Giorgia Meloni vuole regalare i dati sensibili di milioni di italiani al suo Elon Musk
Il problema non solo solamente gli 1,5 miliardi dei contribuenti italiani Giorgia Meloni ha deciso di regalare a Musk...Gayburg
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Most of the accounts that I read at Bluesky are trans people's accounts and I read them from outside the system without an account.
I don't feel particularly motivated to delve into that platform any deeper than that, given its safety issues and general corporate fuckery. I'd rather not.
I just saw someone say, "I'm putting a lot of interesting stuff on my Bluesky account but not here. Read my stuff over there, too! I might bridge it if the mood strikes me." (not a direct quote)
Eh, no.
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Dell is making a bad decision.
Killing XPS is like Lenovo killing off ThinkPad: if you want a quality Dell, that’s what you get.
Without XPS, I don’t know if I would ever consider a Dell.
theverge.com/2025/1/6/24325799…
Dell kills the XPS brand
Dell’s changing up its product names for laptops, desktops, and monitors for CES 2025 — opting for branding like Premium, Pro, and Max over XPS, Latitude, and Precision.Antonio G. Di Benedetto (The Verge)
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Me: [tap-taps Command key to invoke Apple Intelligence prompt]
Me: Which countries have banned Minecraft?
Apple Intelligence: Five countries have reportedly banned Minecraft: Mexico, Russia, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.
Me: Why did Mexico ban Minecraft?
Apple Intelligence: Do you want me to use ChatGPT to answer that?
Me: [clicks Use ChatGPT button]
ChatGPT: As of January 6, 2025, there is no credible information indicating that Mexico has banned Minecraft. If you have heard otherwise, it might be due to misinformation or rumors.
just... fuck.
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Donald Trump’s attempted coup of 2020 was so successful that four years later a majority of the American electorate either voted for it or were indifferent to it.
‘Justice delayed’ wasn’t merely ‘justice denied’. It was the triumph of injustice.
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Some folk infer from the fact that Earth had single-celled organisms for three billion years before multicellular life finally arrived, that the leap from single- to multi-cell is the “Hard Step” that explains why we do not see a universe teeming with intelligent life.
Those people were about half correct. The hard step is having all the supervisor drones installed on a farm planet to keep the biosphere generating fossil fuels (and not, say, evolving any life that would consume those fuels) break down.
We worked this out after we dug up a broken supervisor. But not, alas, before we repaired it.
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That sentence is not great as it stands (hence my tripping up on the "break down" which I DM'd you about) and this toot is, imvho, otherwise your best tootfic, period. The challenge of keeping the twist working as well as it does, retaining the callback, meeting the character limit, and making parsing it easier on the reader... is unenviable.
@jaystephens @anne_twain v2 incorporating your lovely feedback aus.social/@Unixbigot/11378564…
Version 2 of this #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot with thanks to the RetroProofing gang!Some folk inferred---from the fact that Earth had hosted single-celled organisms for over three billion years before multicellular life finally arrived on the scene---that the leap from single- to multi-cell is the “Hard Step” that explains why we do not see a universe teeming with intelligent life.
Those people were about half correct.
On a farm planet, the Hard Step is avoiding the notice of the strikebreaker drones; machines tasked with ensuring that the planetwide bacterial soup produces petrochemicals and feedstocks and
not, say, us (or anything else multicellular).Any phenotypes that show signs of unionising - forming cellular collectives that benefit themselves rather than the Bosses - get stomped down HARD by the Strikebreakers. Complex life only got going hereabouts when an unlikely catastrophe broke the breakers.
We worked all this out only after we dug up a broken drone. But not, alas, before we repaired it.
Can I suggest having that also in past tense - " The hard step was ..." Jumping between tenses makes it harder to follow the narrative.
You might also consider capitalizing Hard Step, to link it to the previous paragraph.
Version 2 of this #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot with thanks to the RetroProofing gang!
Some folk inferred---from the fact that Earth had hosted single-celled organisms for over three billion years before multicellular life finally arrived on the scene---that the leap from single- to multi-cell is the “Hard Step” that explains why we do not see a universe teeming with intelligent life.
Those people were about half correct.
On a farm planet, the Hard Step is avoiding the notice of the strikebreaker drones; machines tasked with ensuring that the planetwide bacterial soup produces petrochemicals and feedstocks and
not, say, us (or anything else multicellular).
