Neekerbreeker 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Neekerbreeker@qoto.org

@Neekerbreeker Right now they do, but in a generation or two they might have lost that businessy flavour (if they survive, and if we do).

I almost expected "lexicon" to be listed as a verb in the OED :D (It's not, but "lexiconize" is there, from 1892.) Verbing and nouning are as old as English

Dear Indeed.com

If you think I am sharing any of this sort of information with you, you need to understand I don't trust employers NOT to use this information to DISCRIMINATE.

Happy news: You can join this year's Dead Duck Day celebration on June 5. #DeadDuckDay https://improbable.com/2023/05/28/dead-duck-day-is-approaching-again/

We were never supposed to have a state religion. So why are we allowing SCOTUS to be filled by Federalist Society?

A coworker of mine has three owlets in a nest in a tree near her house and now the entire company is obsessed with them!

We now have a Slack channel dedicated to them and get updates every morning 😂

#Owls #Cute #Outside #Trees #AltText

Algorithmic social media feeds are deliberately designed to make you stupider, because stupider content gets more engagement.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc know what they are doing.

Sometimes they recalibrate the idiocy force-feeder, however. https://tecunningham.github.io/2023-04-28-ranking-by-engagement.html

@Neekerbreeker

That part about creating a plethora of one-off accounts is very accurate. We don't need an app for everything nor an account. All these are is data harvesting and each is a point-of-failure for online security.

Just another day in America...

Weeks after a cyberattack crippled the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department computer systems, county officials confirmed that the hackers had been paid a $1.1-million ransom.

The ransomware attack, discovered in early April, forced the department to temporarily shut down some of its computer systems, including email, in-car computers and some law enforcement databases, including a system that deputies use for background checks.

After negotiating with the hackers, San Bernardino County paid slightly less than half the total — $511,852 — and its insurance carrier covered the rest, said county spokesman David Wert.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-06/hackers-targeted-a-california-sheriffs-department-should-they-have-paid-the-ransom

But in the end, the algorithms alone aren't going to save us. We, the users of the platforms, also have a role to play in challenging dangerous speech by calling out fear-based incitement through what is called "counterspeech." https://dangerousspeech.org/counterspeech/

Fighting fear is not going to be easy. But it is possibly the most important work we can do to prevent online outrage from begetting real-life violence.

Every single city in the US should offer a free domain name in the city.state.us domain name to every person and business who wants one.

ie.frasiercrane.seattle.wa.us

There seems to be much rejoicing every few days when a Republican is flummoxed after being asked to define 'woke.'

This is the time for woke liberals to claim the term.

Because sure as sunrise, some Republican will provide a pejorative definition. One that will stick. After leaving the questioner dumb-struck.

"The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them" is a good one. Might as well adopt it before a Republican butchers it.

Alan Turing is widely recognized as a hero and a genius. He’s considered the father of theoretical computer science and AI.

But he was also a gay man whom the British government chemically castrated.

Turing killed himself because of the way his government treated him.

What more might he have done had he lived?

As this wave of hatred sweeps the US, I wonder how many gay and trans Alan Turings we’ve already lost, and how many we’ll continue to lose.