Notices by Rachel Luxemburg 🪬 (rlux@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs @kissane Hachyderm blocked them? I missed that announcement.

That's kind of a bummer, I was hoping to figure out if I could find a way to integrate my Mastodon account with my Threads account.

Ah the good old days, when Elon Musk spent his time getting high and ranting about Tesla short sellers not global Jewish conspiracies.

@kriswd40 there's always a next time... :) safe travels!

@kriswd40 my go-to in ORD is the Rick Bayliss place - Tortas Fronteras.

@thomasfuchs the pendulum swings.... this is just another shift.

👀 A new feature in Excel that's actually interesting: Python integration.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23841167/microsoft-excel-python-integration-support

Rant incoming:

Stop comparing American Christian hate groups to the Taliban or to Al Qaeda. It’s not cute and it’s not funny. It is a handy way to “other” these uniquely American groups into something from Somewhere Else, and lets American Christians off the hook from having to do anything about the problem.

American Christians are the fertile soil that allow groups like Moms 4 Liberty to grow and cause so much damage. Not Muslims. Not Arabs. Leave them out of it and focus on the real problem.

So here's what makes me nervous about the Fediverse: Over the weekend, two admins had a disagreement & defederated their servers. They then resolved their differences and refederated.

Only problem is, all follows across those two servers were broken and people now need to recreate them manually. And depending on whether or not they were following the drama, they may not even know why it happened.

This is, in a word, bad. It puts a burden on users for something that was out of their control.

@atomicpoet Yes, he is on the board, but he doesn’t drive the roadmap. Jay and her team do. I would want one of them to confirm Jack’s comment before taking it seriously.

@atomicpoet bear in mind that Jack does not run the show over at Bluesky. The actual Bluesky team has not confirmed his comment.

The out of touch WSJ strikes again. Yes, this is real.

@thomasfuchs @danhon @amyhoy on my Fitbit, I can customize the alerts for how may steps taken. So if you lower the number of steps taken, that could be one way of tracking "you've walked too much today". You can also customized the heart rate alerts.

@nova depends on the product