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admin stuff
Some people just don't want to be found too easily.
#fediblock ed fedisearch.skorpil.cz, yet another customised crawler that adds our users to his search engine without prior consent, even when they opted out of indexing or had #nobot on the bio. He seems like a nice dude who means we'll, and he did fix most of this stuff already, but after 2 days there are still problems.
I've had it with profile search engines that don't respect the need for obscurity, with no opt-in policy.
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Watch out #MastoAdmins this account is going around pretending it's a malware scanner.
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'More than 1.3mn people in China were under medical observation this week as close contacts of cases of Covid-19, the highest level since the pandemic erupted out of Wuhan, and an increase of more than 300,000 in just a few days.
The soaring number of close contacts, driven by a rise in cases to near record levels, is putting immense strain on a Covid-19 policy that in contrast with the rest of the world aims to eliminate rather than live with the virus.'
https://www.ft.com/content/63c34374-d89c-41d4-a797-9804b5cb58d9
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The map of the observable Universe
https://mapoftheuniverse.net/
> This project is called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
> Observations were conducted using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico
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Moderation meta - Santa Clara Principles
For anyone feeling pressured to join in with the #FediBlock dogpile on the well-meaning noobs at journo.host (or any other server for that matter), I strongly recommend having a read and a think about the Santa Clara Principles On Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation:
@obi Ah makes perfect sense. :-)
> @marathon0 when coal miners were losing their jobs, mainly in WV a few years ago, it was being discussed on the news a lot. The left wing media was suggesting (mirrored by other left wing news) that the coal miners would just need to adapt, and Learn to Code. A little ridiculous, for the type of job and experience they were coming from, but they kept saying it. Then, a bit later, some journalists were losing their job, and the right wing were Tweeting them with the hastag #learntocode . This got trending, and Twitter a believe banned/suppressed the hashtag and was banning people who said it to the journalists, saying it was "harassment". After seeing the twitter engineers losing their job, the first thing I thought of was well, they have to adapt, the can #leaentocoalmine . Obviously a ridiculous statement, but the same thing people were saying to the coal miners.
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> Sorry, probably not many people would get that I guess. My bad.
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:-(
Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts.
Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts.
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@freemo well done on the article. Despite your obvious anger, you've managed to keep to the facts.
FYI, qoto.org is still listed on https://instances.social
Regardless, it's still blocked for the wrong reasons. There are justifications for marginlized people around the world for feeling the way they do. It shouldn't be a reason to censor valuable information for ALL people, however. That's not helping black folks who may need cyber-security information to protect themselves or their sytem(s).
@obi I'm not the saviest around, could you explain to this dumbarse the significance of the learntocoalmine tag?
@jgg
I've heard so before. Not sure I buy into that - we shall see.
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When you boost anything (such as #politics), how do you add content warning to a boost that didn’t have a CW to start with? #Mastodon #ContentWarnings? And another question is “How come suggested hashtags aren’t in CamelCase?”
Might there be a glut of software engineers soon? Perhaps the pompous Birdsite employees that left voluntary will regret that decision in the near future? Just some musings of my own …
10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/10-000-google-employees-could-be-rated-as-low-performers?rc=8aq5ai&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Some amusing parts in this long form story. Casey appears to have good sources.
Trump is restored to Twitter https://www.platformer.news/p/trump-is-restored-to-twitter
#worldcup 
#belgium national football team vs #canada men's national soccer team lineups ⚽
belgium national football team vs canada men's national soccer team lineups ⚽ https://g.co/kgs/WcTC5V
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Canned foods are fine.
#Aparthied #Palestine Video link to Birdsite
@redfrog LOL! Good one
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Journal suggesters
Each of the large publishers has their own journal suggester.
Paste your abstract in the white rectangular box.
Then click on "Reveal Suggested Journals" at the bottom of your screen.
It will give you a list of suggested journals with the most relevant ones on top.
Thanks to @MustaqBilalPhD on the bird app for the original idea.
Here are a few suggester URLs:
https://journalsuggester.springer.com/#
https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/publishing-your-research/choosing-a-journal/journal-suggester/
https://journalfinder.wiley.com/search?type=match
https://www.journalguide.com/ [Possibly independent]
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