Andre Should Be Writing @AndreShouldBeWriting@wandering.shop

#introductions #intro #introduction

Hello fellow Masties. I've written and edited words for most of my career, initially as a journalist from 2009-2019 at The Verge, Popular Science, Vice, and other places.

Now I work in-house at Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle company in Pittsburgh, PA, and write for its digital publication on AI and robotics, Ground Truth.

He/him, Geriatric Millennial, horror/sci-fi fan. Follow me for stray thoughts.

This week is ParisP2P! I'm talking on Sat:

Architectural Collisions - Short Stories of Hard Problems Putting IPFS in Strange Places...

* Browsers
* Mobile
* Open source tools
* Operating systems
* IoT networks
* Space industry

https://p2p.paris/en/event/festival-1/

i'm enjoying being on mastodon so far, but i would like to follow more #bipoc writers and translators so please feel free to say hi!!

now i better get off social media and finish revising this short story i started at clarion west last year about a fantastical museum heist

I do not do NFTs and I am anti-NFT and anti-crypto. Combine the worst aspects of Ponzi schemes with money laundering up to the nation-state level, vast ecological trauma, extreme complexity, myriad traps for the naive, and a total lack of anonymity -- it's shit all the way down.

The best non-fungible art is a real-world piece of unique art. Which, you may not find surprising, I happen to sell!

If you like the #Fediverse and you love to read #books, take a look at BookWyrm!

Bookwyrm is a federated Goodreads alternative and federates through the #ActivityPub protocol.

https://bookwyrm.social/

yaaaaay plugins are working on the deck

(sorry about the awful quality and one handed filming)

A sincere tip for longtime fediverse people who would like their friends to stick around here longer than a week:

If you're on Mastodon or Hometown, you can click the "bell" icon in the profile of someone you follow. This will make it so that every time they post, it will appear in your notifications like an "@". I am enabling this temporarily for friends so that I remember to interact with them. This is important for making this place feel more lively and helps people stick around!

@Curator #TootFic

The house in the barren plain reminded her of the Temple -- minus the flowers, of course.

Then it hit her: this was a sign.

She would settle here, find a way to grow plants for food and cook them and offer meals to travelers as they would pass by.

And they would leave, carrying the memory of the House, like a seed, and wherever they would settle, a new House would grow there too, offering its meals to new travelers, like so many new flowers.

Also this serves as a fine window onto my life as any #mastocats #cats #retrocomputing

If you are considering trying out #mastodon these days, let me recommend you some communities:

scholar.social (for academics)
climatejustice.social (for climate activists)
red.niboe.info (academics - Español)

For folks looking for a Mastodon instance to join, I recommend Wandering Shop. It has a code of conduct and aims to be a positive community for science fiction and fantasy fans.

I set myself up there years ago. Would love to see y'all hang there, too.

https://wandering.shop/about

I’m realizing a lot of people really don’t know that there are so many viable social media options right now. Many believe Twitter is the best we can do.

Overcoming that belief is going to be the main challenge. Major social media platforms has damaged a lot of people’s hope that we can do better.

Now I’m activated.