I recently discovered that pirated copies of #TheGood#Nurse and #TheBreakthrough were among the books used to help train our future robot overlords. Please join @AuthorsGuild's open Letter to Generative #AI Leaders to a) stop that shady sh*t and b) pay #creators for use of copyrighted materials : https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/authors-guild-open-letter-to-generative-ai-leaders/?source=twitter&

Loved this 1974 #interview with Brian #Eno - by Chrissie Hynde

https://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_nme-feb74.html

RIP #Shaft

The few remaining reporters in Gaza are being killed off.

The situation is just endless sad for civilian populations, who are being let down by their governments. For the people of Gaza, they are also being let down by the world.

Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/trawling-for-fish-releases-as-much-carbon-as-air-travel-report-finds-climate-crisis
Dragging heavy nets across seabed disturbs marine sediments, world’s largest carbon sink, scientists report

Not new, but new to me

@CGraeber check out @feditips

for starters, follow hashtags of things you are interested in and follow a lot of people.

Fill in your profile and make a small introduction post and pin it to the top of your feed. Be sure to hashtag liberally for visibility.

Also check out third party apps like ice cubes (🍎) and Tusky (🤖). They have more features and load faster than the official app. :blobcatheart:

@CGraeber Hi Charles! I am also new but there's quite a few ways to get started. The advice I was first given which really helped me out was to follow a few hashtags like #introduction and #feditips. A lot of people post advice and help you connect to your first followers through that :)

#introduction I'm just going to post here searching for signs of life. Any tips appreciated. So far it feels a little lonely. Help me understand otherwise?

@clueless_capybara thanks for this, appreciated.

@jblue @feditips Nice. WIll take me a bit to get up to speed but this helps for sure.

@jeff Jeff thanks for the intro and the leg up, I appreciate it. Definitely feels a bit less like an empty room now!

@alpha1beta yeah less of the nazi and spam food groups would improve mental health for sure, thanks A1B!

@share_sun @jblue @feditips roger that thank you!

@emergentnexus THanks Dr. Datta I appreciate it.

@adelinej Thanks Adeline!

@feditips cool, thanks for this.

@registrert ok cool so I got lucky! Thanks.

@human3500 ok perfect thanks I'll start there.

@mike totally appreciate it Mike thanks.

@philmoscovitch thanks for this, great tip