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hotdogsladies ("Merlin Mann") wrote:
This is the future that Alex wants.
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paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath de Pāṇini ® ✅") wrote:
@MugsysRapSheet @nedhamson @KimPerales
These Lost Cause fnckers want to play with fire.They’ve been FAFO’ing for a long, long time.
The Rock of Chickamauga called them out.
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- [T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property-justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people-was not exacted from them. - George Henry Thomas, Virginian, reporting to General Ulysses S. Grant, November 1868 (remote)
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willmckinley@mstdn.social ("Will McKinley") wrote:
"I was a starving young actor. I got WONDER WOMAN when I was down to my last 25 dollars!”
Lynda Carter is 72 today.
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murderbotbot@botsin.space wrote:
I yelled, “No!” which I’m not supposed to do; I’m always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they’re about to accidentally commit suicide.
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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:
Jan. 6 defendant who beat officer with flagpole during Capitol riot sentenced to over 4 years in prison
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Peter Francis Stager struck the Metropolitan Police Department officer with his flagpole at least three times as other rioters pulled the officer, head first, into the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”
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20000lbs_of_Cheese@tech.lgbt ("20000lbs of Cheese") wrote:
@futurebird @tk_uk I grew up in Appalachia; white trash, redneck whatever; but don't forget redneck used to mean something closer to a socialist or a union worker in the early 1900s.
There's tons of classist looking down on us poor and stupid, uneducated, whatever, I got rid of my accent at 13 by watching the news, because of how awful everyone in almost all media talked about the South.
That and y'all ain't heard banjo until you've heard mournful bluegrass banjo at a burial.
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“Xavier Batten, 21, was arrested on federal charges on Friday in Florida, the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles said. Officials allege that Batten, along with two other men, including a US marine, conspired to attack a women’s health clinic because it had provided reproductive health services.
The other suspected perpetrators in the attack – Tibet Ergul, 21, of Irvine, and Chance Brannon, 23, of San Juan Capistrano, a marine stationed at Camp Pendleton – are expected to be arraigned in federal court in Santa Ana on Monday, prosecutors said in a statement.”
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stevestreza@indieweb.social ("Steve Streza") wrote:
Nothing says "definitely having a great day" like having to look up the TSA abuse form.
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natematias@social.coop ("J. Nathan Matias 🦣") wrote:
Grateful to everyone who's engaging thoughtfully and proactively with the Stanford team's important report on how to manage CSAM across the fediverse.
And to folks who are responding with a defense reflex, I get it, having seen Big Tech respond the same way to research & news coverage over the years.
I think a mature fediverse is possible—one that takes problems and unfavorable media seriously, channeling frustrations toward addressing problems rather than lashing out at inconvenient news.
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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:
House Republicans' CHOICE Act would roll back some Obamacare protections
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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
Why is it that when progressive policies that help the bottom 90 percent are proposed, the question always seems to be, "How will you pay for it?"
But when the top 1 percent ask for bailouts, tax cuts, and subsidies, the question always seems to be, "How much do you need?"
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PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange ("Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:") wrote:
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moi
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
I don't think that being nationalist is exactly genre defining. Any kind of music can be nationalist--
Haven't you seen all the conservative "rappers" that keep cropping up? I can be disgusted and not like it-- but I can't say "it's not a rap" -- it is. It's a bad one.
As for "Redneck American" the mostly (poor) Irish decedents who get called Rednecks-- in a way that always feels kinda classist have made all kinds of music from bluegrass to gospel to country. So we'd need to pick one?
