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am liza sabater, the og blogdiva & resident afroboricua #antifa #dyslexic #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD tití.

surviving breast #cancer is my F/T job; but #dogs, #cats, #sports, #sewing, #cooking and #Monsterdon give me the energy to continue chronicling American fascism.

so #fuckCancer & #COVID19, join a #union & fight for #UBI & #Medicare4All

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Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their code wasn't working, or assist with a bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train models, like , without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's .

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of , it's also a salient lesson for folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

blogdiva ,
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@KathyReid Sincere question: shouldn't Creative Commons turn this into a class action lawsuit? it's so huge and out of proportion what they're doing, groups of individuals can't really tackle this alone.

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NBC News - Two top US Border Patrol officials are under investigation after they partied with a Mexican tequila maker who hoped to make a Border Patrol-branded tequila. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/investigation-border-patrol-officials-partied-mexican-tequila-mogul-rcna150598

blogdiva ,
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@w7voa

what's his name from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia rolling his temples with the word FRUSTRATED above him

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Not the Onion (though if it was on that site we'd all have a good laugh at the fine satire).

Sadly, but predictably, it's in the New York Times.

"Stormy Daniels as We Had Never Seen Her

During her time on the stand in former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial, the adult entertainer dressed for history — and a jury."

h/t @jeffjarvis

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@dangillmor @jeffjarvis disgusting.

the thing about fascism is that their adherents need to corrupt everything in sight to justify not just their worldview but their politics. and because they need a hierarchy of corruption, their servants become part of a kakistocracy.

NY Times may have seemed to have never been part of that kakistocracy but it's clear it has always been. it's just that as with anything to do with dark tetrads at a social scale, the mask is now off.

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«If my Republican colleagues were serious about antisemitism, they would have spoken up after Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville chanted that, quote, “Jews will not replace us.”
[...]
We hear nothing from our Republican colleagues when some conservatives repeat antisemitic tropes about George Soros or others.

I say to my Republican friends, for too long, your selective silence on these matters has been deafening.»

my USRep (NY-12) Jerry Nadler on the “Antisemitism” bill
https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=395152

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How to copy permissions from one file to another on Linux https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-copy-permissions-from-one-file-to-another-on-linux/

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@nixCraft well, dang. i do learn something new with y'all every time you post one of these. thank you!

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so, my latest impression from the UK is that Keir Starmer is really not the kind of guy who should be representing working class people; what with that "Sir" in front of his name and such. in other words: he's an upper class twit fucking it up for the Labour Party. or am i off the mark on this one?

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You can ban TikTok,
take us out the algorithm
But it's too late,
we've seen the truth,
we bear witness
Seen the rubble, the buildings,
the mothers and the children
And all the men that you murdered,
and then we see how you spin it
Who gets the right to defend
and who gets the right of resistance
Has always been about dollars
and the color of your pigment, but
White supremacy is finally on blast
Screamin' "Free "
'til they're home at last

https://genius.com/Macklemore-hinds-hall-lyrics

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Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices

Scales, trackers, and other fitness devices that don't get updated will stop syncing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-fit-apis-get-shut-down-in-2025-might-break-fitness-devices/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

blogdiva ,
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@arstechnica unfuckingbelievable. yet another reason to never trust Google.

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IN OTHER NEWS... am done with 🥳 🎉 🎈 now it's physical and immunotherapy until next Spring, so let's say it with the chest...

🗣️ FUCK CANCER!!!

georgetakei , to Random stuff
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Who knew about this??

blogdiva ,
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@georgetakei i noticed eons ago and always forget it's there.

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That is some straight up devilry right there.

A reproduction of a newspaper clipping. It reads: MRS. VIOLA DESMOND Takes Action Mrs. Viola Desmond, 32-year-old Negro Halifax beautician, arrested and fined $20 and costs by Magistrate Rod G. MacKay, of this town. for sitting downstairs in the Roseland Theatre while holding an upstairs ticket. Mrs. Desmond was fined for defrauding the Federal Government of one cent, the difference in the Amusement tax on an upstairs ticket of two cents and a downstairs ticket of three cents. Counsel for Mrs. Desmond, F. W. Bisset of Halifax, has served a writ against Henry MacNeil. manager of the theatre, charging false arrest. false imprisonment, assault and malicious persecution. E. M. Macdonald, K.C., of New Glasgow, is acting, for Mr. MacNeil. Mrs. Desmond, the former Viola Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Davis, of Halifax, is well known throughout the Province. She is a graduate of the Halifax High School, and is also a graduate in Beauty Culture from a leading Beauty College in New York. She is a niece of John Davis, Civil Service employee (Post Office Division). Halifax.
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    @pluralistic her name was Viola Davis. now that name is double legendary.

    nixCraft , to Random stuff
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    Don't lie to me: How many browser tabs do you have open right now? 🤔

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    @nixCraft do pinned ones count though?

    blogdiva ,
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    @nixCraft in one laptop about seven and on another 5. and any given day i have another 5-10 open?

