As the “paper of record” this NYT article was extremely influential in shaping public opinion.

60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Mass Rape on Oct. 7

Yesterday, a request was made to like a post from an account with unicode in the username. As Terence Eden notes in Internationalise The Fediverse

Mastodon (the largest ActivityPub service) doesn’t allow Unicode usernames and has resisted efforts to change.

So, I tried with Irwin on otisburg.social and the code threw an exception when I tried to interact with the account

(URI::InvalidURIError) "URI must be ascii only \"https://i18n.viii.fi/@\\u4F60\\u597D\""

This is not an acceptable uri to pass to URI.parse(). In this case, I found some help from a stackoverflow post and fixed the code so I could interact with the account and like the post.

From the comments in Terence’s blog post, I saw Allowed characters in preferredUsername has also been identified as an issue with webfinger.

Today I was fortunate to have my picture taken with Morris Lukowich during Hockey Day in Houston at Saint Arnold Brewing. The best hockey games I have ever watched in-person were the 1977-78 Houston Aeros. The WHA All-Star game was in Quebec City on January 17, 1978 and for the picture I believe it is Lukowich’s All-Star jersey from that game that I have borrowed.

MSF to UN Security Council: The people of Gaza need an immediate and sustained ceasefire now