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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Ever noticed how loud voices for feminism & BLM and other public issues suddenly go silent on Gaza? That’s because taking a stand on Gaza risks careers, networks, & relationships.

It’s not activism if it's safe, and these people are all cowards.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Wait a minute. This reads as if NYT is reporting on Cambridge Analytica, not just something reminiscent of what CA did later.

The kid that Cambridge Analytica purchased that study from went to university of Cambridge. He used a quiz. He applied the OCEAN model to create psychological profiles.

This was published a full year and a half before the presidential election.

Attachments:

• Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University tested their algorithm on more than 17,000 Facebook users, who completed a personality survey and provided the researchers with access to their “likes.” Many of their friends, colleagues and family members also completed a survey describing the users.
• The survey rated each subject on the five OCEAN personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Then the researchers compared those results to the subjects’ Facebook activity to establish links between “likes” and specific personality traits.

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ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:

@fromjason
Facebook Knows You Better Than Anyone Else - Here's a paywall-free link: https://archive.ph/SuXFp

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Facebook Knows You Better Than Anyone Else - The New York Times (2015) https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/science/facebook-knows-you-better-than-anyone-else.html:

> Given enough data, the algorithm was better able to predict a person’s personality traits than any of the human participants. It needed access to just 10 likes to beat a work colleague, 70 to beat a roommate, 150 to beat a parent or sibling, and 300 to beat a spouse.

This story was published a full three years before the NYT broke the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal. Amazing.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Admiral Bill Owens, United States Navy (Retired)
Admiral Scott Swift, United States Navy (Retired)
General Charles F. Wald, United States Air Force (Retired)
https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/112264167431708783

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Former Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James
General John Jumper, United States Air Force (Retired)
General Charles Krulak, United States Marine Corps (Retired)
Admiral Samuel Jones Locklear, III, United States Navy (Retired)
Former Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus
General Craig McKinley, United States Air Force (Retired)
General Craig McKinley, United States Air Force (Retired)
Admiral John B. Nathman, United States Navy (Retired)
Former Secretary of the Navy Sean O’Keefe

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Admiral Steve Abbot, United States Navy (Retired)
Admiral Thad Allen, United States Coast Guard\ (Retired)
Former Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera
General George Casey, United States Army (Retired)
General Peter Chiarelli, United States Army (Retired)
General Carlton W. Fulford, Jr., United States Marine Corps (Retired)
General Michael Hayden, United States Air Force (Retired)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Admiral Steve Abbot, United States Navy (Retired)
Admiral Thad Allen, United States Coast Guard\ (Retired)
Former Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera
General George Casey, United States Army (Retired)
General Peter Chiarelli, United States Army (Retired)
General Carlton W. Fulford, Jr., United States Marine Corps (Retired)
General Michael Hayden, United States Air Force (Retired)

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BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

One of the funnier things I’ve seen today.

Attachments:

• Screen shot of a social media post by a man named Andrew Saltz who say “I’m a Leftist public school teacher and if were to indoctrinate your children they would wear deodorant and stay off their phone during class.” (remote)

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Dianora@ottawa.place ("Dianora (Diane Bruce)") wrote:

@TCatInReality @steverocky @DrALJONES One big problem with the catch phrase of the right wing "Marketplace of ideas..." is with money you can control that marketplace and smaller players are forced out of the market. (Those that own the media control the propaganda) It's always been thus. It's one of the things totalitarian government do first and has happened with our Oligarchy (Chomsky/Lippmann) I like Stanley's thoughts on it as well.

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

“I can’t imagine any other defendant posting on social media about a judge’s family and not being very quickly incarcerated.”

~ Gold, a law professor at the University of Alabama

#Trump #crime #criminal #threats #privilege

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/12/trump-trial-special-treatment-justice-system-00151814

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Savvyhomestead ("Truth Or Consequences ✅") wrote:

Why not? Putin has bought off the GOP, NRA and the religious right so the US will no longer stand in his way.

