Part 3 - Moving forward
One of Mastodon's strengths is its decentralized structure. That also means no centralized marketing or development strategy focused on growth, particularly in Canada. Perhaps a volunteer group could take on that development plan and grow the Canadian user base.
- A vision of what an ideal future state would look like would benefit the planning and action steps. Collecting input from Canadian admins is recommended.
- We shouldn't burden existing admins beyond their current responsibilities. Volunteers would take actions like reaching out to politicians or government agencies.
Potential next steps:
1) Host a web meeting with interested Canadian admins to collect input on a shared vision for this project.
2) Collect volunteers who would be interested in reaching out to politicians or government agencies about creating a presence on Mastodon.
3) Select members of the group to be part of a steering committee.
4) Create a unique hashtag for this project for reporting and followers.
…if we’re watching for a mass turn in popular sentiment against a would-be authoritarian, then it’s the vibes that matter. The guts lead and the facts follow later, if at all.
It’s significant that a mainstream (if salacious) news outlet is running this story at all. It’s significant that it’s making the rounds in my fairly fact-focused TL. I’m interested in who’s repeating this, who’s joking about it, whether it becomes an acceptable SNL gag, whether centrist pundits feel the need to start refuting it.
Vibes.
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I recently watched a Veritasium video that touches on Braess's Paradox[1]: sometimes removing connections (eg roads) makes things faster.
The part that caught my attention was "even though every driver made a rational decision to minimize their own time, collectively it made the situation worse."
IOW, proof that adding up everyone's self interested actions does NOT lead to the best outcome. aka,
Is there a known solution to send a link from any non-Safari #macOS browser to Safari's Reading List? This is possible on the iPhone as part of the Share actions.
I'm mostly interested into how to do this from Chrome and Firefox based browsers.
\(^-^)/
If you're interested in learning about the many myths about leaders and leadership that persist despite the evidence, join me for a free webinar at 12pm UK time today.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6C0RoiOVTR-ZJhYdHfvWPQ#/registration
Man, I have run out of fucks to throw at this project for the moment. So be it. Clearly I'm in the extreme minority in being interested in correcting this issue, so I won't feel too pressed in making a generic solution to my specific problems.
I'm guessing that the subset of people who care within the subset of people with the talent to solve the problem within the subset of people who use KDE is fairly small. Seems like all the cool kids are running tiling window managers …
> The other thing I notice about the #Epstein case but also the case that concern me and my friends is that, the general public is much more interested in by the Predators and their compromised network than by helping the victims.
https://
Degrowth cabaret comes to London (and other news)
Degrowth Cabaret! LONDON FRI 23 JANUARY 10.30am – 4.30pm Siobhan Davies Studios If you are an economist interested in performance, a performer interested in economics or simply curious in how these seemingly distinct languages can be bridged, then this session is for you! But don’t worry, you won’t need prior knowledge of economics or the arts! Joaquín Pereira (economist and dancer) invites you to a day-long lab where…
After spending several months bragging about killing people by bombing random boats in the Caribbean,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is suddenly far less interested in taking credit for the “double tap” strike that occurred on September 2.
Why is Hegseth backing off?
Turns out that even Republicans are not so comfy with murdering survivors of a boat strike.
Yesterday, CNN reported that after the initial September 2 strike killed nine people,
a second one 41 m…
Been using #Kagi for almost three years now and very happy with it. Two spots in my Family Plan are available – anyone interested?
What you get:
✅ Ad-free search
✅ No tracking
✅ Better search results (you can even permanently hide Pinterest, listicles & co..)
$42.84/year (~$3.50 per month)
PM if interested.
I really want to be interested in this "dark forest theory of the internet" but just listened to their podcast about the economics of it and they just went on and on about using substack and discord as if that was somehow revelatory? I couldn't get the point of what they were saying at all. Then they talked about how charging for membership of their closed group didn't really make money but helped weed people out, with no consideration that some people don't have spare …
Not even a week in 2026 and I already learned something new, Isn't that fantastic?
If I'm not interested in the exact position of my teeth in my upper jaw, I should protect my face better from the cold and wind.
Yeah .. truly fantastic to know that now.
Was telling my father about my NAS and he was mildly interested. But it's too complicated for him to set up his own.
I'm surprised there is not some more consumer friendly way to just load up DVDs and bluerays on to set top box with several terabytes of storage and then just select what media to play from there.
Ah, Google Documents.. So convenient.. But #Google is bad and the current US government is crazy.
What is the closest existing alternative to GDocs which is not owned by an american for-profit?
So far, Libre Office docs could be a replacement but there doesn't seem to be an integrated way to do co-editing online with it?
Conditions:
- I am not interested in L…
I'm interested in a EU-based domain registrar to move out of the US-based registrar I've been using.
Any recommendations? I'm primarily a business customer (incorporated).
