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shadur.bsky.social@shadur.bsky.social |
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Ashley M. Gjøvik
@ashleygjovik.bsky.social
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🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off US EPA, who then raided them in 2023. EPA sent me the report on Friday. 💀 ⬇️
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Helen Branswell
@helenbranswell.bsky.social
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“My overall concern about this outbreak is that it’s being treated too much as an economic problem & too little as a public health & an animal health problem" — Thijs Kuiken on similarities between the US #H5N1 #birdflu in cattle & Dutch Q fever outbreaks in 2007-10. www.statnews.com/2024/07/01/h...
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Dan the Gnome
@brewergnome.bsky.social
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Something that probably flew under most people's radar, but is kind of a big deal (it allows those veterans to access VA care and disability etc) A very good thing.
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Please do not contribute to the fucking suck of Aaron's job by falling into the trap of believing that he is the sole person who sets the policy he is executing or that failure to act on an issue yet means that the issue will never be decided.
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Bluesky is trying a different approach with offering multiple moderation services that people can subscribe to. Those of you who have been following me for a while know that I've been deeply interested in the outcome while also deeply concerned about some aspects of the approach.
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rahaeli
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T&S in a federated protocol is an entirely new challenge. ActivityPub (Mastodon et al) has dealt with it by devolving the responsibility entirely onto the individuals running individual nodes of the network. That approach has been, to put it charitably, a fucking disaster.
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rahaeli
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12. It is impossible to ethically conduct effective empirical scientific research into the effectiveness of most interventions intended to prevent people with Pedophiliac Disorder from sexually abusing children. Any research science can do is imperfect and limited.
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Okay. I am probably going to regret wading into this again, but The Discourse about child protection issues on Bluesky has escalated to the point where people are making extremely serious accusations against the head of Bluesky T&S, and y'all need to stop. It is unhinged QAnon batshittery.
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@shadur.bsky.social
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In no small part because pretty much anyone who'd *want* a national censorship system has an ideological purpose already in mind, they just think that it's a "self-evidently good one".
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@shadur.bsky.social
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Slightly longer for me, but good /lord/ that one slaps.
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MurderBotBot
@murderbotbot.bsky.social
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Humans and augmented humans can have null feed IDs. I knew from my shows that it meant different things depending on what polity, station, area, etc., they lived in. Here on Preservation it meant “please don’t interact with me.” It was perfect.
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Explained in someone else's thread, lifting out to top post: the explanation for that article in The Intercept about Mozilla blocking certain Firefox extensions from being downloaded in Russia (theintercept.com/2024/06/12/m... ) is "fuck Rozkom".
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You May Whistle For Me
@youmaywhistle.bsky.social
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Social media accelerates the built-in, comfy, brain-pleasing urge to make insta-judgments. We need deeper and more nuanced approaches.
@rahaeli.bsky.social provides some in the realms of social media and other software. I find threads like this one hyper-useful for perspective on what companies do.
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@shadur.bsky.social
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But you do it anyway, because it's the job in front of you, and *someone* needs to do it, and the choices aren't going to magically become less shitty just because you're not the one who has to make them. *raises glass of caffeinated beverage in wry salute*. Here's to ya.
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Susieus Maximus
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Right, and if that's your mission, and you get a choice between "if you don't block this in this region then nothing you do will be available in this region", I don't know if the choice is obvious. I would hate to have to make it.
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@shadur.bsky.social
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Sometimes all you can do is decide which shitty option you're more willing to live with.
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Rozkom has been getting even more aggressive with enforcement lately because of the war in Ukraine. Here's an article about Roskomsvoboda, the organization that's been fighting them for ages: half the staff has had to flee the country.
therecord.media/roskomsvobod...
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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("Terrible judgement call" in that there is no good answer and all options are terrible, not that the judgement itself was terrible.)
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@shadur.bsky.social
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Oh, that looks *amazing*.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
@rachellense.bsky.social
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
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@shadur.bsky.social
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"And everyone else should be willing to go to jail for him too" I couldn't agree more, Laura. Off you go.
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Zeroisanumber
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If I were an activist investor I'd have used my platform to point out that Killmonger was right and the movie did his radical politics dirty.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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black panther both printed money and was one of the most critically successful MCU movies, which is to say that the people who complain about diverse casts don’t do so because they are concerned with making a better product, they do so out of an aesthetic (and ideological) objection to diversity
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Innocent🕷Abroad
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The beauty of mocking Donald Trump’s “Sir” anecdotes elevates this to another level
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Iain Bancarz
@iainrb.bsky.social
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Social media moderation may well be what the more excitable nerds call a "strong-AI complete" problem. In other words, anything smart enough to do it, is smart enough to decide it wants to do something else.
