Notices by Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦 (kegill@mastodon.social), page 5

@mmasnick

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@mmasnick

Dear lord. That’s… 🤯

I won’t tell you about my experience with emergency surgery in France (2001, public not private hospital) that kept me in the hospital a week and then had daily nurse visits for another week for wound care.

You’d cry.

I second the suggestions about TV. Send details to state/federal senators/representatives + CA Attorney General.

An #introduction

University professor; writer; speaker. #Design, #UX, #IT, #communication, #publicPolicy, #agriculture, #NaturalResources, #economics

Home: #greaterSeattle via #Geòrgia, #Virginia and #Pennsylvania

Politics: #VoteBlue

Soapboxes:
#CovidIsNotOver
#DisInfo
#Elections
#JournalisticMalpractice
#MediaCriticism

Next: thread of #Mastodon #tips as part of #twittermigration

How To Use Mastodon and the #Fediverse: Basic Tips
via @feditips

It's far more than "basic" #tips

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/

Most excellent #Mastodon #primer from @djnavarro via @ct_bergstrom

Note: don't hold the shift key and hit return key to prevent premature publish. It dupes stuff! Publish needs a click/tap.

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/

1. Search feature is #hashtag based, so use them liberally)

2. Per @mmasnick, the #lists feature here works well.

3. You can #verify yourself if you have access to the source code on your blog/website/etc. Details in account settings. #verification

4. Make sure your server is federated if you don't want to be an island. counter.social is an island, FWIW. (Learned that the hard way.)
First up >

@Gargron

Seems to be accessible on desktop browser only.

Context for this @sundogplanets post

In Jan 2022, #SpaceX owned and operated 1,655 satellites (“more than a third of the total satellites in orbit”).
https://dewesoft.com/blog/every-satellite-orbiting-earth-and-who-owns-them

Aug 2023, NYT
SpaceX has “about 4,500” satellites. “So one company, I mean, one man, in fact, is responsible for 50 percent of the satellites in space”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/podcasts/the-daily/elon-musk-starlink-space.html

“The company is the only U.S. entity currently able to send astronauts to orbit”
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/05/spacex-dominance-space-industry

#Musk

@skrishna @AnnaAnthro

Not sure how this wound up in my timeline but I am SO glad it did!

Thank you for writing and re-sharing this story. I got a little teary. (Loved Micheal Yoeh as Discovery Captain Georgio and her evil alter-ego, too.)

Representation is so important, and Gene Roddenberry was a pioneer.

I have ❤️ed Star Trek since TOS (I’m old! 😂). I was thrilled to see Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) in Voyager for similar reasons.

Added:
Another swoon:
Sonequa Martin-Green's Michael Burnham

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@Gargron
I once described Twitter to my parents as public telegrams.

Mastodon is trying to create “social media” protocols like those underpinning phone calls, email and texts. Not just “read” but “respond.”

Today no corporations are pushing for interoperability due to paying for multiple email providers (eg, MCI mail, Compuserve, Prodigy) so employees could email folks outside the company.

Note: It would be 20+ years between SMTP (1981) and Gmail (2004).

For four days, Earth has has set a new modern average global temperature record and a probable ancient one.

Records - outliers - are what trigger headlines. “News.”

However, "we haven’t had a year colder than the 20th century average since the Ford administration (1976)."

Princeton University climate scientist Gabriel Vecchi told
AP the almost 50-year record "is much more relevant" than media focus on this week's high temps.

https://apnews.com/article/global-heat-record-hottest-climate-change-july-7d55e351fc97f5cd6368bda60ed2bf31

#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis

Twitter management did not block pro-Trump tweets prior to #January6th.

Management ignored the company’s own rules (terms of service).

“Twitter’s leaders were reluctant to take action against Trump’s account two days after the insurrection, even as lawyers inside the company argued that his continued praise of the Capitol rioters amounted to “glorification of violence,” an offense punishable then by suspension under Twitter’s rules.”

Who ran Twitter in January 2021?

Jack Dorsey.

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More SCOTUS cringeworthy corruption: Crow Holdings Industrial is a direct beneficiary of the convoluted wetlands decision and helped finance the case.

Thomas, of course, did not recuse himself.

https://www.levernews.com/clarence-thomas-billionaire-benefactor-is-grateful-for-latest-scotus-bombshell/