Interesting Links for 19-06-2018

‘Like’ is an infix now, which is un-like-believably innovative

(tags: language )

YouTube videos without ads are coming to the UK. For only £12 per month. (I think not)

(tags: YouTube advertising business )

Two (satirical) sequels to GATTACA

(tags: genetics education success funny satire movies )

Grandma’s trauma – a critical appraisal of the evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in humans

(tags: epigenetics genetics )

Why being left-handed matters for mental health treatment

(tags: brain )

War on cannabis ‘comprehensively and irreversibly lost’, William Hague says

(tags: Conservatives marijuana uk law )

The Perverse Incentives Helping Incels Thrive at Tech Companies

(tags: misogyny Technology )

Speech by Michel Barnier about European Arrest Warrants, police cooperation, and Brexit

(tags: uk europe law crime police )

Canada's House of Commons votes to legalise recreational cannabis

(tags: marijuana legalisation canada )

Some questions about Mastodon

At the moment, I post to my links to various places. Facebook and Twitter as they happen, and then daily to Dreamwidth, Livejournal, and WordPress (which I did mostly to see if I could).

Anyway! Someone is leaving Twitter, and asked if I posted to Mastodon*. A twitter-style site, but decentralised and open source. And I know _nothing_ about it. However, I've done a bit of looking around, I've found a few different tools that look like they can take RSS and turn it into posts.

But! I don't have a lot of time for doing research right now**, so if any of you know what would be a good place to use as a Mastodon host, or what would be a good way to run the RSS->Post machine, then chime in.


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Things what I have found so far:
https://github.com/edsu/feediverse
https://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2017/12/mastodon-ifttt/
https://carlchenet.com/get-your-rss-feeds-to-mastodon-with-the-feed2toot-bot/


*Which, by the way, gave me a lovely warm glow. If you ever want to make me happy, feel free to tell me you liked a particular link. Or the links in general.
**Absolutely not a complaint, I am loving having Sophia on me lots.