one thing i like better about here is it’s less like the old-school grocery store aisle where the tabloids were always looming and you might succumb to unwanted forms of curiosity.

i do miss weekly world news though. that at least was quality.

you wish the dead well, even though you do not know if it is too late.

@akhilrao a bit stranded and helpless, i guess!

i just see the word “tireless” and it makes me tired.

it looks like we may make it to 2023 without all being incinerated to radioactive waste. i was pretty concerned for a while. maybe still am. let’s try to stay unincinerated, this next year and for all the years to come. love, love, love.

"Just because you hate someone doesn’t mean you can’t love them.” ~@DetroitDan

@hankg on the bright side, then, we can think if it as kind of an eternal light…

punishment is a cost. we do it because it is offset by important benefits, like deterrence in the context of systems of predictable accountability, or reducing a person’s capacity to do harm. but the punishment itself, it’s not a win, not a benefit. it’s a cost.

it is understandable that direct victims should glory in the punishment, but the rest of us should do our best not to. we mete it out always in sadness.

@hankg not sure!

is mastodon the midwest? https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/109598075150433931

never understood why people put mock feces in their hair and call it hygiene.

wait, who bought southwest?

apparently, signal qualifies as "our technology overlords", but facebook is meek and neutral and espouses no dangerous ideology. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/opinion/jack-dorseys-twitter-signal-privacy.html ht @dangillmor

Discovering a civilization on a very distant planet, along with some means of instant communication, could be great for social science. We'd make a deal: we do the social science for you, you do the social science for us. Since neither of us have an interest, beyond academic curiosity, in the other civilization's arrangements, the work might actually be credible.

offense should be neither given nor taken.

hmm. Toot! previews full tweets when you embed a Twitter links, so they basically look like cross-platform quote tweets?toots?twats?

the “official” Mastodon iOS client does not.

@akhilrao who knows, maybe not so bleak! what if it’s a lab developed very contagious supermild virus crossimmune with COVID and after the leak we’ll all be perfectly immune from now on with no ill effects? #HappyHypothesis

While we were loudly arguing about Ivermectin, we forgot to hold Gilead accountable for sitting on GS-441524. Flood the zone with shit, they say. https://twitter.com/victoriacyanide/status/1607925652858220545 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS-441524

OK. It is so deeply suppressed I don't know what it would mean, but it must mean something. #JabLeakHypothesis

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