Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

i want usb ports to come with a lil eject motor like CD drives, so when you eject a drive it gets physically booted out of your PC
~bx

Hi all! My first "neuro-focused" post 🧠​ has to be these beautiful #PlaceCells that I recorded in a #NeuroRat foraging for cocops in a rectangle. #Hippocampus

#NeuroForNewbies ⏬​(trying this out)

What are "place cells"? They are a category of neurons, first discovered in the brain of rats, that activate only in specific locations in a given environment. Each place cell fires at a different location, together forming a sort of map (#CognitiveMap) of all the locations that we know.

plot legend is described in the alt-text

(Edit: added hippocampus tag)

No more of this ‘dot’ nonsense for me.

From now on it’s ‘period com.’

Funny how people always go with the classic,

"If you're not doing anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide."

over a far more sensible:

"If I'm not doing anything wrong, you should have no reason to spy on me."

#privacy #surveillance

Omg one other trans femme at this festival please speak to me

Just saw that #Etsy has had three articles about how they mistreat their sellers in as many days. As an independent #artist myself, I've been struggling to find purchase (and purchasers) on the platform, which is why I started building #magpiemarket - a #federated Etsy-alternative. These articles just go to show how much we need a new space that helps #artists rather than uses them. Please #boost this to help us spread the word.

Cory Doctorow: "Mastodon is far from perfect. But I only have so many hours in the day, and only so many days left in my life. I would much rather spend those precious hours making a open service better than using a temporarily superior closed one. I have seen that movie. I know how it ends"
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f

How to automate away the CEO:

Basically start a co-op which automates away CEOs, pitch yourself to investors as a cost-reduced way to deliver better performance to one of the biggest costs on companies. The "automation" is actually a combination of some automation-based tools but also, like most AI/automation, has real humans behind it, but just for much cheaper, and likely with much better decisions. The co-op runs by an internal dogfooding of the same structure.

In the early 2000s this setup of mine was peak cyberpunk.

Alt text isn't just helpful for the sight-impaired. By reading alt text I can identify what the OP is calling attention to in the pic, helping me get the joke or social commentary that would otherwise be illegible to me. (Without this I'm like, I see a thousand details and I don't know which one matters to you.) #ActuallyAutistic

So the first part of things is just a big, public peertube instance.

I have the know how, the capacity, the ability. The trick is that it's still difficult and expensive to host peertube for other people.

So I'm going to charge of it. Not much, but enough. We charge folks for their storage quota.

$12/year for 10GB of storage. $50/year for 50GB of storage. Other packages at higher rates.

That's $1/month for 10GB, or ~$4/month for 50GB. We'll charge by the year to reduce transaction fees.

Cheap, but not free. That reduces a lot of our burdens around hosting, while keeping the thing accessible. It makes us enough money to give accounts away when people can't afford hosting, etc.

It let's us really do Community media.