Notices by Leisureguy (leisureguy@mstdn.ca)

@mastodonmigration @hildabast

I hope @juddlegum sees this post and acts on it. I subscribe to Popular Information, which I love, but I wish it were not on Substack.

@feditips I would add that it is helpful to provide your general location — say, country or state or province. Having some idea of the region helps with context on posts that mention the weather, the season, foods, etc.

Certainly not mandatory, but helpful.

@MyView @feditips I'm not sure I understand. I'm suggesting that location (at a comfortable level of generalization) be included in one's profile. That's where I look for it (with success sometimes, not so others). The point is to provide the information for those who DO bother to click.

@inthehands I would try checking the "expand all CW posts" and also filtering on the word "spoiler." That's just an idea, but might be worth an experiment.

@inthehands @kellogh @jmeowmeow I would add that the focus of the education that has lasted was learning "skills*, acquired only through practice. For example, the skill of close and careful reading (and listening), the skill of logical argument, the skill of writing (both handwriting and stringing words together to communicate clearly ideas, methods, and questions), and so on.

Skills stay with us if we continue to use them, and we do use essential skills. And they do require practicing them.

@feditips I would add that for the hearing-impaired, the alt-text should describe the audio content. For example, "a slow, bluesy boogie, solo piano with no vocal, single notes more than chords."

@feditips Ah! Thanks. I assume the eye with the line through it has the CW turned on (can't see content without a click) and the plain eye shows full content with no click.

The plain eye's popup text reads "Show less for all," so the text describes not the current state but what results if you click the icon.

I have my preferences set to ignore content warnings, so I in effect have plain-eye throughout.

@feditips In my Advanced Web Interface there is an eye-icon at the upper right. If I hover, It shows "Show less for all," and if I click it, it then shows "Show more for all." It is unclear whether the displayed text describes the current state or the state that results after clicking.

Plus what does it mean?

Perhaps you can link to an explanation.

@feditips Correct procedure for Wordpress.com:

1. From dashboard, Tools → Marketing → Connections (in menu on the page)

2. Click the Connect button next to Mastodon.

3. In the new window that opens:

a. Sign in to your Mastodon account.
b. Approve the connection to WordPress.com by selecting Authorize.

4. After returning to WordPress.com, another pop-up window will confirm the account you want to connect to. Select Connect.

The instructions you offer don't work.

@feditips Ah — I see them now: the links are in the upper left corner. Next to the hamburger is a little group of people icon (Local timeline) and next to that is a globe icon (Federated timeline).

I had been looking at upper right. The Advanced Web Interface has them at upper left.

@feditips

I don't see that, but I use the Advanced Web Interface, so perhaps you are talking about the regular interface.

Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco

A new study suggests that tobacco companies, who were skilled at marketing cigarettes, used similar strategies to hook people on processed foods.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/19/addiction-foods-hyperpalatable-tobacco/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk1MDk2MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjk2NDc4Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTUwOTYwMDAsImp0aSI6ImE5NTdiZGZiLTVmNTYtNDJhMy1hNDUwLWMyMTBlOTc5OTcyNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93ZWxsbmVzcy8yMDIzLzA5LzE5L2FkZGljdGlvbi1mb29kcy1oeXBlcnBhbGF0YWJsZS10b2JhY2NvLyJ9.9Pb0FijfktZohj8WpozAEWC4_FOjHOXhGXn9wVKPbR4&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
(gift link, no paywall)

@wfpb
#food #WFPB #health #wholeFood #capitalism

Interesting essay by Angela Saini based on her book "The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230525-how-did-patriarchy-actually-begin

#patriarchy #culturalEvolution #history #anthropology

@feditips I use the Advanced Web Interface in my browser (Vivaldi) on my notebook computer (Macbook Air M1). The browser and macOS are current version.

@feditips

It is the actual profile page. — oh, this is odd: I was going to do a screengrab and show you an example, but the profiles that lacked the follow button yesterday now have it back.

Maybe it was just a transient glitch.

@inthehands @kellogh @jmeowmeow

I'm a latecomer. I did not hit it (in the context of formal education) until college: the "Great Books Program" at St. John's College, Annapolis MD, whose motto is "Facio liberos ex liberis libris libraque" - "I make free adults out of children by means of books and a balance."

However, I realize now that during my very early years I received a good grounding for a liberal arts education from things my grandmother taught me.

@jeridansky @JonathanMosen

Mastodon's is designed to make entering alt text less convenient than not entering it. The design encourages not entering alt text.

Adding an image should open the edit page with the cursor in the alt text entry box. The current design requires that a user:

1. know what alt text is
2. know how to open the entry box
3. take the extra step to open the entry box
4. remember to do it

If alt text were the default, entering alt text would be easier and more natural

@cabinguy @jeridansky

That would reduce a significant barrier to having alt text: having to start with a blank text entry box.

@clacke @jeridansky @cabinguy

Perhaps the automatic description could always be "Stupid image." ?