Notices by R Scott Jones (rscottjones@mastodon.social), page 2

@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!
-S 🇿🇦🇧🇼🇿🇼🇿🇲🇲🇼🇹🇿

@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.

@evan @laurenshof I know there’s home, local, federated, and all. I presume the fediverse feed is listed as “all?”

@laurenshof @evan I didn’t vote, but read the question as “How do you enjoy your home feed here on the Fediverse” (presuming it was a comparison to, say, your home feed on Twitter, etc).

After all, it’s called different things in different apps…and even the web version of Mastodon calls it “all” not “fediverse.” I think the poll wording is unclear.

@evan True. Context is my dad was born in Belfast and immigrated to USA at age 18. He ended up naturalizing while in the Marines. As part of that process, he seemingly “gave up” his UK citizenship. But there doesn’t appear to be a UK law that allows for that. So I derived UK citizenship upon birth, we just didn’t know it (or so is our understanding, we haven’t filed paperwork yet). Because he was born on the isle of Ireland, I can derive Irish citizenship too.

@evan As someone who is about to gain citizenship in two additional countries, I had never considered voting in multiple countries, as a citizen of those countries, simultaneously. If you’re a citizen of only one country, strong yes for me. Not sure what it means to be a dual citizen yet though (should I really have 3x the voting power of someone else?), so only a qualified yes for me, for now, while I ponder.