Notices by L. Rhodes (lrhodes@merveilles.town)

@ben I'd be interested to hear your reasons, but at the moment, I disagree. This makes the staff subject to a broad range of user agreements and moderation rules, each of which will be subject to change at a moment's notice, and all of which will have to be continually monitored and parsed for conflicts with the org's policies. It also leaves them open to a range of potential security vulnerabilities that would be harder to exploit on a server run by a Post-employed admin and moderators.

I expect that one of the first groups to really feel the negative impacts of GAN search will be programmers, since they use search for everything.

On the flip side, imagine how much as revenue Bing and Google would lose of programmers started going directly to StackOverflow to find answers.

You're not playing with the latest AI toy. You're training someone's AI business.

Listen, I've spent much of the last two weeks talking about content warnings on here, but always either in reply to someone asking about them, or simply aloud, without picking out anyone in particular. What I generally don't do is jump into people's replies to tell them that their post should have been behind a CW. It's important to talk openly and often about the norms that make these communities work, but be careful that you don't turn into a cop about it.

In the past decade, the Indian Child Welfare Act has been challenged nearly as many times as the Affordable Care Act, by groups in the private adoption industry, right-wing organizations, anti-Indigenous hate groups, and corporate law firms. Many legal scholars and Native advocates argue that the challenges aren't even about ICWA—that it's a Trojan horse designed to gut the legal rights of Indigenous nations. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/icwa-supreme-court-libretti-custody-case/

Just a note for new Mastodon #admins: You don't have to step your instance up a tier to keep up with the influx. You can close registrations, grow the community you have, wait until you're sure it's worth the resources. Staying small is an option.

If you have a website, or even just an profile page on a site where you can add a little html, go put a link to your Mastodon account with the attribute rel="me" there.

For example:
<a rel="me" href="https:/ /your.mastodon.server/@yourhandle">Mastodon</a>

Then, in your Mastodon account, go to Preferences > Profile > Profile Metadata, and add a link to the page where you put that html.

For example:
Homepage   https:/ /yourwebsite.com

That's the easiest form of verification on Mastodon.

Shout out to all of the people who joined mastodon.social in the past four days, thereby forcing Eugen to optimize some code to help the server keep up. You've been here less than a week and you're already contributing to the software.