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It's election time! The @gnome Foundation is seeking candidates for our board of directors election this summer.

I'm interested in candidates who bring experience from other nonprofits, volunteer / community management, fundraising or advocacy.

I'd love suggestions for candidates we should approach, and am happy to speak to any prospective candidates about what's involved.

You can find election details at discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-fo and about how the board works at blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/05/2

5) During this work, we discovered the scanning for known CSAM was broken on Twitter. We notified them and it got fixed.

6) Due to this work, Instagram discovered that their system for accounts being reported for child exploitation was broken and that tickets were being closed without resolution. That has been fixed.

7) Instagram has started taking down thousands of accounts related to this work.

8) We will be encouraging a cross-platform collaboration on SG-CSAM via the Tech Coalition.

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I need to thank my incredible colleagues and co-authors, @det and @Noupside, and our Stanford colleagues (and bosses) Professors Jeff Hancock and Nate Persily for their support in doing this kind of difficult research.

We have built a bunch of systems to reduce the risks of doing child safety work in academia, including CSAM detection across our entire intake pipeline. We are happy to share these with other academic groups. I'm at stamos@stanford.edu.

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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

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

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! ^^

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

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:

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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