23 Shevat 5783 (February 2023) – Page 15

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· 23 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 14 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Good morning everybody and welcome to Tuesday. I'm still trying to wake up, and WordPress plugin marketers are making me cranky this morning. Also, we had doughnuts for breakfast.

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· 23 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 14 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Spammy marketing firm: "I don't know if you saw my last email". Me: "Yeah I keep seeing your emails and I keep deleting them and I've asked you to stop emailing me please stop emailing me FFS!"

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· 23 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 14 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Lunch consumed. Time to finish the last half of today. If you haven't done so, get something to eat and drink some water.

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· 23 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 14 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

The Media's Fake Tech Incompetence by Aaron Ross Powell

Some thoughts on why journalists pretend Mastodon is impenetrable.

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· 23 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 14 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

‘He’s Got a Knife—Kill Him!’ by Bill Lueders

Not everything that makes police dangerous comes from culture. Some comes from the law—and the way cops train to operate within it.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 23 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 14 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm

What a fucking manchild.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 23 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 14 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Youngkin opposes effort to shield menstrual data from law enforcement

The administration of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) opposed a bill to shield menstrual data from subpoena amid post-Roe fears of abortion prosecutions.

Um, why does law enforcement need access to this kind of data?

Also, if you keep ending up on the side of making people’s lives more difficult, you might want to sit and think about why that is. Because there is no universe where “actually the state having access to menstrual data has some real society-improving advantages” is a thing.

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· 23 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 14 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Ryan, in Name Only (@rsears@mstdn.social) (Mastodon 🐘)

I’m sure glad we keep sacrificing children so a small group of people can continue to make owning guns their whole fucking personality.

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· 23 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 14 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

A Twitter Flaw Allows You To Like An Edited Tweet Multiple Times by Rashi Shrivastava

Twitter users can like different versions of an edited tweet, making it seem like it has more likes than it actually does. Experts say the bug could be used to spread false information.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 15 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Morning everybody and welcome to Wednesday. I guess we're doing this even though I really don't want to. Welcome new followers.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 15 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

I haven't done a work playlist in a while, and by done I mean listened to. I should do that for today. Maybe something chill.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 15 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

I still haven't figured out a work playlist, but I have gotten some work done and lunch has been consumed, so that's progress.

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· 24 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 15 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

We Are Too Busy Laughing At Needy Loser Elon Musk To Write A Proper Headline Right Now by

Evan Hurst

This is the saddest, most pathetic thing that any person has ever done.