#BuyFromEU #DigitalSovereignty
I'm interested in a EU-based domain registrar to move out of the US-based registrar I've been using.
Any recommendations? I'm primarily a business customer (incorporated).
#BuyFromEU #DigitalSovereignty
For interested folks, here’s the React PR that fixes CVE-2025-55182 affecting React Server Components (CVSS 10.0 Critical Severity): https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/35277
Blog post:
if someone is interested I have a #Germ invite for testflight access to their iOs App (I don’t have an iPhone)
DM me for invite link
https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/06/who-wants-a-…
Lazypost, is there a good tool to fix (as much as possible) somewhat broken audio from a CD that has some read errors (I've fixed surface of CD and read with EAC to extract as much info as possible, you can hear everything but it sounds a bit like a crackling record).
I am not looking for CD reading software (EAC already spent 70 hours on extracting the one track I'm interested in).
I am looking for fixing errors in a ripped lossless audio track, for example through interpolation and/or specifically tuned ML algorithms.
If helpful, I have access to Logic Pro and to Adobe tools.
(Please only recommend software you personally have used and that you like, thank you.)
Hey président trump, we have neither gas not oil. But we have ideas. Would you be interested on taking our annoying président?
I listened to two AI generated presentations in the last two days. Yes, students and junior scholars were mimicking jargon they did not fully understand already before AI, but listening to them read out jargon they did not even mimic themselves is really another level of cringe. Yes, I know these are fancy words that people in our field would likely use, but you know, I was actually more interested in what _you_ think about the subject. 🙄
So Trump, Witkoff and Kushner essentially have accomplished nothing with regard to Ukraine. Russia has again confirmed it is not interested in peace and will continue it's aggression against Ukraine.
#trump #witkoff
Looks like I'm gonna be going to HARRIS at MPI-SP in Bochum again this year (March 23-25)
Anybody going, or in the greater Bochum/Dusseldorf/Cologne area, and interested in a meetup around that time?
Anyone interested in some old collectible toys? I'm selling a few Littlest Pet Shop accessories, some Pokémon and anime figures and some manga.
They belonged to my wife and her sisters. Some things are selling at a loss. I just don't want to throw them out.
Check out my eBay page. I'm mostly shipping worldwide from Australia.
AU: https:/…
In diplomatieke kringen is sprake geweest van een deal waarbij Rusland zijn gang kon gaan in Oekraine en de VS in Venezuela.
Stukje uit het verhoor van Fiona Hill in het impeachment proces in Trumps eerste termijn.
Bron: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/poli…
One of the things I expect most US academics love and hate about winter break is reading dozens of folders of amazing PhD applicants (love the energy, passion, accomplishment) who are interested in working with you but you're going to have to disappoint almost all of them (hate).
If you're interested in how I quantified natural #CO2 emissions from "mofettes" near #Tübingen with a low-cost sensor network, and want to join my PhD defense tomorrow at 10:00, DM me here and i might send you the link (if I don't forget it 😅).
I'll be mostly talking about …
I'm not interested in this car but others might be and I really like this car review channel the best. No nonsense or fawning over stuff only car enthusiasts like.
2026 Chevrolet Equinox EV | This Is The *Almost* No-Compromise EV America Needs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tbfUtGxJJ8
Those of you interested in the history of cellular phones and cellular networks: There is a book on the subject "Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry" published by MIT Press, and the book is also available as PDF via Open Access: https://
Looking for a citation. I used to have it and cannot find it. This diagram of two half circles depicts a world ending and a world emerging. I saw it on a poster in a video of lady giving a talk. I don't think it was a Youtube. I've searched through my history and my files and I don't where I put this info.
She is an activist. Anyone know who she is? Or have an early source of this diagram? (I'm less interested in folks who have ripped her work without citation). Thank …
I've wanted to start a Patreon for ages, but I'm honestly not sure what sort of thing people would be interested in.
Happy to listen if you have any thoughts/requests. Ideas I've had include WIP videos, finished backgrounds, fan art.
#Patreon #Thoughts
Moltbook is to AI as NFTs are to Bitcoin.
It primarily shows how unserious and uncritical the community is around a technology that is not in itself worthless, but requires a very careful and critical attitude.
NFTs showed that nobody was interested in the fundamentals that made bitcoin interesting as a technology. Moltbook shows that all the AI Kool Aid crowd is more than happy to be taken in by parlor tricks.
If you are angered by "Drag Queen Story Hour" ...
Are you afraid of the Drag Queen's, or the books?
Is #fineart immoral? I’ve heard the argument that the only moral way to make a living as an artist is to do pornography and character commissions (since it doesn’t help the rich or a corporation). Unfortunately, I’m not overly interested in making porn or exclusively doing comms.
I’ve considered graphic design, but that involves corporations.
