Sally Strange

2 days ago

@bodil Wait what did EFF say?

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2 days ago

Morning commute #Pittsburgh #winterscape

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2 days ago

When you cite someone a bunch of times because their work is fabulous and then you get to have coffee with themmmmmmmmm !!! 🥹🥹

My favorite part of science

can you even IMAGINE spending all those years becoming a scientist only to trap yourself in hyper competitive mode?? When you could be living in "coffee where we talk about how great your latest paper was" mode???!!!??

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2 days ago

Power went back off. Winds are howling. The sounds of fire trucks alarms wail as they speed down the street.

How unnerving.

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2 days ago

i don't think he likes it

#rat #rats #ratsOfMastodon #ratsOfFediverse #pets #petRat #petRats

Tags: #rat #rats #ratsofmastodon #ratsoffediverse #pets #petrat #petrats

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2 days ago

Power just went off in West Hollywood. Feels ominous.

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2 days ago

Video games being used to escape reality is no longer possible with constant pop ups of inviting friends or purchasing add ons. I don't have any money or friends and thats what I'm trying to forget.

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2 days ago

Cette journée est toute pourrie, sauf que Titi aime ses nouvelles croquettes 🎉
#MastoCats

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2 days ago

Proposals to replace classes with AI should have to go through a "non-AI description" challenge. I do this in my head when I read things like "students will use AI to do two hours of personalized tutoring", such that it becomes "students will be expected to sit quietly and write text for two hours of unstructured time, scaffolding it into a lesson plan for themselves" -- it really helps reveal that even IF a tool were super good (not saying it is), the behavioral ask is immense

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2 days ago

Interview: How Elon Musk’s Extremism Is Shaping the incoming Trump Administration & Global Politics

Quinn Slobodian discusses Musk’s clear admiration of authoritarian strongmen, market deregulation & white supremacist rhetoric.

Interestingly, "four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa": Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks & Paul Furber.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/quinn_slobodian_musk_global_far_right

#ElonMusk #Racism #Trump #Immigration #USPol #UKPol .

Tags: #elonmusk #racism #trump #immigration #uspol #ukpol

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2 days ago

Might also be an autism thing, but still.

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2 days ago

Holding congress members to account for supporting genocide:

Report: 500+ federal taxpayers filed a class-action lawsuit against their democrat congress members...

for illegally abusing "their tax & spend authority" when they voted to authorise $26B in military aid to Israel.

The lawsuit alleges they violated the U.S. Constitution, the Genocide Convention & several U.S. laws.

https://truthout.org/articles/we-have-to-act-taxpayers-suing-congressmembers-for-funding-genocide-speak-out/

#GazaGenocideNotWar #US #USCongress #BDS #USFundsGenocide .

Tags: #gazagenocidenotwar #us #uscongress #bds #usfundsgenocide

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2 days ago

Just as in the 1948 Nakba:

Gleefully observing the complete elimination of Palestinians in northern Gaza... preparing to nest on top of, & cover up, Palestinian blood & presence.

These guided tours to observe the ongoing genocide are the new thing....

#GazaGenocideNotWar #USFunding #US #USPol #Europol #CdnPoli #Nakba #BDS #Ethniccleansing #NorthernGaza .

Tags: #gazagenocidenotwar #usfunding #us #uspol #europol #cdnpoli #nakba #bds #ethniccleansing #northerngaza #gazagenocidenotwar #usfunding #us #uspol #europol #cdnpoli #nakba #bds #ethniccleansing #northerngaza #gazagenocidenotwar #usfunding #us #uspol #europol #cdnpoli #nakba #bds #ethniccleansing #northerngaza #gazagenocidenotwar #usfunding #us #uspol #europol #cdnpoli #nakba #bds #ethniccleansing #northerngaza #gazagenocidenotwar #usfunding #us #uspol #europol #cdnpoli #nakba #bds #ethniccleansing #northerngaza #gazagenocidenotwar #usfunding #us #uspol #europol #cdnpoli #nakba #bds #ethniccleansing #northerngaza #gazagenocidenotwar #usfunding #us #uspol #europol #cdnpoli #nakba #bds #ethniccleansing #northerngaza #gazagenocidenotwar #usfunding #us #uspol #europol #cdnpoli #nakba #bds #ethniccleansing #northerngaza #gazagenocidenotwar #usfunding #us #uspol #europol #cdnpoli #nakba #bds #ethniccleansing #northerngaza #gazagenocidenotwar #usfunding #us #uspol #europol #cdnpoli #nakba #bds #ethniccleansing #northerngaza

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2 days ago

If you're a person who makes less than 500k per year and you're praising an American president--ANY American president--you're a sucker.

"Even if you find Carter’s anti-political self-presentation admirable — “I owe nothing to special interest groups” — it was disingenuous. H‌e did not shun all constituencies with the same rigor. Carter’‌s first vault beyond Georgia politics came when he was invited to join the Trilateral Commission, a private group founded by Chase Bank’s David Rockefeller. Carter reportedly studied the Commission’s reports “like a bible,” ‌He‌ appointed many Trilateralists, including Volcker, to key positions. To his admirers, the Volcker appointment exemplifies Mr. Carter’s noble detachment from interest group pressures: ‌h‌e was brave enough to engineer an unpopular recession. But as Eizenstat once stated bluntly, “Volcker was selected because he was the candidate of Wall Street.” Can a decision made in accordance with the wishes of the most powerful people in the country really be described as political courage?"

#Neoliberalism #USpol

https://archive.is/A4QYk

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2 days ago

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman accused of sexual abuse by sister, in lawsuit

"[…] the abuse began when Ann Altman was three and Sam Altman was 12. The filing alleges that the last instance of abuse took place when he was an adult but his sister, known as Annie, was still a child."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/08/openai-chief-executive-sam-altman-accused-of-sexual-abuse-by-sister-in-lawsuit

#sexualAbuse #SamAltman

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2 days ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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2 days ago

Folks, there are multiple reports about Fediverse data being used by AI companies like OpenAI. This puts vulnerable people at risk apart from everyone else. They build profiles about you, which can be used to deny you certain services because governments or influential people are now in charge. Server admins must block all AI bots and data center ranges to protect users. I’m not sure making your account private is safe or not. Please be safe, these are dangers times for privacy and safety.

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2 days ago

"These books, like Pitfall and Volt Rush, regurgitate a paradox that has persisted since mining firms realized the opportunity that climate action offers. Mining causes environmental harm, certainly, but people don’t have their priorities straight. Emissions need to be reduced. In the words of Michael Lodge, the former regulator of deep sea mining, “Everybody in Brooklyn can say, ‘I don’t want to harm the ocean.’ But they sure want their Teslas.”

https://greenrocks.substack.com/p/lithium-copper-cobalt-nickel-climate-mining-beiser-scheyder

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2 days ago

re: Probably a terrible idea

@rantingsteve If the snow is fluffy enough, sure. When I was a roofer we often used it to dry the roof or to clear it from dusty debris.

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2 days ago

@DabonSteed @Dss Occasionally we'd get a second round of presents on Jan. 6, which was nice, and a good way to deal with presents that arrived late.

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