lavahot @lavahot@qoto.org
Joined Sep 2020
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The one thing i haven't seen this year? Brands making April Fool's "jokes".
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On #TransDayOfVisibility, let's have more visibility of who's behind the anti-trans movement.
Groups like Alliance Defending Freedom are waging a multimillion-dollar campaign cruelly targeting trans people.
These groups don't care about freedom — they just want to spread hate.
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RT @axios
The sudden flood of state-level efforts to restrict transgender rights is being fueled by many of the Christian and conservative groups that led the ch…
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1641755344861904896
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Repeat after me: Wages aren’t pushing up prices. Corporate profits are pushing up prices.
Instead of relying on the Fed to raise interest rates, which could slow the economy toward a recession, Congress and President Biden should be taking aim at corporate price gouging.
I think the one thing that is very important for folks to understand about ChatGPT is that isn't a replacement for rational thought. It's basically a better autocorrect. It can lie, spew propaganda, and run itself in circles trying to rationalize the dumbest shit.
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society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.
tech guys: i have invented a machine that generates misinformation. is that helpful?
Hung out with the boys playing #SeaOfThieves tonight and got ganked by PvPers. Definitely need more time with the game.
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We have known ExxonMobil leaders had data they chose to ignore & silence in favor of profits for years. The new analysis adds resolution, but we know they knew. We've known they knew. And, we need to make sure they don't continue to influence the conversation away from solutions.
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Our review of LastPass has been changed to urge the company to make changes to restore user trust following the staggering data breach at the password manager. https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/lastpass
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Last week, Gizmodo's Linda Codega caught a fantastic scoop - a leaked report of #Hasbro's plan to revoke the decades-old #OpenGamingLicense, which subsidiary #WizardsOfTheCoast promulgated as an allegedly #open sandbox for people seeking to extend, remix or improve #DungeonsAndDragons:
https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-gaming-license-1849950634
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Idea for a short horror film: billionaire buys social media platform, demands employees work in haunted house. Employees slowly begin murdering each other as Nero plays the accordion.
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Twitter just suspended the account for Washington D.C.'s public transit system, maybe for posting the buses' real-time assassination coordinates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/01/10/dc-metro-twitter-account-suspended/ @faizsays
YouTube monetization rules suck.
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RT @LaurenKGurley@twitter.com
BREAKING: The FTC, Lina Khan have proposed a rule to ban noncompete clauses for all workers in the United States.
The rule could send shock waves across a wide range of industries, where economists says companies have artificially suppressed worker pay.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/01/05/ftc-noncompete-ban-lina-khan/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/status/1611015555309338624
Joined Sep 2020
