...at open mic night: post followers only

...in a surveillance agency's files on me as a telephone transcript: post direct message.

*For me, social media == Mastodon. I don't actively engage with other platforms anymore.

Non-fiction Book Flap: …at a time when governments, corporations, and criminals hold immense power…

Me: Isn't that redundant? Aren't they kinda the same thing*?

* Government due to substantial capture by the other two; and excluding socialist corporations and coops.

Is is just me or is Javascript weirdly becoming more like Perl, with all sorts of shorthands and implicit semantics?

A scathing and well argued to the point of being hilarious. 😂