I don’t think this post needs a title. Y’all figure it out.
«And who, he asked, would be the site supervisor? A bearded man in Ray-Ban sunglasses and a Norfolk State University sweatshirt stepped forward.
“What’s your name, sir?” Jones asked.
“Devon Henry.”
“Devon Hen—” Jones began, then dropped his voice respectfully. “Oh, Mr. Henry. Of course.”»
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/02/devon-henry-confederate-statues-richmond/
I was invited by @futurebird (thanks!) to participate/join/comment in a discussion of moderation software, arising from a post by @cd24@sfba.social. I’m not actually a moderator and I don’t know what the current toolset offers, but I keep toying with the idea of running something in the fediverse which would probably really have need of moderation, so I sometimes turn over moderation thoughts in my head. (Run-on sentence, sorry; deep breath.) Plus, I’m really interested in the topic.
Thoughts that popped into my head (trying not to repeat what others have already said in this thread), with no particular organization:
#mastodon #mastoAdmin #moderation
Someone posted a one-liner to Mastodon and I felt compelled to look it up.
«From all that I have attempted to say it should now be apparent that sincerity and conscientiousness in themselves are not enough. History has proven that these noble virtues may degenerate into tragic vices. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Shakespeare wrote:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.As the chief moral guardian of the community, the church must implore men to be good and well-intentioned and must extol the virtues of kindheartedness and conscientiousness. But somewhere along the way the church must remind men that, devoid of intelligence, goodness and conscientiousness will become brutal forces leading to shameful crucifixions. Never must the church tire of reminding men that they have a moral responsibility to be intelligent.
Must we not admit that the church has often overlooked this moral demand for enlightenment? At times it has talked as though ignorance were a virtue and intelligence a crime. Through its obscurantism, closedmindedness, and obstinacy to new truth, the church has often unconsciously encouraged its worshipers to look askance upon intelligence.
But if we are to call ourselves Christians, we had better avoid intellectual and moral blindness. Throughout the New Testament we are reminded of the need for enlightenment. We are commanded to love God, not only with our hearts and souls, but also with our minds. When the Apostle Paul noticed the blindness of many of his opponents, he said, “I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.” Over and again the Bible reminds us of the danger of zeal without knowledge and sincerity without intelligence.»
Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love
Entertaining little nugget buried in a long document. 🙂
«Friends, I’m not all that sympathetic to these record requests, but the White House response is bravo sierra.»
https://firstbranchforecast.com/2023/01/02/first-branch-forecast-for-january-2023-hindsight-is-2022/
«it’s not like the Russians will be returning any of these tractors to their rightful owners now that they’ve found they can’t use them. Simply depriving Ukrainians of their own property is a huge blow to them, and the looters may still profit from their thievery by scavenging the tractors for parts and raw materials. So it’s not like John Deere and its embedded software, or the copyright in that software that gives it such control over its sold machines, have managed to right a serious wrong.»
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/05/no-software-bricked-tractors-thwarting-russian-looters-is-not-a-sign-that-either-john-deere-or-copyright-is-good/
Yay:
CNBC: Highly immune evasive omicron XBB.1.5 variant is quickly becoming dominant in U.S. as it doubles weekly. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/30/covid-news-omicron-xbbpoint1point5-is-highly-immune-evasive-and-binds-better-to-cells.html
Some of this is a bit of blather (79 characters? Really?) but this is still a useful-looking collection of stuff.
amr-khalil.medium.com: How To Write Clean Code in Python | by Amr Khalil | Dec, 2022 | Medium. https://amr-khalil.medium.com/how-to-write-clean-code-in-python-25567b752acd
(Done with my bottomless “drafts” folder, for now.)
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