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Off: I chuckle everytime I’m misled like this when skimming through HN titles. Yesterday there was a piece about Kafka (the writer, not the event stream) and no
by aaaaaaaaaab 8y ago
Off: I chuckle everytime I’m misled like this when skimming through HN titles. Yesterday there was a piece about Kafka (the writer, not the event stream) and now this Mastodon stuff.
- 1up8192 8y agoWhen I've seen mastodon in one of the titles for the first time here I was surprised, because I thought that one of my favorite bands are being discussed here.
- djsumdog 8y agoYea, my mind immediately jumped to that as well, probably because I recently setup my own Mastodon instance recently.
- mywittyname 8y agoThe title seems inline with the quotes from experts: > “My first reaction on reading this paper was ‘No. This is wrong. Something’s wrong,'” said stone tool expert John McNabb of the University of Southampton in Britain. “If it does turn out to be true, it changes absolutely everything.” And > “This discovery is rewriting our understanding of when humans reached the New World,” Judy Gradwohl, president and CEO of the San Diego Natural History Museum, said in a statement. Those quotes were probably cherry picked and a little out of context, but when experts in the field use such strong language, I think it's justified for reporters to do the same.
- brittohalloran 8y agoI believe the original comment was referring to being misled / confused about the decentralized social network Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/ https://joinmastodon.org/), not being misled as to the significance of the finding.
- mywittyname 8y agoOh, I get it.