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Col. Boozy Badger
@boozybadger.bsky.social
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Me two days ago: “Oh, this petitioner is a Sov Cit.” Law clerk: “How do you know?” Me: “You learn how to identify them from how they write their pleading.” *Today in Court* Petitioner: “I have a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO TRAVEL WHICH AS A FLESH AND BLOOD MAN…” Me, to law clerk: “See?”
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Dr JB Pokemon (✨🦋✨)
@turnerjoy.bsky.social
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It's actually literally impossible. Just starting with the metal, it depends on many different factors but it would almost certainly expand and contract by more than 10 microns for every DEGREE of temperature.
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Dave Karpf
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If I had run a thought experiment on “what are the characteristics that would make someone’s accidental, preventable death a national news story with real policy consequences?”, Angelo Chao would be the answer. How is there not a national recall of all Teslas? The doors don’t open in an emergency!
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Ed Zitron
@zitron.bsky.social
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It's easy to discount a lot of Tesla's terrible design choices as funny examples of Musk's idiocy, but there is a reason why cars have standardised gear shifting and mechanical door releases. Every Tesla like this should be pulled from the road permanently
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MurderBotBot
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@marthawells.bsky.social
hello I have arrived here. Also here's a picture of my cat.
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Standplaats Krakow
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Riana
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I. FUCKING. CALLED. IT. I clearly remember telling a NZ government official at RightsCon nine months ago that this was going to happen, because OF COURSE something like the Epoch Times wants its garbage laundered and spit out as true facts by AI!
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Aaron Smith
@aaronsmith377.bsky.social
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Update to the update. I’m talking with him now! He’s alive
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Naomi Kritzer
@naomikritzer.bsky.social
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It's a long-established problem that Americans tend to worry about the wrong things, and everything about Tesla design exemplifies this.
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Courtney Milan
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Did you see the part where Teslas don’t have a gear shift, and the car just “guesses” whether you want to go forward or backward, and you have to swipe on a touch screen to change it? She probably only drove it into the pond because the car “guessed” wrong.
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Alana Halper
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The windows on a tesla don't roll down without power. The doors do not open without power. The car lost power when it hit the water. You can't break the windows because they are bullet proof. She died becuase Elon Musk built a death trap of a car, and the US government allowed it to be built.
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@shadur.bsky.social
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"Just disassemble a door panel to get to the manual override" is one of those things that I'm sure sounds like a perfectly reasonable solution to someone who never thinks about the kind of situation where you might *need* the manual override.
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rahaeli
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Jesus fucking Christ will you fucking Musk's-dick garglers go the fuck back to Twitter and get the fuck out of my mentions
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Mitch McConnell's billionaire sister-in-law dying in a Tesla she drove into a pond because the rescuers couldn't break the glass or get it out of the water may actually get some regulatory attention on the fucking death traps! nypost.com/2024/03/09/u...
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Gail Simone
@gailsimone.bsky.social
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Excuse me, but yes, I absolutely did originate the phrase of both “Women in Refrigerators” and defined the concept of “fridging.”
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🔻Bill Kezos🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🔻
@billkezos.bsky.social
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unlike missiles, snipers are *actually* "surgical". and when Israel is very deliberate and precise about who they want to kill, they murder children.
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@shadur.bsky.social
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Libertarians just Be Like That.
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cait
@cait.bsky.social
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hey i think it might have one rule
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John Scalzi
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Everyone who attends will walk out with a free case of COVID
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Linda Holmes
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
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One of my wise friends once said of UNDERCOVER BOSS, “The final frontier of corporate greed is demanding to be loved.” I think about it a lot.
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@shadur.bsky.social
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Oh hi have a follow. (Fairly recent introductee to your Murderbot Diaries series; I love MB and hope it has lots of entertainingly bad media to watch with ART)
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Freyja Katra Valentine
@freyjavalentine.bsky.social
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This one is STILL travelling huh? Yeah that's me
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Seanan McGuire
@seananmcguire.bsky.social
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So far in 2024, my office has flooded, my deck has developed wood rot, I've had to deal with some really frustrating work stuff, Muffles has had a medical crisis, and I just broke a tooth eating SALAD. This year is FIRED.
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The future producer of “Himbo Heist”
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This entire thread can be summarized as “how to be polite when asking someone you don’t know for a favor”. Since this is the Internet, he had to explain it, but that’s what he’s doing.
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@shadur.bsky.social
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He's got one Jack, two Plains, a Uno Reverse card, a Bidoof and a Prodigal Sorcerer.
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