... looks like this is actually my first original post on here, two years after joining 😅

@nelson @evangreer Conway was a last minute addition to the schedule too! I simply would not have come had i known at rsvp time

ETA: she's been on the schedule but was added since I rsvped and/or I just didn't notice lol

@darius @evangreer I've been hearing from another attendee. Mace's presence invalidates the event. She is unacceptable to have on stage.
I hear Kellyanne Conway is on stage now. So that's going well.

@darius @evangreer Audibly gasped at her comment at the end. What a hateful, awful thing for Mace to say. Thank you for standing up for what's right, Evan.

@darius @evangreer Mace is #SuckingUp247

@shauna I am a South African of roughly Mark's age and I can say that SA is fixated on school results. In school it was drummed into us that results equal work/destiny.

Every CV has to have the them. Not sure why but it's still real today with CVs and job listings here.

I think his earlier self is showing through here.

@shauna

As it's Canonical, they are a privately-held company:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06870835

So my usual advice won't apply.

- If it's a publically-listed company, buy one share before you apply for a job there.

This becomes your Right-To-Sue-As-A-Minority-Shareholder, and everything the staff say to you is admissible evidence. :D

@shauna Yeah, I'm an extremely qualified candidate and the Canonical process was extremely laughable. But my story isn't anything interesting compared to ask-a-manager.

@darius at this moment in time??

@darius we must always resist the allure

@darius !RemindMe one week (lol)

@darius I think encouraging various forms of governance on the Fediverse is awesome. I also think we're probably going to see many, many more offline entities like universities, local governments, postal services, and enterprises setting up their own instances. What do you think an Organization to Promote Fediverse Governance Models would do, though?

To me, in Smithereen, it's a link preview that's getting some special treatment and that you create with a dedicated UI. The difference between quotes and link previews is that I don't do link previews yet. The semantic relationship is the same as when I link something in my own post. To quote something means to include it as part of your own post, possibly adding your own comment, to have a conversation about it with your followers.

@trwnh

>What’s the difference between a “quote” and a “link preview”?

I think there is no difference. Quote is simply an enhanced preview.

@darius They should make that cold brew their brand and call it the freezer burn.

@darius

Oh, jeez, the first time I ever went to a Starbucks, I swear it tasted like spoiled fish.

I commented to the lady at the counter that it tasted strange.

She said, "Yeah, a lot of people find it really strong until they get used to it, but then they love it."

I demanded my money back anyway, and I asked for a quadruple espresso, plain.

Her eyes popped out of her head a bit, but the espresso tasted just fine.

@darius Coffee Irony. ☕️

@andypiper had no idea they were still around

@andypiper Ooh, this is very cool news! Hope someone builds something with it. 👀

@andypiper that's awesome. It'll definitely be extremely helpful for Smithereen — I do need a geographical database for several features that a social network of this style "must" have. That's at least the education section in profiles (schools, universities, etc), and venues in events.

I was contemplating how I'm going to try to pull something out of OSM and/or have a community of my users maintain it, now I don't have to. The only problem is that this dataset must be terabytes in size.

@darius 🤨

@darius i believe it 🥚

@darius finally. an egg to trust

@seachanger I'm sure bird fedi would be happy to set people up with some starter quacks

@seachanger well actually, here we have gnu + flack + fedi, or as I like to call it, fflackñu.

Let me explain,,,

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