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So let me get this straight… #Threads collects massive amounts of data, the platform is full of brands and celebrities, AND it uses an algorithm-driven feed. It tracks users, serves ads, and has quickly filled up, according to reports, with trolls, Nazis and the far right. Oh, and the site makes a shadow account for everyone with an Instagram profile, whether they want to participate or not. But still new users are flocking to the platform?? It’s a case of FOMO, and I don’t think it will last. F*ck Zuck and the corporate trojan horse he rode in on. Very disappointed in those I know who have bought the BS. That’s all I have to say on the matter. #TwitterMigration #TwitterMigrants #SocialMedia #Meta #Zuckerberg

—@CharlieMcHenry

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What are people envisioning when they wring their hands about one or another social media service becoming an echo chamber?

When they say “you can’t expect to only see things you agree with” I feel like they’re imagining a spirited debate centering on a fringe take on NAFTA rather than like, you know, someone posting a picture of your front door with a Bowie knife plunged into it.

—@andrew

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There’s this growing trend of certain video essayists (not naming names) editing things in a frenetic style with lots of flashing effects and quick cuts and it’s too much to handle as someone with #epilepsy

I expect nothing to change with big production media, but I’d hope smaller creators would have just a little consideration.

I swear one creator (or their editor idk) did it more in response to me saying it was too much for me to safely handle and just added a warning for flashing lights at the beginning.

I’m so tired. That warning might as well say “fuck you.”

—@Bec

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Just what kind of nonsense is this? I’m shocked. I’ve had to reboot my brain twice when I saw this. Not only is it terrible for accessibility, but it is also stupid. Registration, I can mostly understand. Login is stretching it dangerously thin. But searching? What kind of questions are those, anyway? It wasn’t enough to ask to break our brain decrypting the first part of that ridiculous challenge? #accessibility #blind #captcha #disability #wtf

—@xogium

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Someone linked to an obviously ChatGPT-generated article and I realized the thing which makes it so obvious is how much it resembles an uninspired attempt at the 5-paragraph essay form, including the horrid formulaic phrases (“There are several reasons why…” / etc.).

As someone who did forensics (the public-speaking kind, not the crime-scene investigation kind) in school and had to listen to way too many people stumbling through the oratorical equivalent of this, it’s A) always going to stand out and B) always going to make me wince.

—@ubernostrum

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When a woman like Sara Hossein speaks out at the UN against human rights abuse in Iran, and is disrupted by Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Russia, China, Syria,Venezuela, Cuba and Zimbabwe, you know every word is hitting home to the dictators club.

Full statement below.

#IRGCTerrorists
#StopExecutionsInIran
#MahsaAmini

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2023/07/statement-ffm-chair-sara-hossain-53rd-session-human-rights-council

—@ProjectFearlessness

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Earlier this year, we were talking on #ActuallyAutistic about people not respecting food allergies.
It’s on my mind because my 12yo niece’s best friend’s organs are being harvested tonight for donors.
She had a severe nut allergy, and on July 4th, someone, assuring her there were no nuts in it, gave her something made with peanut butter. She went into anaphylactic shock, then cardiac arrest, and was declared brain dead that night.
Her family is having a ceremony at the hospital tonight, as her friends and classmates say goodbye. Everyone is devastated. My niece has been friends with her since preschool.

—@n69n