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Miguel Guhlin 🦉 🇵🇦 🇺🇲

Isn’t this interesting?

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Photography by Jouko

Some shots you can’t plan for.
I was waiting to shoot the rise of a supermoon when the clouds rolled in a ruined the spectacle. Instead of the moon crowning the tip of the Bay Bridge, a flock of pelicans passed over it, in perfect formation mimicking the shape of the bridge.
#sanfrancisco #baybridge #pelican #photography #urbanwildlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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Marc Davenant

Winter morning with hoar frost
#photography

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Phil L.

This is significant ...

The German office for data protection and freedom of information hosts the official #Mastodon server for government departments

They are now calling for all ministries on the server to put their focus on Mastodon

They are also asking ministries which are not yet on Mastodon to join as soon as possible

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Wait, let me try again!

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Update: for example Matt Binder didn’t by any stretch participate in spreading jet data.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6
CNN: nope, wasn’t O’Sullivan
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/16/tec
Aaron Rupar, by contrast, admits he posted a link to a still-active FB ElonJet:
aaronrupar.substack.com/p/aaro

This is why sites staff whole content mod teams to investigate posts and formulate standards.

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twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss6ueu
Via the Spaces debacle, we learn that EM’s reasoning for the journalist ban is a link to ElonJet, w the implication they’re revealing the same info.
But.
If the ElonJet acct was suspended when the various publishing went live, all readers can see is proof it was suspended.
Q1: Were these links put up AFTER the suspension hid all posted info to the public?
Q2: If so, does Elon understand that?

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Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇

Just before the invasion, #Ukraine made a deal with #Amazon #AWS to create a data warehouse for its government information and infrastructure: tax and property records, bank statements, and the like. Things that an invaded and occupied Ukraine might lose if Russia got their hands on the only copies.

They literally snuck Pelican crates full of SSDs into the country and spirited them back offshore after backing up 10 petabytes of important historic and legal records.

This paragraph, second from the end, really put a fine point on why Amazon did this: They were not beholden to, nor being held hostage by, any Russian operations...because they never had any:

Amazon didn’t have to worry about its relationship with Russia on the Snowball project. It doesn’t have one. “We didn’t have anything to turn off there,” Maxwell said. “We had never invested there. It’s a point of principle.”

Truly an amazing story from the #LATimes.

latimes.com/business/story/202

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I’m not sure a company like Amazon has principles in the sense that individuals do, but they have longterm interests that align with such principles when responsibly viewed. Russia is a huge investment risk. Ukraine is a growing market w an easy, low cost way to ingratiate themselves with all levels of government— or hold them hostage. Not to mention a sweeping PR boost across the West at a bargain, during a rise of antitrust hawks in the US admin eyeing them.

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Ken White

Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.

And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.

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Dell Cameron 🐈‍⬛

amazing

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Mark Dunk

Extremely cold air from Siberia will send US into deep freeze days before Christmas

A bitter blast of cold air will challenge records that have stood since the 1980s from the northern Rockies to the Southeast, as well as stress energy grids, in the run up to the Christmas holiday.

By Bill Deger, AccuWeather senior meteorologist

accuweather.com/en/winter-weat #weather #polarvortex #science #accuweather

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Unpopular take: I actually agree with EM about the stupid jet. Archival information is one thing, but real time is essentially the same risk-public benefit calculus as doxxing, and just as creepy. We should lean into this instead and encourage him to extend his privacy concerns to more vulnerable individuals.

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Marci Harris

AMEN.

It was WAY too long in coming but freakin finally:

"Congress has approved the removal of a statue of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who crafted the infamous Dred Scott pro-slavery decision."

It will be replaced by one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve on the nation's highest court.

politico.com/minutes/congress/

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Delphine, a work in progress

Don't seize the day.

The day is easily startled and will get quite upset. It might cry.

Gently ask the day if it would like a hug. Respect the day's boundaries.

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This chapel made entirely of salt.
archaeology-world.com/inside-a

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Maybe they’re so rarely seen because no sane people want to go watersporting when it’s this freaking COLD?
metro.co.uk/2022/12/13/river-t

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My anaconda don’t want none unless you got fun, hun:
newscientist.com/article/23508

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Mike Dunford

Gee it's almost like "shut up" is good legal advice.

RT @trace_jax3@twitter.com

lawtwitter: SBF needs to shut up and stop giving interviews for the LOVE OF GOD

SBF: nah

SEC:

🐦🔗: twitter.com/trace_jax3/status/

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Heckle Me Elmo 

NYT’s latest article about Twitter’s slow motion train wreck is paywalled of course, but this isn’t:
maxburns.substack.com/p/elons-

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