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    Federal jury in Connecticut, convicts a Nigerian national for operating a business email compromise scheme out of multiple countries, including the US. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/extradited-nigerian-national-convicted-business-email-compromise-scheme

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    @w7voa ok, since the other one was a prince, is this one a prince? i really need for one of these Nigerian guys to be an actual prince, LOL

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    Questions for software engineers about estimates. Feel free to answer any of these in any order.

    Have you ever had an explicit conversation about how to estimate projects? How did you learn?

    If you feel that you were never taught the skill in any real sense, what do you feel you're doing at work when you're asked for estimates? Are you making it up? Have you developed your own personal guidelines?

    On average, how confident are you in your own estimates? How do you measure success?

    blogdiva ,
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    @polotek OMG am so glad you are asking this question. estimating is my worst nightmare.

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    i follow the @DorotheaLange account that posts her work now collected at the Library Of Congress ; so i decided to do a little search to see what history of the United State is hiding in plain site.

    i have found some real gems.

    "30 hours work for 40 hours pay!"
    https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017646501/

    image of a poster, possibly lithograph showing a multiracial group of people, with left-hand fists raised, led by a Black woman looking forward and a white man in hard hat with his back to us direct the crowd. some of the marchers hold banners. one of them is the first sentence of the title. it's all done in black and red, with some grays, on a white background. INFO from LOC: Title: 30 hours work for 40 hours pay! Smash racist unemployment! Bust the wage freeze! U.S. out of S.E. Asia now! : May Day Date Created/Published: [1972?] Medium: 1 print : color ; (poster format) Reproduction Number: --- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Published without copyright notice. For information see "Yanker poster collection" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/250_yank.html). Call Number: POS 6 - US, no. 1216 (C size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes: Title from item. "1972" penned on verso. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.
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    there is a whole collection titled: "Anarchist and socialist demonstrations in New York" from 1908-1917.

    « Photographs show activities of anarchists, socialists, organized labor, and the unemployed, primarily in New York City... Women activists are depicted in many of the photographs.»
    https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002696070/

    sure enough: here is Emma Goldman, with her signature hat and eyeglasses, peering at the camera from a streetcar
    https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96507741/

    Title: [Emma Goldman on a street car] Date Created/Published: [1917] Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. Reproduction Number: LC-B2-4215-16 (b&w glass neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 10876-5 <item> [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Photograph by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 35
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    any Hebrew scholars? this one is rather timely and from a mini-collection, within the same batch, titled: "Protest against child labor in a parade"

    two children look at the camera from within a crowd. they're both holding American flags and wearing sashes; one in Hebrew, the other in English. the one in English says: ABOLISH CHILD SLAVERY
    https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97519062/

    Title: [Protest against child labor in a labor parade] Date Created/Published: [1909 May 1] Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Photograph shows half-length portrait of two girls wearing banners with slogan "ABOLISH CH[ILD] SLAVERY!!" in English and Yiddish, one carrying American flag; spectators stand nearby. Probably taken during May 1, 1909 labor parade in New York City. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-06591 (digital file from original photo, later scan) LC-DIG-ppmsc-00150 (digital file from original photo, earlier scan) LC-USZ62-22198 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 10876-2 [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 347. Original negative may be available: LC-B2-696-9
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    a real march in on of 1909
    https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014683315/

    i think this is somewhere in the West Village area, close to the Meat Packing District. am going by that rounded corner, the cobblestones and trolley tracks. you could still see those tracks, back in the 1990s, if you walked just a block west from HB Studios.

