@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI like the Zapatista, I find them pretty cool, I don’t sympathize with them or anything, I just think their approach is interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialListening to the current episode of the Unnamed RE podcast, I got to learn about #DeskThing, a project repurposing the otherwise defunct Spotify Car Thing.
While I really like to see hardware being saved from ending up as ewaste, I was surprised to learn that very specifically, #AMD
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialThis guy sounds like a #crackpot but his wiki page suggests otherwise. I’d guess scaling the #desalinization and #purification would be a problem. I don’t know enough
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialPfff... I knew about that since like forever.
Grant even showed up into at least one of Ferguson's shows, operating Geoff.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/114795935441049956
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaI recently tried to log into my old Wikipedia account only to realize I'd forgotten the password, and that it was named after a character from some shit I was writing before I knew I was trans. So I've created a new one, and also whipped up one of those sick-ass user pages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ena
@egallager@social.treehouse.systemsWelp, looks like I'll need to file a bill to require that if the state is going to assert copyright over its historical markers, it's gotta be under a copyleft license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Historical_markers_in_New_Hampshire
(that is, assuming something can't be worked out independently without one...)
@davidbody@fosstodon.orgToday I saw this quote
> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit. I took some political science classes from him at Drake University but couldn't recall him saying anything like this.
It turns out the quote was incorrectly attributed to him. It was really Frank Wilhoit in Ohio.
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialwikis.world...
wow...so some real ACTUAL Wikipedia/sister project admins are actually on the fediverse!
taavi@wikis.world
WOW
I like that!
Taavi Väänänen (Q118521440)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118521440
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialToday we saw a white-eared opossum and that's how I learned that Argentinians call them "comadreja" - literally weasel.
The evolutionary biologist in me is extremely amused by that, their shared ancestry is that both opossum and weasels are mammals, but that's it. And they definitely look like their ancestry stops there. 😅
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-eared_opossum
@akosma@mastodon.onlineWilco's 2016 album "Schmilco" has a terrific cover by Catalan artist Joan CornellŠ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Cornellà
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHere’s your definition, asshole:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism
Now fuck off.
https://indieweb.social/@loui…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaGet a dose of my daily hyperfixation on Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938, accidentally discovered its effects on April 16, 1943, intentionally took it again on April 19, 1943, and died at the age of 102 on April 29, 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_H…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIf you read the "Bluesky requires IDs now" post:
1. This only applies to UK users.[1]
2. It's because the UK is building a surveillance state that requires websites and apps to do this, not because Bluesky is evil.[2]
3. It's either that or shut down in the UK.
Whether you like it or not, this also affects Mastodon—and even personal blogs with comments enabled.[3]
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
[3] https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/law/doing-an-osa-assessment-for-my-single-user-fedi-server.html
@seav@en.osm.townSpeaking of #JessicaSanchez (the recent golden buzzer from #AGT), I am absolutely miffed that her collaboration with #NeYo, “Tonight”, had long been pulled out from streaming platforms like Spotify. Even the offici…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialMuch of what is going on under the present FFOTUS/maga-klan/white-christian-nationalist reign reminds me of a time in Florence, Italy in the late 1400s.
A nut named Girolamo Savonarola tried to impose a very regressive Christian policy onto Florence.
The people of Florence didn't like it and, in the end, gave Savonarola a rather hot time.
@johl@mastodon.xyzAs I thought of the game of Go this morning, I remembered that when Wikipedia started in 2001, I thought "oh, it’s something like Sensei‘s Library“, because that was the biggest and most active wiki I knew at that time.
https://senseis.xmp.net/
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialI was probably already following rbreich@masto.ai
So I'm on the Wikidata item now...pure chance btw!
And if I'm not good at anything else I'm at least good at bragging about my Wikidata edits and how much an imprint I feel like I"m doing...so
question...questions...no...no...just a question:
When was the last time someone added social media followers to
