Notices by Jack Jackson (scubbo@fosstodon.org)

@MicroSFF I have extremely pleasant memories of a Discworld Convention when I was 8 or so, and meeting the great man himself. Hope you had/are-having a wonderful time!

GNU Terry Pratchett.

@aral I hear and support your point - but to imply that Trump's most harmful or most important attribute is "being a rapist" is the biggest strawman I've ever seen.

@inthehands I'd be tempted to encourage you to waste their time - if I wasn't also firmly of the opinion that your time is more valuable than theirs

@inthehands interesting proposition - which would, I imagine, be responded to with goalpost-moving or No True Scotsman-ing from True Believers if you actually tried it.

@eaton I've heard this claimed repeatedly, and it intrigued me so much that I read the first book almost-entirely off the back of that claim.

So far as I could tell, it was mentioned once, in passing, in the prologue? I expected it to be a *way* more central concept given how much people talk it up. Is it more relevant in the sequel?

@thomasfuchs a reminder that what is big visible news in our circles can barely make a ripple outside of them!

Wake up babe, Godwin's Second Law just dropped

@brook yes, and I *really* wish it had a way to indicate "this post is from a person you don't follow - click here to do so"

The lack of an algorithm is much-touted on Mastodon, and it is certainly a good thing to reduce surveillance capitalism - but, if the best way to find content is to follow interesting people, the system should make it easy to do so!