Do I have to change my interests to rema…
In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL). https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20<…
Canadians interested in a Bourbon alternative for cocktails: this Spirit in Niagara mixed mash whisky (picked up from the LCBO last weekend) makes a decent Paper Plane. (It’s okay on its own too, but it won’t stop me from digging into my pre-embargo Bourbon stash.)
I’ve heard the Okanagan Spirits BRBN works pretty well too.
#ElbowsUp ?
If you are into #3dPrinting and use resin printers (as opposed to the more well known FDM ones, using filament), you might be interested in this campaign trying to develop a #slicer application for resin printers:
#resin3dPrinting
So… talk to me about #Zotero … How do you use it? WHY do you use it versus other tools? What do you like most?
I realize I am maybe 15 or 20 years late to the Zotero party, but 3 things have me interested now:
- I’m taking on a project at work that involves a good amount of research
- I have some ideas for papers and maybe a book that would benefit from more structured organizatio…
Short-term fellowships available for international PhD candidates at the University of Potsdam around "Limits of Variability in Language"! If you're a linguist interested in this opportunity, please contact me or one of the other PIs for more information! #linguistics #fellowship #funding #phd
https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3850/
"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
—Ben Kingsley
#acting #coaching
Advice for all the poor clickworkers and AI agents who are trying to create accounts on half-open fediverse servers:
- Do not begin your reasons for joining with the words, “I’m a genuine Fediverse user …”
- Do not end the with, “… interested in technology, digital culture, and open communities. I’d like to join fedifreu.de to exchange ideas respectfully, follow diverse perspectives, and be part of a friendly, decentralized social space that values openness and co…
Happy New Year, y'all!
I wanted to share some download codes, in the off chance anyone's interested in my last E.P.
W00t! 👾
‘Other Bits of Heaven’ - Robert Logan
🎮 Get 'em at:
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Download codes:
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If anyone is interested in playing this out, this is one of the sites listed to identify agregous yachts...
https://www.superyachtfan.com/lists/biggest-super-yachts/
I was interested in #Meshcore, but then I came across the website of the Meshcore Switzerland Community. Greeted by AI generated pictures I was appalled, but then I found this:
Work in progress vibe coding project, don't trust this data!
Nope, thanks, I'm outa here.
#meshcore <…
V excited for the new AdaCAD v5 pre-release !
If you're interested in weaving and comfortable with box-and-wire style programming, it's a weird and fun way into it. I'm happy to have contributed a bitfield generator to this release !
- main doc website for people new to adacad: https://docs.adacad.org/
Good Morning #Canada
The oldest winter festival opened its ice gates to the public yesterday and runs to February 15th. The Quebec Winter Carnival was first held in 1894 but became an annual event starting in 1955. It's not the largest in the world but it's in the top 2, and record crowds are expected since most Canadians aren't interested in being interrogated at our southern border.
#Bonhomme is the generic term for a figure ( bonhomme de sucre , "sugar baby"; bonhomme de neige , "snowman"). The beloved character who represents the Quebec Winter Carnival lives a pampered life. He has the keys to the city, from the mayor in 1955, and has a new ice castle built for him every year. He also retires someplace cozy after the event and returns refreshed and ready for next year, unlike European festival snowmen who are burned at the close of activities to bring forth spring. Bonhomme has a better manager obviously.
#CanadaIsAwesome #WinterWonderland
https://www.quebec-cite.com/en/what-to-do-quebec-city/events/quebec-winter-carnival
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
SERVALAN: Commander, I'm not interested in your excuses. You will surrender your ship and place yourself under close arrest.
COMMANDER: But, Supreme Commander, I must protest.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/184 B7B5
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I honestly take this to mean he would rather the USA take over Canada rather than China….
We know China isn’t interested in military takeovers. So….
Canada, including Alberta, needs to circle the wagons.
#theAmericaFascist
In October, I gave a talk about post-quantum #cryptography at the #OpenSSL Conference in Prague. Yesterday, the video dropped. If you're interested, head to https:/…
At least two different people on this train car are watching stuff on their phones — without headsets; thus forcing the rest of us to listen to whatever they’re interested in…
Perhaps I should play some music out loud? My iPad is louder than their phones… Some Gangstagrass, perhaps?
Took a few minutes between meetings to upgrade my #htmx #aspnetcore sample demo of “12 days of HTMX-mas". If you're a #dotnet developer or someone interested in web development, it's a breez…
"... for his and his family’s safety, [Gustavo Petro] agreed to a diplomatic posting in Belgium in 1994. While there, he studied environmentalism and economics at the University of Louvain, and he became deeply interested in the work of Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, who warned that while the global economy relies on constant growth, the Earth cannot be exploited forever."
I'm tired of random follows from not accounts. Every new follower will need to be approved.
