RE: Ah, okay, why wait. I went ahead and installed the beta. Here come the quote boosts. View quoted note →
The Mastodon 4.5.0 beta with quote posts, automated fetching of missing replies, and more improvements is out now! "If all goes well, we plan to release the final 4.5.0 version within the next 3 weeks." Via #mastodon #fediverse
The Black Panther Party was founded #OnThisDay in 1966. From a 2016 article commemorating its 50th anniversary: "The work of the Black Panthers remains important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the problem of police brutality has long been with us [...] Second, the BPP offers a good model of grassroots activism and ideology in practice." #history #BlackHistory #BlackPanthers #BlackPantherParty
"Babbage saw the analytical engine as a mathematical device. After all, it primarily stored and operated on numbers. But Lovelace recognized that a machine de­­signed to crunch numbers could do much more if the numbers represented other things. “Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such ex­­pres­sion and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”" Happy Ada Lovelace Day! #AdaLovelace #computers #STEM #WomenInStem #AdaLovelaceDay
Heads-up, New Jersey: Tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming NJ gubernatorial election. You won't want to miss it. #NJ #NewJersey #election #USPol image
"On [this] day in 1964, Dr. Robert Moog introduced the world to a completely new type of instrument that would go on to change the course of music history and influence decades of future instrument design." (Video from 2014, marking Moog's 50th anniversary.) #moog #music #history #MusicHistory #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay
Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day! How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game! Visit to learn why this is important. #AltText #ImageDescriptions #accessibility #WorldSightDay image
"We started with participants sharing personal technology stories—EVs as climate-guilt-free mobility, pirate radio stations as creation rather than consumption, bikes as intergenerational freedom. Then we unpacked the narratives underneath: what myths, what power structures, what economic forces shaped these experiences?" #SolarPunk #writing #storytelling
Really cool project by @npub1lanz...29vc that lets you create programmatic Mastodon lists! Examples from include: - mutuals - all users who haven't posted yesterday, but sometime within the past three days - all users who haven't posted in over three days - all users you've interacted with in the past 7 days #mastodon