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G. Willow Wilson

What is happening now on Twitter is not migration; it's dispersal. People are leaving for a whole host of different platforms. As long as twitter remains an essential clearinghouse for breaking news and up to the minute info, it will shuffle onwards, but it's finished as an incubator of mass culture.

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Lili Saintcrow

Have you ever said to yourself, “Self, I want to hear Pachelbel’s Canon played on train horns?” WELL THEN DO I HAVE A LINK FOR YOU. (From my Discord server, because we’re all mad there…) youtube.com/watch?v=cD3QlR98--

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Dave T-W

Excellent advice for anyone nervous about presenting.

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Brian Klaas

Hello Mastodon! I'm Brian Klaas - an associate professor of global politics at University College London, a writer for The Atlantic, and host of the Power Corrupts podcast.

I'm Minnesotan.

I write a newsletter on Substack called "The Garden of Forking Paths."

I also wrote the first book on Trump's authoritarianism. My most recent book is "Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us."

And yes, that is a lemur on my shoulder. #Politics #Introduction #WelcomeToMastodon #Mastodon

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chesapeake :blobcatverified:
During the design process for USB, a concept for a Universal Parallel Bus was tried, but was quickly abandoned.
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Lol, lawyers better make sure they get paid up front.

theguardian.com/technology/202

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Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮

This is exactly what NOT to use generative #AI for. Here they are avoiding giving PoC jobs - and there are models to be hired, to be sure - and instead accomplishing “power rangers diversity” w/ pie charts measures and algorithms rather than just humanity. Shameful and lazy Levi’s.

“Levi's will start using AI-generated people in order to increase the diversity among its models.”

petapixel.com/2023/03/24/levis

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Dgar

Me: I bought an elephant for your room.
Them: Thanks!

Me: Don’t mention it.

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Didn't expect to blub so much at the end of . 😭

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That'd a fair point and surprising that it's persisted for so long. Claiming that "University of London" colleges are allowed to complete on their own is not the same, not least cos many have their own degree-awarding charters, but they're completely separate organisations.
Let Oxford and Cambridge have their own separate preliminaries, maybe even allow their two finalists in.

theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

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Olwen

In a nutshell

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Historian Timothy Snyder spoke at a session on "", brought about by . A useful session as it documented the atrocities in , genocidal language used by RF leaders & state television, & the damage to Russian culture and lives by the RF state themselves. Which was not the intention of the RF, I'm guessing.

When the RF representative Nebenzya dismissed these points, asking for sources, Snyder was able to point to Russian state TV and the Kremlin website. Comical self own.

Video is on the UN YouTube but transcript is here: snyder.substack.com/p/playing-

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Charles Lowell

We can revolutionize software development by letting two chat bots argue with each other about JIRA during standups so the rest of us don't have to.

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Paul Sutton

So the US congress vs TikTok, they are expressing concerns about data finding its way back to the Chinese government, while at the same time when Facebook hands over information about a young lady who had an abortion to the local authorities this is perfectly acceptable to the users of these platforms.

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Jon Worth

Forgot to post this yesterday

In Basel SBB there's a big LCD screen above the escalators, showing the tram stops outside - and showing you where you need to go for your tram

And it's video - the trams move on it!

@yrochat told me about it - it's a very neat way to direct passengers

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Dave T-W

If this is an area of history you're not familiar with, check out "Argentina 1985", currently on Prime Video.

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One of the most horrific elements is the mundane, banal nature of the disappearances, tortures and murders. These were mostly conducted at ESMA, the School for Navy Mechanics, an ordinary looking 1920s colonial style educational building, facing onto a busy street. Nothing like the huge Lubyanka Building or Lefortovo Prison in Moscow.

Yet round the corner is a museum about the Falklands War, which remains at the forefront of cultural memory, as any mention on Reddit will tell you.

Whereas ESMA has been repurposed as a Memorial and Museum to the disappearances, the 1982 war is still not recognised as a tragic, desperate last gasp of the dictatorship, a betrayal of the young men who died thinking they were on a training mission.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Pet

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Dave T-W

The crimes of the 1970s are still being uncovered - the last trial concluded only in February 2021, but there have only been 59 convictions, across 4 trials, related to 800 victims.

For the families of the estimated 30,000 victims, the "disappeared", the search for justice goes on, through DNA testing and other forensic methods. Sometimes with tearful reunions that reopen wounds.

npr.org/sections/parallels/201.

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Dave T-W

As someone who lived for a short period in Argentina and really loved the country and culture, these stories always bring back painful memories. As a kid, not long after this period, I heard stories of people who had just been taken off the streets and never seen again.

Hopefully this will be another step in Argentina's recovery from the horrors of the dictatorship and the dirty war. "Nunca Mas" (never again) they said at the 1985 trials, yet there is a strain of denialism that runs through many societies, not just Argentina.

theguardian.com/world/2023/mar

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