The bar is low, just be a human being interested in conversation.
Bot, spammers and "I follow you so you check my profile" all gets an automatic rejection block.
If you also follow a thousand or more accounts I will get suspicious you are not really interested in what I write or the stuff I repost.
I don't care about inflating my numbers. I actually care much m…
Anyone here has any experience with a ToDo/Shopping list one can
- self host
- has an Android app
- allows sharing lists between users
?
(I have already googled, only interested in actual experience)
(EDIT: I am asking for an app because I want to be usable by another person who's not looking for an ideological project or an opportunity to learn markdown or how weird PWAs work. That's why a dedicated app would be a plus. )
@… I am very interested to see more slides from this 😅
Disowned all my #AUR packages and deleted my account. I'm not interested in #ArchLinux anymore. :nixos: #NixOS gives me so much more.
I'm starting to suspect we haven't seen alien cultures because either:
a) They don't develop digital technologies and can't leave their systems.
b) Their digital technologies spiraled out of control, killing them all. And their AI aren't interested in contracting us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E…
I just saw an unironic post from an anti-Trump Jewish Zionist (self-described) quoting from Leviticus saying we should not stand idly by while the blood of our neighbor is spilled.
I'm interested in how they square that with the torrent of Palestinian blood being spilled by the state they explicitly claim to support.
Not doing a quote-post or anything b/c I don't want a pile-on, but uh...weird.
This week has been incredibly challenging, but sometimes with people who refuse to accept disagreement, there's only so much you can do.
If you're interested in learning more about anarcho-syndicalism, I’ve curated some excellent articles on my Linktree, mostly in Norwegian, but also some in English.
I’m planning to update it soon with more reliable sources beyond just blog posts.
Anyway, I'm not mad, just really exhausted.
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Trump is weak and Putin undermines the chance for a cease-fire, something he isn't interested in everybody knows, besides Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4g5lgngvo
If you’re interested in science journalism: @… from Epsiloon is now on Mastodon. Epsiloon is a French science magazine. #newhere
Wenn du dich für Wissenschaftsjournalismus interessierst: Muriel Valin vom Nachrichtenportal Epsiloon.com ist
I just finished Guild Wars: Prophecies. It took me 19.5 years.
I created my first character way back when the game was new, but I never finished the campaign. The upcoming Reforged update got me interested again. Together with a friend and 3 very friendly strangers we played through the remaining 3 missions.
From boss tactics to tounge-in-cheek comments about the dated cutscenes It was just the perfect MMO game night for me.
Beckstrom initially did not want to go to the capital because she was concerned about feeling lonely away from home.
“She hated it. She cried about it,” her boyfriend said.
But with time, she came to enjoy the deployment and bonded with other troops.
In her spare time, he said, she visited monuments and museums, taking pictures and soaking up D.C.’s history.
She was especially interested in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
@… @… @… I would also be very interested in the slides. A very important topic right now!
Interested in moving from #Windows to #Linux but not sure where to start?
This is going to be a 'live-thread' of me trying to install a windows-like distribution of Linux, "ZorinOS", on my 4-years old #Lenovo
Just made the best Katsu Curry sauce ever.
If anyone is interested in the recipe, here it is!
#Vegan #Food #PlantBased
I am really interested in the linked.art initiative, but I’m finding it hard to wrap my head around it. What strikes me as particularly odd:
* The types-of-types pattern, which creates JSON structures that are very unlike usual JSON properties.
* The AATization of everything, including things like language tags, for which perfectly fine native RDF patterns exist.
Has anyone worked with it? Are there good Getting Started guides?
Russia is not interested in peace. Full stop.
Putin wants the USSR back, if not the Russian empire. That's his goal. That and general corruption.
Every time a politico says they want to avoid escalation, it just means they're cowards.
Every time Russia violates NATO airspace, Putin is escalating. He's testing resolve, and finding it lacking. Every Russian plane or drone not shot on sight is inviting broader escalated war.
"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
—Ben Kingsley
#acting #coaching
If you’re interested in science journalism: @… from Epsiloon is now on Mastodon. Epsiloon is a French science magazine. #newhere
Wenn du dich für Wissenschaftsjournalismus interessierst: Muriel Valin vom Nachrichtenportal Epsiloon.com ist
Occasionally, I log into LinkedIn purely to check messages. Sometimes, I find a promoted message or an ad, maybe a connection request. Usually, nothing. Content often feel fake, and it's often difficult to find content that I'm interested in there. Is it even a site for businesses to connect, and people find work any more?
Back when it wasn't owned by Meta, I used to enjoy Instagram. Now it feels like a shop. I still miss scrolling through the feed, discovering content from the people that I followed. Sadly, a lot of creators that I liked are still on there, and nowhere else.
Mastodon is pretty much my only online home now, and I'm very thankful for it!
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
