Notices by Doctor M. Popular (docpop@mastodon.social)

Ovin Loven is doing a pop-up tonight, tomorrow, and a few days next week in Benders Bar. We love her matzo ball soup and cheeseburger galettes. She posts her schedule on IG https://www.instagram.com/ovinloven/

Verified reports that #Bluesky is blocking some users in #Turkey as requested by the Turkish government. Reported here https://www.sonmuhur.com/blueskyda-ilk-sansur-turkiyede-ilk-kez-bir-hesabin-engellendigi-ortaya-cikti and explained a little More details on this thread https://mastodon.social/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/114345157696148021

Question for my fedi friends: what happens here if a government makes these demands on the fediverse? I'm guessing it would be up to each server admin if they chose to follow those government requests, right? Have we seen anything like this happen on Mastodon servers yet?

Hey Mission friends: the Spring Art Market is happening at Dynamo Donuts today and it’s a great turnout. Lots of artists here from 10-3pm. Details here https://www.instagram.com/p/DHWWjbQSu4t/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== #SanFrancisco #MissionDistrict #DynamoDonut

I spotted this copper-plated microcar in West Oakland yesterday. This BMW Isetta is owned by the Truffle Man. He calls it the "Fudge Buggy" and occasionally uses it as a point of sale for his chocolate business. #BMW #Isetta

@williampietri

Stunning photos of a person dressed like a whirling dervish being peppersprayed by police at a protest in Istanbul. The first photo is by Chris McGrath, who has more photos and important details about these protests in this IG post https://www.instagram.com/p/DHlZZjhtq8L/?img_index=1

I took a train to Sacramento today. The second we got off the train, I started playing with my #yoyo and this stranger walks buy and asks “have you heard of Doctor Popular?”. I said “that’s me” and we chatted for a minute. It turns out I was talking to #AndySinger, a cartoonist from Minneapolis that was a major influence on me and my art. It’s funny we bumped into each other in a town neither of us live in. I’ll write more about him, and the impact he had on my life, soon.

Spotted this Sutro Tower-inspired gate being installed on Bernal Hill today. I really like how it looks and had a quick chat with the foreman from Quake City Metal about it. You can see more of their work here https://www.instagram.com/quakecitymetal #SutroTower #BernalHeights #SanFrancisco

@evan @dnalounge as a local point of contact, let me know if I can help.

New patch

It's my 47th birthday. Steen gave me some cool gifts, including an awesome #ChatPile shirt and a fanzine about #SFBART.

Hey @pixelfed and @dansup, I'm organizing a Pixelfed/fediverse photo walk in San Francisco this weekend and would love if you could help spread the word. More details on the #PixelWalk can be found in this post https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/799823657355319217

Stop AI is organizing a protest at OpenAI's headquarters in #SanFrancisco tomorrow afternoon. More info at https://www.stopai.info/protest

Have you ever searched for a user on the #fediverse and been confused by all the different handles that pop up for that one user? I know I have. I talk about this for a bit in this video, along with a little trick I'm experimenting with to see if I can clean up my search results. You can watch it on #Peertube: https://spectra.video/w/kKD7gDY8umU58qHMcujg1q
or on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3e6SyHnn6M

Me: "Nationalize SpaceX"

Elon Musk initiates a coup of the federal government

Me: "Not like that!"

#SFGraffiti #Risograph #StickerSlaps #Graffiti

Meta is labelling real mug shot photos of President Trump as "AI-generated fakes". I wrote more about this on my blog, along with plenty of screenshots from FB, IG, and Threads to show how bad it looks. https://docpop.org/2025/01/trumps-mug-shot-is-real-but-meta-is-labelling-it-as-a-fake/

Between this and the recent censorship of political hashtags like #Democrat and #Kamala, I think Zuck is making a strong case for the decentralized alternatives like Mastodon and Pixelfed.

My post was on the front page of Hacker News this morning before getting flagged for some reason. Comments are good there though, I appreciate that and it’s nice seeing it spread around after all the work that went into it. https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/113871343203606005

"Biden", "Democrat", "VoteBlue", "MichelleObama", "JohnOliver" (?!), and 25 more hashtags that Instagram censored on Trump's inauguration day. Spoiler alert: "Republican" wasn't one of them. https://docpop.org/2025/01/the-day-instagram-blocked-democracy/

If someone wanted to share a music playlist without using Spotify, what would you recommend?

Ideally, this would be playable online without needing an account to hear it.

Nightshade, the AI data poisoning tool, is now available. Artists and photographers can use this defensive tool to prevent their work from being used without permission for AI training models. It's free and easy to use, and it works well on my original art (see attached).

Even if you are personally fine with AI companies using your work without permission, we should all be using whatever tools we have until these companies switch to using ethically sourced models.

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html