Notices by mpjgregoire@mamot.fr

@louisrcouture It's surprising the pro-choice speaker would take that position: aborting fetuses with Down Syndrome is common and popular. Perhaps they believe that is not eugenics.

@markusl
Do you know if they got long Covid from their first infections, or from subsequent ones? Had they been vaccinated?

I am somewhat concerned about long Covid, but I'm not sure just how concerned I ought to be.

@1dalm

@lain Oh, there are already divisive figures on the Fediverse, no question. But the current level of notability of such people is limited; most users are unaware of what their admins are up to in that regard.

Prediction: Within the next two years, a divisive figure will join the #Fediverse , someone so notable and controversial that a schism will occur. On the one side will be instances who take the position that each user is free to follow or block the divisive figure; on the other side will be instances who defederate from any instance that does not defederate from the divisive figure's home instance.

I do not desire this future, but I do not see how it can be avoided.

#GreatFediverseSchism

@inthehands I agree about the value of a #LiberalEducation ; but rather than worrying about STEM crowding out liberal studies, I think we have a greater problem with students going to university and coming out with only paltry knowledge of mathematics and science. Our elites are skilled with words but weak with facts and analysis.

"Let none but geometers enter here."
http://www.antiquitatem.com/en/platonic-academy-geometry-nepotism/

@workingclasshistory Everything within the state, nothing outside the state.

#fascism

@evan I understand that it's not one of your highest priorities, but I'm glad that bringing ActivityPub to identi.ca is on the list.

@ZDF seems to be the first broadcaster to set up their own instance on the #Fediverse . Congratulations and welcome!

Let's hope many others will follow.

#TwitterMigration #broadcaster

@evan
@TexasObserver

@clacke #StarTrek has always been political. Consider "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", not exactly a masterpiece of subtlety.

That being said, subtlety is a virtue in drama, and I haven't seen any episodes of *Picard*.

@clacke Yes, English Canada. The major difference is not the vowel, but whether the final consonant sound like an s or a z.

@clacke That's a lot more than I had expected.

@TexasObserver Great news! Congratulations!

Out of curiosity, to what degree do you think you can attribute this success to the Fediverse?

@evan Qualified no.

We do have a duty to help the poor, but work is healthy for humans. It would be valuable to experiment with replacing most existing welfare programmes by a negative income tax.

#NegativeIncomeTax #UBI

@keithzg @gemlog You know, I don't think I've ever seen an Attenborough documentary? I've heard they're good.

If I understand correctly, the BBC paid Sir David to make five episodes of a show; environmental charities paid him to make a sixth. The BBC is allowing people to download episode 6, but not broadcasting it.

Imagine the CBC paid for 12 episodes of #FrontiersOfConstruction and the Koch Foundation paid for a 13th. Would CBC be obliged to show it?

@gemlog Maybe, maybe not. Could be the BBC has a long-standing policy that Mr. Lineker infringed — I'd disagree with that policy if so. I don't know enough about how this decision was made or of similar cases in the past to have an informed opinion.

I'd bet that Downing Street did not phone up someone at the BBC to complain, and also I'm confident the BBC bureaucracy is not principally composed of Tories, but it is possible poltical appointees in the BBC made this happen.

Not that anyone asked me, but I do have an opinion about the recent affair of Mr. Lineker at the #BBC .

As a general rule, an employer shouldn't punish an employee for expressing political opinions outside of work. I do understand that the BBC ought to be impartial, and that implies to me that those whose work directly concerns politics should be careful about what they say even outside of work hours; but Mr. Lineker broadcasts about sports.

I do not think he should have been punished.

@gemlog Yeah, if whoever plays Dr. Who made a political comment on Twitter, would the BBC say that's against their impartiality policy? Stephen Fry works for the BBC sometimes, and he has some controversial opinions.

If the BBC equivalent of Adrienne Arsenault were to say slashing things about a certain political party, then I can see how that could be a problem.

@evan It's not exactly a publication, but the #CBC should definitely be here.

@clacke The best way to get non-programmers making software is to train them in #Emacs .

@BernieWonIowa
True, but most VC investments are money-losers.

@Stark9837 @breitensteinart @atomicpoet @fediversenews