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Doa :kermitsip:​

In two days, Ford took two huge steps and gave himself extra powers and no one is able to confront him, stop him or even negotiate with him about it. Yesterday, more powers over the school boards and now this. Brutal. thestar.com/politics/provincia

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Twitter quietly altered its Hateful Conduct Policy to remove long-standing protections for transgender users, including a ban on misgendering and "deadnaming" (The Verge)

theverge.com/2023/4/18/2368819
techmeme.com/230418/p22#a23041

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Matt Blaze

Not one, but two cases this week of innocent people being shot simply for being lost and mistakenly approaching the wrong house.

Were those the "good guys with a gun" we keep hearing about?

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Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of **Europe’s largest media publisher** Axel Springer SE is "all for climate change" and thinks we should adapt to it and not fight it. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️

Axel Springer owns Bild, Die Welt, and Fakt and has recently acquired Politico, Insider and Business insider. Oh and Döpfner is of course a Trumper. and thinks all East Germans are communists or fascists.

theguardian.com/world/2023/apr

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This is super fun. Highly recommend it to anyone who likes any kind of word games.

my effort today

A Little Wordy #2 🎨🤡✅ 87% theoatmeal.com/wordy?date=04-1

The Oatmeal  
Hi. It's me. The Oatmeal guy. I coded a word-guessing game. Here’s how it works: - Every day for the next month, I’m going to upload a word. Your...
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The Oatmeal

Hi. It's me. The Oatmeal guy.

I coded a word-guessing game.

Here’s how it works:
- Every day for the next month, I’m going to upload a word. Your job is to guess what it is.

- You can ask for clues, but they cost points. Try to use as few of them as possible.

- After thirty days, the game will end.

- The game starts right now. Share your scores in the comments.

theoatmeal.com/wordy

-The Oatmeal

P.S. I recommend starting with the “visual clue.” It’s usually a funny drawing.

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@oatmeal
better showing than yesterday

A Little Wordy #2 🎨🤡✅ 87% theoatmeal.com/wordy?date=04-1

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Wikipedia is now on Mastodon, at @wikipedia!

They've taken an interesting approach here, as it is an account run by the community, where everyone can contribute (explanation here: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/@Wikip). At the same time, it is verified on the official homepage of wikipedia.org, as you can see in the screenshot.

Personally, I think this suits the spirit of the fediverse that the Wikipedia account is not a PR department, but community members building something together!

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@AshleyMarineP
I am not certain as it's been a long time since I have dealt with this but I don't think anything is required from twitter in this situation except letting US immigration know that someone has been fired. but even if they don't I believe that doesn't hinder any prospective new employer from submitting a change of employer H1B petition.

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Bread and Circuses

Oh, man. This comic — from 1993 — could NOT be more relevant today. As usual, Bill Watterson hits it out of the park.

#Banks #Banking #Bailout #AntiCapitalism

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Meredith Lowry

Today in design patents, color edition:

D984039 issued for a lipstick core. There's a color claim on this one, but the color drawings aren't available yet.

Are we claiming lipstick shades as designs now? Because that litigation might be fascinating. #DesignPatents

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Janet French

cbc.ca/news/editorsblog/cbc-tw
From CBC’s editor-in-chief, Brodie Fenlon:

“We cannot in good conscience continue to post fact-based news and information to Twitter, or engage on it, while a false impression of government involvement in our work is allowed to stand. As a news organization committed to truth, facts and accuracy, we cannot abide by a label that promotes disinformation.”

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Ticia Verveer

My great-aunt Tilly Verveer with her fiancé Max van Ments, around 1940 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
They were dreaming of having a family, but the Shoah shattered their dreams.
She was only 25 years old when she was murdered in Auschwitz. Max reached the age of 23 years before he was murdered in Extern Kommando Ludwigsdorf.
#yomhashoah

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@AshleyMarineP @lomanfeusagach @beeoproblem @caseyliss @gruber thanks. that was educational. things work very differently in academia. Poor English is a big minus too because people have to teach but retaliation by the current employer for looking for a new job is not a thing.

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@AshleyMarineP @lomanfeusagach @beeoproblem @caseyliss @gruber

wait, **years** ?! I would have thought that anyone working at twitter would have a fairly easy time finding a new employer. But I am not in tech so perhaps that was naive.

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@lomanfeusagach @beeoproblem @caseyliss @gruber

Yes, that's correct. However, this does require the new employer to be willing to sponsor your H1B application. They are the ones who have to file a petition with USCIS to start the process. It is some bother for them but it's certainly doable. Anyone who hires H1B people in the first place would know how to do it. And this step is exempt from the quota requirements unlike the original H1B hiring. however, this all takes time and there are deadlines so as a practical matter you need to line up the new job and start the process in advance, otherwise it's easy to lose status and that's the last thing you need when dealing with US immigration. The grace period after an H1B person is fired or their contract ends is just 60 days. When I switched employers on H1B visa my new employer filed the petition a couple of months before my old contract expired. I am in academia, not industry and universities are familiar with the process so this was fairly straightforward.

H1B visas are only extendable for up to 6 years (I had to leave the country after 6 years on H1B) so by my count of initial applications from the data on uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-st twitter has at most 429 ppl on H1B assuming nobody left or was fired and everybody stays for the max allowed time. which is of course not the case. so I expect the actual number is maybe half that.

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John Gruber

$44 billion to run the site like a 7th grader would.

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@caseyliss @gruber no sympathy for said engineer. you work for Musk at this point you know exactly what you’ve signed up for.

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Jan McCartney

@shawngoldwater

CBC Should Start Their Own Mastodon Server
Now’s a great time for our public broadcaster to stop relying on privately owned platforms to reach its audience.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/10

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Caroline Orr Bueno

During his time as CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk has re-platformed neo-Nazis, dismantled Twitter’s verification system, algorithmically amplified Russian war propaganda, made a bunch of false claims about “bots”, entered into a secret agreement with the journalist he tapped to write about the “Twitter Files” … and much more.

Pass the mic, Tucker. I have some questions for Elon Musk. #socialmedia #elonmusk #propaganda
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