Notices by skua (skua@mastodon.social)

@fesshole
Dear Jasper, I've read Shades of Grey so many times.
In fact I'm on to my 7th copy of it now.
I love how modest you are.
Can we meet?
I'd live to whip you.

@WarnerCrocker
Purely hypothetically wondering how they'd handle a click or two from a piezo-electric gas igniter.

@fesshole
They're so fortunate to have you.

But now you've stepped up we want more from you.

I'd like the 2nd mention of "cat" to include a fabulous cat name.

"... the outlook, as described by my cat Hepsibah II, is boyant with significant opportunities for expansion."

And then for 3rd or greater mentions, just the cat's name.

"Hepsibah II cautions that continued missteps by middle management would severely downgrade expectations."

@aral

Trying to imagine sports commentators in Australia having even 10% of that dialogue.

If more than two sentences in favour of a boycott got broadcast and weren't immediately dismissed or talked-over by a chuckle-fuck corporate-mouthpiece commentator I'd be shocked.

#AusPol #AusSports #MurdochMedia

@HistoPol

Hmmm. Worrying.

Iran looking like a test zone for Chinese warfare equipment.
Guessing that it's going to come up as high quality. Unlike Russian equipment in the invasion of Ukraine.

(Gaza looks like test zone for insurgence control, and population control, equipment.)

@dalias
Forking Reply

"Frequency of bot posts" - ideally something that could be swapped over to "User selected frequency of receiving posts by a bot".

For me, if I checked my notifications after 2 days away from Mastodon and found 48 posts by a bot I'd unFollow.

But really I have no idea where a sweet spot might be found.

#FrequencyOfBotPosts #UserControlBotReceipts

@micahflee
Anyone got the geeks to set up a bot that posts the names of 10 of the companies once every 12 hours?
#ICEContractor #ICEComplicit

@libreoffice

1. Welcome. Great software. Hope you get what you're after here.

2. You are displaying such savvy use of social media that it would be best if you were Donald Trump's social media advisor.
(The linked twitter post has been deleted. And the anti-savvy of posting a link on Mastodon to your Nazi-bar twitter post is awesome. In a bad way. Less cool than posting a dick pic in your intro.)

Edit: Following as I love libreoffice. And I love seeing trainwrecks in which no one is harmed.

@Infoseepage @markhurst
Thanks for that - I like knowing I'm interacting with a human and their work.

@Infoseepage @markhurst
2/2
There is research showing that a lot of screen time is correlated with changes in the brain. (below)
And forcing children to limit their interactions with, and explorations of, the world they live in to communications on a computer is a very restrictive, authoritarian social act.

Maybe future research will clear "screens" of being involved in loss of literacy. But I'm not seeing any sound basis for certainty on that

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.31887/DCNS.2020.22.2/aweinstein#d1e135

@Infoseepage @markhurst
1/2
That looks like a list of important factors.
It's a long list. I'm wanting to check whether AI was involved in gathering the elements of the list and if so whether you went and verified the existence of each one and that it was accurately summarized by the AI, or if you gathered all them without the assistance of AI.

I'm not seeing anything that requires "laptops and tablets" to have the same effect as "squirrels".

@Infoseepage @markhurst
I get that there are a lot of possible and probable contributors.

Maybe I'm misreading your posts but it seems that you're confident that "laptops and tablets" and "the screen" more generally are not significant contributors.

@Infoseepage @markhurst
"Fortune reported in 2017 that Maine’s public school test scores had not improved in the 15 years the state had implemented its technology initiative."

Test scores not improving in Maine for 15 years prior to 2017 is hard to attribute to the neuro-disruptive effects of COVID-19.

@steter

"absolute lawlessness"

Which former Presidents let the Epstein documents remain hidden?

Reminds me of the Holy Roman Catholic Church protecting its reputation by hushing things up and moving paedophile teachers/priests to another school.

@fesshole
Pyjamas that redirect gas, weaponised to ignite it!

Join my Kickstarter at Montgolfier Level, receive before Xmas.

@steter
The complicity of the Democrats in Trump's election wins includes AIUI both Obama and Biden sitting on the Jeffrey Epstein documents, and so allowing Trump to remain electable.
They deliberately kept American voters in the dark.

@inthehands

I'm disappointed.

There is nothing "vague" about workers being provided adequate conditions, conditions that don't result in significant harms.

It's your thread so I'll leave.

@inthehands

"Wikipedia has •numerous• problems, but it belongs in education."

You've presented the great benefits that Wikipedia (type projects) can bring very well.

Do you agree that for something to be suitable for use in education there needs to be reasonable confidence that it is being produced ethically?

Confidence that the workers are being provided adequate conditions, that conditions aren't harming significant numbers of workers?

If yes then please point me at authorative sources.

@WarnerCrocker

Wonder what changed for George?

$$$$ - unlikely.

new dance routine - unlikely.

dirt? On who? Johnson? Much more likely.

@br00t4c
I've been told by a former Trump supporter that, "He's disappointed a lot of people."

But I don't see a slump in the olls.