Travis 'Nep' Smith

Entrepreneur. Speaker. Writer. Connector.
πŸ€“ Owner HopStudios.com web-design-dev-historian. ExpressionEngine++ CraftCMS #eecms #craftcms
πŸ€– CTO Emonance.ai #ai
🌐 OpenMedia.org board president #YVR #YYC
πŸ₯ Spirit of the Game wonk (VUL/ UC/ WFDF/ USAU) #Ultimate #SOTG
#2SLGBTQ #polyam πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ they/them

Travis 'Nep' Smithnep@mastodon.cloud
2025-02-08

It took me about 30 minutes total, including:
* exporting all my data
* importing all my followers, lists, mutes, etc.
* setting all my preferences and my profile up identically
* re-posting my pinned posts

And by 30 minutes, I mean, over a year! Because I've been meaning to move from the under-supported and rarely updated mastodon.cloud server for ages.

Travis 'Nep' Smithnep@mastodon.cloud
2025-02-08

I HAVE MOVED TO A CANADIAN SERVER: mstdn.ca/@nep

Hi @chad !!

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Steve Hermanw7voa@journa.host
2025-02-08

President Trump orders the firing of the archivist of the United States. cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-a

Travis 'Nep' Smithnep@mastodon.cloud
2025-02-08

Trump making himself the chairman of the Kennedy Center is giving big Kim Jong Un vibes.

nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/poli

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George Takei :verified: πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ––πŸ½georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-02-08

This is how it’s done. Dr. Jack Turban is resigning after the NCAA announced it is banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.

A resignation letter from UCSF's Jack L. Turban, MD MHS, to NCAA President Charles D. Baker, dated February 6, 2025. Turban resigns from the CSMAS committee, disagreeing with the NCAA's decision to ban trans women from women's sports, citing lack of medical/scientific consensus and political motivation. He thanks the committee for their work but criticizes the decision's basis.
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2025-02-07

Kleptocracy is back in business

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2025-02-06

It's hard to convey how barrier breaking (and not in a good way) this directive is. Weather and climate is one of the most functioning parts of the UN. We have always collaborated internationally, simply because weather does not respect national borders. Even during the Cold War the US and Russia shared weather observations and sat on joint committees.

To be told not to work with "foreign nationals" is almost to be told to "stop doing your job"

journa.host/@w7voa/11395437273

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Chris AlemanyπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έchris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-02-06

Well. This seems like a website worth checking every once in awhile.

#isThisACoup
#USA
isthisacoup.com

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kottke.orgkottke
2025-02-06

Since NYC began congestion pricing, subway ridership is up, subway crime is way down, traffic fatalities are down. Also, trip times for drivers and buses are faster and bus ridership is up. amny.com/nyc-transit/nyc-subwa

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2025-02-06

Here in #Minnesota, our weather forecasts work because NOAA and Environment Canada have agreements to share data from the weather services' sensor networks back and forth across the line.

Yet again, USA:

End this. Hold Elon Musk personally accountable. And #ImpeachTrump and remove him.

QT Tim Marchman
β€ͺ@timmarchman.bsky.social‬
2025 February 5

NOAA workers ordered to stop all communications with foreign nationals.

wired.com/story/noaa-employees

bsky.app/profile/timmarchman.b

Travis 'Nep' Smithnep@mastodon.cloud
2025-02-06

West Point (the United States Military Academy) has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades and are chapters of nationwide orgs, like the Society of Black Engineers.

apnews.com/article/west-point-

time.com/7212911/west-point-di

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2025-02-06

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE.

I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.
dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/11395

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2025-02-05

"Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act. More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action.

The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them."

404media.co/you-cant-post-your

#SocialMedia #organizing #fascism #FightFascism

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Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
2025-02-05

"Spritely, brought to you by the people who brought you the fediverse!" We've done the research. Not to be smug but we ARE the experts.

We are telling you, decentralized social networks as they exist today are not enough.

And we are building the future.

Please help us! spritely.institute/donate/

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Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
2025-02-05

ActivityPub has been a big success. The fediverse as it exists has been a big success. I'm proud of that work.

But personally, I think retrospectively, it'll be a footnote in history compared to what we're doing now.

Yes, I really do believe the jump is that large.

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Dan Gillmordangillmor
2025-02-05

Debian is the most significant Linux distribution for many reasons, and its decision to leave Musk's site makes me respect its leaders even more.

news.itsfoss.com/debian-logs-o

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Voting is Your POWERdigyoursoul@universeodon.com
2025-02-05
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JamieGC 🏴 πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ––JamieGC@tsukihi.me
2025-02-05

ICE agents come to the house of an immigrant activist, he tells them he will come out of the house to them if they have a judicial warrant, as people are told to do now.

They bring a dozen more agents, a Bearcat armored vehicle, battering ram and stun grenades, and break in.

azcentral.com/story/news/polit

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George Takei :verified: πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ––πŸ½georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-02-05

They have already blown past their own authority. The courts must enjoin them now.

A screenshot of two tweets. The first tweet is from Rick Wilson. It reads: "The executive order creating DOGE specifically said unclassified systems only". The second tweet is from Angry Staffer. It reads: "Why does DOGE need access to classified material? And who is reading them into these programs?"

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