ThatтАЩs one of the things IтАЩve been meaning to doтАФMastodon. Totally forgot about it. DLтАЩd it and never opened it. So itтАЩs still Post for now but itтАЩs not winning many over either.
ItтАЩs August. If ever there was a month for ignoring typos it would be August.
I signed up on Mastodon with as many journalists as I could find on topics I like, but it's thin on the ground compared to Twitter, where you can just read free journo quips and snarks all day. My supply was cut in half when some service called "bird.makeup", which echoes Twitter posts to Mastodon, stopped working a few weeks back. (And it was probably a good thing, people like Dan Froomkin simply snark at bad journalism all. day. long.)
Most of what I've signed up for now is just jokes ("Meanwhile in Canada" and "Mostly Harmless" are not to be missed for daily smiles, and occasional searing commentary, a la political cartoons.) and "Polling Canada", daily polls - the global warming argument is *quite* over, no need to engage any more - and posts from my own chosen server, 'urbanists.social' - highlighting every good deed of bikes and transit, every evil of cars and SUVs, the world over. ("Kid hit by an SUV is 8X as likely to die as one hit by a car", just today.)
It's fun, and Mostly Harmless. I've gone from being angry at journalists endlessly griping about Twitter, but not leaving it, to being glad about it. I have enough journalism via substack, honestly. Maybe Twitter should just die, and Mastodon not replace what it was.
Tried DM about typos a month ago, and it wasn't noticed, so I'll put them here:
"it bears nothing" => "it bears noting".
Sentence starting "The accelerationists are either..." loses me with the ending "...is subjugation".. missing word?
"dour pessimisims" should be "dour brands" earlier in that sentence?
Whoops. That's what happens when you write most of your newsletter the night of.
Also, I never received a DM. On here?
No, it was the clearly-not-winning-over-X Mastodon, way back July 6:
http://brander.ca/DM_JL.png
It's possible some July 5 substack still has a few typos. I went on vacation the next day and an internet-fast.
Ach! I see it now. It's very easy to miss those notifications. Apologies!
ThatтАЩs one of the things IтАЩve been meaning to doтАФMastodon. Totally forgot about it. DLтАЩd it and never opened it. So itтАЩs still Post for now but itтАЩs not winning many over either.
ItтАЩs August. If ever there was a month for ignoring typos it would be August.
I signed up on Mastodon with as many journalists as I could find on topics I like, but it's thin on the ground compared to Twitter, where you can just read free journo quips and snarks all day. My supply was cut in half when some service called "bird.makeup", which echoes Twitter posts to Mastodon, stopped working a few weeks back. (And it was probably a good thing, people like Dan Froomkin simply snark at bad journalism all. day. long.)
Most of what I've signed up for now is just jokes ("Meanwhile in Canada" and "Mostly Harmless" are not to be missed for daily smiles, and occasional searing commentary, a la political cartoons.) and "Polling Canada", daily polls - the global warming argument is *quite* over, no need to engage any more - and posts from my own chosen server, 'urbanists.social' - highlighting every good deed of bikes and transit, every evil of cars and SUVs, the world over. ("Kid hit by an SUV is 8X as likely to die as one hit by a car", just today.)
It's fun, and Mostly Harmless. I've gone from being angry at journalists endlessly griping about Twitter, but not leaving it, to being glad about it. I have enough journalism via substack, honestly. Maybe Twitter should just die, and Mastodon not replace what it was.