benw @benw@mastodon.social
NYTimes: Exercise May Help to Fend Off Depression
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/well/mind/exercise-may-help-to-fend-off-depression.html
There’s a Christmas crisis going on: no one wants to kill your dinner
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/19/christmas-crisis-kill-dinner-work-abattoir-industry-psychological-physical-damage
"It’s hard to imagine a food having a greater impact than the potato"
Christopher Columbus and the potato that changed the world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/08/christopher-columbus-potato-that-changed-world/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.23a5bb3ed939
If the Point of Capitalism is to Escape Capitalism, Then What’s the Point of Capitalism?
https://eand.co/if-the-point-of-capitalism-is-to-escape-capitalism-then-whats-the-point-of-capitalism-bedd1b2447d
Dr David Katz: 'Carbs: It's the Sources that Matter'
https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/dietnutrition/75051
Dr Luke Wilson: ‘Eat Whole Foods, Mostly Plant-Based’: What Does This Actually Mean?
Conservative doctrine:
1. Personhood begins at conception
2. Personhood ends at birth
3. Personhood can be renewed through the formation of limited liability corporations
3. a) Provisional personhood is assigned to imaginary people victimized in conspiracy theories
This is a very good roundup of some challenges facing Mastodon moderation.
https://nolanlawson.com/2018/08/31/mastodon-and-the-challenges-of-abuse-in-a-federated-system/
Top of my list for what to do to avoid dogpiling: whitelisting users. Basically a way for an admin to say: don't allow any new reports for a specific user for a day or two. That way the dogpiliers can waste their time and energy without the mods wasting theirs.
We thought we were buying one of those Ottoman/coffee table things but we were really buying a kitty thunderdome #mastocats
If federated social networking is going to be a thing, this is one problem we're going to have to figure out.
Politics
Thanks for saving Obamacare, McCain. Fuck you for almost everything else, especially ushering in the era of idiot Fox News politicians with Palin.
