Notices by simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net), page 8
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 23:27:47 JST 
simsa04
Her I get lost. Your eight-year-old did the first image with the vast blue, didn't he? Or did he collaborate with his mum and his sibling on the second one too? -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 23:24:25 JST
simsa04
What a good point! Indeed. I didn't move it around, now the right bottom corner looks like a flower with red trunk and yellow petals. So both painted a garden, didn't they? And your wife seemingly added an UFO :-) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 23:02:26 JST
simsa04
How do I manage to subscribe to a remote account via rss feed on gnusocial? -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 22:31:58 JST
simsa04
I see. But then the teamwork in the second is outstanding :-) The first one has a lovely shift in perspective, showing the tree and its roots, the landscape from above and below at the same time. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 22:20:23 JST
simsa04
Oh, it's quite "varied", i.e., a lot going on with all the figures, the surroundings, background and foreground, the contrasts and colours (lovely selection in the second one) ... I like the second in particular. Kudos to the craftsman. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 21:37:26 JST
simsa04
Nicely done! -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 08:09:01 JST
simsa04
Why does this and similiar nonsense populate my TL? You're littering my TLs and I cannot mute nor block you. Can you people please all go back to Twitter? #MastodonIsSpam https://gnusocial.net/attachment/5e647380617f19549e59f76789bc03a4ab45b28ab8bc01070b259dd692b69915/view -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 21:34:01 JST
simsa04
I see you activated "infinite scroll" on all TLs. Nice. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 13:29:00 JST
simsa04
Everybody slams Musk, his overpayment for Twitter, his erratic leadership, mass layoffs and mass resigniations which all pretty quickly will make Twitter a crumbling company and defunct site. With all its impact on news media and information dissemination that, in times when more and more information vanishes behind paywalls, had a last refuge in Twitter where its authors posted snippets of their stories, arguments, and sources. Yada yada.
Nobody talks about Jack Dorsey who for years managed a company with constant financial losses, who cheered Musk on to conclude the deal.
If Dorsey had thought of Twitter as a commons-like public good, necessary for public education and the shaping of the public's opinion, he wouldn't have tricked Musk into buying the overpriced company. He rather would have tried to keep Twitter afloat.
But selling Twitter at all means that Dorsey must have known that Musk wouldn't be able to recuperate his investment and his investors' loans quickly enough. He must have known that his insistence on the deal meant slashing costs and putting Twitter into a downward spiral.
That a buffoon like Musk couldn't handle properly a company like Twitter was obvious. But the end of Twitter as a means of information gathering – despite all fakes news, bots, spam, propaganda, and the usual patter of silos, walled gardens, surveillance capitalism (again: yada yada) – is something not Musk but only Dorsey is responsible for. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 10:10:01 JST
simsa04
Joseph Menn, "Twitter’s Musk says most-valuable employees can stay remote as many quit" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/17/twitter-musk-easing-rto-order/?outputType=amp
« Recent departures have left multiple critical systems down to two, one or even zero engineers, according to a former employee who was familiar with the situation and spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
“I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers," the former employee said. "There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.” » -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 09:06:34 JST
simsa04
Kalina Oroschakoff, "Who should pay for the damage caused by climate change? Climate negotiations in Egypt could provide initial answers" https://www.nzz.ch/english/climate-change-reparations-are-on-the-agenda-at-cop27-in-egypt-ld.1711365
[Finally some initial steps.] -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 08:39:56 JST
simsa04
Oh. Nancy Pelosi steps down? That is sad news. As Speaker she was one of the finest politicians the U.S. has had in the past 40 years. I admire her deeply. -
Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 08:10:42 JST 
Evan Prodromou
Don't post on Twitter.
The content and connections that you are investing there are supporting an abusive system.
Post that content here.
Bring your connections here.
There, you are small, and you are a commodity.
Here, you are important, and you are a person.
You know all this.
If you feel compelled to open Twitter, investigate that compulsion.
You've heard that algorithmic apps can cause addictive behavior.
Is that what you're doing?
And if so, shouldn't you stop?
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 23:40:40 JST
simsa04
Get Ukraine and its people through the winter. Donate at https://u24.gov.ua/. You have various options to dedicate your donations: military equipment, medical and humanitarian aid, rebuild Ukraine. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 22:32:35 JST
simsa04
This distinction is good to know. Thanks for clarifying. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 22:20:07 JST
simsa04
@gnu2 @administrator
Normally, people outside one's instance cannot join a group created on that very instance. For reasons I don't understand I was able to join two groups on nu.federati.net which runs Gnusocial version 2.0.0-dev, an earlier version than gnusocial.net's version 2.0.1-beta0. People on an instance from the Mastodon-network told me they cannot join groups on gnusocial.net. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 12:24:20 JST
simsa04
Not that I believe this is the sole explanation how terror turns people into accomplices, but it's one factor (or aspect). It's a topic I've been thinking about the past months. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 12:02:39 JST
simsa04
How terror turns people into willing accomplices:
« It was not just this client [of psychoanalyst Arutyunyan] who was living in a state of constant anxiety: the entire country [i.e., Russia] was. It was the oldest trick in the book – a constant state of low-level dread made people easy to control, because it robbed them of the sense that they could control anything themselves. This was not the sort of anxiety that moved people to action and accomplishment. This was the sort of anxiety that exceeded human capacity. Like if your teenage daughter has not come home – by morning you have run out of logical explanations, you can no longer calm yourself by pretending [...] and you are left alone with your fear. You can no longer sit still or reason. You regress, and after a while the only thing you can do is scream, like a helpless, terrified baby. You need an adult, a figure of authority. Almost anyone willing to take charge will do. And then, if that someone wants to remain in charge, he will have to make sure that you feel helpless. »
— Masha Gessen, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (2017), p. 467 f.
The perfidy of this mechanism is that the person who instills the insecurity and anxiety poses as the safeguard against it. And while people trust him to "restore" "stability", all he does, under the guise of stability, is create more instability. The war never ends and is not allowed to ever end.
#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 13:14:10 JST
simsa04
... and sister's laptop is back in business :-) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 07:17:01 JST
simsa04
This may help you find some of your buddies whom you subscribe to or who subscribe you on twitter:
https://mastodon.social/@dvdmrsdn/109337436179540331
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