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single sided deaf individual, cochlear implant activation on Aug 21, 2023, software engineer

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Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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Lots of domains are being hijacked due to Google selling their domain business to SquareSpace - who didn’t transfer MFA details, so now a truck load of domain admins have no MFA on their accounts but details in infostealers. #threatintel

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Any defense of Generative AI that fails to account for how it's contributing to climate change is not even worth engaging with. "But is AI REALLY plagiarism?" Don't care. Stop flooding the atmosphere with CO2.

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This story is tailored to Bluesky's interests:

“Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Over Project 2025theintercept.com The hacker collective SiegedSec says it infiltrated the conservative think tank to oppose its campaign against trans rights.

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SEARCH ENGINE DE-OPTIMIZATION. I WANT TO BE AS UNGOOGABLE AS POSSIBLE. FUCK YOU.

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Milwaukee police are looking into the death of a Black man in an incident drawing comparisons to the killing of George Floyd, after footage emerged that appears to show hotel guards pinning the man to the ground as he called for help.

Black man dies, crying for help, after hotel guards pin him down, video showswapo.st The videos of the incident drew comparisons to George Floyd. Dvontaye Mitchell’s mother said she believed her son was suffering from poor mental health.

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when it comes to health/damage numbers, I will always prefer smaller ones it's hard to comprehend after a certain size the difference between two 6 digit string of numbers but if you usually deal/take 5 and suddenly are hit with a 18? shit just got real

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"U.S. police departments have gotten smaller—and the violent crime rate is still plummeting. So what is going on?" What's ALWAYS gone on. Cops do not stop crime. They never have. Real "tough on crime" measures are well-funded schools, free daycare, and mental health services. Always have been.

Hey, look, it's The Minneapolis Reckoning at Slate! slate.com/news-and-pol...

Police Departments Have Shrunk. Crime Is Plummeting. Now What?slate.com New, surprising data has lessons for all sides of the “defund” debate.

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"Teens are too depressed to be horny" really sums up a lot about contemporary life. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/19/m...

Boston’s teenagers report less risky behavior — sex, drugs, and fighting — but they’re sadder than ever - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com Today’s high school students are having less sex and doing fewer drugs than they were a generation ago.

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get 'em!

US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions

US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptionstcrn.ch In the complaint filed on Monday, the DOJ wrote that "Adobe has harmed consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing important plan terms." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal…

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I'm done sugarcoating violence. Let's call bullying what it is: abuse.

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Women becoming more present in software engineering is not them edging into 'man's work' or anything daft like that. They were the first programmers, they were the ones who made some of the most significant advancements, and they're the one who made it an engineering discipline.

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

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In a recent study researchers claim GPT-4 passed the Turing Test (it is able to fool a human into thinking they are talking to a person). I think they've less proven a conversation with a computer is indistinguishable from a human than they've proven in 2024 people are dumber than they were in 1950.

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Remember when we banned TikTok because our autocratic adversaries might use propaganda to try and undermine faith in institutions and erode trust in the very idea of objective truth - using covert, subversive tactics on social media?

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccineswww.reuters.com The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

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Google explaining the “glue pizza” search result by stating EXPLICITLY that the wrong answer was given BECAUSE nobody had ever asked that question in the training data tells you that what we have isn’t artificial intelligence. It’s a server that copies, changes slightly, and pastes. Not intelligence

Hi. I'm SSD and I design web pages that are color blind friendly. I *wish* I had the skill set for deaf and VI.

hire disabled designers, developers, and qa analysts and your apps and pages will not only be more accessible they will be more usable overall with many benefits to the user experience for people who might not be locked out ordinarily but still discouraged

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Nothing unsettles me more about the “AI can and should take over all writing tasks from humans” mindset than that it assumes it’s totally worthless and unnecessary for humans to *write about our own lived experiences*.

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Elon Musk spent $44 billion on Twitter more or less so he could prevent me from pointing out things like the fact that Tesla is regularly being sued five times a day now. You might think I'm joking. I am not joking. Five. Times. A. Day. www.plainsite.org/profiles/tes...

Tesla, Inc. Litigation, Intellectual Property, Attorneys, SEC Filings, and Other Public Recordswww.plainsite.org Tesla, Inc. litigation, intellectual property, attorneys, sec filings, and other public records.

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Language warning, but accurate. Have one to add to AuDHD: If I get interrupted I will loose my thought forever…and I will absolutely interrupt myself.

AUTISM: If you interrupt me my brain is going to get stuck and I won't be able to think of anything else. ADHD: If I don't interrupt you I'm going to forget what I was going to say and it will be lost forever. AuADHD HOUSEHOLD: We're fucked.

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I have a meeting with folks later this week, thank you all so much 💜

Let's help find this necessary accessibility tool a new owner!

I've compiled a shareable list of my #accessibility projects in need of work or a new owner, as I am dying of cancer There are projects in JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and Rust, as well as one that's changes to community docs I appreciate folks boosting here, or sharing elsewhere 💜 Hannah #a11y #cancer

GitHub - alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption: I am dying and unable to continue work on any projects here. I am seeking folks to take them over.github.com I am dying and unable to continue work on any projects here. I am seeking folks to take them over. - alt-text-org/in-need-of-adoption

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The cool thing about A.I. is that it doesn't work but it does eat up enormous resources in order to not work.

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Jesus

JFC, this photo of a pro-Palestinian student protestor at the University of Mississippi with a jeering crowd of white boys in the background thedmonline.com/may-2nd-pro-...

It's almost like they are saying history is repeating itself.

Gonna have to say, that’s a “yes” from me, dog.

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Tech UI pet peeve: Displaying timestamps as "3 days ago" or other relative measures. - From when? What if I'm looking at a screenshot or bug report or a stale tab? - Too coarse. Displaying April 25th as "last month" on May 1 is bad. - Actual time in mouseover: a weak half-fix.

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I'm gonna keep posting this piece over and over again. It didn't get much traction when it was first published, but bsky has the juice. (And thanks to everyone who has read and shared it so far!) "Tear gas" is a chemical weapon that should be banned.

Here's my Scientific American piece on the topic, which documents the multiple ways "tear gas" violates human rights, including the possibility of spontaneous abortions in pregnant people

Police Who Tear-Gas Abortion-Rights Protesters Could Induce Abortionwww.scientificamerican.com Tear gas is widely used by law enforcement, even though it may cause spontaneous abortion

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saw this, sharing it here in case anyone needs it.