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Bobby Brown

The amount of yelling I did at this video, first thing in the morning. The title is no joke. You're not ready for this youtu.be/tnFPQ57l0Dg?si=j0PFmd

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Bobby Brown

I keep seeing assertions that the fediverse is much "more bigoted" in total than corporate platforms, and that's quite believable -- it has no central censorship schemes of any kind and its fringes will attract the misery ejected from those platforms. I just wish the figures constantly extolling what a miserable place this is would actually *describe* how it persists and evades current moderation tools and styles so we could do something about it … something better than unaccountable blocklists.

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Bobby Brown

The last several weeks of my life are probably best described that Mr. Evrart was helping me find my gun.

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It's hardly surprising that Kurzgesagt's trending take on "online division" is so hopeless and uselessly vague in its chronic sociopolitical impoverishment. Forget alienation and individualism, it's just the fault of evil algorithms and wide-open public spaces, and what we need to do is re-reticulate our online existence again to trick ourselves back into a "stupid" tribal-brain. How pathetic. But what else can you expect from a Gates Foundation drivelspout?

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Nora Reed

MORE LIKE HENRY PISSINGER. BECAUSE HIS GRAVE IS GOING TO BE SOAKED IN PISS

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Bobby Brown

home sweet home: drifting off to the sound of cheap four bangers dragging it out with ebay cans and automatic transmissions

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I am finally home... maybe things can get a little more normal now.

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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

Many hospitals claimed that they were monitoring COVID levels and would reinstate mask mandates when COVID levels are high. Well, now we have official CDC data that shows that COVID levels are high in most of the country. Over to you, hospitals... #BringBackMasks

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pamela :flan_butterfly:

"new covid" - what you need to know for the illness that never went away, shh 

Today I offhandedly referred to covid infections as risking widespread vascular damage and the person I was chatting with stopped and said they'd never heard it described that way before. Which blew my mind a bit because understanding covid as primarily a vascular illness, not a respiratory one, is fundamental to understanding its risks.

But they're absolutely right. That's something you would have learned from following along with research and updates, not from the official messaging and guidance we have received, certainly not from the initial information flood. Even if you saw it, why would you eyeball it and think "that's particularly important"?

People overestimate vaccine effectiveness against infection. They underestimate the damage done by asymptomatic infection. They underuse masks and filtration. They don't understand the effects covid has on the immune system, or the precautions they should be taking against unrelated infections or activity which might impede recovery. They work off a mental model of a far less contagious virus with a very different original set of symptoms.

Covid, ultimately, has a branding problem. What we remember about it nowadays is a jumbled mess, different from person to person.

So I really appreciated this informational list about "new covid." It's tongue in cheek, but if you stop, read it through and imagine you're at risk of a new illness? This is what it looks like today. Just forget what you think you know and prepare for this illness instead. Hopefully we won't just need to look at "new new covid" threads in another few years...

threadreaderapp.com/thread/172

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Bobby Brown

I still don't have access to a proper computer for a few days, so there is a chance of downtime at Hellsite today if the managed k8s upgrade throws a curveball. The linter looks okay, though, and nobody's yanked an image on me since CrunchyData demonstrated their strong commitment to community open source. /s (don't ever use their garbage)

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nixCraft 🐧

This type of thinking is precisely why we can't have nice things. It's a terrible idea that only contributes to polluting the internet. It's nothing to be proud of but rather something to be ashamed of. I really hope Google removes all of his sites from the search.

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Dare Obasanjo

The day is almost here. Google will start deleting inactive Gmail and Google Photos accounts that haven’t been accessed within 2 years this week (December 1st).

This is a final reminder that if you have a Gmail or Google Photos account that you haven’t used in a while, log in to ensure it doesn’t get deleted.

forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2

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Sage Sharp

Stop using #Mailchimp.

Mailchimp (a proprietary mailing list and customer CMS platform) has updated its terms of service.

Mailchimp is planning to feed your email content and customer contacts into its AI models.

Mailchimp's email generating AI might spit out content that infringements on another person's copyright. And the new Mailchimp terms of service say you are legally liable for that copyright infringement, not them.

See section 30. Generative AI Features: mailchimp.com/legal/terms/prev

Archive.org historical link: web.archive.org/web/2023101811

This is a good time to switch to open source mailing list software:

Mailman: gnu.org/software/mailman/
- hosted services from mailmanlists.net/

Mautic: mautic.org/
- hosted services from friendly.ch/en/automate

SendPortal: sendportal.io/

Caveat: I haven't tried the software and hosted services mentioned, except mailman. YMMV.

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Bobby Brown

Mastodon for iOS really needs an option to limit post display length, because some folks are posting short novels in here

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I've been needing a new primary keyboard for some time, but I have to admit the hobbyist rabbit-hole is absolutely repellent to me, so I'm glad to see the Logitech G Pro X is waiting for me whenever I can put up the cash. I love my G903 and this board will even share the same Lightspeed receiver.

My previous favorite (and high speed record) was the Matias Tactile Pro 3, but it's incredibly loud and I haven't used a Mac personally in many years now. It also uses an unusual narrow layout.

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If you value your eyesight, you'll completely lose interest in handheld devices too.

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God, I wish my endurance misery was over already and I could just get back to work. 😢 Even when I'm physiologically okay, stress nightmares have possessed me all night.

Things should get more "normal" next week, I hope.

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AI6YR Ben

This technology has been around for awhile, but pretty interesting that you scientists have figured out how to reconstruct a room based on the reflections in the image of someone's eyes (assuming high enough resolution). Serious sci-fi movie stuff. (so, take a photo of someone and you can -- if it has enough resolution -- zoom into their eye and see everything they can see, even things behind the camera). Imagine a video/photo of a hostage, or the spokesperson for a terrorist group... or even just a scene from a movie. (neural radiance field (NeRF) technology) #computing #nerf petapixel.com/2023/06/29/scien

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Glyph

@jalefkowit there has never been a day when I have been more pessimistic about the betrayed promise of technology than the day when my kid showed me 100 black rectangles in their iPad photo library, the result of trying to screenshot their favorite part of Bluey on Disney+. I had to explain what HDCP was, and as I did, I could see their future reflected in their eyes, a battleground littered with broken T-1000 terminators, all adorned with the logos of various studio-specific streaming services

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Sarah Perez 💙

Mastodon tackles the problem of ‘reply guys’ with its latest feature: techcrunch.com/2023/11/22/mast

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