nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqhm9rc7ns8nesdwj75qqq67gcm9dwc73wvc0u3azdl8qa0m2cf5mqk46cqx That comes on top of Authy ceasing to work without notice on some platforms (including my Mac in iOS emulation mode). It's now even more worthless than before, if "more worthless" is a meaningful phrase. #Authy
New on my blog: AI panic has hit the National Novel Writing Month organization.
https://garymcgath.com/wp/ai-panic-and-nanowrimo/
#AI #NaNoWriMo
Brazil's thought police can't easily catch people who use a VPN to access Xitter. The point of using a VPN is to hide what sites you're accessing. The people who risk arrest and fines are the ones who provide information about how to use one.
#Brazil #VPN #Censorship
New bullshit from Zoom: Customers are demanding AI monitoring, so it's auto-enabling AI Companion. Check your settings here to make sure Zoom hasn't enabled it behind your back (at your insistence, of course):
https://us06web.zoom.us/profile/setting?tab=aicompanion#smartMeetingSummaries
#Zoom #AI
This interview with Trump should scare you to death. He intends to deport millions. To use the National Guard to do it. To bring these people directly across the border and dump them. To use the military inside the US. To give police immunity from prosecution. This is a formula for a police state.
https://time.com/6972022/donald-trump-transcript-2024-election/
#Trump #deportation
Gee, someone figured out that pushing AI to make our decisions for us scares us away. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/10/business/brands-avoid-term-customers/index.html
#AI
A quarter of those polled said schools should have protesters arrested for opposing the Israel-Hamas war. Not for vandalism or disruption, not for supporting mass murder, just for opposing a war which the respondents support.
https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/national-speech-index-july-2024
#freeSpeech #firstAmendment
Where did the contemptible #CRIT awards crowd come from? This article gives a plausible explanation. Apparently pro-Hamas people have taken over a significant part of the table-top gaming community. https://quillette.com/2024/07/02/a-tale-of-waffles-and-syrup/
So many sites (e.g., Bluesky and LinkedIn) are using JavaScript to override my mod key preferences and keep me from leaving their page when I click on a link, that I'm increasingly right-clicking and choosing "Open link in new tab." They haven't figured out how to override that yet.
Saying #Juneteenth (or as I would prefer to call it, #Emancipation Day) is only for black people is like saying Independence Day is only for states on the East Coast.
#Capitalism promotes peace. People don't like to kill each other when it's more beneficial to trade.
Just heard from someone who lost his #Mastodon account unexpectedly. Don't forget to export an archive regularly, especially if you're on one of the smaller instances. It could go away without warning, leaving you disconnected from your followers. The option is somewhat buried in the settings, making it easy to forget. #backup
Please boost or repost in your own words if you think it's worth knowing. Favoriting does nothing to inform people.
The reason for the annual government #shutdown #budget crisis is that #Congress has adopted the insane procedure of putting almost all appropriations into a single bill that requires a yes-or-no vote.
This wouldn't work even on a family level. Imagine deciding once a year, "This is what we're going to spend for the next year, or else we won't buy anything. Which shall it be?"
#Biden was let off in the classified documents case because of his poor memory, but the documents he retained were from 2017, when he stopped being VP. Apparently #Hur was saying Biden's memory had already deteriorated 7 years ago. That's even more disturbing than I'd originally thought.
nostr:npub1hm9rc7ns8nesdwj75qqq67gcm9dwc73wvc0u3azdl8qa0m2cf5mq25tmy3 That would be bad enough on a regular social media site. On one that's designed for people to talk about their former employers, it's truly awful.
Certain things make me immediately inclined not to take an article seriously. Examples include using "illegal" as a noun and capitalizing some skin colors while putting others in lower case.
nostr:npub1k06ctulq8rcaen067tt6z3y6gxrqtsuje5em5lcn009zfpp0t7gqf0zyu9 Mediawiki is just software. It can be used by highly trustworthy sites or by liars promoting malicious sites.
Just boosted (and then unboosted) a post about WikiFlix, but some things seem odd. The Wikimedia article shows "Status: Rejected." The domain for #WikiFlix is toolforge dot org. Who's behind it, and is it trustworthy?
WARNING. At 2 PM Eastern Time, the National Emergency Broadcast system will make your phone make a loud noise. Even if it's on vibrate or mute. Even if a dentist is drilling your teeth or you're driving in heavy traffic.
TURN YOUR PHONE OFF.
I've heard it will blast you when you turn it back on, but at least you can be prepared for it.
Just took the #Lingolia French level test, and the result says I'm at level A2. Sounds reasonable, considering how long it's been since I paid serious attention to the language.