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@washingtonpost when am I going to get a Mastodon share icon?

I sit in the car with our dog every Thursday while my wife shops at Whole Foods — it is an interesting place to people watch. Quite a mix of folks in OAK.

Developer platforms are all about trust, and Twitter lost it https://tcrn.ch/3UZExH8 via @techcrunch

High Speed Rail Development Worldwide https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-high-speed-rail-development-worldwide

@emilygorcenski That really should be an API.

@lmorchard please build. ;-)

The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/fringe-left-alt-right-share-beliefs-white-power-movement/672454/

I am fascinated by people who follow people on here but have never added an image or profile -- seems like the low bar?

@Crell I wouldn't say I detest, but I have never gotten on the bandwagon. It is fascinating to see folks operate in this world and assume it is how everyone believes.

One moment while I change my IP address and user agent.

That changed at 1:03 a.m. on Dec. 5 when 192 giant lasers at the laboratory’s National Ignition Facility blasted a small cylinder about the size of a pencil eraser that contained a frozen nubbin of hydrogen encased in diamond.

This crossed the threshold that laser fusion scientists call ignition, the dividing line where the energy generated by fusion equals the energy of the incoming lasers that start the reaction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/science/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough.html

@TheCoolest Good point. I think we need to begin developing a thoughtful federated approach. I remember all the surveillance concerns of centralized FB, Twitter, etc. I'd like to see instance and non-instance versions, with clear instructions as to pros / cons of each.

Who is going to lobby all the embeddable social sharing solutions to add a Mastodon icon?

Tweeting the obligatory post-covid sans beard photo as I try to work this week cause my co-worker Joyce asked me to.

"When President Richard M. Nixon launched America’s first war on drugs 51 years ago, annual overdose deaths stood at 6,771. The agency continues to count the death toll for 2021 — in a provisional tally seven months ago, it calculated the overall number of drug overdoses at 107,622." https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/dea-fentanyl-failure/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001

What Twitter Does to Our Sense of Time https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/opinion/twitter-odell-time.html

@darrel_miller @kevinswiber @vincentbiret Would love to learn from your learnings. We are going to publish a blog series on common mistakes we see.

@kevinswiber @darrel_miller This should be pretty light lift to add -- we'll see. ;-)