    Title: Labor Day parade, marchers, New York Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher Date Created/Published: 5/1/09 (date created or published later by Bain) Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-03321 (digital file from original neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information(https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html) Call Number: LC-B2- 696-2 [P&P] LOT 10876-2 (Corresponding print) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes: Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
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    i love the title for this one: SOCIALISTS, UNION SQUARE
    https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014690383/

    it's just a sea of heads peeking out of bowler, fedoras and straw hats

    Title: Socialists, Union Sq. Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher Date Created/Published: [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-10400 (digital file from original neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information(https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html) Call Number: LC-B2- 2398-16 [P&P] LOT 10876-3 (Corresponding print:) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes: Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163095809
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    a smart shout out to Peter Kropotkin's "The Conquest Of ": "Loaf of bread float carried in Socialist Parade, New York".

    Title: Loaf of bread float carried in Socialist Parade, New York Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher Date Created/Published: 5/1/08 (date created or published later by Bain) Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-00340 (digital file from original neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information(https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html) Call Number: LC-B2- 66-8 [P&P] LOT 10876-1 (Corresponding print) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes: Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
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    the man whose book, IT COULD HAPPEN HERE, should become part of the canon of American taught in public schools everywhere, UPTON SINCLAIR.

    "Author Upton Sinclair, in white suit with black arm band, picketing Rockefeller Building"
    https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97519133/

    btw: no, the book is NOT part of the public school canon; unlike Ayn Rand's fascist bullshit

    Title: [Author Upton Sinclair, in white suit with black arm band, picketing Rockefeller Building] Date Created/Published: [1914 May] Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. Reproduction Number: LC-B2-3061-2 (b&w glass neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 10876-4 <item> [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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    MrLovenstein , to Random stuff
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    Remember

    blogdiva ,
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    @MrLovenstein ((( hugs )))

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    blogdiva ,
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    @GossiTheDog i've had a theory for a long time that Gates encouraged, maybe even financed, the symbiotic relationship between their OS & consumer market anti-virus software writers so the company could upsell their corporate security products.

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    I suppose if Congress does bring back the House Un-American Activities Committee, as Richie Torres (D-NY) is proposing, they are in essence being truthful:

    Nothing as American as genocide. Which, I strongly oppose..

    blogdiva ,
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    @hannu_ikonen WTF?!? what a disappointment.

    benroyce , to Random stuff
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    I need the help of .

    Why the f*** would try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel ?

    It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on / pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that thinks supports recent behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).

    Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: war.

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/german-chancellor-accuses-putin-of-misusing-philosopher-immanuel-kants-teachings/articleshow/109561696.cms

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    TL;DR
    Kant was born in what Ukraine and EU call Crimea but Russia now calls Kaliningrad; since Putin invaded in 2014 and illegally annexed that part of Ukraine.

    Putin has a real obsession with not being European enough. so his point of (mis)quoting Kant is about trying to prove that Kant wasn't really German, nor European; but Russian. that area + Poland were part of the historical German Prussia.

    Scholz sees it as Putin's threat to eventually claim Germany & Poland as Russian too.

    @benroyce

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    @Gargron @benroyce ugh, this is why am not an EU politics expert, LOL. thanks for the correction.

    FWIW i never took seriously when people described him like +20 years ago as being obsessed with wanting to re-write EU history as a RU history but, WOW, were they right about that.

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    On a multi-person video call this morning, we were asked what podcasts we listen to.

    I didn't get a chance to chime in but here's my answer:

    None regularly. I don't have the time, even at fast playback, to listen to something linear that I could scan much more quickly if it was text.

    Podcasters, please post transcripts.

    blogdiva ,
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    "I don't have the time, even at fast playback, to listen to something linear that I could scan much more quickly if it was text."

    🗣️ 📣 THANK YOU!!!

    @dangillmor

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    Washington Square News, NYU's student newspaper, has a liveblog of the student's encampment now outside of Paulson Center (was on Gould Square)

    "LIVE: Protesters set up Gaza Solidarity Encampment outside Paulson Center - Washington Square News"

    https://nyunews.com/news/2024/04/26/second-pro-palestinian-encampment/

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    have you had any lunch yet? have you had a glass of water yet?

    have you had a good stretch yet? have you had a good little walk around the block yet?

    have you had a good laugh yet? have you had a good cry yet? have you had a good hug yet?

    if you need any of these, go do them. especially the cry. if you need to, get yourself a good cry. then acknowledge it. thank it, and go do some good ol' life-affirming living.

    you deserve everything you need. you got this.

    #checkin #selfcare

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    @GottaLaff d'awwwww. just remember you are allowed to be tired and to stop whatever you are doing so you can re-charge and get on your way. you will be fine because what's important is important and what is not, is not. you got this.

