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Andrew F

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Web dev, previously a lawyer Fedi: @aftd@sfba.social

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable

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There's a flavor of dystopia where everyone is entitled to a job but the job is gatekeeping benefits for people who can't work.

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There are at least seven spots. Maybe nine?

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Testing to see if this post federates out to Mastodon and the Fediverse

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I sometimes question whether the Lincoln Project is effective, but ... this is the sort of thing they're known for.

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Is 34 a lot? Depends on the context. Shrimp eaten when you order Red Lobster's Ultimate Endless Shrimp? No. Felonies? Yes.

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Don't worry. Just check back in 2 days.

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OK, that game sounds 1000% more interesting than Starfield. Possibly the only thing that could top "Sci-fi Dog Game" is "Untitled Goose Game in Space".

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Power law distribution seems likely -- two or three versatile models with a long tail of random stuff. Another possibility is two of three base models but with a large assortment of plugins, embeddings, LoRAs, whatever you want to call them.

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Every other #React test I write:

`make(sandwich)`
FAIL

`act(() => make(sandwich))`
PASS

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Would you like to buy some jigsaw puzzles? We sell two kinds: rainforest and religious

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I find it funny that Acrobat is named after people who literally jump through hoops.

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Is there a BlueSky labeler for satire yet?

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Andrew F's avatar Andrew F @aftd.bsky.social
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Yeah, I've been using it as an assistant for the story I'm writing. I think using it to write the book itself is absolute slop but for something like "make up names for places and people", well, it's still very bad. But 1/10 suggestions are interesting.

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Oof. That Bluey hit hard. This is not primarily a kid's show. It is mostly a show about parenting that kids just happen to find enjoyable.

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Gotcha. Probably doesn't help that this is the top search result for ActivityPub client-to-server. Do you know why Mastodon implemented its own API rather than build off this?

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Don't they serve different purposes? The Threads API lets you post to Threads using your Threads account that federates under threads.net. AP lets you publish content that federates with Threads under your own domain.

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Some folks were seeing the site reported as malware / phishing. Simplest explanation is dumb algorithm did dumb algorithm things.

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Andrew F's avatar Andrew F @aftd.bsky.social
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Some of us have our cell phones frequently stolen by children.

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These people know Apple and Microsoft already offer reasonably effective opt-in website blocking, right? If legislators want to do something, they could just mandate adult websites include a special header to make things like Screen Time more effective.

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I would personally be curious about how much traffic Urban Dictionary gets from DMV IPs.

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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I still think if your crime was particularly cool, it’s shouldn’t be a crime, like building yourself a secret little apartment at a train station with public funds.

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Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
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Extraordinarily good news: Crystal Mason, the Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison in Texas for voting while on probation, was acquitted today!

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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Incredible post from the best writer on Boeing that we've got. The level of willful negligence from executives on something that carries human beings through the sky is astonishing and should be a crime. Sorry I forgot to make a joke. prospect.org/infrastructu...

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The funny thing is they sort of tried that. They heavily restricted his Internet access during trial, but he engaged in witness tampering anyways and got his bail revoked.

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Siempre La Luna's avatar Siempre La Luna @siemprelaluna.bsky.social
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Swiped from the Dank Dune Memes page on the bad site.

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"The last time I spoke to Jack, well over a year ago, he told me that nostr was closer to the vision of my paper than Bluesky ... I do think nostr is pretty cool as well, and could create something cool, if it wasn’t completely overrun by people who only want to talk about Bitcoin." 😚👌

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Honestly, if the Internet would just regularly blip for all of us and say "hey make some tea", the world would be a better place.

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I sometimes feel bad for Barbara Streisand but honestly, having an effect named after you is pretty awesome and so is having hundreds of millions of dollars.

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A guess: The server is receiving your request but minus the host header. You sometimes see Apache/Nginx pages when you navigate directly to the IP address for a site than via a domain name. So perhaps something specific to you (browser, extension, OS, ISP) is stripping the header.

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I can see X responding in 2 ways: • Change the UA of the crawler. But if they cache the response, bad actors will just fake it for X minutes before redirecting to spam. • Rewrite links to the final dest or their own shortener. Which might work but could do dumb things for pages that reject bots.

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Is there a directory of third party labelers we can check out?

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Andrew F's avatar Andrew F @aftd.bsky.social
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I am dense. Is this sarcasm?

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What if any, is the substantive difference between a #TikTok ban (or forced divestiture) and banning RT or Xinhua from app stores? Scale is one. Algorithmic transparency (or the lack of an algorithm on traditional media) is another. But does that matter to a #1stAmendment analysis?

#LawSky

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I guess this is a potential problem with custom feeds as well. Maybe bsky will need to add a way for users to block themselves from certain feeds (or take moderation action against the feeds themselves).

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This is perhaps premature, but is it possible for bad actors to weaponize labelers? What if someone creates a "harassment target" or "<derogatory term for ethnic group>" label? If labels are only used for filtering, then maybe it's fine? Or maybe bsky has to moderate labelers themselves.

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Cathy Gellis's avatar Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social
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I would like to point out that everyone pushing for KOSA and other age-related Internet bills at the states are doing what Texas and the Fifth Circuit are doing and blowing off the Constitutional rights that young people have. If you're going to do that then you really can't complain about this.

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You can be the citizen of another plane of existence and still receive the benefit of the First Amendment so long as you're within US borders. And rumor has it that Satan runs a nightclub in Los Angeles.

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BRB, gotta build a "excessively snarky and petty" labeler for BlueSky.

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Andrew F's avatar Andrew F @aftd.bsky.social
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Thanks for humoring me Paul. How does something get taken down on an infra level? Do the people manning the hard coded labeler have some sort of "kill it with fire" button for illegal content that third party Ozone users don't?

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Is it possible to roll your own app with a different hard-coded labeler, and if so, would posts subject to a "full takedown" by the hard-coded BlueSky labeler still be visible in that alternate app?

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Stu Fleming's avatar Stu Fleming @stuflemingnz.bsky.social
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The King of England lies dying and one of his sons has been exiled. A princess has vanished. Plague stalks the land and the Treasury has been plundered. NOW is the time for strange women lying in ponds to distribute swords to form the basis of government.

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