Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born #OTD in 1790. He is best known for having his name attached to a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.

hey. wait a fucking second

Babe, wake up, a new #JWST image just dropped.

Light from the protostar L1527 escapes above and below an edge-on protoplanetary disk (the dark line at the center of the image), creating an hourglass shape. This illuminates the cavities carved as ejected material from the star collides with the surrounding, dusty nebula.

Dust scatters shorter wavelengths of light, so blue areas are where the dust is thinner and orange areas are where the dust is more dense.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-055

#astronomy

@Alex it‘s incredible to me that a) he actually buys that elon does any meaningful technical or tech pm work 2) he forgets that teslas shitass 5 years behind the state of the art attempt at self driving that they’re just kind of beta testing on the road regularly kills people

Let's take a look. Galactica can generate wikipedia articles, supposedly.

So let's see what they look like. Here's one for Brandolini's law, the principle that bullshit takes another of magnitude less effort create than to clean up.

Left: Galactica's attempt at creating a wikipedia entry
https://galactica.org/?prompt=wiki+article+on+brandolini%27s+law

Right: The actual wikipedia entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

My son is transgender, loud and proud about it.

He's absolutely one of my top two favorite people; not just because he's my child, but because he's funny, intelligent, warm, helpful, understanding, creative, and so many other positive things. That guy makes me proud to be his dad on the regular.

Losing the person he is because he didn't feel he could be open with me or with his mom would've gutted us, no chance of recovery.

Fight to be the sort of person a friend or a child can turn to when they want, need to share who they are. #TransgenderAwarenessWeek

Mastodon is the most "web3" platform that I know of and there is ::looksaround:: no sign of blockchain or crypto anywhere.

#admin #meme

Okay, third time's the charm! [Fixed]

Meme of the day!

CWs aren't some sort of Badge of Shame among the Mastodon instances. They're a part of the local culture. We use them to be good neighbors, to make godawful puns, to give each other little surprises.

That's in large part because Mastodon was built up by a pile of tired, disabled, traumatized, queer folk, and we built a space where we could engage with the world around us more easily. And then we used the same tools to be goofballs. Because that is how a human do.
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This week, MastodonART defederating c.im pushed them to expand their mod team, clarify hate speech policies, & unsuspend the account of a Black user who had taken issue with CWs for lived experience.

Now toot.community has suspended a transphobic journalist after pressure from several instances.

I wish those instances had made better proactive choices but I’m impressed to see how powerful this type of direct action from instances (& individuals) can be here.

what's The Light Side Of The Fediverse?

broadly speaking, instances that have active moderation against bigotry

it's the opposite of The Dark Side Of The Fediverse

where nazis and TERF's and cryptobros and such are banished to

The Dark Side is the instances none of the good ones federate with