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Heading back to Mastodon. Mutuals find me at @erbridge@tech.lgbt (for now at least). I'll still be here for a bit, too, I imagine.

@FlorianVltmn Not just do it, but only do half the job and not catch the .org URL 😂

I may be wrong, but... I think I finally figured out that the questions, "Are you doing anything fun for the weekend?" and the same questions framed in past-tense, are social cues that just mean: "I'm fishing for a small talk subject. What's exciting for you recently?"

The Serbian translation team for Wingspan had to invent Serbian (i.e. Non-Latin) names for a lot of the American birds and then submitted them to a ornithological lexicon They got accepted and are now the official Serbian names for those birds.

Text-to-image generation models (like Stable Diffusion and DALLE) are being used to generate millions of images a day. We show that these models perpetuate and amplify dangerous stereotypes related to race, gender, crime, poverty, and more (arxiv.org/abs/2211.03759) A thread🧵

@SteamboatHedgie @MNateShyamalan @hot_and_dead @PerennialDark @berkley_hinton Your video is ready. Do you want it removed? Reply to me saying "remove" or "delete"

@CuriousScutter I remember a great place like this in the side streets of Hammersmith when I was growing up. Wonder if they're still going.

Amazon tells its customers and investors that it is committed to climate action. So I looked at which candidates the company is supporting in the 2022 midterms. I discovered that Amazon has given $138,000 to 25 climate deniers. Here's who the company is supporting: 🧵

@TheRaDR As someone said, replacing Twitter with Mastodon is like ordering a steak and getting a cow.

if you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth

This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. Aah Fuck. twitter.com/aviosAdventure…

For today’s #NaBloPoMo post, I’ve taken inspiration from the @GDSTeam “It’s OK” poster and created my own list of things that I want to declare “OK”. I hope some of you might find some comfort in it. bit.ly/3Tb5aI7

Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital are devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is." And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"

I’ve written some reflections on the topic of tension, which emerged for me as one of the main themes at this year’s @LDconf How does tension manifest in our work as design leaders, and what creates the conditions for positive tension? #LDConf bit.ly/3U4cfLH

Heading back to Mastodon. Mutuals find me at @erbridge@tech.lgbt (for now at least). I'll still be here for a bit, too, I imagine.

@zenigel @rgarner The latter (unless things have changed since I was last active).

Trying to decide which Mastodon instance to return to. Any mutuals who've been using it for a little while have recommendations?

@rgarner I'd love to map it. Kind of interested in where the islands are.

@rgarner Yeah. Due to the volume of users there making federated timelines useless if they're linked in.