Clinton Freeman @freemancw@mastodon.social
Engineering things at Valve. Birdsite refugee. Go Heels!
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A nationwide federation of Masto instances at major universities would significantly improve civil public discourse, especially during election season. Local instances that model real world communities would be extremely robust against bad actors, without the need for opaque ML filtering.
unsigned long long cat
I'm wearing my Mastodon T-shirt to work on the first week. Wonder if anyone will recognise it
JUST ORDERED MASTO T SHIRT, VERY EXCITED 
Me, but with Mastodon
New thing on mastodon.social: You can make invite links personal so the person who signs up using the invite automatically follows you
‘We Must Protect The Pure Aryan Bloodline,’ Says Child After 9 Minutes Of Unsupervised Facebook Access https://local.theonion.com/we-must-protect-the-pure-aryan-bloodline-says-child-1826868946 #vol54issue24 #socialmedia #facebook #children #news
Trump Touts Success Of Singapore Summit After Securing $10 Billion Trade Deal To Sell Nuclear Warheads To North Korea https://politics.theonion.com/trump-touts-success-of-singapore-summit-after-securing-1826742733 #vol54issue24 #donaldtrump #northkorea #world #news
i want to call a raccoon "crimes cat" but that wrongly implies regular cats are not involved in crimes
Federated Instagram. #soon
Nice! The #Mastodon logo got merged in to Font Awesome! https://fontawesome.com/icons/mastodon?style=brands
organic free range keyboards
utah jazz head coach or cop from terminator???
cat is intrigued by my everything bagel
I've been hearing a lot of prominent people speak about surveillance and privacy, but when I hear Richard Stallman talk about it, it really struck a chord with me.
"We need a law. Fuck them — there’s no reason we should let them exist if the price is knowing everything about us. Let them disappear. They’re not important — our human rights are important. No company is so important that its existence justifies setting up a police state. And a police state is what we’re heading toward."
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
To toot boldly where no one has tooted before
BuzzFeed Editor in Chief, Ben Smith, mentions Mastodon as an example of a social network that "comes after the social media empires"
re: rise of Switter: "Perhaps the most striking lesson here was the technical ease of spinning a big, functional new social network up in just a few days"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/facebook-youtube-fragmentation?utm_term=.lcQdKZJQ8#.cm5Y4q1Vx
I realize that the world really took a dark turn in recent years, but it has put the good in the world into stark relief and that makes me really happy and optimistic :)
@nolan I thought this was quite succinct: "They turned all speech into public pronouncements, and thus all conversation into a strange form of activism, part of a zero-sum battle over which ideas will find a foothold in our collective attention."
I believe the most lasting consequence of social media is the trend towards "speech as performance". Whether it's your hobby or a conversation with a stranger, there's an audience to please and a personal brand to build.