Any phenotypes that show signs of unionising - forming cellular collectives that benefit themselves rather than the Bosses - get stomped down HARD by the Strikebreakers. Complex life only got going hereabouts when an unlikely catastrophe broke the breakers.
We worked all this out only after we dug up a broken drone. But not, alas, before we repaired it.
I HATE "customer service" chats on websites.
You know you're talking to an AI when you start. And there's a good chance you're still talking to an LLM when they "connect you to a live representative".
Even if it IS a human, they are clearly not paying attention.
And all this because of bad UI design in the first place. All I needed was a stupid "I didn't receive this shipment" check-box.
But NO-Ooo-OOO, that would make too much sense. Instead we have to do an overcomplicated hour-long chat.
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uh unfortunately apparently people need to hear this but if a trans person hasn't referred to a body part of theirs in a specific way you referring to that body part in that way especially body parts related to secondary sex characteristics is a big no
mirror their language
don't be a creep
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Ban on Firing Employee Because of Reproductive Health Decision May Violate Religious Employer's Expressive Association Rights
So employers may be able to fire you because you had an abortion
Once again, Christians attacking an anti-discrimination law
Awful
#Law #FediLaw #Religion #abortion #discrimination
Ban on Firing Employee Because of Reproductive Health Decision May Violate Religious Employer's Expressive Association Rights
In CompassCare v. Hochul , (2nd Cir., Jan. 2, 2025), anti-abortion pregnancy centers and a Baptist Church challenge a New York statute whic...buff.ly
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I suspect a lot of US trans folks who started transitioning in the last decade don't realize how big the Affordable Care Act has been in our access to care.
Almost no insurance companies were covering HRT or other care before the ACA - it was out of pocket or treated as a pre-existing condition, potentially blocking us from all medical care. I don't know that we would have the lively and open trans community today if it wasn't for that. It's also the reason people can access it for cheaper in other settings and why Medicare/Medicaid covers it.
I know it seems stupid, but we might need to do what we can to muster a defense of the ACA (which I hated when it passed because I was advocating for single payer, universal healthcare). It might be one of the most important levers and wedges against efforts to destroy our ability to embody ourselves in the next 4 years.
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Feeling 'hoodwinked' erodes trust in employee relations, observational study reveals
phys.org/news/2025-01-hoodwink…
"Otherwise, it basically winds up eroding trust and they feel like you don't have their best interests at heart."
TBH, I've never expected an employer to have my best interests at heart.
I'd be astonished if they did. A corporation doesn't have a heart.
Remember, "employ" means "use".
An employer uses employees.
Feeling 'hoodwinked' erodes trust in employee relations, observational study reveals
Even when an agreement meets the legal criteria for consent, individuals may not feel as though they have truly given consent, which can have serious consequences for the employees' relationship with their organization, according to new Cornell resea…Julie Greco (Phys.org)
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But... At my work that's exactly like everyone else's work we're a _family_.
(Which has _never_ been the positive management thinks it is.)
I have definitely had employers who had my best interests at heart - but these were small businesses where we worked side by side every day, not corporations. Also, I choose my employers with great care, though that isn't always an option.
Either way, It's not like it's impossible to use (!) someone's skills & pay them for it without exploitation or disrespect - those things are a choice, which in my view makes it even worse.
The customary #Malagasy_Language new year’s greeting is “Arahabaina tratry ny taona” or “Arahaba tratry ny taona”, often shortened to “Tratry ny taona”,
meaning “Congratulations for living to see the new year”.
And the customary answer is “Dia samy ho tratry ny ho avy”,
meaning “And may we all live to see what is to come”.
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In the Flintstones closing credits, Fred puts the cat out and puts the milk bottles out.
When I was a kid, I thought he was putting full bottles of milk out for the cat to drink.
(Never thought about how the cat would open the bottles but, if pressed, I'd probably think it's consistent with a universe where so many of their tools are live animals)
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Also, in the olden days, did people put the cat out at night because they thought the cat being outside at night was good? Or because they thought the cat being inside at night was bad?
(I know it's not best practice, but was was the contemporary reasoning?)
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Hey governments of liberal democracies it's okay
You can make individually targeted advertising in all its forms illegal
You know, any time you feel like acting in the public interest or whatever
You can just go ahead and do it
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You: "But research fairy, this would kill Google and Facebook and a lot of major tech companies!"
Me:
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"The web used to be a wonderful way to share information.
Web apps and mandatory JavaScript have turned it into the worst app store.
