Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social), page 7

Today in Sarcophagus Juice news:

I absolutely want to see the movie for which this story is the mid-credits epilogue. Archaeologists Bewildered by Skeleton Made From Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart: During a recent...
https://jwz.org/b/ykcx

Am I missing something or is the only Mastodon web interface for examining and manipulating the list of people you have blocked, "you can download a CSV"?

Billionaire Spaceman.
https://jwz.org/b/ykcr

Has "President Supervillain" restarted yet? On something that is not Twitter? https://jwz.org/b/yjXP

@oceane @terri Please tell me more about what "the web" is "meant as". I find your ideas fascinating and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

What I used to think on a day when I got 112 new followers: "Neat!"

What I now think on a day when I get 112 new followers: "Oh no"

@jwz One of the takes I repeated constantly when I was still on Usenet. There is no obligation to consume others’ postings any more than there is an obligation to watch specific TV shows

@mawa
The other very important USENET rule that everyone now forgets: "If it's important, it will come back".

There is no chance that you will miss something important in The Discourse. None.

@dec23k I didn't upload that and I don't know who did, sooooo.... let's hope it's not a rootkit?

@eschaton You absolutely don not have to nand it to them.

@bobdobberson
The date is now Saturday March 1715, 2020.

I just had the phrase Trump le Monde pop into my head so now you have to live with that too: https://youtu.be/JkD-nEwsPLc?t=33

@SomaFMrusty If the choice was between him only posting on Twitter and him only posting on Smith-Corona I think the latter would be better.

@SomaFMrusty I think that by providing the Web 1.0 fallback you have done due diligence. Folks can use whatever app they want.

@SomaFMrusty I feel that and I'm all for backward compatibility but sometimes you need to ask "can you not? So I don't have to?"

Golly, this post sure has upset a lot of dudes who feel they deserve to be heard.

@edward_jazzhands And that's a *paaaaaalonk*

@dangillmor Welcome to the resistance (checks notes) Fortune Magazine?

@SomaFMrusty Oh geez. Isn't MP3 a proprietary codec? Are they all in on ogg?

@jef Sure but only a few goofballs will tell you "don't block the fash." I'm on team: block the "you seem slightly annoying".