Posts by Roundtrip@federate.social
(DIR) Post #ARb9sT2KUXahudGZ7I by Roundtrip@federate.social
2022-12-01T01:48:06Z
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𧔠from a good article: âWe believe that it is time to embrace the old idea of subsidiarity, which dates back to early Calvinist theology and Catholic social teaching⊠It means that in a large and interconnected system, people in a local community should have the power to address their own problems. Some decisions are made at higher levels, but only when necessary. Subsidiarity is about achieving the right balance between local units and the larger systems.â https://https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/
(DIR) Post #ARb9sTUKoPzbJUMvlg by Roundtrip@federate.social
2022-12-01T01:57:12Z
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âSubsidiarity may or may not be a familiar word, but the practice of it is everywhere. In any given town, we take it for granted that its libraries, schools and roads should be largely under local control but still must meet state or federal standards. The common-law court system empowers local officials to interpret laws according to local norms, except when they contradict decisions at a higher level.â
(DIR) Post #ARb9sTs5O6zWV9Ttmy by Roundtrip@federate.social
2022-12-01T02:02:01Z
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âIn contrast to the way the rest of our daily lives are organized, the scalability of social media governance is actually very unusual.â
(DIR) Post #ARb9sUHFsX7llDG01I by Roundtrip@federate.social
2022-12-01T02:03:23Z
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âThe fediverse is designed for subsidiarity. People cannot simply âjoin Mastodon.â Instead, users join a particular server that runs Mastodon software, and that server can be moderated and operated in a wide variety of ways. Rather than Twitterâs one-size-fits-all public square, Mastodon is designed for smaller communities that interact with each other. One server might host hundreds of accounts or thousands, while another server might be for only a single user.â
(DIR) Post #ARb9sUlO4VE9GfM3zE by Roundtrip@federate.social
2022-12-02T16:30:55Z
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Note that people who belong to your Mastodon neighborhood / instance / server also define the content you see in two of your Mastodon appâs three timelines (below). Your Federated timeline reflects your neighborhood.Home timeline - What people you follow post or boostLocal / community timeline - What people in your neighborhood post or boostFederated timeline - Roughly, the union of what people in your neighborhood see in their home feed, post, or boost. Itâs complicated, see diagram.
(DIR) Post #ATL9o1zNu0MBJ6RwDA by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-03-06T13:04:07Z
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@tchambers @pluralistic Another good article that references âsubsidiarityâ as an organizing principle for moderation:ââŠin a large and interconnected system, people in a local community should have the power to address their own problems. Some decisions are made at higher levels, but only when necessary. Subsidiarity is about achieving the right balance between local units and the larger systems.â#moderation #subsidiarityhttps://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/
(DIR) Post #AWE3jhAuii8dMxCyqe by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-05-31T20:57:46Z
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@Jbat âWhen a group of industry folks drop what looks like an opportunistic A-bomb on the willing press, it kind of makes sense to think through the why of it all.â
(DIR) Post #AWI23YsPrObk9Ek0Zs by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-06-02T18:57:47Z
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@dave âLast update: 7/25/2007; 10:52:56 PM Pacific. "It's even worse than it appears."
(DIR) Post #AWIc94TtNbYJxuCGLg by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-06-03T01:42:08Z
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@dave Itâs the last line of the blog post đ
(DIR) Post #AWKFKqBKSeFQSh4pXc by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-06-03T20:35:59Z
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@dave I wasnât aware that youâve apparently used "It's even worse than it appears." as a Scripting News motto since at least 2007, and thought it was intended as a mildly amusing summary of that specific blog post.I generally read RSS feed or social media versions on Scripting News.
(DIR) Post #AYNsTdkEBqQQOX4sBE by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-08-04T10:22:08Z
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@clive đ§”ââŠa huge amount of time was spent experimenting with ways to arrange the text in a maximally visually appealing way.Interestingly, this led to a convergence with certain principles of modern web design. For instance, I counted out the total characters in a few full lines from the first edition of Hortus. They average roughly 35 to 45 characters across, which is what contemporary designers recommend for mobile view on websites.â#incunabula #book #design
(DIR) Post #AYODJwWPcW3glxph0S by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-08-04T14:15:33Z
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@cliveđ§”The first release always used to get most of the #design love!
(DIR) Post #AYURjhzsoG1tYqYc0u by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-08-07T14:22:31Z
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@textfiles đ§”Thanks! Itâs great fun browsing the MIT Press Open Access collection of the #InternetArchiveI enjoyed finding âStreet-Fighting Mathematicsâ:ââŠSanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledgeâfrom mathematics to management.â#book #mathematics
(DIR) Post #AYYempvfqnjL4EFZ7Q by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-08-09T15:09:58Z
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@clive Credit card payment apps that refuse to recognized credit card numbers with embedded spaces deserve a special place in Hell.And telephone numbers! đ
(DIR) Post #AaD7TN3ndxaUYg97U8 by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-09-28T01:32:28Z
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@clive I found a Quora thread about stories where Clark Kent saved the day with his reporting â including a Chatbot reference to a story which may or may not exist.https://www.quora.com/Has-there-been-a-story-where-Clark-Kent-saves-the-day-with-reporting-not-as-Superman
(DIR) Post #AbPMwPmH8IjuXyeiEC by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-11-02T21:14:24Z
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@clive đ§”alt-text practice +++I also try to include a link at the end of the alt-text to the put the image in context or give the original source of any alt-text quoted text.@samplereality uses his @1994clipart bot to publish Coral Gallery 1994 clip art images, each with a short description and longer ghost story.https://botsin.space/@1994clipart/111292031715762624
(DIR) Post #AbZUC3hpbZ4hzCaCw4 by Roundtrip@federate.social
2023-11-07T18:22:08Z
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@textfiles đ§”DAK catalog historyâThe DAK Catalog was published by DAK Industries, a discount electronics importer in the United States, and was named after the initials of the company's owner, Drew Alan Kaplan.â#InternetArchive collection https://archive.org/details/dak_catalogs
(DIR) Post #AjdBlOOLlVFQF1lDjk by Roundtrip@federate.social
2024-07-05T20:12:48Z
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@Flipboard I like to see if you could find a was to work with SpotlightPA and its network of local investigative reporting partners. Itâs a neat nonpartisan nonprofit aiming to boost the power of local news organizations across the state.#localjournalism #PA #SpotlightPAhttps://www.spotlightpa.org
(DIR) Post #AjdF3DrhwOPofXgbS4 by Roundtrip@federate.social
2024-07-05T20:49:30Z
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@Flipboard Great! I really like their daily newsletter and would enjoy seeing SpotlightPA reporting in the Fediverse.
(DIR) Post #AvxhT36RgCNLOd5M6i by Roundtrip@federate.social
2025-07-09T16:07:29Z
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@Nonilex đ§”Project 2025 for NOAAMichael Lewisâs âThe Fifth Riskâ has a good chapter on attempts by Barry Meyers â Accuweatherâs former CEO and brother of the head of the then Meyers family corporation â to strip NOAHâs free public forcasting functions.A good summary and quotes of the chapter in this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/s/n8yeJZQmlw