It is time to separate the WWWonderful from the WWWorst practices."
lxo@gnusocial.jp
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The innocent 2000s—do we want to go back?
Jack Yan asks: just where are we in the grand scheme? Have we just lived through a period that won't be remembered, because the Big Tech players acted against humanity's best interests?Lucire
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@paninid The Two Money rule strikes again:
hackers.town/@lori/11372244491…
Once again begging people to give up on "if you're not paying for the product you are the product" because I've seen so many people who now think if you are paying for a product your data is totally safe now forever because if I'm paying the company money they don't need to sell my dataWhen instead they could also sell your data and get Two Money
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"Motornormativity" is a great term, because it suggests riding a bicycle, walking, and taking the bus as queering transportation.
No wonder normies hate those things.
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Bad Driving Has Become Normalized
Over 40,000 Americans die each year in traffic collisions and hundreds of thousands are severely injured, but we often brush it off as being the cost of doin...YouTube
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In the age of GagaMAGA you might think it were possible. But it's just a spinoff of "Judge Judy".
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On November 1, 2021, Sheindlin launched the ***spinoff streaming series Judy Justice*** on IMDb TV (now Amazon Freevee), another arbitration-based reality court show in which she handles legal disputes. After winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program in 2022 for the first season of Judy Justice, she became the only television arbitrator to have won the award for more than one court show: three for Judge Judy and one for Judy Justice.
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how many abandoned data centers you think we end up with twenty years from now?
will they outnumber abandoned office parks?
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propublica.org/article/plastic…
#plastic #polution #globalsuffication #microplastic #whereinsidemeistheplastic #whichcancersdoplasticscause
How the Plastics Industry Invaded the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference
At a conference meant to address the plastic crisis, pro-plastic messaging was inescapable. Meanwhile, industry insiders — some positioned as government delegates — were given access to vital negotiations.ProPublica
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Once again begging people to give up on "if you're not paying for the product you are the product" because I've seen so many people who now think if you are paying for a product your data is totally safe now forever because if I'm paying the company money they don't need to sell my data
When instead they could also sell your data and get Two Money
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I brought this up to several people at Google Next, as Google swore up and down they were going to protect Enterprise data.
This was only weeks after the settlement where Google admitted that it had scraped Incognito data from Chrome.
Its safe to assume that if you don't have your own keys, they are scraping and selling the data.
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The “natural” can feel like an attractive moral guide.
However it leads to condemnation of ways of flourishing considered “unnatural”.
And it leads to acceptance of suffering, torture & killing if they’re “natural”.
Instead, let’s consistently consider the sentient other?
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Why are all my Codeberg repositories marked as updated 3 weeks ago? Did Codeberg perform some kind of hard reset?
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One of the most important ideas in David Graeber's magisterial book "Bullshit Jobs" is that the ground state of labor is to do a job that you are proud of and that matters to you,
-- but late-stage capitalist alienation has gotten so grotesque that some people will actually sneer at the idea that, say,
teachers should be well compensated:
"Why should you get a living wage – isn't the satisfaction of helping children payment enough?"
( Comment from @pluralistic )
memex.craphound.com/2018/06/20…
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Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public.
Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.
(Published June 2023)
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#Health #Insurance #Healthcare #Government #Regulation
How Often Do Health Insurers Deny Patients’ Claims? No One Knows.
Insurers’ denial rates — a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care — remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.ProPublica
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I just found a domain name squatter site which contains a large collection of #AI-authored articles on neurodivergence topics. The site has a convincing-looking logo and a well-crafted layout (likely a site template). The articles sound plausible until you read them, after which you realize they said nothing but fluffy generalizations, and all the links in them led only to other pages in the site. Further examination will show that all the images are AI-generated, and the paper “citations” shown at the bottom of each article are bogus, and aren’t even used in the article.
The site looks so good that it is showing up in search results, which is how I stumbled upon it. So far I don’t see any evidence that the site is serving up ads or malware, so I have to believe that the purpose of this exercise is to squat on the domain and wait for someone to offer a price.
AI #spam is just beginning.
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in reply to 2xfo • • •@RnDanger I briefly had my .social account bridged with Bluesky and found out that a bunch of bots and garbage accounts had followed my bridged account on Bluesky and I had no idea. The permission request for new followers does not transfer over to a bridged account over there. That's a security concern for me.
Anyway, I deleted my bridged account over there. No thanks.
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