I'm done here. I don't like what Musk has become (or maybe what he's revealed himself to have been). I don't like what Twitter is now. I don't want any part of it or to support it in any way. You can find me on Mastodon or Bluesky: @[email protected] or @austern.bsky.social.
I'm done here. I don't like what Musk has turned himself into (or maybe what he's revealed himself to have been all along). I don't like what Twitter is becoming. I don't want any part of it or to support it in any way. You can find me on Mastodon: @[email protected].
Finally signed up for my Mastodon account: I'm @[email protected]. I'll probably lurk for a while, to get some idea of how things work over there, before I post anything.
The hotel where I was staying in NYC had a "Crypt Gallery": a bunch of computer art, with solicitations for NFTs of them. Strangely enough, I was able to resist the temptation to "buy" any of the NFTs.
Today seems like a good day to share this amazing graphic of UK land use
(I estimate solar farms cover less than one tenth of one percent of the UK – 0.08%)
https://t.co/W6LdsR0fun
@zoezolbrod I should read it! One thing that fascinates me about Czernowitz (now Чернівці or Черновцы depending on whether you're speaking Ukrainian or Russian) is that it wasn't just one of the easternmost cities of Austria-Hungary but specifically a German speaking city, "Little Vienna".
My cousin @zoezolbrod just published a piece in Salon about our great grandparents, the things we recently learned about them, and her relationship with family history. It's a good essay, even without the family connection.
https://t.co/csp4Fdgo6k
One surprise from my great uncle's memoir: contrary to what I'd always believed, we don't know for sure that my great grandparents were killed in the Holocaust. It's the likeliest guess, but their children never found out for sure. Their names aren't in the Yad Vashem database.