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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Historian Whitney Strub (Rutgers University):

“Framing pornography as a public health crisis is not driven by serious engagement with the social scientific literature. They’ve even got fake peer-reviewed journals that give the imprimatur of scholarship … It’s been a very smart rebranding of evangelical Christian conservatism.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/republican-anti-sex-legislation-state-level

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“💡 Notice that you didn’t get a certificate error. This is because Kitten automatically creates a development-time TLS certificate for your local machine signed by a local certificate authority that it adds to your system’s trust store (and to Firefox, if you have it installed) using Auto Encrypt Localhost.”

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sweeeeeeeet

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘The union’s complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), filed on Feb. 15, also stated that the workers received an email with an updated policy that prohibits recording workplace meetings without all participants’ permission. “This policy violates federal labor law and also flouts New York’s one-party consent law to record conversations,” the union noted.’

https://qz.com/tesla-buffalo-new-york-workers-fired-union-campaign-1850126442

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Qatar and Morocco have been busy govs… busy at corrupting other govs, apparently.

https://www.politico.eu/article/qatar-used-secret-deal-bind-itself-eu-parliament-corruption-eva-kaili-pier-antonio-panzeri/

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a visual representation of the failure of Russia’s attempt to pressure EU govs through energy supply manipulation

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/02/17/business/17db-gas/17db-gas-articleLarge.png

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

is it time for a PRC crackdown on banks? (see my prev posts re PRC AI innovation slowdown for why I think this is important)

“Star Banker’s Disappearance Unnerves China’s Business Elite
Banker Bao Fan is said to be assisting an investigation
Chinese investment banker’s firm says he can’t be contacted”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/china-renaissance-unable-to-contact-its-dealmaker-chairman-bao

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

A Good Move:

‘From ‘Birth of a Nation’ to ‘Till’: Confronting Racism in the White House Screening Room

“History matters,” President Biden said before showing a movie about Emmett Till, whose murder galvanized the civil rights movement.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/us/politics/biden-emmett-till.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

very strongly agree: “If Mr. Trump is charged, it will be difficult and at times even perilous for American democracy — but it is necessary to deter him and others from future attempted coups.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/opinion/trump-georgia-grand-jury-report.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a really interesting piece on the modern Country Music scene shifting

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/magazine/shane-mcanally-country-music.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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‘Mr. Xu (a Stanford researcher)… says that China could end up as a cautionary lesson in how central control stifles growth and tech innovation, just as happened in the old Soviet Union.

“Historical examples tell us that national mobilization cannot catch up with freewheeling development that comes naturally on its own”’

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

interesting & useful perspective:

“the government has been the biggest barrier to A.I. — its obsession with censorship perhaps its heaviest club. The availability of a wide range of data is crucial to developing technology like ChatGPT, and that is increasingly harder to come by in a censored online environment.”

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‘“The development of any significant technological product is inseparable from the system and environment in which it operates,” said Xu Chenggang, a senior research scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions. He cited TikTok’s Chinese-language sister app Douyin as the sort of innovation that Chinese companies might be unable to achieve in the future because of government limitations on the industry.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/business/china-chatgpt-microsoft-openai.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

[END TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Death of Boromir