Notices by Sean O 🎃✂️ (seanochicago@mastodon.sdf.org)

@cstross Eh, they would have fucked it up anyway. Remember the first big spam email campaign? Green cards? Everyone was up in arms, but it stopped absolutely nothing.

@cstross Have you ever tried searching for something specific on Amazon? It’s like “we don’t want you to buy that (cat food), we want you to buy this (iPhone case)!”

Search algorithms stopped helping the buyer long ago.

@cstross I think it’s abysmally clear that the racists had to wait until ever WW2 veteran had died before they got any traction. Can you imagine Bob Dole, Daniel Inoue, Bush Sr, or even Ronald Reagan putting up with anybody spouting the current Trump xenophobia? I cannot

@HistoPol @KJ7OFH @w7voa One side is making death threats against jurors and judges. The other side throws a milkshake.

They are not the same, troll

@w7voa Let’s normalize shunning for all Trump toadies. Even the ones who regret it.

@w7voa I haven’t seen a single piece of spam on Mastodon. Meanwhile, on Twitter I was playing whack-a-mole with “advertisers” on a daily basis. I’ll take my chances on Mastodon.

I am reminded again that we are living in a library golden age.

Ebooks and PDF book scanning has transformed research. Michael S. Hart invented the ebook and created #ProjectGutenberg. The #InternetArchive has an impressive collection of book scans, and even their restrictive limits (one hour borrowing) means I have amazing access to a reasearch library without leaving my couch.

Thank you @gutenberg_org and @internetarchive, you’ve changed my life.