Paul Gerrard @paul@tester.social

Drink water. Eat vegetables. Be nice to animals. Exercise regularly. Explore nature. Find a small door under a tree. Open it. Take a look inside. Get pepper sprayed by a tiny elf. Learn a valuable lesson about knocking first.

Ever wondered what it looks like at night?

This had quite a large moon so in usual fashion you cant expose for it and the MW at once, so superimposed a bit more detail with a secondary shot.

This was a 7 shot vertical panoramic (cropped later) with a 14mm lens

#photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #longexposure #NewZealand #PhotoMonday #astro #astrophotography

Fauci in the 1980s, pressed the point that HIV wasn’t just “the gay disease”, pushed for greater epidemiological surveillance, and helped mobilise effective responses to Ebola, SARS, and other epidemics.

Frankly I’m not surprised that the tech man-child is intimidated by Fauci.

This distillation and representation of 200+ cognitive biases is brilliant: https://busterbenson.com/piles/cognitive-biases/

Never let an “agile” framework, method or tool prevent you from experimenting. “We are discovering better ways…”, the opening line of the Agile Manifesto, requires active experimentation.

- @JoshuaKerievsky@twitter.com

#agile #ExperimentationMindset

I should probably say hi to everyone over here 🙂

How's everyone finding it? Feels like the early days of Twitter!

Exploring Mastodon: Thoughts on (almost) a month of cross-posting

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-mastodon.html#thoughts-on-(almost)-a-month-of-cross-posting

European Commissioner Thierry Breton just joined Mastodon!

His first post, published right after a call with Elon Musk, made it clear that there is still huge work ahead for Twitter to comply with EU law:

1. Reinforce content moderation
2. Tackle disinformation
3. Implement transparent policies based on objective criteria (i.e., not via Twitter polls)
4. Limit targeted advertising
5. Prepare for an independent audit

More info: @EC_Commissioner_Breton

#DigitalServicesAct #DSA #Twitter

Having run my own test mastodon server, I can tell you that boosting is REALLY important. That's how posts propagate between servers that are not federated together.

I may get a bit technical, and it can be hard to describe but it's something like this:

Let's say that you have 2 servers, A and B that are not connected. They have their own federated timelines that is vastly different.

let's assume they have their users @a@A and @b@B that are mutuals. If user @a@A sees something interesting on theirs federated timeline and boosts it, user @b@B will see that on their own home page. But more importantly server B will now know about and download that post, and everyone else on B server will be able to see that post on their own federated timeline!

And that's why you boost, guys! It helps posts to spread.

#FediTips

Now Musk is saying if Apple and Google block Twitter on their app stores, presumably for failure to moderate hate speech and for safety, he will just create a new phone.

So it’s going well, right?

Over on Twitter it’s like the Penguin is in charge of Gotham.