Aaron Bailey @aaron@apb.me

In Davos to talk inflation, Sinema says she had to settle for a poodle coat given the spiraling cost of Dalmatians.

Hey, everyone who follows me who is hacking on somethigna round ActivityPub/fediverse — please reply here and share a link to your app/GitHub/Glitch! Would love to show off all the creativity that's happening right now. (And please boost so your friends can share their projects too.)

Failed dictators who plot coups are more welcome in Florida than gay kids.

Since I already shared what I do when I opt out of border facial recognition, here’s what happens when I opt out of flight boarding biometrics gathering.

And by the way, I’ve been sharing best case scenarios so far. Some cases have been horrific.

#aiethics #facialrecognition #techjustice #antioppression

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A Thai supermarket that replaced plastic packaging for Banana leaves

Powerful Lake #Erie wave #photos show the wilder side of our Great Lake. #waves #michigan #photography

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/powerful-lake-erie-wave-photos-show-the-wilder-side-of-our-great-lake/Slideshow/31735184/31735185

A plea to journalists covering the Fediverse:

If you want to pitch a story and the only people you can think of to talk to are Gargron and the Journa Host admin, please don't.

Instead, use the time you saved to learn more about how this network functions, who the people behind ActivityPub are (and what that even is), who the people keeping instances running are, who the people moderating instances are; you can even get your hands dirty by digging through the Mastodon GitHub issue queue and learning why exactly some design decisions ended up the way they did, it's all right there!

Mastodon is not off-brand Twitter. You do this entire community a massive disservice by painting it as such, and you do our profession a disservice by expressing a complete lack of curiosity about this community before you report on it.

Thank you.

Since folks asked what happens whenever I opt out of facial recognition, I documented it for you while going through US border patrol.

Coming out of the flight there was a row of kiosks for facial biometric capture. There were no people. Just kiosks. So I kept walking.

The next point of contact was the passport agents at their desks. Agent A asked me, “Did you take your photo at the kiosk?” I said, “No, I am opting out of biometric facial recognition.” And the agent asked, “Why?”

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So I gave the process of migrating from one mastodon server to another a try before I invest serious effort in building a profile here. Honestly not too bad at all for a process that you won't be using frequently. It does suck losing your follows and previous posts though. I can see the loss of post history being a big issue for people.

So my advice is even though you do have portability you should choose your server wisely.

#mastodon #migration #newuser