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    as i have said before, if you are in you mostly likely were in work environment that looked down on other workers & rejected as unnecessary because, well you don't need them because you make the most money as a worker.

    but guess what: you're still a worker. you're still from the working class.

    we need y'all high-earners organizing and demanding your benefits.

    THIS IS POLITICAL PRAXIS. students in campuses are in tents, you're at the unemployment office 🧵

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    «No, Mr Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that..your extremist govt has killed 34,000 Palestinians & wounded more than 77,000 – 70% of whom are women and children»

    🗣️ WHY ARE THERE NO SENIOR SAYING THIS? WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE THE INDEPENDENT SENATOR OF VERMONT, ?!?!?

    🧐 it's almost as if licking the boots of billionaires & the 1% for donations ties your tongue... or something like that 😒

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-netanyahu-antisemitism

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    🔥 🔥 🔥

    «This is the result of taking out of the hands of real builders and handing it to managers at a time when “management” is synonymous with “staying as far away from actual work as possible.” And when you’re a do-nothing looking to profit as much as possible, you only care about growth. You’re not a user, you’re a parasite, and it’s these parasites that have dominated and are draining the industry of its value.»

    The Man Who Killed Search
    https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

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    MEANWHILE, at , via Ryan Reilly:

    Supreme Court Trump immunity arguments underway.

    "There can be no presidency as we know it" without presidential immunity, Trump lawyer John Sauer argues. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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    THAT'S THE FAFO WITH A BORICUA VOICE @GottaLaff you have not met true power until you've made a Puerto Rican woman tap into all of our ancestors for that voice that comes from within our existential core. RESPECT is a very big thing for us Puerto Ricans but especially women because... you know the reasons.

    it's a very Puerto Rican thing to use the tone of our voice, not words, to command respect. in this case, with Sotomayor, she's demanding respect for the rule of law.

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    there are D.C. scum calling "pro-HAMAS protests". the minute anybody in the admin parrots that shit, all bets are off with .

    so all liberals on here screaming no matter who, y'all better get your asses in gear and tell every single person in the White House to drop that shit immediately.

    am not some magical Cassandra. i have +30 years experience with the treachery of Democrats against antiwar activists.

    don't wanna lose in November? PAY ATTENTION.

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    this is the garbage just published at The Hill (honestly, it's the only reason i keep an eye on these fuckers).

    i cannot stress enough how the craven warmongering neoliberals in the Democratic party will latch on to fascist propaganda like this and start parroting it everywhere.

    BE READY TO PUSH BACK ON THIS NARRATIVE.

    if you are Jewish, or an alumni of any of the universities, it is imperative that we call Alumni Relations and the offices of the provosts to voice our support.

    from the headline of this op/ed published at The Hill Columbia must send the pro-Hamas protestors a clear message by David May and Sabrina Soffer, opinion contributors

    Last paragraph of an OpEd If Shafik wants to keep her job, she must protect her Jewish students and restore civility at Columbia; to do that, she must send the pro-Hamas revolutionaries a clear message: Columbia’s stance against antisemitic harassment comes with swift and serious consequences — not just words, but actions. That is the only solution to Columbia’s intifada revolution.  David May is a research manager and senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where Sabrina Soffer is a research intern. Follow David on X @DavidSamuelMay.
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    am calling NYU tomorrow

    help me make a list of all universities:

    Columbia
    Barnard
    MIT
    U of Texas
    Yale
    Harvard

    where else? [Updates below]

    U of Michigan
    U of So. California
    U of New Mexico
    UC Berkeley
    New School
    Emerson Coll.
    Tufts
    Vanderbilt
    Cali State Poly - Humbolt
    U of Minnesota
    UNC - Charlotte
    Brown
    U of Pittsburgh
    U of Rochester
    U of So. Florida
    Pomona Coll.
    Pitzer Coll.
    U Penn
    Drexel

    CANADA
    Uni of British Columbia

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    "Have any pointers to a script?"

    1. state your name clearly, year of graduation & department

    2. tell them you stand in solidarity with the students.

    3. say why: in my case? what i have said all along: the right to self-defense is not a right to commit . focus on one or two points. keep it simple.

    4. write it down to make it easier on you. don't make it longer than a toot. they will be inundated with calls.

    5. email and letters are also good. use any media.

