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Christmas on Mastodon

https://computerfairi.es/media/3IUbD41UO433d1z7qH0

I'm guessing makefile and compile options.

https://twitter.com/ticiaverveer/status/934532192360910852

<<This sword is typical of those that would have been wielded by European knights in the 13th century. It was found in the river Witham, Lincolnshire. On one side there is an indecipherable inscription ‘+NDXOXCHWDRCHWDRCHDXORUN’, perhaps a religious invocation. (weighing 1.2 kg)>>

https://mastodon.social/media/3trhcrhpc2K7pU7KwSY

*taking back control intensifies* http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/22/news/economy/uk-france-biggest-economies-in-the-world/index.html

😃 #Mastodon is getting a lot of new users right now, but, importantly, it's also getting new instances. Here are two comics focused instances for #under1000

https://comicspace.masto.host

https://comics.masto.host

I want to use Mastodon more, but I'm having trouble finding likeminded people. Hit me up if you like (or make!) narrative driven games/adventure games, or making YouTube vids/Twitch streams about them. Or if you just fancy a giggle. #gamedev #adventuregames #youtube #twitch #narrativedesign

"If you ignore the witness of teenage girls,
if you tell refugees "go back where you came from,"
if you close your doors to dirty field laborers,
if you would turn a child over to a tyrant:

Please don't put up a Nativity this year."
- Emmy Rettino Kegler

Freedom House report: 30 countries use "armies of opinion shapers" online

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/14/social-media-influence-election-countries-armies-of-opinion-shapers-manipulate-democracy-fake-news

self-deprecating humor: a joke which asks its audience not to repeat it because it will be removed in the next release

https://www.ft.com/content/223af71a-d853-11e6-944b-e7eb37a6aa8e

<<Being an English-speaking society is like living in a glass house: it makes you transparent. Conversely, foreign countries are opaque to mostly monolingual Britons and Americans. Foreigners know us much better than we know them. This asymmetry probably helped Russia get its favoured candidate into the White House, and it will handicap Britain in the Brexit negotiations.>>

How a half educated #tech elite delivered us into chaos. Key paragraph: "Put simply, what Google and Facebook have built is a pair of amazingly sophisticated, computer-driven engines for extracting users’ personal information and data trails, refining them for sale to advertisers in high-speed data-trading auctions that are entirely unregulated and opaque to everyone except the companies themselves." [and perhaps opaque to themselves] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/19/how-tech-leaders-delivered-us-into-evil-john-naughton

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could retailers please stop labelling second hand items as "pre-loved". i don't wanna know that the sofa has been fucked

Whoever these people are, they are very good at gaming Google and Youtube rankings.

It would be interesting to find out just what else they've gamed.

An interesting thing about the 'Leahz' persona is that she's been around a while, spreading the craziest conspiracy theories: a meteor was going to hit in 2015; the blizzard of 2014 was 'fake snow'.

https://www.metabunk.org/fake-snow-what-happens-to-old-theories.t3469/

In the light of 2016/2017: it's worth considering that these stories and these conspiracy actors are NOT random. And while they might make money out of it, it's very possible that some of these are state-level actors just trying to destablise the USA.

Imagine how satisfying House of Cards would have been if season three had been about Frank Underwood's fall─everything falling apart?

Instead they went for longevity with each successive season being less satisfying because the closure of a villain story is in their downfall