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Family planning / unsought opinion 

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@jwildeboer The funniest and most depressing part about that is that a lot of the debates over using content warnings would be solved by people actually using it as a subject field, which would in turn naturally end up covering the content warning functionality as an incidental side-effect much of the time!
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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

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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 thenib.com/author/mattie-lubch )

Apparently we now know why the antarctic isn't freezing... (credit to Hank Green who unfortunately doesn't seem to be active here)

youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg

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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!

arxiv.org/abs/2308.01516

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“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.

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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.

wondermark.com/c/1k62/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderma

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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:

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Petition to Investigate the Death of a Transgender Woman 

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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.

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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?”

washingtonpost.com/technology/

#tesla #elonmusk #elon

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

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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.

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

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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?

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