tessala

tessala@sfba.social

Building the secure messenger for the social internet. CEO and co-founder of Germ Network. Erstwhile literacy scholar. SF by address, Chicago by birth. The tweeter formerly known as tessalaprofessa.  We’re in the App Store, send me a card. <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/germdm/id6446882771" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/germdm/id6446882771</a>

Posts

Post #3334265
@eff we love you guys but… yeah duh
Post #3334264
@ben once upon a lifetime ago, Medium paid me an honorarium to serialize a novella I wrote on their site for NaNoWriMo Self-published fiction often could use an editor, however. I’d also be interested in who’s publishing other people’s fiction, or other literary writing, successfully online these days
Post #3334263
@johnzajac and let them work as professional firefighters afterwards … starting with non-rookie ranks
Post #3334262
I’m sitting in Mexico City with a beautiful coffee and donut having just finished a German novel about post-Nazism, patriarchy, and indoctrination in separated Berlin thinking about the country I will come home to tomorrow. This morning I saw the ancient chimampas, the Mexico City canals, which have been reduced to 2% of their original area, and our tour guide told us that the locals say that when all the axolotes are gone, the world will end. In 2019 they were measured at 2 regenerating sala...
Post #3334261
@futurebird I would encourage educators to create assignments that explicitly direct students to engage critically with GenAI. For example, a history teacher could have students use ChatGPT to answer a prompt and then use 3 other sources to critique or expand on its answer. Or an English teacher could have students edit an essay chatgpt wrote and write a reflection on what needed to be changed and why. These are the assignments I’d be doing if I were still in writing education.
Post #3334260
I watched “Ready Player One” on the plane home yesterday. It was fun and relevant. I described it to my girlfriend as “The Matrix, for kids.”
Post #3334259
Move slow and grow things.
Post #3334258
⚡ encryption and entrepreneurship enthusiasts! 🕰️ germ&#39;s weekly discord chats are tuesdays at 4 pst - happening now, a chat with myself and our first full time employee, developer Anna M - come hang til 4:30 :) discord.gg/NX4MwWev
Post #3334257
@xmark I saw on Bluesky that it’s Oracle who turned servers back on but the app stores are more conservative. So it’s back online for existing users but not new ones Crazy the amount of individual CEO discretion over our information access..
Post #3334256
@kissane we’re thinking about that at @germnetwork :)
Post #3334255
@docpop Yum!
Post #3334254
WashPo had the last major progressive opinion page in America. A shame beyond shame
Post #3334253
@evacide that’s the spirit
Post #3334252
… I miss the denser emoji keyboard
Post #3334251
I just wanna say I’m on the bus right now in SF and I’ll be really mad if I can’t take the bus home at night anymore. Fund transit.
Post #3334250
@norootcause how about a strategic IUD reserve
Post #3334249
@jay.bsky.team beyond iconique