Ever thought about how we make this place sound cool to other people?

Spoiler: It's not 'Fedi'-anything.

https://forbetter.ghost.io/the-normal-response-to-the-social-web/

#SocialWeb #Blog #Fediverse #Mastodon #Tech

@TheBreadmonkey I could tell from here that you do. The best vessels. People across the world are discussing your vessels and how they're the benchmark by which all vessels should be judged.

*high five*

What is the difference between ignorance and apathy?

I don't know and I don't care. #dadjoke

@cjk can't wait for somebody to port this to FreeBSD. It's looking absolutely fantastic Christian!

"The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." I spent six years on WMF staff, founded The Wikipedia Library in 2011, and have been editing for nineteen years. I wrote this piece because the people I worked with deserved someone willing to speak plainly. The response suggests the public is listening. https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 #Wikipedia

@ravensrod 🫀

@jpm just making sure its not a case of "oh no there's something better now"

…My thought at the top was along the lines of “What was the temperature in India like in the 1930s?”

I’ve not found a source for that, but https://data.opencity.in/dataset/daily-temperature-70-years-data-for-major-indian-cities provides data for 8 major Indian cities back to 1951.

From its CSV source, the average of average daily temperatures in Kolkata for the 7-day period from 21 to 27 May, from 1951 to 1955 was:

1951: 34.7°
1952: 34.6°
1953: 35.4°
1954: 34.5°
1955: 34.3°.

So across those 5 years the average was 34.7°C.

This week, it’s been 37.3°C

@MamaLake

Yes! Although I am aching today and in recovery mode. Lovely walk yesterday though and feeling very something I can't identify. How's your b'day?

You have enjoyed your last chipmunk.

@jpm @timixretroplays @liamvhogan @vwdasher about 10yrs ago on the urging of a mechanic I bought a 5l bottle of "AC Delco Optikleen" and it was incredible. When it ran out I went back to Bars Bugs from supercheap and it's fine.

What's going on at the Wiki Media Foundation, is really worrying.

Important layoffs, are they the playbook of corporates now at the top of the foundation?

This could be possibly one of their worst moves. It's a fragile balance between love work (voluntary labour) and livelihood work (waged labour). And our cherished federation, the flagship of digital commons, really depends on the goodwill of the people making small donations. That income might suffer as a result. Probably income due to deals with AI corps will bring in a growing share. But is that the future we want?

I want to learn more about this. Here's some materials:

Report:
https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom/116642253074554430

Petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@XedYourLastY/116650844448783326

And it was delicious

@annika its worse than that. We *paid* for this. Deliberately cruel for people who have absolutely nothing left. It's despicable.

@gabrielesvelto In May 2026 you are surrounded by models largely trained on output of previous-gen leading-edge models. Those models work extremely well.

Greedy guys in the cloud business like AWS/GCP/Azure, have always had large capex, even pre-AI, and make ~100bn/yr on rentals. Hence they can get the money to blow on this. What does a "potential crash" prove? Not that "we're all gonna die".

As I said before you wanted to argue, we don't have to argue. Que sera, sera and we will see.

It's deeply fucked up that we must have benches only slightly wider than my hand just so we can be cruel to homeless people.

I don't mean to brag but the results from my echocardiogram are back and they said I have great vessels 🫀

~8am.

My area is flooded by a literal army of policemen. Normal cops, and armoured riot cops, and some dogs.

I have a bad feeling some human rights are about to be discarded.

#Zimbabwe

finally got my erasmus admission, yaaay

which means i'm looking for housing in tallinn! from august to february. sooo if you know anyone who'd rent to an queer art girly, please let me know :)

i'll be studying contemporary art at eka, i'm in my mid 30s, i like birds, i'm clean and quiet, at least 80% of my past flatmates still miss me, i'm a fan of living in community (and currently do in a wonderful house project). and also i'm trans and therefore both too hot and too unemployed for the regular housing market (i'll receive funding, so i can pay rent, i just have neither rich family nor a well paying job and landlords hate that). anyway 🫶