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Matt Panhans  

@Em0nM4stodon I wish that when people discuss pros and cons of Signal, they mentioned that there is absolutely no backup option on iOS. Lots of iOS users get burned when they lose their phone or accidentally uninstall the app and find messages with loved ones are completely gone. If reviewers would mention this, fewer people would get burned by the issue.

You could add to this post itself that Signal is not a good option for iOS users who care about preserving their messaging history.

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Thomas Zimmer  

ICYMI: I wrote about Chris Licht - and a pervasive worldview among self-proclaimed “moderate” elites that always naturalizes existing power relations and only accepts the status quo as reasonable.

The Status-Quo Fundamentalism of the “Moderate” Arbiters of Reason:

thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/th

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Ankur Pandya  

5th grade gym report card... tough but fair

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Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live  

Good morning~ ✨

I hear Apple released a bunch of new machines... but no new chips for Macs, so getting the GPU driver to work on everything should hopefully be easy! ^^

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Dare Obasanjo  

Twitter is the fourth most hated brand in the US after Fox News, FTX and the Trump Organization. A truly impressive degree of brand destruction in less than a year.

cnbc.com/2023/06/01/most-hated

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Andrew Logan  

In my first story for Texas Monthly, I wrote about @paul and @mark, founders of @tapbots, whose livelihoods were threatened when Twitter unceremoniously revoked their app Tweetbot. Now, they’re betting their futures on their latest creation @ivory, a third-party client for @Mastodon.

texasmonthly.com/news-politics

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Kristin Scearce  

Libraries are the best!

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Michael Clemens  

“An email to Twitter returned an automated reply with a poop emoji.”

reuters.com/article/twitter-ma

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Matt Panhans  

@andrew Brilliant, I think you are right, I am going to dig deeper into this. Thanks!

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@kyle Wow fascinating. I’ve thought for a while that we will find more and more conditions turn out to have an autoimmune response behind them.

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@andrew great stuff I’ve actually been searching for a post like this recently and that’s awesome.

If you ever want to go to next level- there are some use cases where people want to route or geocode without sending the data to another service (eg you have confidential data and cannot share it). I’d love to see someone show how to do these things locally. I saw there is an R package called dodgr that should be able to do this with osm data but haven’t seen it being implemented.

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Ars Technica  

FTC: Amazon/Ring workers illegally spied on users of home security cameras

Amazon agrees to Ring and Alexa settlements but didn't admit violating any laws.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

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james  

We're hiring someone to lead mozilla.social :mozlove:

Making this space safe and welcoming for all people is of utmost importance to us, and it starts with a product leader who is dedicated to driving positive change.

We're looking for people who are passionate about transforming online participation and enabling an engaging social experience that prioritizes health, safety and inclusivity. Please share with your networks and anyone who comes to mind!

#hiring #jobs
mozilla.org/en-US/careers/posi

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Steve Herman  

FTC announces it has reached a $25 million settlement with #Amazon (market cap: $1.24 trillion) for its Alexa app keeping childrens’ voices and geolocation data for years and using it for its own purposes. ftc.gov/news-events/news/press

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John Schmitt  

In a new @epi report, Josh Bivens makes the case that Industrial policy and policies to rebalance labor market power are strong complements, not substitutes.

Full report:
epi.org/publication/industrial

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Alex Russell  

This is "looking through the wrong end of the telescope" shit, but the last place I saw web development as incompetent as Bluesky was several SNAP-enrollment websites built by the lowest bidder:

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jenifer daniels ♎ :verified:  

from reddit /TIL: #TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries

harrisnecklandtrust.org/amelia

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Matt Panhans  

@gamingonlinux Does anyone know if this works through the Steam flatpak? Vampire Surivors does not work with Steam flatpak but would be cool if this did.

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Wonder of Science  

The astonishing mimicry and hidden beauty of the Indian Leaf Butterfly (Kallima paralekta). Their wings allow them to mimic a dead leaf when closed, helping them hide from predators.

Video credit: _melissa_yung_/ig

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Robert McNees  

Conservationist, marine biologist, and science writer Rachel Carson was born OTD in 1907.

Carson challenged the widespread use of pesticides in her book “Silent Spring,” and testified before Congress on environmental policy and human health.

Image: Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE/Getty

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