Notices by R Scott Jones (rscottjones@mastodon.social)

@FlashMobOfOne Where ya headed?

@binarydigit Sounds like a good move. It’s hard to keep up with too many of them

@binarydigit Ohh, this is my time seeing a blue Casio. Looks sharp!

@binarydigit Which music player do you have?

@binarydigit Snagged the feed! (and also like the new moniker)

@binarydigit Where can I find your digital garden site?

@binarydigit I was wondering if the penguins were still there!! That was always my favorite exhibit there. (Related: just yesterday I saw my first ever penguins in the wild—blue penguins coming ashore on Phillip island in Australia!)

@binarydigit 👀

@dansup Doesn’t that already exist?

@jedda @binarydigit Flickr was amazing social media for me when I was active in it, back maybe 2005-2010ish. Made a number of friends, always enjoyed the convos and photos. Still have an account, but they lost me during that awkward ownership transition, and by then I had launched my own photo site for my adventures. Still have a free account—which is now missing ~25k of my photos from my paid days—but now I’m not sure I’d pay the annual fee. Miss the old days tho!

And we’re off on our 24-day safari thru South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania!

Here’s our vehicle for the journey!
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@JustinH @evan What do you mean? We already have followers-only posts.

@JustinH @evan Ahh gotcha. Yeah, I presume Evan’s referring to general publicness of posts. That seems to be a huge downside of Bluesky—which intentionally wants every post, profile, like, and even block to be public, even to nonusers. I can’t see how that’s tenable for a lot of users who currently have their FB/IG/Twitter/etc set to private. Seems like a recipe for disaster in countless ways, especially in the age of cheap/easy AI data analysis.

@evan Isn’t refusing to transfer power after a free election the act of destroying democracy? I mean, it’s sorta right there in the definition, isn’t it? Destroying democracy to prevent someone else from destroying it?

@binarydigit Wow!! Great job, you nailed ‘em

@liztai Similarly, citizens need to stop relying on social media platforms for their information.

@evan Why do you value a masters degree? What does it provide you?

@liztai @constantorbit Just placed a hold at the library for this (darn, it doesn’t seem to be available in ebook format!)

@liztai Deep Work made my honorable mentions for my own list of 15 books that most impacted my life.

(Here’s the rest in case you’re interested: https://rscottjones.com/the-15-books-that-most-impacted-me/)

A few shots of Denali, “The Great One,” from our visit OTD six years ago. We were very fortunate to have clear views nearly the entire day.