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azteclady

Call to action! The #CDC has a public comment open; let it know that you want the new #COVIDBoosters to be recommended for everyone, not just the most vulnerable.

Remember: the higher the percentage of vaccinated and boosted people, the lower risk for vulnerable people.

Go forth and give the CDC hell! demand protection for everyone.

ETA: public comments will be closed in just two days. Docket to comment on: CDC 2023-0060

regulations.gov/document/CDC-2

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Sasha Akhavi

Wow, why hasn’t this Cemex decision been front-page national news??

From: @doctorow
bird.makeup/users/doctorow/sta

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Sasha Akhavi

@natematias @grimalkina I wonder about Logic(s) Magazine for this? Their colophon says “The mission of Logic(s) is to draw in voices and perspectives that remain outside, underexplored, and essential to thinking critically about technology from below.”

logicmag.io/

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The Saanich Daily

A new analysis by the IMF finds #Canada is subsidising #fossilfuels to the tune of about 2% of its GDP or $52 Billion CDN. This is close to $1,300 per person per year.
#cdnpoli #climatechange #JustStopOil
t.co/OfZJfVjRv8

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus

The @eff has an easy script and contact form to write your representatives in the house and senate to urge them to vote against KOSA eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids, the bill which marsha blackburn has now openly admitted she wants to use to push trans people offline (erininthemorning.com/p/senator).

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Sasha Akhavi

@PavelASamsonov gonna start calling my dog mušēṣu lemnūti whenever she’s stinky.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus

Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect 09/29/23, giving them the right to use your posts & all of your data to train musk's "AI."

If you're still over there, now is the time to request your archived data, delete your posts, and stop using that site.

view-source:twitter.com/en/privacy

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Sasha Akhavi

Ooh is one of them Pope Innocent III? 🤞🤞

From: @molly0xfff
hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/11099

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Rep. Jeff Jackson

Here comes redistricting in NC. They’ve made it clear I’m a target.

Here’s what to expect:

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Sasha Akhavi

This is some Fahrenheit 451 bullshit.
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus

Your periodic reminder that "human-like AI" is a near-meaningless framing with deeply ableist, sexist, racist, colonialist, eugenicist roots. Stop uncritically deploying it.

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Tod Maffin

Want Meta to delete any of your personal information used for generative AI?

They actually have a form for this.
They don't make it easy to find, but here's the link:

facebook.com/help/contact/1266

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Jon

Who, who could have predicted? #Threads privacy policy says that if you interact with Threads through a third-party service (like Mastodon, for example) by following a user, interacting with Threads content, or allowing a Threads user to follow you, they'll collect information about:

- your account and profile, including your IP address (although Eugen's said Mastodon doesn't share IP address information -- unless THreads can figure a way around it)

- your content, which as worded seems to include all your posts that you don't block Threads from seeing

- and your interactions, worded ambiguously enough ("such as ...") that it's not clear whether or not it only applies to your interactions with Threads posts or potentially also your likes and reshares of non-Threads posts

And of course they'll use this information to

- "personalize and improve Threads and other Meta products" (for example by training their AI models)
- "provide analytics and other business services (including ads)"
- and "to research and innovate for social good" (hahahaha)

RE: https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/110979172752088493

Mastodon Migration  
Threads now has a Supplemental Privacy Policy (https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944) regarding their policies relating to "Third Party Servic...
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Sasha Akhavi

@natematias Judgment by others is inevitable and can be super helpful; judgment*alism* is illegitimate and you actually don’t have to stand for it. Try stuff! Do it with curiosity & joy, and know that 1) it’s probably not going to go as planned, which is usually the interesting part; 2) everybody else is just trying stuff too, which implies that we should all be supporting each other.

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Rabbit Cohen

LISTEN UP, NON-JEWISH FOLKS.

This is something I haven't really seen gentiles talking about (although there are a few posts about it gaining traction on tumblr and such): there've been a bunch of swattings and bomb threats aimed at synagogues recently, usually during services (especially services that are livestreamed). The high holidays are almost upon us, so this problem is likely to get worse, at least for a while, since that's when most attacks on synagogues happen generally.

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Thomas 🔭🕹️

Periodic reminder to not use Google Chrome (they’re moderating bookmarks now) strangeobject.space/@silvermoo

Use Firefox or Safari, they have proper end-to-end encryption (browser maker can’t read the data) of bookmarks and other private and personal browsing information (like your passwords!).

I can’t stress enough just how ridiculous it is that most of you just hand Google your passwords to everything from your bank accounts to porn sites.

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Sasha Akhavi

Junior programmers: “I’m gonna invent the next big thing in code and be rich and beloved forever!”
Senior programmers:

From: @mononcqc
hachyderm.io/@mononcqc/1109589

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Sasha Akhavi

@rwg I think it’s great; the world needs more cute scholarship :)

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@rwg what’s wrong with precious?

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Joseph M. Adelman

The expansion of AI, and especially LLMs such as ChatGPT, is … not going well, to say the least. @jeffjarvis offers self-described “unpopular opinions” about where we are and where we should (and will?) head. buzzmachine.com/2023/08/21/a-f

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