    @trochee

    luckytran , to Random stuff
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    It isn't a coincidence that more protestors are wearing high quality KN95 or N95 masks these days. For years COVID safe advocates and mask blocs, who are connected to diverse organizing groups, have worked hard to educate allies and provide communities with free respirator masks.

    blogdiva ,
    @blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

    ALSO @luckytran good time to remind everybody that cops became one of the primary vectors of in 2020 and it's the reason why so many cops died in the past 4 years.

    "COVID was the leading cause of law enforcement deaths in 2022 for 3rd year in a row: Report - ABC News"
    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-leading-cause-law-enforcement-deaths-2022-3rd/story?id=96363324

    being unmasked around cops is an actual risk.

    blogdiva , to Random stuff
    @blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

    NAOMI KLEIN.
    that is all.

    dangillmor , to Random stuff
    @dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

    "My Dinner with Andreessen" will help you understand how toxic the Silicon Valley billionaire crowd has become. https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=ed57844fa5e051809ead5aa7e3e1d555.2690&s=cdaeb39801506c81595dd2c142301827

    blogdiva ,
    @blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

    NOT HAS BECOME @dangillmor has always been. they are and have always been sociopathic nepobabies with a grudge. Andressen was poor? the fucker came from LANDED farmers. they had property, they had a house and land. they weren't living like multi-millionaires? well, boo-fucking-hoo.

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    A Florida man was sentenced today in federal court to four years imprisonment for laundering to co-conspirators in Nigeria proceeds of romance scams against Americans. -DoJ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/florida-man-sentenced-laundering-proceeds-nigerian-romance-scams-and-business-email

    blogdiva ,
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    @w7voa but was he a prince 🧐

    blogdiva , to Random stuff
    @blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

    🗣️ WATCH OUT FOR PLANTS IN THESE STUDENTS ENCAMPMENTS

    is doing exactly what the admin did during Occupy Wall Street: denounce antisemitic, violent protestors where there were none.

    when these protestors would finally be photographed by media, nobody in the encampments could identify who they were or where they came from.

    blogdiva , to Random stuff
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    🗣 THIS IS WHY QUOTE POSTS ARE SO IMPORTANT!!!

    ❝ Conroy is disputing that "reposts" are exempt from the gag order. He points to New York defamation law, which says that someone who repeats defamatory material “is subject to liability as though he had originally published it.”❞
    https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112320944856315462

    when you boost a post, you amplify the message of the post. a quoted post allows you to give context.

    was one of the first on Xitter to use QT for the purpose of context. QT = blockquote.

    blogdiva OP ,
    @blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

    «When something is reposted, how does it get there (onto the client's account)? Merchan asks.

    It requires some sort of action, Merchan clarifies. It's not passive.

    Caselaw talks about passive conduct vs. what we're describing here.»
    https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112321031991023607

    Mastodon counts boosts as a complete, original post. meaning, it considers a boost as if you had written that post.

    THIS IS HUGELY PROBLEMATIC FROM A LEGAL LIABILITY CASE. sorry, i live in nyc and can't help but think about lawsuits 🧵

    blogdiva OP ,
    @blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

    is there a way for to account for boosts separate from your own writing?

    was created to mimic without really taking into consideration how many of its features came to be by the company coopting new ortographic formats developed by the community. let’s call them folkstographies; to keep in the spirit of folksonomies.

    coopting, not adopting: as in, when we first created RTs, they were re-writings of the originals, so of course they counted as posts, but 🧵

    blogdiva OP ,
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    once Twitter allowed to RT by literally boosting someone else’s post, it should NOT have accounted those boosts as your posts.

    official RT is done via EMBEDDED HTML fragments. the Oembed specs are very clear that the fragments are pulled from the source with Javascript & recombined with HTML/CSS

    when you implement Oembed, you can make those fragment look like they are on your server but, that's for a feeble redundancy since things would break if what you scrapped changed at the source. 🧵

    blogdiva OP ,
    @blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

    🗣 BOOST ARE BY TECHNICAL DEFINITION NOT ORIGINAL CONTENT.

    i would like Mastodon to break with Twitter’s original technical sin of counting their embedded implementation of the folkstography of retweets as original posts.

    Mastodon should separate boosts into their own category of post.

    i haven’t written +75K posts since i joined July 2023. i just boost a lot.

    i bet my original posts and comments are less than 1K.

    so, for example, count posts as 1K & boosts as 74K. 🧵

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