Zoe @ekg@librem.one

Tell you what, being vocal about Health & Safety has been a very useful filter.

It's the same way being vocal about Codes of Conduct was 10 years ago.

Turns out, if somebody has an allergic reaction to proactive measures to keep a community healthy and safe, then they're probably not safe to have around in the first place.

#HealthAndSafety #Community #OpenSource #FOSS

Ledare: 700 personer om året stressar bokstavligen ihjäl sig – så kan det inte fortsätta -> https://www.dn.se/ledare/700-personer-om-aret-stressar-bokstavligen-ihjal-sig-sa-kan-det-inte-fortsatta/

If the idea of violent protests don't make you at least little scared I wonder how well you know history. At the same time, real change almost never happens without people putting their bodies on the line.

The right understands this far better than your average liberal/moderate. To be a moderate is to trust that existing systems will (mostly) work.

If those system fail? What then? To even consider this is moderate treason.

(Cartoons by Mattie Lubchansky https://thenib.com/author/mattie-lubchansky/ )

Wow - #LK99 not only successfully synthesized, but also showing larger levitation angle at room temperature than original paper, providing further support for the claims of room-temperature #superconductivity.

This is starting to get veeeery exciting!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01516

Yo LK99 is holding up so far
Hype

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

Twitter’s death knell

No lies detected.

It’s probably a good idea to repost this incredibly prophetic cartoon from 2014 at regular intervals because every day I see people who still haven’t fully imbibed its message. Apologies if it’s old hat to you.

The Terrible Sea Lion.

https://wondermark.com/c/1k62/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondermark#Sea_lioning

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

The "here whenever Twitter breaks" phenomenon is weird.

It's like a school friend who only wants to play with you when their bestie isn't about.

And they expect you to be excited.

And their bestie is a neo-Nazi.

Hi everyone, And here (it/it's). I have started a petition to get the death of a Jean, a transgender woman, investigated, as well as allegations of systemic mistreatment and discrimination against other transgender patients in Massachusetts's DMH hospitals.

This petition represents 1000's of hours of lived trauma by me and other transgender patients in MA and 1000's of hours of hard work by family, friends, and allies behind the scenes. Signing and sharing is doing A LOT!

The link to the petition is: https://change.org/justiceforjean

Please consider Boosting this toot!

Also please consider *temporarily pinning this toot to your profile for the next two weeks* It can help immensely with visibility.

We are over 200 signatures everyone! Let's shoot for 500 in the next two weeks.

♥️🙏🏿🧡🙏🏻💛🙏🏽💚🙏🏿💙🙏🏽💜

#justiceforjean
#transactivism
#transjustice
#transrightsarehumanrights

CalcKey, MissKey, PixelFed, Lemmy, and Kbin too.👍🏿

"We can't increase the number of Black people in tech! It's too difficult!"

"We can't fight the power structures preventing college athletes from getting paid! It's too difficult!"

"We can't reduce the number of people killed by cops! It's too difficult!"

But we're doing all of these things. And we started by ignoring the dudes who said the above things.

The 1st step is "accepting the challenge." People working together can accomplish a lot.

Some Tesla drivers are buying simple weights marketed to trick the car's detection systems into letting them drive hands-free for minutes. It has already led to serious accidents.

“Elon Musk’s saying it’s supposed to drive itself.”

“How do you think they’re going to behave?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/tesla-fsd-autopilot-wheel-weights/

#tesla #elonmusk #elon

I do not care about the "network effect" at all tbh. I'm willing to just, interact less with people stuck on shitty websites

If you have to be on threads for whatever reason and you see an account for me, no you absolutely did not. Mute, Block, and report that shit immediately.

Somebody should tell Jeff Bezos that all the *cool* billionaires have microblogging platforms.

Undra när tex våra företag och myndigheter släpper taget om twitter. Undra när våra myndigheter tar tag i att faktiskt tänka igenom sociala media, ägandet av information och värdet av att synas och finnas. Våra skattemedel har gått till Facebook (meta), via instagram också, och säkert twitter också. Vad finansierar vi för att myndigheter ska nå oss med information?

For example, I've almost stopped posting research on the financial sector here because most people who would like to read ten different studies from reputable sources on the "Too Big To Fail" problem in the banking sector just aren't on the Fediverse (yet). On Twitter, there was much greater interest in topics like this.

Similarly, I found it fascinating to watch virologists, epidemiologists, immunologists, and intensive care doctors discuss the covid crisis in real time on Twitter in 2020. 2/