“Russia is undertaking its most ambitious defense expansion since the Soviet era and on a faster timeline than we believed possible early on in this conflict,”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/12/china-supporting-russia-in-massive-military-expansion-us-says

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stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Hm. I wonder if I can get any fediverse admins onboard to disable all images on their instance on the World Sight Day in October, so that only alt text shows up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sight_Day

#accessibility #a11y #ImageDescription #AltText #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

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matthewfacciani@threads.net ("Matthew Facciani") wrote:

“The market for lies still has no shortage of buyers and sellers, and few, if any, levers exist that can directly change this dynamic.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/when-fighting-disinformation-doesnt-work/677879/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Prompt engineer? uhhh yeah I'd hope they are, or the train's going to be late

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Wileymiller ("Wiley Miller") wrote:

@GottaLaff

Where we are, where we have been all along and where we always will be...another blast from the distant #NonSequitur past...

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2002/06/03

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Bette@mstdn.social wrote:

Happy #Caturday, may it be filled with light and energy.

Attachments:

• A black and white comic with two people, a man and a woman, standing in the corner of a room. The room has two curtainless windows through which the sun shines. Three cats lay in the sunbeams on the floor, while one lies on a window sill, and another is standing on a chair arm, about to jump up on the other sill. All of the cats are wearing vests made of small solar panels. The caption says: "How else would I keep my solar panels in the sun all day?" (remote)

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Lightfighter@infosec.exchange wrote:

How Indigenous Women Are Revolutionizing The Cannabis Industry
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindseybartlett/2024/04/11/how-indigenous-women-are-revolutionizing-the-cannabis-industry/?sh=5aadbbb6c3a0

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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

Reposting to add alt-text, and +1 this *as an actual information security practitioner*

(source: https://mastodon.online/@Peg33/112105315507948245 )

Attachments:

• Meme that says "Right now, I'm less concerned about who owns Tiktok than I am about who owns the Supreme Court." (remote)

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Lightfighter@infosec.exchange wrote:

Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-indigenous-lineage-of-blackfoot-confederacy-goes-back-18000-years-to-last-ice-age-dna-reveals

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"Based on statistical modeling, the team believes that the Blackfoot people split from other groups in the Late Pleistocene, around 18,000 years ago, as multiple population waves from a single source fanned out into the vast geographic land of the Americas."

https://infosec.exchange/@Lightfighter/112264205611741158

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robintw@mastodon.me.uk ("Robin Wilson") wrote:

Useful post on subdividing geometries in PostGIS to get faster intersections - this is on my 'todo' list for one of my projects.

https://findenergy.com/optimizing-polygon-intersections-with-subdivide/?ref=feedle.world

#postgis #geospatial #gis #sql #postgres

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

😂 dad knows the truth 💥

Attachments:

• This is a new popular meme format where a young man visits his date's father. The dad says: my daughter tells me you are an AI engineer. The young man replied: yes, prompt engineer. Dad tells him, you have exactly 10 seconds to get the fuck out of my house. https://x.com/sonam_murarkar/status/1778786248288805001?s=46

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I do not think ppl who have not served really understand how dire the situation has to be for General Officers to sign something like this. https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/112264167431708783

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"III. Petitioner’s claimed immunity, by implicating the peaceful transition of power in particular, threatens national security"

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"II. Petitioner’s claimed immunity would undermine the military’s adherence to the rule of law and thus its orderly functioning and public trust"

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"I. Petitioner’s claimed immunity would
undermine our nation’s foundational
commitment to civilian control of the
military"

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"BRIEF OF RETIRED FOUR-STAR ADMIRALS
AND GENERALS, AND FORMER SECRETARIES
OF THE U.S. ARMY, NAVY, AND AIR FORCE
AS AMICI CURIAE
IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT"

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-939/307029/20240408130715170_No.%2023-939bsacRetiredFour-StarAdmiralsAndGenerals.pdf

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Inside you there are two Wolves.

Attachments:

• Wolf Blitzer
• Dick Wolf

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W6KME@mastodon.radio wrote:

@jsonstein “The database includes an assortment of cases, many unrelated or tangentially related, going back decades, with only a handful pertaining to non-citizens voting or impersonation at the polls. They add up to a molecular fraction of the total votes cast nationwide. Inadvertently, the Heritage Foundation’s database undermines its claim of widespread voter fraud.”