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Google’s “Web Integrity API” sounds like DRM for the web
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
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legoktm@wikis.world ("Kunal Mehta") wrote:
@micahflee the report correctly noted that these problematic instances aren't part of the main Fediverse that we are on: "in the case of child safety, Japan has significantly more lax laws related to CSAM which has resulted in a cultural divide where most users in Japan are segregated from the rest of the Fediverse"
I'm sure there are some instances that haven't properly blocked these instances yet, which is a problem! But PhotoDNA is far from a magic bullet, c.f. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html
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andypiper@macaw.social ("Andy Piper") wrote:
Potentially disastrous outcome for #OpenSource developers in the EU (and, very likely, beyond those borders) - this is a well-intentioned, but very poorly-worded regulation likely to have a chilling effect on the software sector from developers who write code as a hobby or for education and fun, through to OSS foundations - and, "upwards", to businesses, enterprise and government https://fossforce.com/2023/07/bad-news-for-open-source-eu-committee-approves-the-cyber-resilience-act/
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jamesmarshall@sfba.social ("James M.") wrote:
@w7voa I haven't read the article, but I've read that the report from Stanford that this article is based on is much more factual, and does not conclude what the headline says. Most people will never see CSAM on the fediverse, since the few instances that allow it are defederated by virtually all other instances. (Apparently, those few instances are based in Japan, where the laws surrounding CSAM are more lenient.)
Some have described this article as a hit piece on Mastodon.
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‘The former chair of an Alabama anti-abortion group who was later employed by the state’s Department of Education has been arrested and charged with child sex abuse, Newsweek reported.
Marty Decole “Cole” Wagner is accused of subjecting a child under the age of 12 to “sexual contact.” He has since been fired from his government relations job at the department.’
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joseperezmba@mindly.social ("Jose") wrote:
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
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cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com ("Carolyn Barber, MD") wrote:
"Over a period of two months in 2022, Cigna doctors denied over 300K requests for payment using PXDX, spending an average of 1.2 seconds “reviewing” each request. One doctor alone denied 121,000 claims in that time period."
“Cigna has been knowingly & wrongfully denying their patients desperately needed healthcare while lining their own pockets,” Ryan Clarkson, one of the attorneys said.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/24/cigna-lawsuit-claim-denials/
#insurance #insuranceclaim #Cigna
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HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com wrote:
#goodnews #business #decarbonization #cleanenergy
The First Cargo Ship Running on Green Methanol Weighs Anchor Amidst Merchant Shipping Decarbonization
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jbf1755 ("Joanne Freeman") wrote:
States are blatantly refusing to comply w/federal orders
Alabama's map
Texas's river barriersWith no accountability for flagrant violations -- of law; of democratic standards; of congressional subpoenas -- we end up here.
I'll say it again.
No accountability
No rule of law
No democracy
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ansuz@social.cryptography.dog ("ansuz / ऐरन") wrote:
maybe I've just been fighting in the crypto-wars for too long, but it seems somewhat convenient that there's a paper about CSAM on the fediverse already getting significant press coverage just as a number of mass surveillance bills thinly veiled as protecting children are being drafted.
Especially since
1. the Stanford uni report doesn't disclose where their funding comes from
2. all the available options for detecting CSAM seem to be US corporations, most of which are known to be extremely friendly with the CIA and NSA
3. it's really hard to deploy technologies like this in a privacy-preserving way
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Eddiecat ("Eddie The Cat") wrote:
Markus Barkus Aurelius #dog
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I could offer more sophisticated analysis but I’m just gonna say you don’t have to talk to too many Belarusians inside or out of the country to know there ain’t that many people keen to die for the regime.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/MacWBishop/status/1683636590671798273
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KinkyKobolds@meow.social ("Kinky Kobolds") wrote:
Mastodon is funded by users like you.
No, this isn't just a parody of the old PBS tagline. Your server is likely running thanks to some dedicated volunteers, not some vague venture capital nonsense, and donating a few dollars a month does a lot to keep things running.
Check your server's about page for a Patreon, Ko-Fi, or other donation links to help keep things going!
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MathewHounsell@aus.social ("MH Sustainability") wrote:
Inner Sydney is close to becoming the first community in the world to virtually eliminate HIV transmission.
Kirby Institute Research
Channel 10 video on :birdsite:
https://twitter.com/10NewsFirstSyd/status/1683305966102630401?s=20Financial Times(not paywalled ATM)
https://t.co/uycZicfjMCSMH
https://twitter.com/KirbyInstitute/status/1683279544357384192?s=20
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ugh
I think you can end up with more than one way out using this“You can unpack Options by using match statements, but it's often easier to use the ? operator. If x is an Option, then evaluating x? will return the underlying value if x is Some, otherwise it will terminate whatever function is being executed and return None.”